After Ellen Pao became CEO , she was initially a target of criticism by users who objected to her lawsuit . Later on June 10 , 2015 , Reddit shut down the 150,000-subscriber " fatpeoplehate " subreddit and four others citing issues related to harassment . This move was seen as very controversial ; some commenters said that the bans went too far , while others said that the bans did not go far enough . One of the latter complaints concerned a subreddit that was " expressing support " for the perpetrator of the Charleston church shooting . Responding to the accusations of " skewed enforcement " , Reddit reaffirmed their commitment to free expression and stated , " There are some subreddits with very little viewership that get highlighted repeatedly for their content , but those are a tiny fraction of the content on the site . " On July 2 , 2015 , Reddit began experiencing a series of blackouts as moderators set popular subreddit communities to private , in an event dubbed " AMAgeddon " , a portmanteau of AMA ( " ask me anything " ) and Armageddon . This was done in protest of the recent firing of Victoria Taylor , an administrator who helped organize citizen-led interviews with famous people on the popular " Ask me Anything " subreddit . Organizers of the blackout also expressed resentment about the recent severance of the communication between Reddit and the moderators of subreddits . The blackout intensified on July 3 when former community manager David Croach gave an AMA about being fired . Before deleting his posts , he stated that Ellen Pao dismissed him with one year of health coverage when he had cancer and did not recover quickly enough . Following this , a Change.org petition to remove Pao as CEO of Reddit Inc. reached over 200,000 signatures . Pao posted a response on July 3 as well as an extended version of it on July 6 in which she apologized for bad communication and not delivering on promises . She also apologized on behalf of the other administrators and noted that problems already existed over the past several years . On July 10 , Pao resigned as CEO and was replaced by former CEO and co-founder Steve Huffman
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