I understand banning of subreddits is evil. I think no subreddit should be banned but the press previously were critical of reddit labeling it a jock-boy hangout who group together and attack gay female online users and dox them. They decided to change things their image to please that group. It made it a worse experience for many but stopped the bad press now a year later they are raising at 3b. Would not be possible without the window dressing.
Many users left, most just complain on reddit. Raw usage is not important at this stage for reddit.
That shouldn't make it a good or bad place to work
I am in line with extremely corrosive (as you say harrasment, bullying etc.) or straight illegal subreddits to get banned.
The strange situation for most of us is that while doing the window dressing they left a spiked bat and a swastica flag in the corner and pushed the poop bucket in a closet instead of just getting rid of it. And then have to defend not getting rid of it when publicly asked by their users (the CEO himself gets involved in these back and forth with the community, so it’s not just them ignoring the problems)
It could be just some weird bit that has no impact on how the company works internaly. As you say, content policy has no direct relation with work environment.
But I can’t stop myself from thinking, would that same CEO abuse his position to get rid of unconveniences internaly ? How do they handle gender balance or diversity topics ?
Looking at Ellen Pao’s shitshow (and she did a ton of that “window dressing”), it’s difficult to imagine the internal state is that much better than the external one.
Many users left, most just complain on reddit. Raw usage is not important at this stage for reddit.
That shouldn't make it a good or bad place to work