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Fuck spez (lemmy.today)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by FormerRedditMod@lemmy.today to c/reddit@lemmy.world
 
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[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 107 points 1 year ago (5 children)

To be fair, that was back when people could add any other reddit account as a moderator to a subreddit without their knowledge. Still, I think he was still listed as a moderator when r/jailbait was banned, which if that is true is entirely inexcusable.

[–] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 48 points 1 year ago

They were 100% aware they were hosting a "not technically child pornography but we're going to use it as child pornography" sub, but there's no subreddit degenerate enough that they'll ban it while it's profitable.

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For those who don't know, look into the Creator of that sub. It's a crazy ass conspiracy type thing. Google Lake City Quiet Pills (link goes to a video from Nexpo on the subject) to go down a wild rabbit hole that somehow includes that sub. No child shit or whatever but it's hella interesting.

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[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Unreal that this bot started quoting the title!

[–] Twelve20two@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, I remember listening to the story of LCQP on the Chilluminati Podcast

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Theories of the Third Kind has a good one on it too. Haven't heard of that one I'll check it out.

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Can't you do that on Lemmy now?

I say that as someone who now apparently moderates a Sims community on Lemmy.world

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes, you can appoint anyone as moderator and they'll be none the wiser unless they happen to look at their own profile page. I think the target must have comments/posts on the community first but not sure if it can be bypassed in the backend.

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 5 points 1 year ago

That would make sense. I was one of the only people posting there

[–] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm... not sure. That's interesting. On Reddit you can be invited and you have to accept, but not sure about Lemmy.

[–] GluWu@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Look at me, I am the mods now.

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why be fair to Spez?

He wasn't fair to his userbase.

Treat people as ~~you would like to be treated~~ they demonstrate they treat people.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do unto others as they do unto others

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Exactly.

In a vacuum, be kind, but once someone shows you who they are, believe them and respond accordingly.

[–] EtherealMoon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck spez, but even if he was a moderator knowingly, wouldn't the point of that be to... moderate it, so that it didn't have illegal content?

Not vouching for "legal jailbait" or anything.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I never visited that subreddit, so I have no idea of the actual content. I don't know enough about the situation to be able to post more than I have without completely making stuff up, and in those situations its smarter to not say anything.

"A wise man speaks when he has something to say, but a fool speaks when he has to say something."

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago (18 children)
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[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago

It was jailbait wasn't it?

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Previous debate on this

My thinking: forget about technicalities of wherever he was an inactive “moderator”…

…focus on where he was an active administrator. NSFW ex. (link courtesy previous comment thread). Which includes the subreddit the OP is about, to be sure.

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't want links I want somebody to tell me what the sub is.

[–] neumast@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's r/CuteFemaleCorpses. At least that's what the ppl are talking about and where the link leads to.

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It looks like he was assigned as mod in a time when you could assign any valid username as a moderator to a sub. He was also assigned to r/jailbait among others.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right, hence my top-level comment and the previous discussion about it - given your link aversion:

~Spez was the mod of a vile sub!~ Spez was the admin of an entire site with many vile subs.

The more-easily-defensible criticism is also the harsher criticism.

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 5 points 1 year ago

Just use your words ffs

It's r/cutefemalecorpses and r/jailbait, how hard is that that you would mess it up multiple times?

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

i agree. but btw, if ur on android, u can use an app like UrlChecker to preview the link before opening, or maybe your lemmy client has a 'view source' option.

[–] meliaesc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Oh, that's great, im on my ISP watch list now, thanks

[–] numberfour002@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Oh Spez.

I remember when "the other site" launched an instant messaging feature. It was buggy as hell and interfered with my browsing experience on the site. Totally didn't expect anything to come of it, but mostly jokingly messaged Spez through the new feature knowing it would go to an endless abyss never to be seen again. Surprisingly he responded. Cordial but ultimately also not at all helpful. But some time later (maybe a month?), the bug I messaged him about was fixed. So, maybe it wasn't all fruitless.

[–] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 22 points 1 year ago

I wonder if he ever got a ride in Epstein’s aeroplane…

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago
[–] dingus@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there a body to this post? I can't see one on my Lemmy client, but everyone seems to be responding to something.

If anyone wants another reason to hate spez, just look into his relationship with Drewiepoodle, aka /u/awkwardtheturtle, a misandristic degenerate who dedicated their free time to the noble cause of bullying men online because they were butthurt their wife transitioned. Reddit only suspended their account to stop people from asking questions, but they have self reported that they constantly use alts to ban evade.

[–] NekoKamiGuru@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago

One thing I will not miss is the self important super moderators who patrol the site flexing on anyone as they act as self appointed guardians of morality , always ready with a script to mass ban someone who displeases them from hundreds of subreddits for the most petty of reasons , such as disagreeing with them and worse , being provably right.

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