• pory@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Not about embarrassment, it’d be about devaluing the company that oh-so-desperately wants to puff up its value on the way to an IPO. Every little ding in Reddit’s reputation helps. If there’s a single scrap of easily memeable outrage bait in that 80GB, say a report from Reddit’s internal HR issuing a slap on the wrist to a still-active member of the board for sexual harassment, boom that’s another 3 weeks of bad press for Reddit.