• SuperDuper@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    He was listed as a mod on jailbait for quite a while. This information was pointed out over and over again on a website he ran, and he chose to do nothing about it. He was clearly aware of the situation.

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      6 months ago

      True, but back then you could add anyone as a mod, he didn’t “moderate it” but was a “moderator on it”.
      A minor but key difference that means he just didn’t care about perverts or that he was a leader of perverts.

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        6 months ago

        He was free to take 2 seconds and remove himself from the list. He never did. It was always a “joke” on the site until it wasn’t.

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          6 months ago

          Why would he have a moral obligation to remove himself from the list or pay attention to what subs he was added as mod? I could see complaining that as CEO he didn’t choose to ban the sub sooner, but moderator status seems kind of irrelevant here.

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            6 months ago

            You gotta realize reddit was a lot smaller back then and the admins, including spez, were much more active and engaged on the site. He was very much in on the “joke”

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              6 months ago

              Seems totally plausible and likely that he was added as moderator on a long list of subs and never perused or paid attention to that list, so how would it illustrate that? The infamy of that sub makes a lot more sense as evidence that he must have been aware of it, and that would be a legitimate basis for criticism. The moderator thing is just a memeable detail that is itself true but implies something that seems to be not true: that he had a direct role in operating the sub beyond running Reddit and allowing it to exist. I don’t think there’s a case for it having any significance beyond that false implication.

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                6 months ago

                Copying my reply from a different subthread:

                You know they made a custom award for the creator of the jailbait sub called “Pimp Daddy,” right? And that for a long time one of the autosuggested results from Google when you googled reddit was the jailbait sub? Do you think a CEO of a “major company” (not what reddit was at the time, they were still desperately drumming up users) is somehow unaware of what shows up when you google their company?

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                  6 months ago

                  Like I said, that kind of argument would be better, it’s not directly related to the moderator thing afaik