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Reddit CEO Defends His Absurdly High Pay While Not Paying Mods (futurism.com)

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[–] capital@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

What's the origin of the pedo accusation?

Edit: Is pedophile on the list of words we're gonna make meaningless now?

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[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

He was the moderator of a sub called "jailbait" for a long time. What's less clear is if that was something he did on purpose or if someone else assigned him as a mod as a prank assuming he wouldn't notice

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[–] harmsy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I always wondered why a subreddit like that was allowed to exist in the first place. I guess I have my answer now.

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[–] nutt_goblin@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

As I remember it, reddit got its start when "internet culture" was pretty heavily downstream of 4chan/somethingawful/ytmnd. And pedo-type behaviour was pretty normalized in those spaces.

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[–] irreticent@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

When someone invites you to become a moderator you have to click a couple times to accept. It was no accident.

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[–] zalgo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Not exactly. In the olden days of reddit no confirmation on your part was necessary.

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[–] irreticent@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Oh, I didn't know that. Thanks!

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[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago

That wasn't how it worked at first. Back when I first joined Reddit you could be made moderator of a sub by another user without confirmation

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[+] fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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[+] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

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[–] capital@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Ohh I remember that. I also seem to remember you used to be able to make other people mods without confirmation back then? Maybe I'm misremembering.

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[–] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 years ago

This is correct. We should hate spez for being a skeevy ashole, but let’s not make up random accusations.

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[–] FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago

Pedophile, Racist, Nazi, Fascist, The list grows daily

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[–] retrieval4558@mander.xyz -4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

The right is already working hard on that

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[–] capital@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I vote not helping in the effort.

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