The conniving adventuress and grifter Ellen Pao has been sacked.

Reddit interim CEO Ellen Pao resigned today after facing an all-out revolt on the site in the wake of the firing of a popular employee. Steve Huffman, Reddit’s original CEO and co-founder of the site a decade ago, is taking over the job, effective immediately.

“Ellen Pao resigned from Reddit today by mutual agreement,” Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian wrote in a post on the site. He said Pao would remain an advisor to Reddit’s board through the end of the year. “She brought a face to Reddit that changed perceptions, and is a pioneer for women in the tech industry.”

I get why companies say nice things about the dirtball they just canned. There’s nothing to be gained by trashing the fired person and there’s no need to risk a lawsuit. Ellen Pao does have a habit of suing employers so it is best to leave sleeping dogs lie, I guess.

In this case, the tongue in cheek praise is probably better than speaking truthfully. They hired the dumb twat because she has a vagina and is Asian. That’s the new face they reference. She was laughably horrible at her job, thus changing the perception that Asians are hard working and smart.

On Monday, Pao took to Reddit to apologize for the incident, as well as years of mismanagement and poor communication between the company and the band of unpaid volunteer moderators who keep the site going.

As of Tuesday, a public petition on social justice platform Change.org demanding Pao’s resignation had garnered close to 200,000 signatures.

One of the unexpected consequences of social media is it fools people in leadership positions into thinking what is trendy with a handful of weirdos is a broad social movement. America is a country of 320 million. You can get 200,000 people to agree to drink Drano if just ask. But, 200,000 is a big number so it makes a big impact on the minds of people running a company like Reddit.

Of course, most of these social media protestors are robots and sock puppets. A deranged idiot with 85 twitter accounts spending all day messaging people looks like a mass movement. The crackpots harassing Rush Limbaugh last year turned out to be seven mental patients with thousands of e-mail accounts. Social media is a megaphone for maniacs.

As is always the case with the Cult, they turned Pao into a hero, not because they gave a crap about Pao, but because she was a convenient club to use in their fight against normal white people. Now that she is a two-time loser, I suspect she falls down the memory hole and goes back to selling knock-off handbags on-line.