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For the next nine days, Stephen Hawking will be taking the Internet’s queries about all things related to artificial intelligence (AI).

An online petition calling for the resignation of Ellen Pao, Reddit‘s interim CEO, has attracted more than 130,000 signatures, growing rapidly in the past two days since the dismissal of a key administrator at the community-curated news site.

“We have apologized and made promises to you, the moderators and the community, over many years, but time and again, we haven’t delivered on them”, Ellen Pao said, in the note. However, she was berated for allegedly taking four days to fully respond and going to...

Community manager Kristine Fasnacht would step into that role as well as the new position of Moderator Advocate, to serve as a liaison between volunteer discussion section moderators and Reddit employees, Reddit spokeswoman Heather Wilson said.

“I’m delighted to announce that Steve Huffman, founder and the original Reddit CEO, is returning as CEO”, said Reddit board member Sam Altman in the post.

Pao is resigning and being replaced by co-founder and ex- chief, Steve Huffman, the company said.

Reddit CEO Ellen Pao was downvoted from her interim position at the company today, resigning after a chaotic week-long online protest.

A Reddit User posted pictures (currently unreachable due to protests on the site) of the supposed console and had a story to match.

We haven’t communicated well, and we have surprised moderators and the community with big changes….

The admin in question is one Victoria Taylor, who coordinated the Ask Me Anything (AMA) events that give users a chance to have Q&A sessions with popular figures such as celebrities and politicians, which has even included President Obama in the past.

Kristine Fasnacht, a long-time Reddit user and current community manager at the site, will also take on the duty of being a liaison between moderators and the site’s staff. To protest her removal, volunteer moderators shut down hundreds of the site’s communities. At...

Reddit users want the head of CEO Ellen Pao over unfair labor practice and allegations that she unceremoniously terminated Victoria Taylor, who happened to be one of the firm’s most popular employees. “Once word of Taylor’s firing began to spread, moderators of...

The reddit firestorm continues as a petition calling for interim CEO Ellen Pao’s resignation reaches over 130,000 signatures.

Reports of Taylor’s dismissal started surfacing late last night and news that major subreddits were switching to private – rendering them inaccessible to users – in protest swiftly followed. “Reddit is a great site with an even more unbelievable community,...

Taylor’s dismissal came as a shock to AMA moderators, who are volunteer users that help manage individual communities within Reddit.