I’m going to tentatively assume on-topic posts of mine to this topic are okay based on the recent moderation activity, but please correct me if I’m wrong…
Anyways, yeah that sounds pretty bad. Taking for granted that getting the CEO role isn’t necessarily based on business merit and that we live in a second-handed-aristocracy-of-pull culture, I don’t really understand how people this bad at public relations become CEOs. I thought characterizing people complaining as “noise” was notably bad. Like, he knew that memo was going to leak, right? How is he that tone-deaf? How does he not know to do some fake appeasement that maybe confuses some people and makes them think Reddit is taking the problem seriously? Shouldn’t he be good at that stuff, at least? I don’t get it.