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It’s the classic catch-22 of internet communities, though: as a community grows, there’s a gradual trade of quality of the average individual post in exchange for a higher population and the increased overall activity that it brings.
The former attracts the latter and the latter provides the critical mass of buzz and activity that tends to foster longevity.
I feel like the main step he’s forgetting is that he wanted to install an interim CEO to make these unpopular changes so they didn’t happen directly at his direction, so that the dust up can be laid at someone else’s feet…after which he can swoop back in, replace them with himself again, not reverse the changes, and avoid the blame.
Not that she was great, but I do kinda feel bad for the way Ellen Pao got dicked over by Huffman and hated by the community.