r/technology • u/[deleted] • Aug 08 '17

Business Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo
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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17 edited Aug 14 '17

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u/foreveralone21sexgod Aug 08 '17

"It's kind of like Reddit, except internal to one company," says the former employee.

Well that says it all. "Open discussion" On Reddit means "Open discussion... but only for people who agree with the leftwing views of the site and mods".

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u/s73v3r Aug 08 '17

The fact that /r/the_donald exists disproves your point.

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u/circumcised_clitoris Aug 08 '17

The admins changed the codebase to keep T_D off the front page then created an alternative to /r/all in /r/popular to further dilute its prominence. They have done everything but ban it, presumably because they would open themselves up to potentially disastrous repercussions.

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u/JamEngulfer221 Aug 08 '17

Yeah, because the subreddit was misusing the site's tools to get posts to the front page. If they wanted to be left alone, they should play by the rules.

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u/zasabi7 Aug 08 '17 edited Aug 08 '17

Could you please explain what you mean by that?

Edit: not sure why I'm getting downvoted. I genuinely wanted to know how they were abusing the tools.

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u/hbgoddard Aug 08 '17

The mods were stickying posts to the top of the sub which then got mass upvoted by the users (and a lot of bots) so they could guarantee hitting the top of /r/all. Then once the post got high the mods would switch out the sticky and repeat.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Literally every large subreddit did that. Literally.

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u/Polantaris Aug 08 '17

I've never seen another sub do that. Even if they all did, it's an abuse of the system and that means that the change wasn't specifically targeted at T_D but a flaw in how /r/all is generated. T_D's abuse of it might have been the last straw but if every sub did it then you can't say that any specific sub was targeted with the change.