Reddit's new CEO Steve Huffman is both excited and terrified as he tackles his the challenges facing the company that has become the world's popular no-holds-barred online forum.
Huffman, co-founder of the San Francisco-based firm, said on Saturday's Ask Me Anything that he is there to continue what has been started by resigned CEO Ellen Pao, which, to some, had been a belligerent move to tame the website, according to Bloomberg.
He said that he plans to continue even with the decisions that Pao initiated in removing threads that are found malicious and what others call "cyber bullying."
The former CEO, Ellen Pao, fired one of the moderators, Victoria Taylor, and deleted a malicious thread called "fatpeoplehate." However, online protests ensued afterwards, which led to Pao's resignation.
"Harassment and bullying affect people dramatically in the real world, and we want Reddit to be a place where our users feel safe, or at least don't feel threatened," Huffman said, according to USA Today.
To those unfamiliar with Reddit, it is a site where namesakes and aliases could be tolerated for users. Positive and negative comments are accepted at times, and a moderator is usually assigned to review the forum threads created.
Tim Bajarin, an analyst with Creative Strategies, said it would be difficult to tame Reddit, as the site flourishes with the freedom to say what you want, when you want, USA Today reported.
