Remember when Spez said it was “It’s time we grow up and behave like an adult company”? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit’s profitability right b…::undefined

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      511·
      8 months ago

      Wasnt that back when you could make anyone a mod, without their permission?

      If we’re gonna point to things that spez actively has done, then theres plenty of shit…

      Like knowingly letting all the pedo subs exist and run rampant (until the news media caught wind and hurt advertising)

        • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          8 months ago

          Yep, i just wanted to stay relevant to his seemingly pro-pedo stance and didnt want to make a comprehensive list.

        • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          8 months ago

          It was, but that has been dramatized and exaggerated. The comments he edited all said “fuck u/spez”, and the edit was obvious.

          Y’all make it sound like subtle manipulation, which was presented as a danger, but wasn’t what happened there.

      • EdibleFriend@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        8 months ago

        It is entirely possible he was tagged as a mod without knowing. At first. But if he wanted to he could have immediately removed himself. And then there’s the fact that the main mod of that sub was given some kind of special custom flare