It especially does not help the fact that her husband was at the helm of a massive scheme that defrauded untold amounts of public workers in regards to their pension
Admins also have censoring power. I can't find it, but there was a post by I think /u/karmanaut saying that the admins were filtering out Pao-related content in a way that didn't allow mods to re-approve it.
The summary I read basically had a few reasons. First that her lawsuit was rather manipulative, with things like refusing to cooperate with investigators after she reported misconduct. Or her classifying a voluntary relationship as coerced.
Additionally, folks on Reddit seem to believe that she coordinated with the previous CEO to take over the job so she'd have a CEO title going in to the lawsuit. Hence the sudden resignation of Yishan for no apparent reason.
There's other things, like refusing to negotiate salaries "because women do worse", which is really just an anti-employee action.
All this was before the banning of subreddits. I also don't find it credible that people dislike her because she's a woman. I don't know if the bits I read are true (they seem well presented, but many false things are), but if so, that's certainly enough reason regardless of gender.
I'm not sure that's accurate. I rarely see women get "heat" on reddit but once someone identifies as a women they seem to get far more comments, many even sexual. I'd say women get hit on versus catching heat.
Dear lord. Are you telling me you believe unsolicited sexual advances in response to any non-sexual thing one might post is desirable to women? News flash: it ain't. If you think that women aren't treated badly on Reddit, go to /R/shitredditsays. If you have a problem with the politics of that group, you need not read the comments. Just peruse the linked posts. A pattern quickly begins to emerge.
> To catch heat means roughly the same thing as to catch flak
Correct.
> In other words, to be complained about/insulted/whatever.
No, that's not what that means. To catch heat or flak is angering / upsetting others due to your actions then being on the receiving of said anger. It has nothing to do with one sided insults.
> Are you telling me you believe unsolicited sexual advances in response to any non-sexual thing one might post is desirable to women?
Perhaps you didn't read my post clearly but I said nothing of the sort.
> If you think that women aren't treated badly on Reddit, go to /R/shitredditsays
I said the exact opposite; women are hit on pretty heavily in reddit. I don't see that as being treated well; it's obviously unwanted (at least in the vast, vast majority of the time).
I have no idea where you could get the idea that my post said or even implied anything but women being treated poorly on reddit...
You said that women don't catch heat, which to me meant you thought they were treated well. To catch heat (without a cause) is to be mistreated, and it seemed to me as if you were saying this was not the case. My apologies if I misunderstood you.
Please take a look at my original comment as I did not say that. Women catch heat all the time. All I said was, in my experience, I rarely see it when compared to all of the sexual harassment they receive.
> To catch heat (without a cause)
I haven't seen this phrase used without a "cause"; isn't that just an insult? Can you even "catch heat" without doing anything?
The argument is that the moderation policies are selectively enforced in order to shape the prevailing ideologies expressed on the website.
Reddit's response is that it isn't "safe" and they want to make it that way. If you've been labeled as somebody who makes the site "unsafe" your actions are assumed to be those of an aggressor and an oppressor. If you're somebody trying to make the site "safe" even when you cross the line you're viewed as an oppressed person fighting back.
It's an intentionally uneven playing field and the people it's slanted against aren't happy about it.
It especially does not help the fact that her husband was at the helm of a massive scheme that defrauded untold amounts of public workers in regards to their pension
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Fletcher
http://nypost.com/2015/02/18/case-builds-against-former-ny-h...
Who you are friends with says alot about you. Who you are married to says much, much more.