r/pics calls out spez' history as jailbait moderator, a former sub dedicated to actual CP. the post hit the front page with 15k karma in 4h, then got removed earlier today
Do we know he did nothing for years, though? Like, I'm not checking /jailbait is still up on Internet Archive to see how long he was on their mod roster, I don't want to end up on that list, but I've never seen anything that indicates he remained on their list for any particular amount of time.
Didn't do shit about the community as an Admin, for sure. That took way too long from all of Reddit. But that's also separate from the recent narrative that he stayed as a mod for rather a while or was a willing and active mod there.
This is some revisionist history he was certainly involved and chose to remain part of it and support that type of community because he thought it was funny and he is gross
Exactly. And manufacturing fake grievances only serves to discredit the legitimate ones.
It would be fair to say that he and Reddit leadership not only provided a platform for deplorable communities like r/jailbait to flourish, but benefitted from them financially, while claiming that they can't do anything about it because freeze peach.
I don't want to be the one making those decisions for anyone but myself, and it's not the business reddit is in. We're a free speech site with very few exceptions (mostly personal info) and having to stomach occasional troll reddit like picsofdeadkids or morally quesitonable reddits like jailbait are part of the price of free speech on a site like this.
Yeah, I wish people would stop spreading this lie, especially when the truth is no better: As reddit's admins, spez and the others explicitly oversaw, tolerated and defended r/jailbait and every subreddit like it on the site, for a period of multiple years.
This doesn't exactly answer your question, but Reddit did send the creator of /r/jailbait a golden trophy for his contributions to the website. Here is an interview about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks8xuYRPnWM&t=458s
r/pics is wide open to all kinds of fuck spez posts, or well written calls to resign, whatever you want with the current rules right now.
all it takes is John Oliver be featured in the image and title and you're free to post anything (but no porn or gore). go nuts!
edit: because, the mods don't act anymore, unless an admin tells them to, and by the time the admin sees a post on the frontpage, the damage is already done. it's malicious compliance from the users and mods! if your title doesn't trigger any blocked words, the admins have no idea what's in your post until it's too late.
pics has 30 million subscribers and 8k are online. it's massive
but the mods can't post the critical content themselves! they need others to do it, so they can turn a blind eye. the fluff is such a wasted opportunity. we def need a well written call for resignation trending imo, I mean wtf it's what everyone wants and it's what spez is trying so hard to suppress on reddit. I know people would upvote it if it's good.
that comment section is incredible, the reddit shills have nothing to defend this and they're still trying. "it was years ago, it was an accident, it was just a prank bro (literally! they're saying oh well, it was a joke. unironically!!!). what the fuck, and it took them this long to notice the post? reddit is in over their heads, and without mods cleaning up for them their community is fucked.
it was years ago, it was an accident, it was just a prank bro
The single-digit-IQ masses who spout that sorta stuff also magically seem to gloss over how A) the admins allowed the sub to exist for a long period of time in the first place and didn't get rid of it until public backlash, and B) the same admins created a custom award for them/one of their users/mods/creator/whoever.
Spez is an ass on his own merits, no lies needed. He was (briefly) named as an r/Jailbait moderator without his knowledge at a time when anyone could name anyone as moderator of any subReddit.