Could you please provide some proof that he used to mod r/jailbait?
According to the AMA where a lot of this came up, from what I understand, in the early (like, super early) days of Reddit, you used to be able to appoint people as mods if you had X amount of karma - I think it was 100k. I can’t find that comment thread now that fully explained it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was removed. The gist of it is someone appointed him as a mod there and it didn’t last long.
So mostly true, but in that technical and disingenuous way, as he didn’t set out to be a mod of his own free will.
Someone feel free to jump in and correct any specifics I missed or got wrong.
That’s what I’ve been told as well. I think that’s why there needs to be approval to appoint mods now. I think the bigger issue is why reddit let that sub remain for as long as it did. It had to be covered by the media for it to be banned (iirc. or was that a different sub?).
Edit: yeah, it was Anderson Cooper who did an expose focusing on that sub.
Back then they intended to be a bastion of free speech and wanted to stay true to that, despite not wanting the sub
It was only a matter of time before they grew large enough that they had to drop the philosophy for the benefit of PR and advertising.
The original users from those years were split on the matter, because it meant a change in what Reddit was.
Nearly everyone knew it had to restrict itself beyond just what was lawful sooner or later.
Google can quickly find you proof, but the answer is much less satisfying. As much spez has the most punchable of punchable faces, he was not modded by choice, but instead appointed. He was a mod, but for not long, only in name, and named by a 3rd party.
There is so much to hate about this guy, using the jailbait mod angle just diminishes the reasons into just namecalling.
