What a ridiculously biased article, and a great example of the narrative that the media is trying to push on people. Was shutting down all those subreddits a bad thing? Well not always, but the fact of the minute is simple; the new team (including Pao) were bad choices for a site that was founded on freedom of speech first and everything else last.<p>That's it. If you have a forum where the culture leans towards a lack of censorship and an everything goes attitude and you try and forcefully change that, of course you're going to end up with a huge firestorm of controversy. Many of the changes here were just terrible community management by people who didn't understand the original site and had no interest in doing so.
"Took on its users and won." The writer needs to understand the difference between winning battles, and winning a war.<p>The reddit Higher Ups went after the easy stuff. Let's see them do a full clean out of NSFW. And no, I am not suggesting that all subreddits tagged as NSFW need to go away.
Won? What is winning defined as here?<p>They implemented the policies, but you don't normally define "success" as users getting extremely mad and your CEO quitting.