[McGlockenshire]

If you note her account's history, you might notice that every single one of her contributions has been mass-downvoted, including earlier responses on the matter. Downvoted content gets hidden. There's an ongoing voting war over the submission itself, with only 61% upvoting. That's way, way low for reddit.

Speculation: It's very possible that they decided to do press work first so that the message would not be muted by downvote brigading. That's a stupid thing to have to do, and has only served to upset even more people.

[001sky]

Can't they just 'pin' the CEO's post to the top?

This reeks of lack of imagination.

[steveklabnik]

Given the way this discussion has gone so far, then people will trash the admins for "pushing content they want to the top of the page" or similar.

[girvo]

While I think the entire furore is completely misguided and utterly childish, I doubt that would've been the case. Besides, they have a blog.

[dredmorbius]

Brigading and associated behaviors are at the core of many of Reddit's more significant problems. They were among the rationales for the idiotic Search rewrite over the weekend (since then an option to revert has been provided).

I think Reddit's existing moderation system's outlived its usefulness.

[DatBear]

They own the website. They can put whatever they want on the front page...

[unmagnet]

I had the same experience with my account https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pain, where we essentially force you to pay for ads, to (add) justify your voice time and space, if you are unpopular.∫

Does anyone else find it interesting, if not as a legal-rational process, that a community-builder and or er community-leader is unable to be heard and read because of that lack of logy?

[DanBC]

Your pain account got downvotes because the posts were incoherent.

You may want to include stuff in your profile about your communication style. Your posts frequently seem to have Markov-chain like fragments.

[unmagnet]

Thlog thear thrauma trauma-chain fragments often face bitcism before bitwism∫ #emosec( #infosec(( #emoinfosec( ((

~~Literacy and biteracy are beaten by apathological amemerroriolate volitanguage systems.~~

[DCPOS_Anthony]

It scares me how much that makes sense.

[unmagnet]

(<3) )) )