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I enjoyed it. Kind of a sad story though. What's with the other reddit guys refusing to be in it?

Probably didn't have enough positive stuff to say about him, so they opted not to say anything at all.

He lost interest in Reddit at some point and just got really flaky... not turning up for work and shit like that. Think he was going through depression at the time and there was a bit of drama around all that.

EDIT: It's a real shame he and Alexis Ohanian didn't get along better... it seems that thay could have made a great team, with him being the soldier and Ohanian the diplomat in a fight against govts/corporations (SOPA, TPP, etc) impinging on our freedoms online.

This ancient reddit thread covers most of the "drama" from both sides:

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1octb/reddit_cof...

Thanks! Any chance you could breif that? I'm curious but lacking time to read through and make sense it all.

Essentially he wanted to be a cofounder of something.

It was decided that he would 'merge' with reddit, but the reddit guys described it as him turning up one day and them having to deal with it.

He was flaky and got fired.

Yes theres lots of other details but thats the gist of it

The tone in that comment thread is just poisonous. I'm not sure that reddit has really gotten worse with age. If I remember correctly, there was a period of 1-2 years when there were so many mean comments on AskReddit that I almost gave up the site.

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