Ellen Pao正试图以积极的态度结束她作为Reddit临时首席执行官的任期。Pao在辞职信中说，她执掌互联网上最具活力和影响力的社区之一，从第一天起“就是一次冒险”“我见过好的，坏的，丑的，”鲍说，后者——尤其是最近——让她“怀疑人性”，“我只是另一个人；我有一个家庭，我有感情。”但Pao说，好的远远超过了坏的，她感谢那些拒绝和**Reddit最差用户最近几周表现出的恶心行为的人。

不过，鲍并不是因为受到威胁、歪曲言论和骚扰才离开的。她公开称这些“巨魔”很可能正在进行胜利之舞，但事实并非如此最终，董事会要求我在未来六个月内展示出比我认为的更高的用户增长率，同时保持Reddit的核心原则。她的信全文如下。

鲍爱伦强调。

After more than two years at reddit, I have resigned today. My first day was April 1, 2013 (go orangered!), and every day since has been an adventure.

In my eight months as reddit’s CEO, I’ve seen the good, the bad and the ugly on reddit. The good has been off-the-wall inspiring, and the ugly made me doubt humanity.

I just want to remind everyone that I am just another human; I have a family, and I have feelings. Everyone attacked on reddit is just another person like you and me. When people make something up to attack me or someone else, it spreads, and we eventually will see it. And we will feel bad, not just about what was said. Also because it undercuts the authenticity of reddit and shakes our faith in humanity.

What has far outshone the hate has been the positive on reddit. Thank you, kind strangers, for expressing your support. You gilded me 100 times. (For those of you who apologized for generating a wave of accusati*** that I gilded myself, please don’t feel bad. You did a good thing.) And thank you for sending cute animal pics and encouraging me to "Stay safe!" when the site overheated with expressi*** of hate in various forms. There were some days when your PMs inspired me more than you can imagine.

Most touching were the stories from regular users. Some told of people they knew who had committed ******* for being transgender or exposed in revenge ****. Others shared their experiences of being harassed and expressed empathy and gratitude. More recently, several users apologized for trolling me and for not giving me the benefit of the doubt when the troll hivemind moved against me. Initially users said they were afraid to post supportive messages openly; recently they started fighting back against the trolls publicly on reddit with support, correcti*** and positive messages.

So why am I leaving? Ultimately, the board asked me to dem***trate higher user growth in the next six months than I believe I can deliver while maintaining reddit’s core principles.

You will be in good hands -- our strong leadership team will now be led by u/spez, one of reddit’s original co-founders. Like u/kn0thing, he’s lived and breathed reddit since its inception and will work passionately to ensure reddit’s success.

Thank you to all the users who shared your excitement about reddit and what we’ve done and for encouraging everyone to remember the human. And thank you for making my time here at reddit an amazing learning experience.