Couldn't have happened to a nicer fella... AwkwardTheTurtle famous power mod known to steal peoples posts, ban them and re-upload them.
I'm sorry, I do not feel bad. lol
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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Even power users do not like him one bit
I never ran across that account but it blows me away that this article is two years old. In a way I hope that the account gets unbanned. I am not sure that kind of personality should have any reason to discover the Lemmyverse. Let it stay Reddit's problem.
If you're moderating 1,000 forums, are you really moderating anything?
I've been on mod teams with him and some other powermods. They don't do shit, just have new mods do all the work as they and their friends set up 'org charts' according to which they run their subs.
That is an objectively sad life. Imagine people asking what you did with your life and your answer is "I had imaginary power on a now-defunct internet site doing unpaid work day in and day out. I spent hours upon hours of my life creating charts that only apply in this digital universe to make myself feel important while people who scrolled my page for five minutes a day on the subway were out doing things in the real world".
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lol if there is one mod on reddit I am glad to see banned it is this one
Hah, this is just so pathetic to read.
I don't use the term "terminally online" often, but this is exactly the time to use it. Imagine being this desperate to cling onto your power over an internet forum, not even for the sake of the community, but for the ego-driven lust for wanting control over others on something as menial as Reddit.
Must be a shock to realize all this was in his head, and he was basically just a pawn to spez and everyone else at the top.
And not even a real internet forum with some connection to the world, like a forum for engineers or something, but just these generic cat video style forums that don't really add huge value to anyone's life. Your entire existence is to fill the 30-second void for people standing in elevators.
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"I haven't even done anything in 6 months" is a really funny statement to make as mod. Apparently they never considered just... not being a mod for a place they don't care about?
tbh with him being a mod in so many subs i wonder how he never got fired for being inactive or how no one thought what human can mod 100+ subs and sleep eat get groceries and still have time to adequately moderate their sub on top of being a well known power mod hated by everyone who knows about them just what are the people who run these subs like what is going on in their heads when adding moderators
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Hahaha awkwardtheturtle is a horrible online bully, now they're begging for their fake internet power back, brilliant.
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The reason was not right, they should have been removed from power ages ago, but at least this collateral damage is a tiny bit of justice served at the end.
Ye mods on reddit ( and on lemmy ) should be at most Moderating 5 maybe 10 subs INCLUDING ALTS.
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rip bozo.
No more powermods. Burn reddit down.
Glad to see that some good has come out of this nonsense.
That's how much reddit cares about you even if you did the job of tons and tons of paid employees.
Also: if you haven't interacted with a sub in 6 months should you still be a mod?
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Most recently they falsely accused someone of posting AI art https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/zxse22/rart_mod_accuses_artist_of_using_ai_and_when/
This person is a huge problem and has been for years: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/reddit-campaign-against-moderator-awkwardtheturtle/
We're watching the public service that is the information superhighway be born and be killed in only a few generations.
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Let's not be too hard on him. Being mod over 1000+ is a mental illness that reddit forced us to put up with.
I really don't want to see the worst of reddit on this site. Turts put wayyy too much of their time into reddit and made it way too much of their sense of self worth. That being said the insane shit he had to put up with from people would drive anyone to a dark place. Shit there are even other users who redditors assume are a Turt alt that are getting harassed. If you have any vested interest in this topic at all, you are exactly as much of the problem as Turtle. Let reddit burn along with all your hate for the former mods and move the fuck on.
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It's sad that power mods like Turtle have made many people think that all mods are like him.
The mods for the sub of a popular game I play are getting shit on for protesting against Reddit by people who think the mods merely want power. No power mod has ever put thousands of hours into creating free helper apps or maintaining a game wiki.
In a dictatorship there is a common theme of purges, and the most effective ones are the ones done randomly with no reason, giving everyone else the suspicion that they could be next, even if they haven't done anything wrong.
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Have some karma turtle shit. You abuse, you get abused by a bigger fish. Always have been.
How do you even mod 1000 subs? That sounds like a damn hassle and a half.
Theres a few of them... and a lot of them are the admins golden children like gallowboob or hes called.
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By not doing anything on most of them, he just said he didn't do anything in SLPT in 6 months, that's a lot of inactivity
I hope they stay banned
I read somewhere that less than 50 people moderate like 80% of reddit. Awkward's time should have long since passed if they're taking on moderation in over 1000 subs, but things like SLPT -which gets a not-insignifigant amount of traffic- has gone longer than 6 months without Awkward opening it. This also goes to show another complaint redditors have where mods are inactive as FUCK, and don't get removed but Admin team pulling OT to bump them off now!
People need to check moderators' profiles on Lemmy - some people are trying to do the same here. If the person moderates more than 10-ish subs it's better to create a new community before theirs catch on.
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I thought he was moderator of a 1000 subscriber sub, not moderator of 1000 subs. That's a different story.
Reddit mods really do think that they are gonna have special treatment because they are doing unpaid work. They won't. It's time to realise Reddit will not relent, abandoning ship is the only way of going forward.
Wow. Watching reddit melt down has been amazing. I really don't even care but the popcorn has been so tasty. This news is a caramel coated popcorn ball all by itself.
My question is who took those screenshots. I don't know the context, but if this is some sort of weird ass grass-touching PR stunt that would be next-level gross.
I moderated a couple decently popular subreddits and got a decent chunk of internet points, and even to me the concept of whining this much about losing a reddit account is fucking hilarious
Wasn't there controversy around Awkward the Turtle awhile ago anyway?
good that this happened even tho it happened when its entirely possible that reddit wont be around for much longer also i wonder if he will try coming here has he learned a pretty important lesson or could he be nothing more than a numb skull with a power boner
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