[Lawtonfogle]

>As a casual user I have no need to dislike Ellen or feel slighted by the woman being fired.

Supposedly she helped with setting up a lot of IAMAs as well as fighting to keep their integrity up (i.e. identifying when an actor's agent was posing as that actor as part of a marketing ploy). Even if you really liked IAMAs and what I've heard is completely true, these are benefits you wouldn't directly notice. It is like the average computer user feeling slighted by the Microsoft's Embrace, Extend, Extinguish or the average voter feeling slighted by the TPP. These have nasty effects, but they are not at all direct in the harm they cause, and as such people do not feel slighted even when they have been.

[chaostheory]

Was this why Victoria was fired?

[freebish]

No one has publicly said why she was fired. We only know it happened rapidly. It happened shortly after a Jesse Jackson AMA that went way off the rails, but that could be coincidence.

[tptacek]

As I understand it: nobody knows why Victoria was fired, and speculating will probably do more harm than any possible good.

[jazzyk]

Is it speculating or finding out the truth that would do harm in your opinion? Her firing is at the very center of a very public controversy - why should it be a secret? Victoria is most likely legally barred from speaking out, so the facts would need to come from third-party witnesses.