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There's a huge difference between "Reddit hired someone who appears to be okay with raping children" and "a Reddit powermod is a deadbeat parent". Posting this story over there would clearly fall afoul of harassment/doxxing rules and it would be vigorously enforced, as discussing Bardfinn by name is already verboten in a lot of communities.
The only reason why the Challenor story played out differently was because the MSM started picking up on Reddit's trying to suppress the story, and outraged users were reposting it all over the site and upvoting it to the front page. These are the required conditions for Reddit to act on an internal scandal like this, and this story will not trigger sufficient outrage for these conditions to apply.
Indulge me for a moment. Have you read the entire thread here? Bardfinn, for all practical purposes is the most prominent, visible mod on r/againsthatesubreddits. Bardfinn delights in taking over or taking down entire subreddits that he classifies as hateful. Bardfinn has some secret private program that scrapes reddit for users and "tags and bags them" as somehow offending him. These users remain stored in some userbase that Bardfinn keeps for themselves. Bardfinn is not JUST a deadbeat parent. Bardfinn has harassed and victimized a number of users on reddit because Bardfinn is a child abuser and violent woman beater. Did you miss the fact that Bardfinn bruised his stepson after beating him and violently assaulted his wife, the mother of his natural child? Did you miss Bardfinn's priors for aggravated assault with a weapon? The drug charges CHARGES... more than one and the theft charge? The weapons charges?
This isn't "some mod doesn't pay their child support" ... this is "The most prominent mod of againsthatesubreddits that delights in talking to media about reddit's hate problem is, in fact, a man with a long rap sheet including aggravated assault, drugs, theft, weapons possession and spousal and child abuse." And he's been bullshitting EVERYONE on reddit and casting himself as a heroine and damsel in distress when the truth is that he's a narcissistic, sadistic predator.
And reddit admins have given him leeway to scrape their API to make his list and his userbase and for some reason they consistently UNSUSPEND HIS ACCOUNT when their impartial, likely outsourced anti-evil team decides that he has violated the reddit rules against harassment.
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