Lol at the sign-language interpreter, like Reddit gives half a shit about accessibility now.
Sign language yes, real time captions no. Only whatever live transcription crap your phone or computer could do
I recognize that guy. He was a moderator of the r/jailbait subreddit for the many, many years it was hosted on Reddit.com.
Is that true? Holy moly!
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.
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)
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)
He has repeatedly permitted awful subs (jailbait, altright, the_donald, incels, braincels, etc) to remain on the site far longer than reasonable. Once these subs generated too much negative press they would finally be banned.
lol I doxxed one of the_donald mods to the FBI after Jan 6th, they used to advertise and gloat about a bunch of their “business” stuff on the site, and registered their LLC to their home address. Clicked on a link they shared, highighted and searched the LLC on Google, clicked on registered address and streetview and there’s a shitty car plastered in Trump stickers in the driveway. Never doxxed them anywhere publicly or did anything bad with their addy until I had a legit purpose for it.
Fucking legend.
It amazes me how plain idiotic people can be a out the information they hand out.
Tldr: fuck executives
I have insomnia and Recently I was rudely awoken at around 2am by a VERY loud jet engine.
Now my county does have an airport, but it’s nowhere near me, and it’s for small aircraft only. There’s a military base that uses a huge section of the state for training, but that’s almost exclusively in the daylight, or for a few hours after it gets dark, and they never get this close.
Well, I pulled up flightradar, and sure enough a small personal jet took offa out 10 minutes ago, and while their flight plan should have had them mucb higher, they were veryclose to the ground. I called the sheriff non emergency line to complain, since it was 2 IN THE FUCKING MORNING and apparently they had already recieved a number of calls from people between me and the airport.
Then I looked up the company that owns the jet. It’s a smallish company that does aero things, and pulls in tons of money every year. Public, private, and military contracting from what I understood, supplying parts or something like that.
Their board of directors is listed on their website along with corporate HQ. Their board of directors also ALL use LinkedIn, with their work addresses, emails, PERSONAL email addresses for quite a few, and one even had some personal mail visible to anyone who stops by their profile picture. Almost all had other social media connected. LinkedIn was also helpful in identifying who was probably flying the jet, too, since he really likes talking about his pilot license.
Social media confirms a few were active within the last hour, and in my state.
With this info, the flight plan, the LinkedIn info, and a little guesswork, I was able to narrow down the occupants of the jet to 5 people, BCCd all their work and personal emails, as well as the general company email, with a 5 paragraph email about proper etiquette when flying over populated areas, as well as FAA laws they were breaking by flying so low, a rather sleep deprived rant about how they’re assholes who think the world should come to a halt for them, letting them know local sheriff department is investigating (lol no the fuck they aren’t who cares if a few people got woken up), and that I am reporting their violations to the FAA. And ended it with a request to follow proper altitude guides or flying at a more reasonable hour.
And around 5am I was finally able to sleep for all of one hour.
When I woke up it dawned on me that I had gotten annoyed by a jet, tracked down the occupants, and sent them an angry personal email, found out their home/work addresses, and could do much more damage if I wanted, all without leaving the comfort of my bed.
I immediately started scrubbing all my online profiles… I still probably talk too much about the area I live in.
Don’t forget about beating women, a subreddit when user shared pictures of women victims of domestic violence to their amusement.
Maybe he was made one without him knowing…
He could have removed himself immediately upon noticing…
Source for the fact he noticed?
Ewww I’m defending Spez
So either he was a jailbait mod or so bad at his job that he doesn’t understand optics. Or both.
As an engineer myself: if I was ceo of my own social media company, I’d periodically go through my account at a fine-grained level and see if there was anything weird going on. Hell, I’d probably use some internal APIs and webhooks or whatever to track and categorize my profile’s interaction with the network at large.
I find it unlikely that he had no idea about this.
Fair point!
I’m pretty sure I remember spez making a special reddit award for the wierdo fuck that created jailbait.
Source?
Considering that Spez is the one who controls the mod logs, he could show that he was made a mod instead of invited/accepted and was inactive. I don’t have access to the evidence. Spez does.
Brushing up on the “proven ways Spez sux” file would surely provide more than enough back-pocket fodder to pull out when there’s a chance to drag him :)
I’m a stickler for stuff like this, e.g. someone complains about mythical reasons corporations or governments are against us and I wonder… why risk opponents being able to prove conspiracy theories wrong and distract from legitimately awful/criminal behavior! There’s so much of it!
He literally directly edited comments criticizing him to point to r/The_Donald mods(About 2014-2015-2016, this was news around that time).
Everything from that time period on that related subreddit has been scorched Earth removed from the net. So I’m not sure even Spez has a record of it. Hell. The Anderson Cooper bit about it is even gone.
I doubt law enforcement would allow records from r/jailbait to be scrubbed completely, especially mod logs and mod chats. That’s a source of evidence to build cases against predators, even years later.
Thanks
Source? See
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.
Those are always the guys that wrest control though. They have no contributions, so instead they spend their time scheming.
That goes for most sub culture. A new thing pops up, comics, tabletops, internet thing. It slowly gets popular. At it’s zenith some wise guy realize he can make a quick buck out of it, wrestles control over it. more people show up less informed but still keen to try it out. Leaves the old guards behind.
Aaron Swartz, the internet’s own boy.
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They did buy a superior client. Alien Blue it was called. Then internal politics killed it. Even today Alien Blue would still be a better experience, without any updates in the last five years.
This is what always got to me that I don’t think people focus on enough. It’s such an anti-consumer pattern. Instead of improving the official reddit app, or buying out a third party one, they simply shot the competition in the knees.
If you want everyone on the official app, be competitive and invest into making it not suck donkey balls. Obviously that’s far too much work.
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There are a hundred different ways they could have reached a compromise on third party app support if it was just about API limits. They killed it because they want to gather mobile app telemetry like everyone else does these days.
Telemetry is telling them their app sucks and that people try it x period of time and then uninstall it.
It is so terrible that I log into reddit once a week on my pc.
All that costs time, money and resources whereas flatput lying and fucking people over is cheap. You calculate how much you’ll lose, see that it’s enormously bad qualitatively but you won’t lose too many visitors because most people don’t give a fuck so you go with it.
RwF
That’s the thing. I get that people using the service on a third party client and not seeing ads is hurting their bottom line as they use bandwidth and not make money. But just banning them outright is a shit move. Ideally they would’ve made it part of Reddit Premium to make that a bit more worthwhile.
You know, I realize that some people run a dictatorship and only want absolute obedience, I totally get that, that’s totally a gettable thing for me, that’s not weird at all.
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Yes. And ok.
Oh so now they don’t like ads
Only ads that serve them are allowed
I’m sure their next “Reddit Event” will not have a real time chat.
I bet you are right lol
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.
There were many like that, lol!
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.
Good point.
I doubt they have delicate fee fees or feel feels or whatever. I don’t care whether they even care that I was banned, all I know is my ban from Reddit is a badge of honor and proves I can get under other people’s skin. You always know you’re telling the truth when it makes people angry enough to ban you.
Careful how you speak to Spez, my friend. He plans on being a slave leader in the aftertimes when society collapses, and you will NOT be invited to live on his very fine plantation.
Wow, it’s like a glimpse inside the mind of a junior highschool edge lord.
Being around other people is a good thing. I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.
Well, at least he’s right about the ego thing. He’s going to get traded for a handful of batteries within the first week lol.
No one is going to give up an entire handful of batteries for that doofus.
I would. He can pedal the stationary bike that recharges my other batteries.
Cannibals might. If they’re not rechargeable.
Spez might be worthless in a Mad Max style apocalypse but he’s several few good meals kept in a basement in a The Road style apocalypse.
When i read this in 2017 i got really mad, had this in my head for weeks. What a piece of shit spez is.
he was a competitive ballroom dancer
That’s a new one.
It was all training for the water wars. No one can fill a jug with water as fast as Spez. He uses ballet techniques and shit. Then he jumps on his trusty motorcycle and outruns the tsunami while mentally planning how to subjugate the slaves.
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Ew just make sure you wash your hands
Hail all mighty master spezy wezy uwu 👉👈
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.
i’m of another notion, i think its more about controlling public space for discourse itself than it is about profit… they want to sever access to whatever they might consider subversive dialogue and control the next generation’s access to it.
A lot of things in life are not this heavily conspiratorial…
$3 dollar words make it seem like it’s real complicated. plain greed and middle management stunts
Occam’s Razor.
The only thing that matters is profits. Those profits come from advertising. The businesses doing the advertising do not want their brands associated with things that are controversial or offensive to the general public.
Therefore Reddit is bending to their will.
Because profits.
No conspiracy necessary.
🫡 thank you for your service 🫡
It was an honor, sir!
u/Ademir… A Lemming on a mission with a swagger that will set the world at ease…
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?
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.
Yes, that’s what it was. I went in just to mess when Spez was gonna talk.
Yeah no worries, I wasn’t pertaining to you. lol.
I didn’t take that personally, all good. Just wanted to confirm what you said :)
Is there a difference between the latter and a typical spez ama?
Last time I saw one of his AMA, it was just a wall of deleted comments.
I got banned because I said “lemmy dot world” in reply to someone who said they wished reddit had an alternative.
We must all remember spez’ has an abnormal love of cats, among his other issues. Like keeping slaves and resource hoarding.
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
He asked to forgiven him because of the API thing LOL
We need details, please.
I wasn’t paying much attention, I asked a friend for the details and will let you know.
