Can someone update me on the lore around this guy?
Powermod of over 1000 subs. Permanently online. Bans users for no reason and posts inflammatory comments and pins them in threads. One example - Do you remember the r/Art drama where the artist got her art removed by a mod who said it was AI art (it was not) and berated the artist for her style? Yep, that’s awkwardtheturtle.
Basically the worst of the WORST of reddit mods with no life outside of reddit.
Further digging reveals the opposite. Not a guy according to the change.org petition, which is a little too doxxy for my taste.
Okay yeah I thought I remembered her being a woman but somehow everyone here is talking about ‘him’
By default, everyone’s a guy on the internet unless stated otherwise. Some people just know the name and that they’re a powermod and not much else. Also, they’re apparently trans or claims to be, so there’s a subset of people who’d misgender them on purpose.
That info from the petition saying awkwardtheturtle is another user is something that went around for a while, but it wasn’t true (unless there’s been a turn in that story).
awkwardtheturtle posted a selfie in the “centuryclub” subreddit (which only allowed people with over 100k link or comment karma in), and the person in the selfie definitely wasn’t the person people suspected awkwardtheturtle was.
The “proof” so many pointed to (including the petition) was a Vox article which was just repeating stuff from a Daily Beast article. The Daily Beast article never said the two were the same person, but the Vox article assumed they were. Probably because the head mod on a lot of subreddits that other person mods is/was awkwardtheturtle.
“My accounts WILL be restored”
Okay Karen.
lmao the sheer amount of entitlement on him. Truly a leopardsatemyface moment. Imagine tying your entire identity to being an unpaid lacky for a website that doesn’t give two fucks about you, to the point that when you’re let go you go nuclear.
It always does make you wonder how these people have the time to actively moderate 100+ subreddits without any compensation. That is, unless there are some under-the-table deals that we don’t know about. I think moderators have been caught taking bribes before.
A petition to ban her was created, with implications made that she was being paid. Mind you, this was quite a few years ago.
Why are you emphasizing pronouns when @euphoricpenguin22 didn’t use any gendered language?
I love how the majority of comments in this thread have a single downvote. I wonder who’s doing that 😂
Unlike Reddit, you can see who “reduces” (downvotes) comments and threads. In a comment click on more -> activity -> reduces. Yes, it is all the same person.
I’m loving (Lemmy) kbin more and more with all these accountability features. Thanks for the education!
Edit: I apologize for the confusion. I realized the error a few mins after posting this. The fediverse is still confusing me a bit.
Edit2: I don’t see any strike through text formatting. Maybe in the next update?
Regarding strike through text formatting, it’s markdown, so you just type two tildes on each side of the text to strike through like this: ~~[insert text]~~, and you get [insert text].
Here’s CommonMark’s quick reference for some other basics: https://commonmark.org/help/
Well since this isn’t reddit you can actually look at who is downvoting. So whats up with all the downvotes @amnesiac7 ?
I just boosted everyone in the thread. No ones rep was harmed in the making of this comment section.
I do like it. Means someone’s answerable for their downvote instead of being able to be an anonymous troll.
Touch an entire football field of grass, dude.