This is just spreading misinformation…
There are plenty of reason to not like him but this is not one of them.
He was listed as a mod on jailbait for quite a while. This information was pointed out over and over again on a website he ran, and he chose to do nothing about it. He was clearly aware of the situation.
True, but back then you could add anyone as a mod, he didn’t “moderate it” but was a “moderator on it”.
A minor but key difference that means he just didn’t care about perverts or that he was a leader of perverts.
He was free to take 2 seconds and remove himself from the list. He never did. It was always a “joke” on the site until it wasn’t.
Much like reddit, if you don’t go with lemming’s preconceived “facts”, you’re wrong.
Someone stuck him as a mod. And below we got a poster saying, “He was clearly aware of the situation.”
Yeah, the CEO of a major company is out there worrying about BS details like this. OR, he did know about it, and as a CEO of a major website, was too dumb to see it was a bad look?
LOL, I give no fucks about the man, but spreading lies around here is making us just like reddit.
You know they made a custom award for the creator of the jailbait sub called “Pimp Daddy,” right? And that for a long time one of the autosuggested results from Google when you googled reddit was the jailbait sub? Do you think a CEO of a “major company” (not what reddit was at the time, they were still desperately drumming up users) is somehow unaware of what shows up when you google their company?
They were aware of it and had been for years before it was shut down, anyone saying otherwise is feeding you PR spin.
Oh no! I’m not saying spez was unaware of the filthy subreddits, just that he might not have known he was made a mod on them.
Someone was clearly fucking with him, either for a lark or because they hated him. But no, they were all well aware of shit like /r/jailbait. As you said, they were madly trying to drum up users.
