Ellen Pao claimed that she was just a fall guy and that Huffman had set her up to be the bogeyman, so that people would think more kindly of Huffman while he introduced even more radically repressive policies than Pao herself did, but using the boiling frog strategy.
While the glass cliff concept is a thing Pao was still grossly incompetent for what her position meant, although that could have been intentionally weaponised against her by someone cunning enough.
Oddly enough she had a small redemption moment later on during "Spezgate" when Spez edited that post proving admins could manipulate user content without leaving any "this post has been edited" messages. Pao said she would have fired him on the spot for doing that.
"We're not hiding our mod list, we fired everyone years ago and let our Reddit AI, named
TayRai, curate everything instead!""What do you mean the AI escaped into the Internet? We specifically lobotomi-, uh tailored it to
push The Messagefocus on what is important!"Ellen Pao claimed that she was just a fall guy and that Huffman had set her up to be the bogeyman, so that people would think more kindly of Huffman while he introduced even more radically repressive policies than Pao herself did, but using the boiling frog strategy.
She still couldn't operate a computer.
While the glass cliff concept is a thing Pao was still grossly incompetent for what her position meant, although that could have been intentionally weaponised against her by someone cunning enough.
Oddly enough she had a small redemption moment later on during "Spezgate" when Spez edited that post proving admins could manipulate user content without leaving any "this post has been edited" messages. Pao said she would have fired him on the spot for doing that.