i can’t stand megathreads – no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!

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    1 year ago

    Power mods. Many of the ones who ran Reddit’s biggest subreddits like iBleeedOrange and Awkwardtheturtle were major assholes.

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        1 year ago

        You got anything more about that last one? I’ve spoken to most of these power mod assholes outside of reddit and I haven’t heard a thing about that

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            1 year ago

            Any chance you can summarize the video? The way that girl speaks is incredibly annoying to me

            Edit: also, I’ve weirdly never heard of the user they’re talking about. I thought I had interacted with almost all the main power mods and power users, but apparently not this one. This has nothing to do with the conspiracy, it’s just something I thought was interesting

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              I wouldn’t be able to adequately and fairly summarize it. The mod being discussed probably spent more time posting new threads than posting comments, but was the first to reach 1 million karma, remained top 10 karma until 2020ish and is still one of the top ranking by karma even though they haven’t posted anything since 2 days before Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrest. This person isn’t someone I ever interacted with either, even though they were a powermod of many of the top subreddits.

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                1 year ago

                Interesting. I highly doubt it’s GM behind the account. It takes a lot of work to get an account up that high and GM was constantly traveling and abducting women. Plus like why? Why would someone like her bother to cultivate a power mod account? Is abducting girls to sell not enough power over people for her?

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                  Influence is the currency of power. As a power mod of the most visible subreddits she would’ve had a lot of influence over information served to millions of people. She was involved in the silicon valley tech bubble and all of her siblings had careers in tech as well.

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                    1 year ago

                    Yeah, but being a reddit mod and power user, regardless of how big you are, is still the lowest rung on the power-having totem pole. I can’t think of anyone that gets mocked on reddit more then mods. Maybe furries, but at least some of those mods deserve it. It just doesn’t seem like the kind of power someone in her position would bother to have

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      1 year ago

      Awkwardtheturtle makes my blood boil. Though I suspect this is deliberate, which makes me angrier.

      The fact that reddit admins never did a thing was disgusting.

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      It’s be cool to have a limit of how many users you can moderate at once. Basically, you could moderate several small ones, or a few large ones. This would prevent a few people moderating all the largest communities.