One last important announcement regarding reddit and spez

As much as we all think spez is a waste of oxygen, we shouldn’t propagate shit that isn’t real. It draws away from the cause why Reddit is revolting.

He was unknowingly added as a mod before when you could nominate anyone

I mean he was "technically" a mod of jailbait.
In the early days you could appoint mods , he was Unknowingly appointed and technically a mod of jailbait.
But he wasnt Willingly nor did he "mod" the sub.
So this is Mostly false what gets spread.
- I don't think he was even appointed as a mod though, I haven't seen any evidence to back it up other than Reddit hearsay
he was knowingly participating greatly in the sub though.
- Do you have any proof of that or are you just making shit up cause thats the first time I even heard anyone say that.

Just gonna paste a comment I just made on another off-topic post...

I think the mods here need to start removing off-topic posts. Otherwise people see them and keep perpetuating the trend..

This is a community specifically for the lemmy.world instance; not reddit. Please post content like this on lemmy.world/c/reddit. These off-topic posts are strangling out relevant posts here.

There's also lemmy.world/c/general for just general discussion.

Just posted something similar in a different post about reddit on this instance and was getting ready to reply here as well. Thank you!
I like to keep up-to-date with the reddit-drama myself, but not everyone will want that. So they shouldn't have to unsubscribe from this community just to avoid these kinds of post.

Could you please provide some proof that he used to mod r/jailbait?

According to the AMA where a lot of this came up, from what I understand, in the early (like, super early) days of Reddit, you used to be able to appoint people as mods if you had X amount of karma - I think it was 100k. I can't find that comment thread now that fully explained it, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was removed. The gist of it is someone appointed him as a mod there and it didn't last long.
So mostly true, but in that technical and disingenuous way, as he didn't set out to be a mod of his own free will.
Someone feel free to jump in and correct any specifics I missed or got wrong.
- That's what I've been told as well. I think that's why there needs to be approval to appoint mods now. I think the bigger issue is why reddit let that sub remain for as long as it did. It had to be covered by the media for it to be banned (iirc. or was that a different sub?).
  Edit: yeah, it was Anderson Cooper who did an expose focusing on that sub.
Google can quickly find you proof, but the answer is much less satisfying. As much spez has the most punchable of punchable faces, he was not modded by choice, but instead appointed. He was a mod, but for not long, only in name, and named by a 3rd party.
There is so much to hate about this guy, using the jailbait mod angle just diminishes the reasons into just namecalling.
This is proof

The problem with jailbait wasn't that it was illegal, it was just not a good look for a business trying to court advertising money.
- Hold up, the problem with jailbait is it was scantily clad little children in sexuality suggestive situations. That was the problem. Whether it was technically legal or not it's irrelevant, it was intended to sexualized children.
  It's "not a good look" because it's abhorrent trash meant to skirt child porn laws. Was it illegal? No. Was it just advertisers who had a problem with it? Also no. Users thought it was abhorrent too. There were user campaigns to ban the sub all the same, who do you think kept notifying the media?

Fuck Spez