• capital@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    What’s the origin of the pedo accusation?

    Edit: Is pedophile on the list of words we’re gonna make meaningless now?

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      7 months ago

      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

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        7 months ago

        I always wondered why a subreddit like that was allowed to exist in the first place. I guess I have my answer now.

        • nutt_goblin@lemmy.world
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          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.

      • irreticent@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        When someone invites you to become a moderator you have to click a couple times to accept. It was no accident.

      • capital@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        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.

        • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip
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          7 months ago

          This is correct. We should hate spez for being a skeevy ashole, but let’s not make up random accusations.