Reddit CEO Defends His Absurdly High Pay While Not Paying Mods - eviltoast
  • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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    8 months ago

    He was the moderator of a sub called “jailbait” for a long time. What’s less clear is if that was something he did on purpose or if someone else assigned him as a mod as a prank assuming he wouldn’t notice

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      8 months ago

      I always wondered why a subreddit like that was allowed to exist in the first place. I guess I have my answer now.

      • nutt_goblin@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        As I remember it, reddit got its start when “internet culture” was pretty heavily downstream of 4chan/somethingawful/ytmnd. And pedo-type behaviour was pretty normalized in those spaces.

    • irreticent@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      When someone invites you to become a moderator you have to click a couple times to accept. It was no accident.