Permanent ban on last day with Apollo app. Called u/Spez a cunt in a message 😂
Permanent ban on last day with Apollo app. Called u/Spez a cunt in a message 😂
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I’m actually proud of this and might frame it for my office 🤣
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I'd be thrilled to know I personally offended a CEO
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As you should be. This is my first comment here and fuck spez, the greedy cunt.
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On a fine Monday morning, Steve Huffman, known colloquially as Spez, awoke from his gold-threaded sheets in his penthouse, sipping on his ethically questionable yet preposterously expensive civet coffee. He looked out his windows, the horizon offering the perfect view of his kingdom, his creation, his Reddit.
Having decided to raise the cost of API use to levels that would make a NASA engineer's jaw drop, Spez had embarked on a mission to squelch third-party apps, steering users towards the official (albeit buggy) Reddit app. He chuckled to himself, confident that his plot was as foolproof as an uncrackable safe.
Little did he know, the storm was brewing.
As he logged on, dressed in his favorite power suit, he noticed the eerie silence. Subreddits, once buzzing hives of memes, jokes, and shower thoughts, were now as barren as the surface of Mars. The once-mighty r/AskReddit, now reduced to a ghost town, echoed with digital tumbleweeds.
Confused, he navigated to r/pics. The screen loaded and his eyes were met with an endless scroll of buttholes, every variety, shape, and color imaginable. His newly nanobot-manicured eyebrows knitted together in bewilderment.
“Must be a new meme trend,” he said, shrugging it off.
He then moved to r/science, a bastion of intellect and reason, only to find NSFW content occupying every single thread. The Higgs boson was being discussed in a manner Einstein could never have predicted.
“What in the name of...?” He blinked, checking whether he was still on Reddit and not some obscure corner of the dark web.
He decided to investigate, opening his mailbox. "Surely my loyal subjects will inform me what's going on," he mused.
And inform they did. His inbox was flooded with messages, each more colorful than the last. "Spez, you're a legend!" one began, before ending with a plot twist, "...at being a daft cunt."
"Has everyone lost their minds?" he wondered, failing to connect the dots.
He banished anyone who dared cross him, banning his way through his subjects like a monarch with an itchy trigger finger.
As the day wore on, Spez grew restless. His grand plan was not unfolding as expected. But, in his characteristic arrogance, he was certain that the chaos would soon subside and he would ascend as the one true app lord.
In his plush office, surrounded by screens showing falling Reddit stocks, he clutched a crystal ball he bought from a New Age store, whispering, “Soon, my Reddit will be worth billions…” The crystal ball, deciding it had enough, promptly rolled off his desk and shattered on the Italian marble floor.
In the end, a day that began with grand ambitions ended with a lonely billionaire, surrounded by pictures of buttholes, an inbox full of profanity, a shattered crystal ball, and a kingdom in chaos.
Unbeknownst to him, the Reddit community reveled in their rebellion. They might not have won the war yet, but oh, how they celebrated the battles. As the moon replaced the sun, one phrase echoed throughout the kingdom of Reddit, repeated in posts and comments, whispered in DMs, etched into the heart of the rebellion,
"Fuck Spez."
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I need this entire comment printed out and framed. Its composure is truly artistic!
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Fuck, take my money
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Let’s sing all together:
Well Spez is a cunt, he's a big fat cunt, He's the biggest cunt in the whole wide world. He’s a stupid cunt, if there ever was a cunt, He's a cunt to all the boys and girls.
On Monday, he's a cunt, On Tuesday, he's a cunt, On Wednesday though Saturday, he's a cunt, Then on Sunday, just to be different, He's a super King Kamehameha Cunt.
Have you ever met Reddits Spez? He's the biggest cunt in the whole wide world, (La-la-la-la-la-la-la) He's a mean ol' cunt and he has wangy eyes, He's a cunt, cunt, cunt, cunt, cunt, cunt, cunt.
Cunt, cunt, cunt, cunt, cunt, cunt, cunt, He's a stupid cunt! (Woah!)! Reddits Spez is a cunt, And he's such a dirty cunt! (Cunt!)!
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I really mean it, that Spez, he's a real big fuckin' cunt, big ol' fat fuckin' cunt, u/spez! Yeah, cha!
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Don't do it BeardyGrumps....
Wellllllll
I'm warning you....
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If only we had Lemmy Gold...
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Any ongoing crowdfunding for your upcoming book? Give me a link please? You got me interested. Anything published already?
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"an endless scroll of buttholes"
art
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This if Fucking magnificent 🤣
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This is now canon.
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This is pure, artistic and linguistical gold. Bravo!
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This is a masterpiece
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You use your words prettier than a $20 whore.
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If only we had Lemmy Gold...
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Claim you're Australian, and live in NSW.
Show that it is your constitutional right to call any leader a cunt
https://nswcourts.com.au/articles/court-rules-its-ok-to-refer-to-tony-abbott-as-a-ct/
Sue Reddit
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To be fair, Tony Abbott is actually a total cunt, so the case result was always going to be.
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qmmdH5vcnKw
EDIT that was the wrong one:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nLz6MPCoNUE
These are to be used contextually obviously.
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I'm pretty sure he was a laughing stock across the world when he was in.
Then US one upped us.
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I tagged him in messages for a few days calling him a cunt but never got banned. I guess DM was the thing to make it be effective?
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Admins, or at least him, don't get notified when you tag them
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Good. Fuck u/spez — that little cunt
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Like 3 days ago I got a site wide ban for posting a picture of the comments spez altered on TheDonald like 4 years ago. Reddit has gone downhill ever since Pao got the CEO title and has only gotten worse under spez.
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do you happen to have a link for that image? would love to post it myself 😅
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Pao was hired to do a specific job, she did it, and then she was sacrificed. She was 100% a scapegoat.
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Should definitely be banned for not using an apostrophe.
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called /u/Spez a cunt
This is inaccurate, /u/Spez lacks warmth and depth and has never given anyone pleasure.
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Must be a fun place to work 🙄
Sucks because it used to be an awesome job I bet
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No, they talked about it, it was brutal, they were overworked for a good while, then when the money came in they went dumb corporate.
There was a while where they said the stress felt like it was worth it then everything fell apart, this was around when pao was in charge and the ama lady got fired.
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That sounds about right, it's been coasting on the momentum from past glories since then, and we were protected from the worst of it by third party apps and good mods and communities in smaller subreddits. Both things they're now ripping apart. Curious to check Reddit again in a couple years and witness just how bad it got.
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Surprises me that you get banned for it but whenever someone else call another person that - they get away with either a warning or nothing happens. Lol.
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I edited all my comments to Fuck u/spez and deleted them and then deleted my account. They ruined a decent thing.
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I hope you did all this behind a good ad blocker/DNS filter or else you just increased engagement with the site and potentially their ad delivery network. They also collect the analytics, think advertisers won't pay for metadata related to a cohort of users mass exodusing? I love the decentralized setup here, this is really cool. Let's get more time and engagement here instead and stop providing our data to Predditers.
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The only time I don’t use an adblocker is on my work computer because they are so locked down. If I have to go there again I’ll use a VPN just to fuck with their engagement.
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Same, then they perma-IP banned all of my accounts, lmao.
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That’s what happens when the CEO starts taking advice from Elon Musk on how to run a social media company.
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FYI, they go beyond IP and use browser fingerprinting to ban all your accounts.
There's also a hilarious bug in reddit logic that can let you ban innocent users this way :3
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Glad to see my permanent ban for reporting one fucking Fox News post on politics for blatant climate change denialism is on level with this. For using the report function to bully/harrass ffs. Laughable!
Place was becoming a shitehole months before these API changes anyway.
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Fuck /u/spez
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I'd rather not
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Well tbf spez is a cunt. A big, silly, greedy cunty cunt.
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What's somewhat depressing is that he didn't have to act like that. It's done in no favours at all and yet he still chose to be a complete twit.
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Sweet what kind of stuff do u do? Thinkin about sharing some of mine on here tbh
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I got a couple of bans from automod because some precious mods get offended by you overwriting your comments with Power Delete Suite. Some of the comments were like 5 years old or older that were overwritten and got me banned.
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I got a bunch of automod messages too when I did it. If you edit a message, automod reviews it just as if it was a first post. If the edit breaks the sub's rules (as it will if you used a generic message for all your posts as I did) then it'll get blocked. Don't think that's being precious, just how automod tools work.
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The message I received specifically mentioned editing past comments so the rule they made specifically targeted this. There was nothing in the post that might ordinarily get you banned.
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They banned me a few days ago and didn't even have the courtesy to tell me why. I asked and got no response.
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That part about bullying was pretty ironic huh.
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Totally worth it!
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Just sign up as a reddit refugee, I approve. Also since I have no fucks left I've been using my alt account to troll r/conservative. Happy to be here, the thing with replacing mods and forcing communities to reopen was just so fucked up.
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It only took me one comment to get banned there and it was a legitimate question lol. Biggest bunch of crybabies on the internet, I have to laugh every time one of them brings up free speech or echo chambers.
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As a conservative myself, I can say for certain the mods in that sub suck. They are exactly what they rail against, pisses me off so much.
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I do consider trolling in /r/conservative to be a party foul in the "don't feed the trolls" category.
But eh, it's all going downhill over there anyway. We're just happy lemmings relaxing on the hill as the city burns down in the valley.
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Gonna have to troll the democrats now. Oh wait they don't need any help with that.
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I reported him for help, he might be get suicidal when reddit bombs. Don't want him to take the easy way out now.
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Billionaires are the worst kind of people. I can’t wait for the revolution to come for them. It’s going to be a good time.
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Something something fava beans, chianti.
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Feels a little generous even calling them people.
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Rabbits
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Rabbits
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Lmao I've been permabanned so many times, reddit really has gone to shit the last few years...if you dare have an opinion that goes against the majority you're in for a bad time. Fuck reddit.
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I'm permanently suspended from reddit for (as far as I can tell) abusing nazis and proto-fascists that were shit-stirring on a sub I moderated
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It's part of the migration plan to help users move away from the platform.
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Jesus christ
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You did the right thing. You told the truth.
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No one regrets getting banned from digg.
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Chad move tbh
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I'm kinda sad they only gave me a 7 day suspension. Gonna have to try harder it seems.
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You can do it, we believe in you!
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You know for a fact he put that ban through himself too.
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I like to think in the alternate universe where Aaron Swartz doesn't commit suicide, he eventually ends up making a competitor that doesn't fall victim to the failures some of these companies have
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Can we use spez as human sacrifice to resurrect aaron?
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He's here in spirit
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Much like on twitter, you can insult us common folk (and landed gentry), but insult a celebrity or rich person, and that's a ban.
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lmaoooooooooo worth every penny 🤣 🤣 🤣
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Why is bro being downvoted, Reddit has many circlejerks. This isn't necessarily a political comment.
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Oh no u/Spez got harassed. Who would've thought?
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Not sure I'm fully onboard with this to be honest.
I mean, we're all adults living in a civilised society and you missed an apostrophe, it should have been "you're a cunt", not youre.
We all know better for next time ;-)
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*You're
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Right? They didn’t even keep my apostrophe in there. Lazy Spez
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You should try appealing and say it wasn’t inflammatory, in fact really is one lol
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Wear that permaban like a badge of honor
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I wrote something like this and mentioned him in a comment. And the bullying modcodeofconduct user also hoping to be banned and nothing. I guess I need to go via DMs
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On the last day the apps still worked I told spez to get fucked like 6 times. Maybe I got banned. Dunno. Never logging in to find out. 🤗
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This is an automated message; responses will not be received by deadbeat admins.
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Appeal it.
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Make the argument that this was just a factual, well-established fact and not harassment.
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o7
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honestly not a fan of people being treated like this
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With a bang
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Wow I'm sure you epically owned spez soooo hard in that message
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90% of the time I see a comment like this, the “differing opinion” was something along the lines of “trans people have a mental disorder and we shouldn’t encourage them to exist by allowing them to transition” or “it should be legal to discriminate against black people”. No one gets banned for their conservative fiscal opinions lol
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They started the harassment and bullying by overpricing their API. Ban themselves right IACF.
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I racked up 10 bans on that day shit posting to mods. Felt good man.
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Lmao good on ya
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The whole ban invasion rule never made much sense to me. It's completely unenforceable, there's absolutely no way with their platform for them to tell if a user is using a new account to evade a pre-existing ban, so why the hell are they going on about it?
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I'm not sure if you use the app if they can tell it's from same app installation.
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It's enforced, believe me. Even with a VPN. I think they must use browser and app fingerprint, it isn't just IP.
In the end it really seemed like I had been flagged as an undesirable. I'd have what I thought were pretty reasonable discussions at night, and then wake up to another account permabanned. The last couple I didn't even get a link to the offending content, just a message about being in breach of their content policy in some undefined way.
I fucking hated that site anyway.
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If you're going through many extra steps to change your online fingerprint, then you're correct. But there are things they can use to match accounts together. Even a simple IP address combined with behavior from that address can be effective.
In my limited experience with ban evaders while modding on reddit (on a ~100k subscribers size sub), reddit's automatic systems do catch some ban evaders. We would sometimes ban a really angry person and later find multiple comments from different accounts in the filtered queue trying to continue their bickering.
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Dang, that was a sweet idea. Way better than deleting accounts. Great job!
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Don’t threaten me with a good time!
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Thank you for your service 🗿
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I've just deleted my accounts, I entered 'Fuck u/Spez' hundreds of times into the feedback field.
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incredibly based
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Yeah I'm here because of a perma ban also not just because of the API changes haha. Fuck Reddit, kinda glad they ripped the bandaid off for me. It really was an addiction.
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o7
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This is the most epic way to end a Reddit run
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super petty on reddit’s part.
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Proving the concept correct!
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Marvellous.
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🫡
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This is the way
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This is like when Johnny Sack had to unexpectedly return home to retrieve his sweater he forgot only to find Ginny Sack gorging herself on her hidden stash of snacks and candy while she was supposed to be on a diet.
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In a random message or you sent it to his account?
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Dm
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Excellent!
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This is beautiful. Thanks for doing your part!
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Not sure I'm fully onboard with this to be honest.
I mean, we're all adults living in a civilised society and you missed an apostrophe, it should have been "you're a cunt", not youre.
We all know better for next time ;-)
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I've deleted my account on my own, to not grant them the last admin power trip. Left them a nice parting message while I was at it.
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Imma start doing that with all my throwaways from now on
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I don't think this is actually deleted
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Based!
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Bro gotta commend the badassery
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Fuck money hungry /u/Spez, an all censoring Reddit admins.
While I side with mods protesting, sadly some Reddit mods are also first class censoring cunts.
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very cool!
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o7
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So say we all.
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Not sure I'm fully onboard with this to be honest.
I mean, we're all adults living in a civilised society and you missed an apostrophe, it should have been "you're a cunt", not youre.
We all know better for next time ;-)
Facts.
Facts.