• @athlon@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    For for how much heavy handed their initial reaction was, I’m surprised that Reddit doesn’t take more aggressive actions. Spez has the loudest voice on highest pole, yet so far he only managed to anger everyone.

    Fuck Spez.

      • Kofu
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        181 year ago

        And he was a mod for a very disgusting sub back when it was active.

        • @ofak@lemmy.world
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          101 year ago

          Although I dislike him as much as anyone, I read that in the early days you could add users as mods without the need for users to accept.

          • @JasonDJ@vlemmy.net
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            111 year ago

            Jailbait. There’s a bit more to the story though…mod invites were auto-approved at the time. But he seemingly embraced it, even if he didn’t directly acknowledge it.

            • littleblue✨
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              “Seemingly”? He sent a physical Reddit trophy to the lead perv of that sub and bragged about it in different subs (along with other mods), and that doesn’t even begin to touch on the barely-veiled alts he was known to use in that sub and elsewhere to circumvent rules, alter votes, and massage narratives. The guy’s a festering moron with a mic.

              source: OG Redditor who stood up to that clique back when.

              • @JasonDJ@vlemmy.net
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                41 year ago

                Thanks, I had forgotten the details.

                Kind of wonder if this adds any merit to the /u/maxwellhill conspiracy.

                  • @JasonDJ@vlemmy.net
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                    That that user was secretly Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein friend and co-conspirator. She got arrested the same day powermod /u/maxwellhill’s account went dark.

                    Mind you, this was /r/conspiracy territory, the same folks who paraded around Pizzagate, so take with a heaping scoop of salt.

    • @StingJay@lemmy.ml
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      191 year ago

      I’m not sure they can. What can they do? I doubt they’ll replace moderators with paid Reddit workers. The alternative is to replace them with other power hungry moderators who will bend a knee to the Reddit admins. That might work on some major subreddits but the PR of that might cause more damage.

      I think the admins hoped it would have blown over by now. If it’s still going on by September I bet they’ll need to do something.

      • @Nogami@lemmy.world
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        71 year ago

        And the problem is that people who are power hungry and only doing it to scratch that itch can’t be trusted to maintain a valuable community. That’s not the type of people they are.

        And people who create the content are moving to other platforms. I’ve deleted all of my reddit links and apps to reduce the likeyhood I’ll stumble across a reddit post. Also starting to take some of my better reddit posts and edit them to remove any valuable content, and post on Lemmy instead.

            • @gunslingerfry@lemmy.world
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              11 year ago

              No, it’s not that I need more advanced search. It’s that currently reddit is the best source for information on the Internet. I still want people to be able to find the information they need from well meaning people. Even if that means some douchey company crawls all the lemmy posts to feed to its AI.