I hadn't been an active mod on that or any subs in years - I don't have any time - so I took myself off. Most of the other subs where I was a mod from almost a decade ago, I've already been removed or removed myself. There's nothing more to this.
How so? I see it as mostly him being prompted to finally bother demodding himself after people tried to drag him into the /r/technology-related drama.
So the timing is probably related to the fact that the /r/technology thing came up and people were making a fuss, but the actual decision to demod himself is unrelated to the event (i.e. he might as well have done it a while ago, since he doesn't do anything there anyway).
of course, lack of moderation / not giving a fuck is exactly what killed /r/technology to begin with, so you can definitely blame him for that, but he doesn't seem to have had a hand in the major drama
...who has handed over the keys to people like agentlame / davidreis / bipolarbear who all have a very shady history, yet the same circles run half the default subs and have their hand in everything.
More than a few of them are ones he started or that are relevant to his current work (e.g. /r/breadpig and /r/hipmunk), and one of them is /r/rgamingmods - which includes all former mods of /r/gaming as well as current ones, because it's a private subreddit that's mostly there to discuss potential rule changes and the like.
What a straight lying bundle. I have no idea how he can live with himself. Wish such harmful actions for the community. I don't believe a word about the Stratfor deflection. He hunted then down. And very likely has allowed them super user access to the site. Giving the Zionists all they need to further their lies.
I'm glad you caught this. He was likely front and center in the blatant censorship of yet another default sub.
It was actually gol1dfish who had his bot neutered right before the election; moose is just the dude who amalagamates and presents all the relevant info in his famed "Would you like to know more" format.
But yes, Ohanian owns another firm too. NYRD labs. Talked to Yishan about it once, he actually got Alexis to talk to him about it, although Alexis assured Yishan that nothing nefarious was going on there. Obviously take that with a grain of salt, but it was nice to see Yishan make an issue of it. Mind you, that NYRD labs business was before the Antique Jetpack leak happened so Yishan may have been playing his cards close to his vest.
Anyway, if anything will cause a reddit v2 it will be the nefarious malfeasance of the firms within her administrative ranks.
This would be more buttery for me if not for the perilous implications for the free flow of information.
All that interviewer had to ask to really nail the thing shut was; "So, Alexis, which default mods do you know, work with, and live near in real life?"
He got bit squirmy when Rogan asked him if there was foreign actors trying to turn conversations. That's how I took when he hesitated before answering the question. The rest of the podcast seemed to flow well and pretty open. But on the other hand im sure not all manipulators are known to the higher ups within the reddit chain of command. Not the mods but people like Alex and those above him. Im sure in a lot of subs its not so hard to be 1 person with a certain view and single handily change the tone of conversations. 1 person with few different names and a vpn could do it not easily but it can be done. And in some ways it sounded like he really thought out answers to certain things. He talked about Sopa but never tied in Schwartz to that convo which to me I thought could be easily intertwined.
A VPN wouldn't be required. With his superuser access, he could simply disable or dummy IP logging. They have the keys to the kingdom and can do as they wish. The rules for us do not apply to them.
We're seeing this bullshit with alarming frequency. The entire site is censored. Some subs, much more so than others. If you're a default sub, it's guaranteed.
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11 Ambiguously_Ironic 2014-04-15
Haha good catch - he was hoping to slink off into the sunset and let the other /r/technology mods take the fall.
6 kn0thing 2014-04-15
I hadn't been an active mod on that or any subs in years - I don't have any time - so I took myself off. Most of the other subs where I was a mod from almost a decade ago, I've already been removed or removed myself. There's nothing more to this.
5 Ambiguously_Ironic 2014-04-15
That's fine but the timing is more than a little bit suspicious, in my opinion.
2 V2Blast 2014-04-15
How so? I see it as mostly him being prompted to finally bother demodding himself after people tried to drag him into the /r/technology-related drama.
So the timing is probably related to the fact that the /r/technology thing came up and people were making a fuss, but the actual decision to demod himself is unrelated to the event (i.e. he might as well have done it a while ago, since he doesn't do anything there anyway).
1 StupidFatHobbit 2014-04-15
I actually find his statement credible, considering agentlame's breakdown of the situation says kn0thing was basically nonexistant
http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/23dyes/recap_the_failed_moderation_and_gaming_of/
of course, lack of moderation / not giving a fuck is exactly what killed /r/technology to begin with, so you can definitely blame him for that, but he doesn't seem to have had a hand in the major drama
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3 TheGhostOfDusty 2014-04-15
If I were a betting man...
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/
http://www.storyleak.com/us-military-caught-social-media-running-mass-propaganda-accounts/#ixzz2bTWRrxUr
http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/236sgr/ctv_confirms_governments_employing_internet/
etc.
2 TheGhostOfDusty 2014-04-15
Glad to see you address this here, but what about the 78 other subs you currently moderate? Those are different because...?
1 V2Blast 2014-04-15
More than a few of them are ones he started or that are relevant to his current work (e.g. /r/breadpig and /r/hipmunk), and one of them is /r/rgamingmods - which includes all former mods of /r/gaming as well as current ones, because it's a private subreddit that's mostly there to discuss potential rule changes and the like.
-1 iamagod_ 2014-04-15
What a straight lying bundle. I have no idea how he can live with himself. Wish such harmful actions for the community. I don't believe a word about the Stratfor deflection. He hunted then down. And very likely has allowed them super user access to the site. Giving the Zionists all they need to further their lies.
I'm glad you caught this. He was likely front and center in the blatant censorship of yet another default sub.
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2 iamagod_ 2014-04-15
Being an owner, he can do as he please. I'm sure there is a hidden control panel or API unknown to the commoners.
6 AssuredlyAThrowAway 2014-04-15
It was actually gol1dfish who had his bot neutered right before the election; moose is just the dude who amalagamates and presents all the relevant info in his famed "Would you like to know more" format.
But yes, Ohanian owns another firm too. NYRD labs. Talked to Yishan about it once, he actually got Alexis to talk to him about it, although Alexis assured Yishan that nothing nefarious was going on there. Obviously take that with a grain of salt, but it was nice to see Yishan make an issue of it. Mind you, that NYRD labs business was before the Antique Jetpack leak happened so Yishan may have been playing his cards close to his vest.
Anyway, if anything will cause a reddit v2 it will be the nefarious malfeasance of the firms within her administrative ranks.
This would be more buttery for me if not for the perilous implications for the free flow of information.
8 [deleted] 2014-04-15
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4 AssuredlyAThrowAway 2014-04-15
Yikes, sorry to hear about that. Glad to have you here though.
1 TheGhostOfDusty 2014-04-15
This is the first time I've seen it spelled that way. Is this the correct spelling? Do they have a website/wiki?
1 AssuredlyAThrowAway 2014-04-15
http://nyrdlabs.com/about
0 alllie 2014-04-15
I'm less troubled by that kind of manipulation for profit than the wholesale censorship of all of Reddit.
1 iamagod_ 2014-04-15
Sadly, you would be
AllLie
2 iamagod_ 2014-04-15
I see we're now at an impasse.
7 33degree 2014-04-15
Who's Alexis? Ohanian?
9 AssuredlyAThrowAway 2014-04-15
Yes.
6 [deleted] 2014-04-15
Visual cues of a liar.
5 AssuredlyAThrowAway 2014-04-15
All that interviewer had to ask to really nail the thing shut was; "So, Alexis, which default mods do you know, work with, and live near in real life?"
6 Mrg13 2014-04-15
Or what is your alts account.
3 kn0thing 2014-04-15
I don't have an alt. I don't know any of the default mods in real life, I don't work with them, and as far as I know, I don't live near them.
Here's the deluge of sunlight I was talking about in that interview when I crushed that bogus stratfor story - it even hit #1 on the /r/conspiracy post.
6 16Vslave 2014-04-15
He was even being shady/shifty on The Joe Rogan experience few days ago
2 preventDefault 2014-04-15
How so? I thought he was incredibly open and candid about everything.
8 16Vslave 2014-04-15
He got bit squirmy when Rogan asked him if there was foreign actors trying to turn conversations. That's how I took when he hesitated before answering the question. The rest of the podcast seemed to flow well and pretty open. But on the other hand im sure not all manipulators are known to the higher ups within the reddit chain of command. Not the mods but people like Alex and those above him. Im sure in a lot of subs its not so hard to be 1 person with a certain view and single handily change the tone of conversations. 1 person with few different names and a vpn could do it not easily but it can be done. And in some ways it sounded like he really thought out answers to certain things. He talked about Sopa but never tied in Schwartz to that convo which to me I thought could be easily intertwined.
4 iamagod_ 2014-04-15
A VPN wouldn't be required. With his superuser access, he could simply disable or dummy IP logging. They have the keys to the kingdom and can do as they wish. The rules for us do not apply to them.
We're seeing this bullshit with alarming frequency. The entire site is censored. Some subs, much more so than others. If you're a default sub, it's guaranteed.
1 TheGhostOfDusty 2014-04-15
Can someone link to this or give the timestamp of when it happens?
3 [deleted] 2014-04-15
I think he's naturally awkward a la the original typical redditor
2 iamagod_ 2014-04-15
As we've seen, when he lies, this is especially true.
5 txstoploss 2014-04-15
Meanwhile, 20% of the front page of /r/technology remains "Google...."
4 vxx 2014-04-15
What are the reasons, /u/kn0thing?
2 Amos_Quito 2014-04-15
Paging /u/BipolarBear0... /u/BipolarBear0 to the white courtesy phone, please...
2 TheGhostOfDusty 2014-04-15
He's too busy making pedo rape jokes:
http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiratard/comments/1311zn/dusty_is_waging_a_full_fledged_war_against_the/
http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiratard/comments/zm105/looks_like_dustys_going_to_get_me_banned_from/c65ymis
2 preventDefault 2014-04-15
How so? I thought he was incredibly open and candid about everything.