Peter's Interest

Reddit Inc.'s new chief executive officer said he's unlikely to reverse some of the changes that caused a user revolt and led to Ellen Pao's resignation after eight months on the job. Steve Huffman, a co-founder of the San Francisco-based online forum, said in an Ask Me Anything on Reddit that Pao was "not used as a scapegoat" and he planned to stick with some of her most unpopular decisions, such as deleting malicious threads including one called "fatpeoplehate" and firing Victoria Taylor, who coordinated the AskMeAnything question-and-answer sessions. Taylor's firing on July 2 led to online protests the next day. The company won't tolerate forums that promote bullying and threats against other users, and there were valid reasons for Taylor's dismissal, Huffman said. "I know she was well-loved by many moderators, and I'm very sorry at how everything played out. It could have been handled much better," Huffman wrote. "Ho...