• xam54321@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    This is just spreading misinformation…
    There are plenty of reason to not like him but this is not one of them.

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      11 months ago

      He was listed as a mod on jailbait for quite a while. This information was pointed out over and over again on a website he ran, and he chose to do nothing about it. He was clearly aware of the situation.

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        11 months ago

        True, but back then you could add anyone as a mod, he didn’t “moderate it” but was a “moderator on it”.
        A minor but key difference that means he just didn’t care about perverts or that he was a leader of perverts.

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          11 months ago

          He was free to take 2 seconds and remove himself from the list. He never did. It was always a “joke” on the site until it wasn’t.

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            11 months ago

            Why would he have a moral obligation to remove himself from the list or pay attention to what subs he was added as mod? I could see complaining that as CEO he didn’t choose to ban the sub sooner, but moderator status seems kind of irrelevant here.

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              11 months ago

              You gotta realize reddit was a lot smaller back then and the admins, including spez, were much more active and engaged on the site. He was very much in on the “joke”

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                11 months ago

                Seems totally plausible and likely that he was added as moderator on a long list of subs and never perused or paid attention to that list, so how would it illustrate that? The infamy of that sub makes a lot more sense as evidence that he must have been aware of it, and that would be a legitimate basis for criticism. The moderator thing is just a memeable detail that is itself true but implies something that seems to be not true: that he had a direct role in operating the sub beyond running Reddit and allowing it to exist. I don’t think there’s a case for it having any significance beyond that false implication.

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                  11 months ago

                  Copying my reply from a different subthread:

                  You know they made a custom award for the creator of the jailbait sub called “Pimp Daddy,” right? And that for a long time one of the autosuggested results from Google when you googled reddit was the jailbait sub? Do you think a CEO of a “major company” (not what reddit was at the time, they were still desperately drumming up users) is somehow unaware of what shows up when you google their company?

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                    11 months ago

                    Like I said, that kind of argument would be better, it’s not directly related to the moderator thing afaik

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      11 months ago

      Much like reddit, if you don’t go with lemming’s preconceived “facts”, you’re wrong.

      Someone stuck him as a mod. And below we got a poster saying, “He was clearly aware of the situation.”

      Yeah, the CEO of a major company is out there worrying about BS details like this. OR, he did know about it, and as a CEO of a major website, was too dumb to see it was a bad look?

      LOL, I give no fucks about the man, but spreading lies around here is making us just like reddit.

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        11 months ago

        You know they made a custom award for the creator of the jailbait sub called “Pimp Daddy,” right? And that for a long time one of the autosuggested results from Google when you googled reddit was the jailbait sub? Do you think a CEO of a “major company” (not what reddit was at the time, they were still desperately drumming up users) is somehow unaware of what shows up when you google their company?

        They were aware of it and had been for years before it was shut down, anyone saying otherwise is feeding you PR spin.

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          Oh no! I’m not saying spez was unaware of the filthy subreddits, just that he might not have known he was made a mod on them.

          Someone was clearly fucking with him, either for a lark or because they hated him. But no, they were all well aware of shit like /r/jailbait. As you said, they were madly trying to drum up users.