😂 amazing act of malicious compliance! fuck spez
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Don’t think he actually was a mod for it, you used to be able to just add people as mods without them having to accept.
Fuck spez anyways of course.
Eh… If I logged on to my Workplace account (Facebook for corporations) and saw that I was made moderator of a Jailbait community would I:
A) Do nothing for years
Or
B) Immediately remove myself and investigate that community to see if additional action needs to be taken
🤔
Do we know he did nothing for years, though? Like, I’m not checking /jailbait is still up on Internet Archive to see how long he was on their mod roster, I don’t want to end up on that list, but I’ve never seen anything that indicates he remained on their list for any particular amount of time.
Didn’t do shit about the community as an Admin, for sure. That took way too long from all of Reddit. But that’s also separate from the recent narrative that he stayed as a mod for rather a while or was a willing and active mod there.
I don’t know if a timeline was made public but i imagine back then that either a) you might not even get the notification when made a mod somewhere or b) filterng wasn’t good so that particular one was lost and drowned in a ton of notifications.
So it becomes somewhat plausible that spez was actually unaware of this fact for a bit.
That said, my gut feeling is that he knew about it but tried to justify it publicly and to other reddit employees as some kind of “for free speech!” sort of thing. I dare not go any deeper and speculate about his private thoughts on the matter…
Apparently in the early days of reddit, you could add anyone as mod and you didn’t need to accept, it just automatically added you. IDK when that changed, but I was told by a user on modcoord that spez was added to that sub without his knowledge. I mean it’s bad enough that admin allowed subs like this to proliferate and continue their activity.
The guy is a major DB, and has, for sure, done a lot of questionable to unethical stuff, but apparently modding that sub knowingly isn’t accurate. I like to be right when I’m criticizing the dude and there’s plenty to choose from.
This doesn’t answer the questions. (How long was his account listed as a moderator for that sub? And did he even know about it? Finally, if he knew about it, why didn’t he remove himself right away?)
I wasn’t really trying to answer the question of if he knew or not. idk if he did or not. I was just agreeing, based on what someone informed me, that yes what you said is probably correct, that he didn’t initially realize it. I guess my point is, it doesn’t really matter when he realized. He was added without permission, and removed himself. The fact that he was or wasn’t mod doesn’t negate the fact the reddit tolerated these subs and he has done plenty of shit that’s easily proven that it’s not like anyone really needs this issue to be the defining moment.
Ah, gotcha. Sounds like we are in complete agreement then.
I’m not defending spezs behavior but there is a solid argument for not taking immediate action to remove yourself if you thought it would spark a wave of backlash from others doing the same thing.
One of the worst things you can do on the internet is react to trolls.
Did he leave it up until that functionality was removed? That would make sense. Don’t poke the bear until they can’t add you to all subs as mod.
This is some revisionist history he was certainly involved and chose to remain part of it and support that type of community because he thought it was funny and he is gross
Source? I am happy to shit on spez, but my sphincter’s aim must be true.
He awarded a unique “pimp daddy” trophy to the creator of the sub and was suspected to be active on there under an Alt account. He also publicly defended the sub as a demonstration of free speech as the ceo of reddit and it didn’t actually get removed until it became a big deal in the news and they got really bad PR. You can find out a little more from this post a couple of weeks ago.
Thanks. Direct link to the pimp daddy comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36298422
It’s not just that he allowed them to exist, he created a special one-of-a-kind “Pimp Daddy” trophy to award to the moderator of r/jailbait and r/creepshots.
https://old.reddit.com/r/TrophyWiki/comments/mohrlg/reddit_trophy_pimp_daddy/
There is some whitewash in the comments there: “[violentacrez] received the trophy because all the work he did to moderate the site…” as if he got the award for keeping things clean, but consider that he contributed the vast majority of those subreddits’ content himself by cruising social media for salacious pictures of minors to share while he was in his 40’s, and the award is named “Pimp Daddy.”
IIRC Violentacerz modded like 50 different porn subreddits, and he did a goob job by moderation standards so he was appreciated by the admins for being the overseer of the porny side of reddit.
It was over four hundred at his peak.
When they sent him the award and made a huge fuss over him, they were pretty open that it was largely due to him that the site had been able to keep NSFW content and not have it be a legal impossibility.
Good link, thanks.
People are trying to act like he got the award for only moderating jailbait are wrong.
Gotta add that to my repertoire.
“Pilot to bombardier, Operation Starfish is go!”
“Donut holes browned! Repeat, donut holes are browned!”
Exactly. And manufacturing fake grievances only serves to discredit the legitimate ones.
It would be fair to say that he and Reddit leadership not only provided a platform for deplorable communities like r/jailbait to flourish, but benefitted from them financially, while claiming that they can’t do anything about it because freeze peach.
Here’s the direct quote from the General Manager of Reddit:
I don’t want to be the one making those decisions for anyone but myself, and it’s not the business reddit is in. We’re a free speech site with very few exceptions (mostly personal info) and having to stomach occasional troll reddit like picsofdeadkids or morally quesitonable reddits like jailbait are part of the price of free speech on a site like this.
Yeah, I wish people would stop spreading this lie, especially when the truth is no better: As reddit’s admins, spez and the others explicitly oversaw, tolerated and defended r/jailbait and every subreddit like it on the site, for a period of multiple years.
He gave awards.
r/pics is wide open to all kinds of fuck spez posts, or well written calls to resign, whatever you want with the current rules right now.
all it takes is John Oliver be featured in the image and title and you’re free to post anything (but no porn or gore). go nuts!
edit: because, the mods don’t act anymore, unless an admin tells them to, and by the time the admin sees a post on the frontpage, the damage is already done. it’s malicious compliance from the users and mods! if your title doesn’t trigger any blocked words, the admins have no idea what’s in your post until it’s too late.
pics has 30 million subscribers and 8k are online. it’s massive
but the mods can’t post the critical content themselves! they need others to do it, so they can turn a blind eye. the fluff is such a wasted opportunity. we def need a well written call for resignation trending imo, I mean wtf it’s what everyone wants and it’s what spez is trying so hard to suppress on reddit. I know people would upvote it if it’s good.
that comment section is incredible, the reddit shills have nothing to defend this and they’re still trying. "it was years ago, it was an accident, it was just a prank bro (literally! they’re saying oh well, it was a joke. unironically!!!). what the fuck, and it took them this long to notice the post? reddit is in over their heads, and without mods cleaning up for them their community is fucked.
it was years ago, it was an accident, it was just a prank bro
The single-digit-IQ masses who spout that sorta stuff also magically seem to gloss over how A) the admins allowed the sub to exist for a long period of time in the first place and didn’t get rid of it until public backlash, and B) the same admins created a custom award for them/one of their users/mods/creator/whoever.
it’s worse because they don’t benefit from trying
Lmao what a weasely little rat dude
Ew, I remember that trend!
Because it’s bullshit.
Spez is an ass on his own merits, no lies needed. He was (briefly) named as an r/Jailbait moderator without his knowledge at a time when anyone could name anyone as moderator of any subReddit.
So, it’s bullshit.
I think making a custom award for the sub’s creator qualifies as knowing about it.
Disappointing from Spez but not very surprised.