What if a Community purge is what reddit wants? Hey Voat. I'm Andrew. Just some food for thought (plus, some new content to read). This might be a little "tin foil hat" ish, but as an investor in a tin mining concern, that suits me fine. ;) anyway, to the content! What if purging out elements like FPH and he inevitable ban of KIA (I'm convinced it's when and not if) is part of a reddit sale/merger strategy? And Pao was brought in specifically as a patsy to take the heat for the purge because she's desparate for dough? Take a brand like Facebook - Reddit is a huge content generator for Facebook anyways. But is a company like Facebook going to buy out Reddit when subreddits like gasthekikes or coontown exist? Of course not. Communities on the edge of free speech, like those mentioned above, have no place in a Reddit owned by Facebook or Google or Apple or any of the big boys... If I were a clever board director, and I were positioning Reddit for MnA in a two year timeframe, then Pao makes a LOT of sense as a ceo.  I'd bring in a patsy like Pao, have her become the face of unpopular change, then when the pitchforks and torches are out in full force, I'd golden parachute her while KEEPING THE CHANGES SHE MADE.  If dislike of Pao is broad enough, if it becomes about her and not about the underlying freedoms she's eroding, then it just might work. And given how desparate Pao is for cash, she might be willing to trade any shred of public respectability for a golden parachute of five or six million... If that were the plan, hell, you can expect even more severe changes in the future, so that a new, squeeky clean CEO in a years time can remove some changes, while still keeping "the worst of the worst" out. Thoughts? Do I sound completely crazy in thinking this might actually be the case?