I really don't want to see the worst of reddit on this site. Turts put wayyy too much of their time into reddit and made it way too much of their sense of self worth. That being said the insane shit he had to put up with from people would drive anyone to a dark place. Shit there are even other users who redditors assume are a Turt alt that are getting harassed. If you have any vested interest in this topic at all, you are exactly as much of the problem as Turtle. Let reddit burn along with all your hate for the former mods and move the fuck on.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer fella... AwkwardTheTurtle famous power mod known to steal peoples posts, ban them and re-upload them.

I'm sorry, I do not feel bad. lol

Hah, this is just so pathetic to read.

I don't use the term "terminally online" often, but this is exactly the time to use it. Imagine being this desperate to cling onto your power over an internet forum, not even for the sake of the community, but for the ego-driven lust for wanting control over others on something as menial as Reddit.

Must be a shock to realize all this was in his head, and he was basically just a pawn to spez and everyone else at the top.

For those new here that don’t recognize the name, here is some background some of us remember as to why we’re not such huge fans.

lol if there is one mod on reddit I am glad to see banned it is this one

If you're moderating 1,000 forums, are you really moderating anything?

That's how much reddit cares about you even if you did the job of tons and tons of paid employees.

Hahaha awkwardtheturtle is a horrible online bully, now they're begging for their fake internet power back, brilliant.

The reason was not right, they should have been removed from power ages ago, but at least this collateral damage is a tiny bit of justice served at the end.

how tf do you even meaningfully mod 1000 subs? 2 is plenty

Let's not be too hard on him. Being mod over 1000+ is a mental illness that reddit forced us to put up with.

"I haven't even done anything in 6 months" is a really funny statement to make as mod. Apparently they never considered just... not being a mod for a place they don't care about?

It's sad that power mods like Turtle have made many people think that all mods are like him.

The mods for the sub of a popular game I play are getting shit on for protesting against Reddit by people who think the mods merely want power. No power mod has ever put thousands of hours into creating free helper apps or maintaining a game wiki.

rip bozo.

No more powermods. Burn reddit down.

Most recently they falsely accused someone of posting AI art https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/zxse22/rart_mod_accuses_artist_of_using_ai_and_when/

This person is a huge problem and has been for years: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/reddit-campaign-against-moderator-awkwardtheturtle/

We're watching the public service that is the information superhighway be born and be killed in only a few generations.

Reddit mods really do think that they are gonna have special treatment because they are doing unpaid work. They won't. It's time to realise Reddit will not relent, abandoning ship is the only way of going forward.

I read somewhere that less than 50 people moderate like 80% of reddit. Awkward's time should have long since passed if they're taking on moderation in over 1000 subs, but things like SLPT -which gets a not-insignifigant amount of traffic- has gone longer than 6 months without Awkward opening it. This also goes to show another complaint redditors have where mods are inactive as FUCK, and don't get removed but Admin team pulling OT to bump them off now!

In a dictatorship there is a common theme of purges, and the most effective ones are the ones done randomly with no reason, giving everyone else the suspicion that they could be next, even if they haven't done anything wrong.

I thought he was moderator of a 1000 subscriber sub, not moderator of 1000 subs. That's a different story.

Wow. Watching reddit melt down has been amazing. I really don't even care but the popcorn has been so tasty. This news is a caramel coated popcorn ball all by itself.

My question is who took those screenshots. I don't know the context, but if this is some sort of weird ass grass-touching PR stunt that would be next-level gross.

Have some karma turtle shit. You abuse, you get abused by a bigger fish. Always have been.

How do you even mod 1000 subs? That sounds like a damn hassle and a half.

I hope they stay banned

Wasn't there controversy around Awkward the Turtle awhile ago anyway?

One must have really nothing to do of their days to hoard sub moderation titles. I don't even understand why would someone give mod role to someone with 999 other roles. What would you expect to happen between hiring a power thirsty mod or a mod that will not even be actually there.

I moderated a couple decently popular subreddits and got a decent chunk of internet points, and even to me the concept of whining this much about losing a reddit account is fucking hilarious