😂 amazing act of malicious compliance! fuck spez

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    I don’t know if a timeline was made public but i imagine back then that either a) you might not even get the notification when made a mod somewhere or b) filterng wasn’t good so that particular one was lost and drowned in a ton of notifications.

    So it becomes somewhat plausible that spez was actually unaware of this fact for a bit.

    That said, my gut feeling is that he knew about it but tried to justify it publicly and to other reddit employees as some kind of “for free speech!” sort of thing. I dare not go any deeper and speculate about his private thoughts on the matter…

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      Apparently in the early days of reddit, you could add anyone as mod and you didn’t need to accept, it just automatically added you. IDK when that changed, but I was told by a user on modcoord that spez was added to that sub without his knowledge. I mean it’s bad enough that admin allowed subs like this to proliferate and continue their activity.

      The guy is a major DB, and has, for sure, done a lot of questionable to unethical stuff, but apparently modding that sub knowingly isn’t accurate. I like to be right when I’m criticizing the dude and there’s plenty to choose from.

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        This doesn’t answer the questions. (How long was his account listed as a moderator for that sub? And did he even know about it? Finally, if he knew about it, why didn’t he remove himself right away?)

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          I wasn’t really trying to answer the question of if he knew or not. idk if he did or not. I was just agreeing, based on what someone informed me, that yes what you said is probably correct, that he didn’t initially realize it. I guess my point is, it doesn’t really matter when he realized. He was added without permission, and removed himself. The fact that he was or wasn’t mod doesn’t negate the fact the reddit tolerated these subs and he has done plenty of shit that’s easily proven that it’s not like anyone really needs this issue to be the defining moment.

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            He allegedly didn’t realize it, but his frequent comments in various related AMAs (and the custom Reddit trophy sent to one CP-focused user) do not paint the picture that he minded being nominated one bit. Coupled with the fact that said removal of his status was not immediate? Yeah, not innocent in the slightest, but he’s BDE now and makes up the rules as he goes. What could go wrong?