Reddit uproar over the past few weeks has been pretty maddening. The closure of some hateful subreddits was a long time coming, and yet a <i>very</i> vocal contingent of the community took it upon themselves to brigade the entire site, and to spawn a racist 'Chairman Pao' meme.<p>This uproar has a bit more legitimacy, and I think a lot of mods have right to be mad over not being told about Victoria's firing/layoff/whatever it was (we don't actually know) -- but the response has been a grab bag of assumptions and conspiracy theories. Anonymous Quora posts were taken as gospel; assumptions about what decisions leaders at Reddit made were rampant and then soon themselves became the defacto explanations of what was going on -- without any shred of evidence.<p>I sympathize with the mods, and think that Victoria's departure hurts mightily the entire IAmA community; but I cannot support the response so far. Go to reddit and click on 'All', and then 'Rising' at the top (warning, some stuff will be NSFW) -- look at the unbelievable vile the 'community' is spewing.