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PointOfNoReturnPoint said:
You know, their was a cunt hair of this being a "satire" if the guy decided the backlash wasn't worth it. But I think he isn't just committed to the bit. He is actually this. This is fucking painfull.
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Yeah I was thinking maybe he's doing the ol' Andy Kaufmann attempting thing, but deleting the vid makes that unlikely now. Also people in San Francisco do not any sense of irony or humor on stuff like this. And I'd think someone from Reddit by now would put out a statement saying he wasn't the mod, but being quiet on it means they're worried about a real backlash for associating with guys like this and they don't know what to do.
 
mlanguishi said:
Yeah I was thinking maybe he's doing the ol' Andy Kaufmann attempting thing, but deleting the vid makes that unlikely now. Also people in San Francisco do not any sense of irony or humor on stuff like this. And I'd think someone from Reddit by now would put out a statement saying he wasn't the mod, but being quiet on it means they're worried about a real backlash for associating with guys like this and they don't know what to do.
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Eh, they have had their mods be public before so it's not a real issue to be associated with them. We all know what they are but man, this is such a wildly bad assembly line.
 
Mythic Entertainment needs to be held responsible for not doing their due diligence before having their streamers promote a blatant scam.
Not only did it damage the reputation of some of their streamers who trusted them and promoted the scam... but it also got Stale200 unmodded from his janny role at Reddit :story: :story:
 
Jonkinator said:
Address: 383 King St, San Francisco, CA 94158 (Apartment number unknown)
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Apartment number is 811 according to unclaimed property.
 
I have launched Megaton Punch Special Operation: Can Reddit Be Fixed At Least Enough To Be Funny Again? Stage 2: Now That The Site Is At Least Somewhat Bearable, I Can Interact With The Userbase To A Limited Degree. Furthermore, My Isekai Futanari Stepsister Turned Out To Be A 500 Year Old Dragon!

We'll call it Stage 2 for short.

I have hundreds of subs muted. Literally. And yes, Reddit has actually gotten a lot better. There are tons of subs on there that are still 90% decent, but my policy is zero tolerance. I don't want to be propagandized at all.

My home feed contains virtually no thirst trapping and propaganda is fairly rare and easy to zap. Not that the remaining content is good, exactly, but it's tolerable. I can see why someone who's addicted to dopamine spikes would use it. But that's part of the problem, isn't it?

I am incredibly resilient to propaganda, and I got that way through decades of experience. A teenager wouldn't see what I'm seeing. They'd see hate, violence, calls to action, cult indoctrination, and so much more before they could even hope to get to the point where Reddit is usable. By then it's often too late. So in conclusion, nobody under 30 should be allowed to use Reddit.

Also, fun development: it turns out new accounts get shadow banned for using a VPN. Just straight up, no warning, no notification, shadow banned from the entire site. I had made one single comment about electrical wiring, then I suddenly couldn't load my profile any more. Checked my account in a private tab and lo and behold.

Reddit sucks shit.
 
I dont get why people are so harsh to him.
He is just a sad guy who wanted to do something good for other sad guys.
 
This whole jannie thing is a little suspicious; the humor and the irony is so layered and nuanced, it's hard to imagine it all falling into place by chance.

Janny who looks like a janny, doing the most janny thing imaginable by demanding to speak to the CEO?

He fell for a scam and covered up the scam and he admits that he did all the things he was banned for, but it's not his fault because he doesn't have a clue what he's doing and really it was up to Reddit to provide him resources, so give him his janny powers back and actually, give him a raise?

Jannies are both powerful and unaccountable, able to use their powers of censorship and algorithm-tampering to destroy entire companies on a whim, but they're also completely incompetent and can't be trusted to think and work independently, let alone abide by the rules that their equally arbitrary and unaccountable oversight committees expect them to follow?

And after all that, after admitting that Reddit is a shitshow and nobody knows what they're doing and yes, he himself is personally guilty of facilitating a scam, just as he was accused, his grand solution is to start a janny union, funded by but also seemingly independent from Reddit itself (and presumably run by him), which will act as a liaison between Reddit and the Corpo World; fundamentally altering Reddit's core business model (save on costs by offloading most of the site's labor to unpaid janny sociopaths) and giving sweeping new powers to a fat baldo who just spent ten minutes explaining to the CEO why he's unqualified to comb his own hair, let alone have the sort of power he did as a Reddit moderator (he could have totally tanked Discord, if he wanted to, he just didn't want to)... all because jannies apparently can't figure out whether the Nigerian prince who sent that email asking for your PII just now really does have a twenty million dollar Amazon Prime show in the works.

Either he's doing an Andy Kaufmann, or Andy Kaufmann's ghost turned malicious and possessed the poor fatso somehow.
 
Solid Snek said:
Jannies are both powerful and unaccountable, able to use their powers of censorship and algorithm-tampering to destroy entire companies on a whim, but they're also completely incompetent and can't be trusted to think and work independently, let alone abide by the rules that their equally arbitrary and unaccountable oversight committees expect them to follow?
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Is this the first time you evaluate the excuses of a remorseless opportunist?
To me it's pretty clear that that's the strongest cover-your-ass excuse he could come up with
 
mlanguishi said:
Vid's already private. Saw this though.
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Fuck, went to bed right after I made that post. There was at least one part I was going to clip out after the stream was finished and then watch from the beginning.

Someone in chat asked, "If taking money from external sources could be seen as impropriety". He stumbled and was at a loss for words for a good 20 seconds before he could gather his thoughts. He then went on a cope about how the Reddit TOS should allow mods to be paid by companies for doing a good job.
 
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