In those days a subreddit owner could add any arbitrary user as a mod and you couldn't decline or opt out. What is important though is that reddit were well aware of jailbait for a long time and looked the other way until it started getting them backlash on mainstream tv.
As the admin in charge, he could have manually removed himself at any time. Much like he manually edited comments of other users.
The top mod of that sub was also given a custom "Pimp Daddy" award by reddit. So that combined with spez being listed as a mod makes me think this absolutely was something he was in on. That same top mod who got the award also modded /r/creepshots and a bunch of other problematic subreddits.
He was in on it in the sense that he knew what was going on and more than looking the other way was happy to encourage it for the traffic it brought. I don't believe that he was doing the internet janitor work of being a mod nor was it particularly significant to be listed as a mod.
Pretty much yeah. The Reddit admins just let some crazy guy that got exposed by CNN moderate all the forums that no one else wanted to, and washed their hands of it. In fact, they even gave the moderator official Reddit awards for moderating the deeply disturbing content. I linked the CNN interview elsewhere in the thread.
I actually do not understand how Reddit has survived for so long.
The only person I feel sorry for in that story is his disabled wife to be honest. And obviously all the innocent kid victims.
Yeah I've been on Reddit since I got internet access back in 2012. I quickly learnt to only use it for tech advice and avoid everything else back then.
I wonder how much longer sports subs will remain at all appealing. Some team subs are OK, but a lot suck (super negative/dumb comments at every turn) and even the league subs have problems with declining content quality.
Yeah I only used the sports subs and my country sub these days. Even then I try to stay on topic as much as possible
Honestly sometimes I'll randomly think about the whole 'i_r*pe_cats april fools day' drama, which was probably the real first :reddit-logo: drama I remember seeing. anyways I should be put down because that was like 13 years ago and even then I was like 'wow reddit is a shitty site i'm going back to the invisionfree forum (rip) i used to shitpost on'
I've technically started using Reddit in 2010, but it was mostly to look at rage comics lol. I only remember the major drama that everybody remembers (/r/jailbait, the fappening, "we did it Reddit!", /r/politics filled with Ron Paul spam in 2012, people shitting on Ellen Pao after FPH got banned).
Yeah, I seem to remember Snoop Dogg being made moderator of a whole bunch of subreddits
The moderator thing is wayyyy less concerning than giving it a literal award in the mail, which he did.
In those days a subreddit owner could add any arbitrary user as a mod and you couldn’t decline or opt out.
As the owner of reddit that would still entirely be his choice. He was fine with it full stop.
Reddit gave the head mod of that pedo subreddit (his username was violentacres or something) an official gold alien Reddit award, I shit you not
Content warning: everything. No really, everything.
https://youtu.be/ks8xuYRPnWM
Skip to around the seven minute mark to see him proudly show off his award...
He says that he will be some quasi warlord guy and be in charge during the apocalypse from his bunker.
Yes, that's what he actually said
Wasn't his quote from that article automatically posted by a bot in the dying days of the CTH sub, or did people just post it a lot at that point?
Yeah I think so. With a bunch of other Reddit facts. Then some mods got forcefully replaced by Reddit admins, only for the new mods to be more radical lol
I'm not sure about the exact timeline though.
My account did get banned for upvoting stuff back then by Reddit anti evil operations
Basically if you upvoted a few John Brown:john-brown: posts you'd get banned. Some only got warnings.
Spez was only there to remove posts if the girls looked too old
I remain convinced that Epstein’s entire fortune was given to him in exchange for his work as a pimp.
I think you’re right, and didn’t Wexner give Epstein a lot of support early on?
My grand (unverified) theory is that the whole thing was a Mossad op designed to blackmail the rich and powerful in the US and elsewhere not long after Robert Maxwell (Ghislaine’s dad and Israeli spy) was killed and a major Israeli spy ring was destroyed when Pollard was arrested.
Of course that's why he was elevated. But since he wasn't born there, he wasn't trusted. Ghislane on the otherhand was raised entirely in that society and would never betray them.
My only objection to this is that I think some of the money come from blackmail as well.
Apparently spez admitted in the most recent AMA that Reddit is not profitable, so I don't know how much longer he will have that new money
Yeah he'll always be very rich, but there's no guarantee he'll hold onto his CEO status stuff forever. Like attending all the fancy events and mingling with the other billionaire parasites . Losing access to that would hurt someone with a CEO ego.
Uber had a business plan, though. They wanted to force all private transport and public transport out of business by underselling the market until their competition collapsed, then exploit their monopoly to squeeze people dry.
wait spez was seriously a mod of jailbait? How is this not brought up over and over in his AMAs and shit?
Love how they use the "free speech" defense to try and defend jailbait but then elsewhere edit user's comments and ban CTH for political content
all i'm saying is that i've neven seen u/spez and :funny-clown-hammer: in the same room before
