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by edgineer 1078 days ago
I thought they had an employee for that. I mean they used to, was Victoria her name? She took dictation for celebrities until one of them complained when she transcribed their words too directly, when she was fired. Did no one replace her?
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Mea culpa, the article mentions her. Though they do not detail exactly why she was fired, which I think they should.
If I recall correctly former reddit CEO Yishan Wong’s tweets on the matter, it was ordered by Alexis Ohanian directly. Yishan went on to describe how Alexis let the at-the-time CEO, Ellen Pao, take the heat for the decision.

In my eyes, Reddit’s distaste for their own users emanates from the founders directly.

I stopped caring about AMAs after they canned her. If felt like reddit wanted to turn AMAs into nothing but advertising. Occasionally other subreddits would host them with varying success though.