Reddit CEO Defends His Absurdly High Pay While Not Paying Mods

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Reddit CEO Defends His Absurdly High Pay While Not Paying Mods - Lemmy.zip

FYI Spez is a pedophile piss-boy.
What’s the origin of the pedo accusation?
Apparently he was a mod of /r/jailbait
Ohh I remember that. I also seem to remember you used to be able to make other people mods without confirmation back then? Maybe I’m misremembering.
This is correct. We should hate spez for being a skeevy ashole, but let’s not make up random accusations.
The right is already working hard on that
I vote not helping in the effort.
Pedophile, Racist, Nazi, Fascist, The list grows daily
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
When someone invites you to become a moderator you have to click a couple times to accept. It was no accident.
Not exactly. In the olden days of reddit no confirmation on your part was necessary.
Oh, I didn’t know that. Thanks!
That wasn’t how it worked at first. Back when I first joined Reddit you could be made moderator of a sub by another user without confirmation
I always wondered why a subreddit like that was allowed to exist in the first place. I guess I have my answer now.
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.
He could have removed himself.
I know we (including me) hate that guy so much, but if you just straight up make up stuff now you’re not much different.
He modded some questionable subs in the wilder early days
Can we clarify what “not much different” means? I’m not mad at this guy for calling people names…