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[–] sploosh@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Was that while he was a moderator of /r/jailbait?

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Spez is a piece of shit, but wasn't that a joke? Like other mods added him as a mod?

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

At the time you could add someone as a mod without their say so. and apparantly thats what happened with Spez.

Doesn't change the fact that he didn't instantly remove himself but left it there for years.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago

Oh damn I didn't realize he was a mod for years. I figured it was like a day or something.

[–] sploosh@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Excellent point. I'm sure the guy who edited user comments couldn't have un-modded himself at any given point.

[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can only be on a mod team if you are invited and you accept.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

That was not always the case, and was only set up that way after the CNN expose. Fuck Spez left, right, and up the middle, but he only was only listed as a mod on /r/jailbait at a time when you could freely add anybody as a mod to your subreddit.

[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 22 hours ago

TIL. Thank you.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wouldn’t that mean that he was likely sent CSAM - and possibly didn’t report it?

That would indicate that there would be no plausible deniability about the trading rings being run by the mods and users.

Reddit would not have removed r/jailbait if it hadn’t made CNN. R/picsofdeadkids was up for long after that.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

R/picsofdeadkids was up for long after that.

Not for much longer. Gawker doxxed Violentacrez shortly after, and I believe he shut down all his subs when that happened.

[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

Violentacrez

You mean Michael Brutsch.