--- description: Reddit moderaters shut down parts of the online bulletin board site on Friday in response to an employee's dismissal. title: Reddit Moderators Lash Out After Employee's Unexpected Dismissal image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Reddit Moderators Lash Out After Employee's Unexpected Dismissal  by [Jack Linshi](/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 3, 2015 5:50 PM CUT  by [Jack Linshi](/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 3, 2015 5:50 PM CUT Reddit moderators shut down hundreds of the online bulletin board’s most popular pages on Friday in response to an employee’s unexpected dismissal. Members of the online community became outraged after Victoria Taylor, Reddit’s director of talent and chief facilitator of the popular Ask Me Anything pages (AMAs), was dismissed on Thursday without an explanation, the [New York _Times_ reports.](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/04/technology/reddit-moderators-shut-down-parts-of-site-over-executives-dismissal.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news "undefined") Moderators say Taylor’s dismissal will prevent them from coordinating AMAs, as Taylor was the main point of contact for celebrities, politicians and other public figures who participated in the online Q&A sessions. Reddit users speculated Taylor’s dismissal is connected with her moderation of [Rev. Jesse Jackson’s AMA](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3brf9s/i%5Fam%5Frev%5Fjesse%5Fjackson%5Fama/ "undefined") on Wednesday, which soon became disorganized after a flurry of questions about racial issues and his personal history. \[[_NYT_](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/04/technology/reddit-moderators-shut-down-parts-of-site-over-executives-dismissal.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3945674/reddit-victoria-taylor/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3945674/reddit-victoria-taylor/"},"headline":"Reddit Moderators Lash Out After Employee's Unexpected Dismissal","datePublished":"2015-07-03T17:50:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:05:54.719Z","description":"Some of the site's most popular pages were shut down","url":"https://time.com/3945674/reddit-victoria-taylor/","keywords":["Tech","reddit","Web"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jack Linshi","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3945674/reddit-victoria-taylor/","name":"Reddit Moderators Lash Out After Employee's Unexpected Dismissal"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Quantum Computing: The Biggest Breakthrough Since the Microprocessor","description":"An animated explanation of superposition, entanglement, and the bizarre properites of computing's next great jump forward","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/PJEZ25lG/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-02-07T23:22:12.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/PJEZ25lG.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3945674/reddit-victoria-taylor/","duration":"PT2M2S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3945674/reddit-victoria-taylor/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```