These days they're fine, I'm back, and it's almost the only thing I watch on my TV.
This actually feels a bit reminiscent of GamerGate, which for a while was able to have news outlets report on them as if their stated goal of ethics in game journalism was actually what it was about.
If that were the case nobody would care and protest about it. You could argue that the move was wrong and you could argue that the move was correct. However, it was clearly not unambiguously a great move. :)
Sadly, there's a very vocal set of reddittors who have the worst case of the GIFT I've ever seen. These are the same people who think that it's perfectly ok to wage sustained campaigns of harassment against other people, who think it's quite alright to post vile, incredibly hurtful things to r/fatpeoplehate and r/shitniggerssay (or whatever it was called) and many other subreddits devoted to hatred, and who think that an appropriate response to a few subreddits getting banned is to start publicly labelling Ellen Pao with every single gendered, misogynistic insult they can think of (while claiming that, no, they're not sexist or misogynist, no sir no way).
To claim that this is about hating Pao just because she is female is absurd, it has probably more to do with her obviously not understanding reddit at all.
