Awkward the turtle ( 1000 sub reddit mod) banned and begging to get unbanned. - eviltoast
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      1 year ago

      I never ran across that account but it blows me away that this article is two years old. In a way I hope that the account gets unbanned. I am not sure that kind of personality should have any reason to discover the Lemmyverse. Let it stay Reddit’s problem.

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    1 year ago

    Couldn’t have happened to a nicer fella… AwkwardTheTurtle famous power mod known to steal peoples posts, ban them and re-upload them.

    I’m sorry, I do not feel bad. lol

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      Their entire identity revolved around reddit. They devoted their entire life to the site. With that level of commitment you find the time.

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        Even if you spent 20 hours a day on the site, every day, there’s no way to have meaningful interactions with 1000 communities.

        Clearly what they’re committed to is collecting subreddit. Collecting them like baseball cards: Looking at them, smiling, and then stuffing them in a box, never to be looked at again.

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      How do you know that there’s only one person working the account? When you’re a reddit moderator, it’s anonymous (same on Wikipedia). For all we know, all the power mods are working at a PR firm somewhere. Spreading misinformation could be their full-time job. Controlling the flow of information on Reddit and Wikipedia could be worth more than Reddit’s actual profit.

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    That’s how much reddit cares about you even if you did the job of tons and tons of paid employees.

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      I’ve been on mod teams with him and some other powermods. They don’t do shit, just have new mods do all the work as they and their friends set up ‘org charts’ according to which they run their subs.

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        That is an objectively sad life. Imagine people asking what you did with your life and your answer is “I had imaginary power on a now-defunct internet site doing unpaid work day in and day out. I spent hours upon hours of my life creating charts that only apply in this digital universe to make myself feel important while people who scrolled my page for five minutes a day on the subway were out doing things in the real world”.

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    The reason was not right, they should have been removed from power ages ago, but at least this collateral damage is a tiny bit of justice served at the end.

    • Evono@lemmy.worldOP
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      Ye mods on reddit ( and on lemmy ) should be at most Moderating 5 maybe 10 subs INCLUDING ALTS.

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        1 year ago

        With lemmy, if someone is squatting a bunch of forums and moderating them, you can always start your own lemmy instance and start your own forum with the same title.

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    Hahaha awkwardtheturtle is a horrible online bully, now they’re begging for their fake internet power back, brilliant.

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    Hah, this is just so pathetic to read.

    I don’t use the term “terminally online” often, but this is exactly the time to use it. Imagine being this desperate to cling onto your power over an internet forum, not even for the sake of the community, but for the ego-driven lust for wanting control over others on something as menial as Reddit.

    Must be a shock to realize all this was in his head, and he was basically just a pawn to spez and everyone else at the top.

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      And not even a real internet forum with some connection to the world, like a forum for engineers or something, but just these generic cat video style forums that don’t really add huge value to anyone’s life. Your entire existence is to fill the 30-second void for people standing in elevators.

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    “I haven’t even done anything in 6 months” is a really funny statement to make as mod. Apparently they never considered just… not being a mod for a place they don’t care about?

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    I thought he was moderator of a 1000 subscriber sub, not moderator of 1000 subs. That’s a different story.

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    It’s sad that power mods like Turtle have made many people think that all mods are like him.

    The mods for the sub of a popular game I play are getting shit on for protesting against Reddit by people who think the mods merely want power. No power mod has ever put thousands of hours into creating free helper apps or maintaining a game wiki.