Ekşi Sözlük CEO Made His Wife a Direct Writer
Ekşi, which has become one of Turkey's most established internet companies, is the only platform in our country where the agenda is discussed before social media...
Ekşi, which has become one of Turkey's most established internet companies, is the only platform in our country where the agenda is discussed before social media...
Ekşi, which has become one of Turkey's most established internet companies, is the only platform in our country where the agenda is discussed before social media. In Ekşi Sözlük, which has hundreds of thousands of users, it is used to produce content (to open a title in dictionary terms). writing to the authority is needed.
In order to become a writer on Ekşi Sözlük, an ordinary user has to keep his account active and wait in line for months or years. Otherwise, the inactive account may be frozen. During this time Users called rookiescreates interaction by entering entries into opened topics. However, this organic structure and immutable rule of the dictionary was recently broken by CEO Başak Purut.
The CEO's wife also became a writer in Ekşi:
Başak Purut, who took over the CEO seat from Sedat Kaptanoğlu, the original owner of the dictionary, recently Journalist Alexandra Arzat He united his life with . Alexandra Arzat, one of the assistants of journalist Cüneyt Özdemir, was made a writer in the dictionary without waiting in line after her marriage.
In fact, if you look at it, the YouTube channel Pena, which broadcasts within Ekşi Sözlük, was giving symbolic authorship directly to the famous guests it regularly received with their own names. However, the CEO's use of his authority to make his wife a writer is a behavior that goes beyond the established order and dictionary rules. focus of criticism happened.
Reactions to the CEO are growing like an avalanche in Ekşi Sözlük:
Current users and writers of the dictionary are reporting what happened under the titles of Ekşi Sözlük boycott on 5 October 2020 and Kanzuk's wife being manipulated into a writer. According to the statements of the dictionary writers, the authorship of some accounts that criticized the issue has been reduced to the Rookie level, and the accounts of some have been deleted. It is stated that the criticisms in question have been removed from the dictionary.
He made a statement regarding the issue on his Instagram account. Alexandra Arzat It was seen that he hid his account after the reactions. CEO Başak Purut has not yet made a statement regarding what happened.
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