“The gist of it is this: Reddit’s comms director Victoria Taylor, a key support staffer for many moderators, was let go for reasons that haven’t been made clear.
“Unpaid moderators (“subreddit” leaders who perform the drudgery of running some of the Internet’s most prolific forums) who worked closely with Taylor say this will make their jobs harder, because they’re stretched thin already.
“Taylor’s key job was to coordinate the site’s highly popular “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) posts, bringing in and assisting celebrities and public figures through the AMA process.
“Many on Reddit speculate that Taylor lost her job because of Jesse Jackson’s disastrous AMA last week, though an r/IAmA (the subreddit designated specifically for these posts) moderator who claims to be familiar with the situation says that isn’t so.”
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