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[–] anders@rytter.me 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

So far Spez's legacy includes, in no particular order:

  • Changing other peoples' comments
  • Starting a war with the 3rd party app devs who made reddit the easily accessible platform it is (browsing reddit on the toilet wasn't nearly as common before the first apps came out, and all of the first ones were 3rd party)
  • Being a moderator on the jailbait subreddit, a community for sharing sexually suggestive pictures of underage teenage girls
  • Forcing new moderation teams on communities whose moderation he didn't agree with
  • Straight up lying about the 3rd party apps and their developers every step of the way

Way to go, Steve Huffman! You had a community of volunteers build your platform for you and now you're taking it all away from them. I'm sure this won't backfire.

[–] zombuey@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I posted this previously elsewhere.

The statement from r/watchredditdie when they closed the sub really put things in perspective for me.

Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian have gone so far as to renege on their promise of listing Aaron Swartz among Reddit, Inc’s founders. Such an egregious breach of contract - only performed once their agreed-upon co-founder no longer walked the earth - could only be carried out by immoral individuals acting in fundamental bad faith. In this way and so many others, Reddit is dead.

[–] wanderingmagus@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Never even heard about this. Why haven't they been sued by the surviving family members or some pro-bono representative?

[–] Krause@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

spez is also a doomsday prepper who dreams about living as some sort of lord in a post-apocalyptic feudal society

β€œBeing 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.”

https://archive.today/20220703182824/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich#selection-901.0-905.391

[–] 4am@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I wonder if this assclown realizes that his fortune will be worth fuck-all if society collapses, and with it goes his power.

" I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader." No steve, it's 100% egotistical.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.

In a post-apocalyptic world? That skinny nerd (not to be meant as a slur, I myself am a nerd)?

Yeah I sorta doubt that. He'd need to 1) not be an asshat and 2) have a fair bit more physical size, strength and fighting ability

[–] GrandMoffFartin@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I have spent a lot of time with very rich people over the years for work and they will certainly bite it incredibly early in the apocalypse. If someone is born into wealth, they are almost always fundamentally inept in basic ways. The longer someone stays rich, the more inept and abstracted from the world they become. They are entirely ensconced in a bubble of their own making. Money opens so many doors and protects them from so many just basic consequences of living that they entirely forget that those obstacles exist.

They are also just constantly, constantly being glad-handed and yessir'ed into an excessive amount of confidence. They know it too, but they can't really trust anyone so they just make friends with people who they know would steal the wallet off their corpse but happen to be nicer about it than the other ones who would also do it because they have nowhere else to turn. Other rich people aren't trustworthy to them either because they are only either more or less rich, above or below them.

It'll go down pretty much how it did in the last third of the movie Triangle of Sadness. They are building bunkers that their handlers and others will actually live in. Not to mention that anyone that knows they were a potential engineer, actively or passively, of the downfall of man will have someone to take it out on right in front of them.

[–] higante@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I agree with most of this. Also my movie in my cue.

Eddit. God damned fat fingers

[–] veroxii@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Bill Murray would probably survive. Saw it in a movie.

[–] wanderingmagus@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's going to be hilarious when the actual warlords stop by and kick in his door.

[–] alaphic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Pff, as if they'd risk getting banned from the ~~former~~ front page of the internet! Cuz, ya know, that'll still be super relevant in a post-apocalyptic scenario... πŸ™ƒ

[–] apepi@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

He strikes me as one of those clowns who buys a ton of bitcoin as their prep.

[–] BrewJajaja@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lmao does he even know how to chop firewood?

[–] Darorad@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

C'mon, he's a 'leader', he can just have his ~~slaves~~ followers do it

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[–] andobando@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Being a moderator on the jailbait subreddit, a community for sharing sexually suggestive pictures of underage teenage girls

This one is a lie, he was added as a moderator by another mod, at a time when anyone could do so. Lets please stop spreading this.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe he did not moderate it actively, but it was allowed to continue and even promoted by reddit until media got a whiff of it.

[–] andobando@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

At the time, there was a lot of popular sentiment, on reddit itself, that the internet should be free and it should allowed to continue so long as it was legal.

[–] bulbasaur@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

No one is forcing you to apologize for pedophiles on reddit

[–] phillycodehound@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yea this will kill Reddit. Maybe not right away but soon.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, look at what it's taking to kill twitter and influencers are still all over it.

[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because it's actually not the same thing, "Twitter" = "influencers". Without celebrities, Twitter simply dies. The same cannot be said about Reddit.

[–] vagabond@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

hi, just happened to see you in here lol

[–] kadu@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Is your comment threatening him? Why are you blackmailing him, man? How is he going to work together with you now that you've so aggressively threatened him?

Why is your comment so badly coded? I can't help you optimize your comment, Google didn't help me write mine.

[–] zombuey@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

I posted this previously elsewhere.

The statement from r/watchredditdie when they closed the sub really put things in perspective for me.

Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian have gone so far as to renege on their promise of listing Aaron Swartz among Reddit, Inc’s founders. Such an egregious breach of contract - only performed once their agreed-upon co-founder no longer walked the earth - could only be carried out by immoral individuals acting in fundamental bad faith. In this way and so many others, Reddit is dead.

[–] Marmie@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

WAIT. Spez was a mod on fucking r/jailbait???? WHAT????

[–] Damaniel@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He actually moderated jailbait? I always assumed he was the type of person to have an alt for it, but to actually use his real account? What a scumbag.

[–] Vividly@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

He was briefly added without his knowledge. He removed himself after he noticed.

[–] dontforgetthat@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Changing other peoples’ comments

Wait the guy changed someone's comment?

[–] bloodsangre7@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, its even listed on the Wiki page for reddit under 2016 controversies

[–] Photographer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Has it been removed? Seems to jump from him becoming CEO to the banning of loli?

[–] bloodsangre7@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Further down the page under "Other Controversies"

[–] bloodsangre7@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Further down the page under "Other Controversies"

[–] MercuryUprising@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, he got busted for it and wrote a half asked apology claiming he would change. Claimed he was just trolling...

[–] baascus@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] MrSebSin@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago
[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes. I believe it was people on the donald subreddit, which could be seen as funny, because most sane people (myself included) don't agree with them politically, but it's still a huge misuse of admin powers and proof that he has no integrity. Can't let other peoples' rights be violated if we want to keep our own.

[–] Quizmo@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Yeah he changed one comment saying: "Fuck u/spez" by replacing "spez" with one of the r/the_donald mods. This was also done silently so no * to indicate the comment had been edited.

[–] lwaxana_katana@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Wow I didn't know he ran r/jailbait. Gross.

[–] andobando@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago
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