That’s why I’m not sure that letter was intentionally leaked. He said all the wrong things for de-escalating this situation, he just added more fuel to the fire.
I think Spez has already written off the users who were upset by all of the controversy. His new strategy is to try to alienate them from the average user/lurker of Reddit so that they don’t become sympathetic.
The fact that the memo ends with a disingenuous assertion that Redditors who are upset by these changes are violently dangerous is a thinly-veiled attempt to defame and dismiss a very legitimate protest.
That’s why I’m not sure that letter was intentionally leaked. He said all the wrong things for de-escalating this situation, he just added more fuel to the fire.
I think Spez has already written off the users who were upset by all of the controversy. His new strategy is to try to alienate them from the average user/lurker of Reddit so that they don’t become sympathetic.
The fact that the memo ends with a disingenuous assertion that Redditors who are upset by these changes are violently dangerous is a thinly-veiled attempt to defame and dismiss a very legitimate protest.