.@OhMeadhbh To be clear, there are good people at reddit and I wish them all the best. But I have concerns. There's a lot of work ahead. — bethanye (@bethanye) July 14, 2015

Blount also had a few parting shots about Ellen Pao's firing. She felt that Pao had been set up to take a fall over a "glass cliff," implying that gender discrimination may have been involved. However, she added, "I wouldn't say my decision to leave was directly related to my gender," and didn't feel that Taylor's firing was either. Huffman also said that "Bethanye's departure had nothing to do with gender, and I was looking forward to working with her." He replaced her in the interim with former team leader George Pang, a move that Blount endorsed. "I have full confidence in (Pang)," she said on Twitter.

Huffman also addressed Blount's criticism about aggressive promises. "I returned because of my confidence in the company to accomplish (these) goals, and I've committed publicly to two things: creating a new content policy, which we are hard at work on, and improving tools for moderation. I don't foresee any difficulty in accomplishing either of these things in the near future." Meanwhile, Blount said, "it's just time for me to take on something new. Start another company, write some code, all my favorite things."