Couldn’t have happened to a nicer fella… AwkwardTheTurtle famous power mod known to steal peoples posts, ban them and re-upload them.
I’m sorry, I do not feel bad. lol
Even power users do not like him one bit
rip bozo.
No more powermods. Burn reddit down.
I really don’t want to see the worst of reddit on this site. Turts put wayyy too much of their time into reddit and made it way too much of their sense of self worth. That being said the insane shit he had to put up with from people would drive anyone to a dark place. Shit there are even other users who redditors assume are a Turt alt that are getting harassed. If you have any vested interest in this topic at all, you are exactly as much of the problem as Turtle. Let reddit burn along with all your hate for the former mods and move the fuck on.
I even have no idea who this guy is lol
Hah, this is just so pathetic to read.
I don’t use the term “terminally online” often, but this is exactly the time to use it. Imagine being this desperate to cling onto your power over an internet forum, not even for the sake of the community, but for the ego-driven lust for wanting control over others on something as menial as Reddit.
Must be a shock to realize all this was in his head, and he was basically just a pawn to spez and everyone else at the top.
And not even a real internet forum with some connection to the world, like a forum for engineers or something, but just these generic cat video style forums that don’t really add huge value to anyone’s life. Your entire existence is to fill the 30-second void for people standing in elevators.
I never ran across that account but it blows me away that this article is two years old. In a way I hope that the account gets unbanned. I am not sure that kind of personality should have any reason to discover the Lemmyverse. Let it stay Reddit’s problem.
If you’re moderating 1,000 forums, are you really moderating anything?
I’ve been on mod teams with him and some other powermods. They don’t do shit, just have new mods do all the work as they and their friends set up ‘org charts’ according to which they run their subs.
That is an objectively sad life. Imagine people asking what you did with your life and your answer is “I had imaginary power on a now-defunct internet site doing unpaid work day in and day out. I spent hours upon hours of my life creating charts that only apply in this digital universe to make myself feel important while people who scrolled my page for five minutes a day on the subway were out doing things in the real world”.
Could be if each gets like 1 new comment/post per week
they were a moderator of some of the most popular subreddits, so it was definitely more than that
That would still be an enormous task for a single person. Let’s pretend they really only had to deal with not more than a single post from each sub every week:
1,000 comments/posts per week = ca. 142 per day. If that mod takes as little as two minutes to read and properly reply to each of those, that would amount to a daily 4-5 hours of unpaid work in their spare time.
Turtle was active on Reddit about 16 HOURS a day so it was certainly possible. Of course they didn’t actually do much of anything in those subs, they just collected them.
Hahaha awkwardtheturtle is a horrible online bully, now they’re begging for their fake internet power back, brilliant.
Honestly, if they use their current rage to join the protests with all the firepower they can muster, then it’s a win-win-win.
Most recently they falsely accused someone of posting AI art https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/zxse22/rart_mod_accuses_artist_of_using_ai_and_when/
This person is a huge problem and has been for years: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/reddit-campaign-against-moderator-awkwardtheturtle/
We’re watching the public service that is the information superhighway be born and be killed in only a few generations.
Reddit mods really do think that they are gonna have special treatment because they are doing unpaid work. They won’t. It’s time to realise Reddit will not relent, abandoning ship is the only way of going forward.
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Their entire identity revolved around reddit. They devoted their entire life to the site. With that level of commitment you find the time.
Even if you spent 20 hours a day on the site, every day, there’s no way to have meaningful interactions with 1000 communities.
Clearly what they’re committed to is collecting subreddit. Collecting them like baseball cards: Looking at them, smiling, and then stuffing them in a box, never to be looked at again.
I even can’t imagine doing that without being compensated. It just seems so far past the extreme.
How do you know that there’s only one person working the account? When you’re a reddit moderator, it’s anonymous (same on Wikipedia). For all we know, all the power mods are working at a PR firm somewhere. Spreading misinformation could be their full-time job. Controlling the flow of information on Reddit and Wikipedia could be worth more than Reddit’s actual profit.
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There are conspiracy theories on the Internet that Google and Facebook were created to centralize control of the Internet in a few large corporations, who then would be able to control what information people see. You also have to think bigger than government. Who has more influence? The President? Or the CEO of Blackrock and other large hedge funds, who control all the voting shares in pretty much every public corporation?
For example, if you control the mainstream media and big tech, you can make an issue seem like a huge problem by overhyping it everywhere. You can cover up real problems by never mentioning them at all. The CEO of Google is NOT elected. A couple of hedge fund managers get to pick the CEO of Google.
Conspiracy theory it is. What has happened to the internet is much more easily explained by capitalism. This is what capitalism does.
I bet that you don’t need to follow that conspiracy theory very far before you find someone spouting the old classical antisemitic bullshit.
On every conspiracy theory forum, there’s at least one person posting antisemitic stuff. It’s a standard trick to discredit them. I.e., person A posts a true conspiracy theory X. Person B posts the same conspiracy theory and also something antisemtic. Does that automatically mean X is wrong?
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/kwpqmn/is-the-pr-industry-buying-influence-over-wikipedia
They’re probably smart enough to not get caught nowadays.
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Actually, the government did just call up Twitter and tell them to censor things. That’s the whole point of the Matt Taibbi Twitter Files stories. But you also have other non-government groups policing the Internet, calling up Twitter/Facebook/Google/etc and demanding censorship.
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I thought he was moderator of a 1000 subscriber sub, not moderator of 1000 subs. That’s a different story.
Let’s not be too hard on him. Being mod over 1000+ is a mental illness that reddit forced us to put up with.
lol if there is one mod on reddit I am glad to see banned it is this one
It’s sad that power mods like Turtle have made many people think that all mods are like him.
The mods for the sub of a popular game I play are getting shit on for protesting against Reddit by people who think the mods merely want power. No power mod has ever put thousands of hours into creating free helper apps or maintaining a game wiki.
That’s how much reddit cares about you even if you did the job of tons and tons of paid employees.
Also: if you haven’t interacted with a sub in 6 months should you still be a mod?
But… his shiny! Won’t you think of his shiny?!
