Remember when Spez said it was “It’s time we grow up and behave like an adult company”? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit’s profitability right b…::undefined

  • @A_Random_Idiot
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    5010 months ago

    Wasnt that back when you could make anyone a mod, without their permission?

    If we’re gonna point to things that spez actively has done, then theres plenty of shit…

    Like knowingly letting all the pedo subs exist and run rampant (until the news media caught wind and hurt advertising)

    • VaultBoyNewVegas
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      2910 months ago

      Editing people’s comments without their input/consents another big controversy with his involvement too.

      • @A_Random_Idiot
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        410 months ago

        Yep, i just wanted to stay relevant to his seemingly pro-pedo stance and didnt want to make a comprehensive list.

      • @Serinus
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        -210 months ago

        It was, but that has been dramatized and exaggerated. The comments he edited all said “fuck u/spez”, and the edit was obvious.

        Y’all make it sound like subtle manipulation, which was presented as a danger, but wasn’t what happened there.

    • @EdibleFriend
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      710 months ago

      It is entirely possible he was tagged as a mod without knowing. At first. But if he wanted to he could have immediately removed himself. And then there’s the fact that the main mod of that sub was given some kind of special custom flare

      • @[email protected]
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        110 months ago

        pretty sure it was a pimp flair, cant remember the exact name but it was something like that

        • @EdibleFriend
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          110 months ago

          Honestly I can’t remember either? But I remember for sure it was something unique that was given to him by the administrators.

          • @nomous
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            110 months ago

            Violent_Acres was his name I believe.