Awkwardtheturtle banned - Rare Reddit Admin W

Powermod of over 1000 subs. Permanently online. Bans users for no reason and posts inflammatory comments and pins them in threads. One example - Do you remember the r/Art drama where the artist got her art removed by a mod who said it was AI art (it was not) and berated the artist for her style? Yep, that's awkwardtheturtle.
Basically the worst of the WORST of reddit mods with no life outside of reddit.
- Oh that's interesting AF. I haven't REALLY been active on reddit for many years up until the recent drama, but even that shitstorm got my attention. Hadn't realized it was that guy.
Big asshole mod, known for being an asshole. Power tripper af
Further digging reveals the opposite. Not a guy according to the change.org petition, which is a little too doxxy for my taste.
- Okay yeah I thought I remembered her being a woman but somehow everyone here is talking about 'him'
- That info from the petition saying awkwardtheturtle is another user is something that went around for a while, but it wasn't true (unless there's been a turn in that story).
  awkwardtheturtle posted a selfie in the "centuryclub" subreddit (which only allowed people with over 100k link or comment karma in), and the person in the selfie definitely wasn't the person people suspected awkwardtheturtle was.
  The "proof" so many pointed to (including the petition) was a Vox article which was just repeating stuff from a Daily Beast article. The Daily Beast article never said the two were the same person, but the Vox article assumed they were. Probably because the head mod on a lot of subreddits that other person mods is/was awkwardtheturtle.

"My accounts WILL be restored"

Okay Karen.

I want to speak with Spez's manager!

lmao the sheer amount of entitlement on him. Truly a leopardsatemyface moment. Imagine tying your entire identity to being an unpaid lacky for a website that doesn't give two fucks about you, to the point that when you're let go you go nuclear.

It always does make you wonder how these people have the time to actively moderate 100+ subreddits without any compensation. That is, unless there are some under-the-table deals that we don't know about. I think moderators have been caught taking bribes before.
- A petition to ban her was created, with implications made that she was being paid. Mind you, this was quite a few years ago.
- I thought the most remarkable thing was the "moderator" proclaiming their innocence by stating they hadn't been to the sub in question for at least six months and never talk to the top mod.
- Turtle doesn't mod for shit, nor do other mods with 1000+ subs. These people see themselves as 'community leaders' who set up org charts and make all the lower-rung mods do all the work for them. It's incredibly toxic.

I love how the majority of comments in this thread have a single downvote. I wonder who’s doing that 😂

Unlike Reddit, you can see who "reduces" (downvotes) comments and threads. In a comment click on more - activity - reduces. Yes, it is all the same person.
- Seems like we found turtle's ball licker's Kbin account!
- What?!? That's a fucking amazing feature, thanks for spreading the word.
- Oh man, that's amazing. Thank you for that information
- I'm loving (Lemmy) kbin more and more with all these accountability features. Thanks for the education!
  Edit: I apologize for the confusion. I realized the error a few mins after posting this. The fediverse is still confusing me a bit.
  Edit2: I don't see any strike through text formatting. Maybe in the next update?
- Not sure I like that feature...
- That only works on kbin tho, many from lemmy also participate here.
- I don't see "activity". Weird.
Well since this isn't reddit you can actually look at who is downvoting. So whats up with all the downvotes @amnesiac7 ?
- Ah interesting, seems he immediately downvoted you too!
- That account has been busy, too. 1 week old and has created 99 threads, mostly political rage bait.
- Lmao deleted his account
Ooh, is his ghost in the room with us right now?
Good luck becoming mod of 1000 communities/magazines in the Fediverse, with them distributed across all sorts of different instances like this.

A few days later...

As long as Mr. Snrub has to rebuild his empire from scratch, it's still a win.

Touch an entire football field of grass, dude.

I think he thinks being a moderator is an important job or something.

ok why do we care about some other site's drama :3

Because you're literally browsing a magazine about that other site?
I agree that this particular mod getting banned isn't directly related to the migration efforts, but the overarching drama it's connected to is the main reason people are leaving Reddit for Lemmy. IE: admins becoming hostile towards moderators, developers, and redditors, resulting in an environment that the whole userbase is trying to flee. So even though I don't care about this "power-tripping asshole mod" (as another Lemming described him), I get how some people here might find the post useful and relevant.
- Apparently awkward was responsible for a lot of the John Oliver spam in the subs he modded. Might be why he's finally gone now. He even contacted John Oliver on Twitter to cry about his suspension and ask for help lol See pic related
because drama makes the world go around

Turtle has always been a douche canoe. It's fun to see them melt down.

They sound very unpleasant

Yeah, I don't understand how they became a moderator on so many major subreddits.
- Especially if they're going to 6 monrhs without helping. Like why?

Reddit is gonna die in a hot fire and we are all here for this!

🙌

That's actually pretty funny

Lmao finally

Bruh momentum

This made my day. Happy Friday all!

It took a few years but they finally listened to the Petition! : https://www.change.org/p/reddit-mods-ban-u-awkwardtheturtle

j/k

This person is a meme

It is with great schadenfreude that I welcome these news.

In those messages you can see all the stages of grief, minus acceptance, play out over the course of 1h20m.

This kind of person is the reason why I decided to mod one specific sub. Because I saw the shitshow that one person can make on a sub when going on a power trip. Once the dust have settled I'll give it to someone reasonable who wants to do it full time.

You should be cautious if one of the powertripper we have now is the admin of a sub you like. I think the max I've seen was 4060 subs? What good do you think can come out of it?

btw, as someone mentioned, he is fuelling his own fire on /m/politicus, making it a rageclick fest all over again. This is the reason why I left reddit btw, because all the subs slowly turned into a rageclick show.

When you mod you set the tone, if you don't want a mirror of reddit then step up and set the tone yourself.

Just shows how there is no "correct" side in this story. Awkward being a terrible power-hungry mod on one hand, and Spez deciding to prioritize on profit over community and usability on the other.

Not really. People have been complaining about him for very long but reddit did nothing.
They only took action after THEY were personally bothered. They use the word "community" a lot but they don't understand what it means.

This is what it looks like if your only way to power trip and the only thing you have in life is being a mod of reddit and it gets taken away by your beloved corporation.

Fucking hate that guy, he’s run his filthy mouth long enough.

To be honest, I'm kinda okay if this powermod gets unbanned - as long as all the folks who got permabanned without reason also get a fair hearing to get unbanned.

Hell yeah, for once reddit did something good

Is turtle just copy/pasting replies they've previously received from users they banned for whatever dumb reason? It literally reads like any of the threads I've seen complaining about their moderation.

Now do the mod of r/redditgetsdrawn. They’re so quick to ban it’s ridiculous!

Haha I think that's the only sub I was ever banned from.
They had nuked a thread for some reason, and I wrote something like "I stand here in solidarity. Bring it on." And then was banned lol
- I was banned the first time I commented. I said a photo someone uploaded was lovely (not a top level comment). I got a 30 day ban immediately. I messaged back, apologising that I had missed that rule. The mod said “no arguing with the moderators” and then permabanned me. Wtf?!