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[–] [email protected] 252 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol at the sign-language interpreter, like Reddit gives half a shit about accessibility now.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago

Sign language yes, real time captions no. Only whatever live transcription crap your phone or computer could do

[–] Nobody 170 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I recognize that guy. He was a moderator of the r/jailbait subreddit for the many, many years it was hosted on Reddit.com.

[–] khannie 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] Nobody 63 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Your source admits Spez was a jailbait mod. MAYBE he was made one without knowing, but he DEFINITELY could have removed himself and didn’t.

Spez was a jailbait mod for years. That’s a fact.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (7 children)

btw I actually might be helping you attack him better

Instead of a spurious claim he actively managed a pedo sub—

—a more definite claim he permitted a pedo sub to remain on his site? (Assuming he was aware of the sub, which I bet you could find indications of)

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[–] lennybird 139 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Of the three people involved in Reddit's creation, he was the most useless and antithetical to reddit's greater vision.

Swartz was a far better person.

[–] Anticorp 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those are always the guys that wrest control though. They have no contributions, so instead they spend their time scheming.

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[–] AgentGrimstone 106 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh so now they don't like ads

[–] thorbot 31 points 1 year ago

Only ads that serve them are allowed

[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m sure their next “Reddit Event” will not have a real time chat.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

I bet you are right lol

[–] ThePowerOfGeek 90 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Aww, you hurt their delicate fee-fees! How mean! /s

Also, lol at that pathetic sycophant's reply below your comment. Dude needs to stop twerking for spez.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who is that comment even aimed at? Being that it is right under OP's comment in (what I presume to be) a busy chat, I doubt it is a response to OP.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

There were many like that, lol!

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[–] BilboBargains 65 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Reddit has become Facebook with a different management team. These people are motivated by profit and that's the only way their decisions make any kind of sense. Whenever we mix the profit motive with a service for people, the people will always play second fiddle. It's why mixing profit with healthcare is inhumane and it's what's so great about Wikipedia.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

🫡 thank you for your service 🫡

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] CosmicTurtle 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So...what exactly was this event? Was it like a AMA? Or was it like one of those corporate circle jerk things where everyone says what they are supposed to say?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I’m guessing correctly, it’s a modcon, which makes it even more pathetic for mods to attend an event hosted by the very people who have given them grief this past few months, just so they can feel special with their own exclusive event.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yes, that's what it was. I went in just to mess when Spez was gonna talk.

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[–] Throwaway4669332255 50 points 1 year ago

I got banned because I said "lemmy dot world" in reply to someone who said they wished reddit had an alternative.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We must all remember spez’ has an abnormal love of cats, among his other issues. Like keeping slaves and resource hoarding. https://i.imgur.com/a0F2bW6.png

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[–] Buffalox 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Yeah redditors can do that too, it would probably look somewhat like this:
Come to reddit, we have CEO who's an idiot but controls everything, a 100% closed API unless you pay exorbitant prices to use it, and we have advertisements everywhere, but WE NEED TO MAKE MONEY. So please come. We also have sociophants and trolls.

/Steve Huffman

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

lol you fucking legend.

[–] hakunawazo 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If he doesn't want to accept dissenting opinions, he should do like Mr. Burns and only allow prefabricated text.
Lisa: "Mr. Burns your campaign seems to have the momentum of a run away freight train. Why are you so popular?"

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (9 children)

My lifetime ban from Reddit (which resulted from saying that we need a more progressive political candidates in our country) was a badge of honor, proving my opinions to be correct and undigestible to fascists. So I had a medallion engraved with my date of expulsion which I keep in a place of honor over my fireplace.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (6 children)

My permaban was for saying it is a moral obligation to punch nazis lmao

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[–] FlavoredButtHair 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't forget, he used to moderate r/jailbait.

[–] Thcdenton 28 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Heard this is a myth but by all means continue to propagate this rumor 🥳

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If i recall, at the time sub owners could designate anyone as a moderator without them having to accept the position, meaning that its very possible he was made a mod of the subreddit as a joke/troll but never actually interacted with it.

Hes still a dipshit though

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Spez has like a bunch of fore written answers and then tries to fit them in the questions asked

-TitusRex, hero, probably banned now as well

lmao

[–] dandan 28 points 1 year ago

Screw Reddit and spez. You did well, OP!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

he was a competitive ballroom dancer, who hacked his roommate’s Web site as a prank.

What a fun little image that conjures up.

[–] bouldering_barista 18 points 1 year ago

Worth it. It's a win/win really

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