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      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.

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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.

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        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.

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        I even can’t imagine doing that without being compensated. It just seems so far past the extreme.

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      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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        For all we know, all the power mods are working at a PR firm somewhere

        are you guessing or stating that as a fact, and if the latter, do you have any sources for that

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        yeah this has never crossed my mind before. who would be customer of such company? if you have state level resources, it may be easier to straight out buy the entire place and gradually smother it down, like russian govt did with livejournal picking one by one opposition that congregated there. or you can bring it under your own jurisdiction and spread disinfo as mandated by law

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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.

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            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.

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              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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            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

            that’s what capitalism can do, and they do that because it’s profitable for them. google seo pollution would run counter to that, right? somebody does that, because while clean access to public information provides no profit for them, putting their own noise there instead - from which they can profit in some way - makes them more money. wouldn’t The Powers That Be intervene if that was the grand strategy?

            i’m asking you to take a few steps back and look at a bigger picture. conspiracy theories are full of drivel, but their content is not the most important part. the most important thing about them is circlejerk forming property. if you wanted to investigate mysterious forces, then surely scientific method would be the best tool available, right? they aren’t using it not because it doesn’t work there, it’s because actually using scientific method involves taking frequent Ls and grants no points for your very own special ideas. if you cling to your own idea because it’s your own idea, and are proven wrong you can either: 1. take the L, see how much wrong you were and why, and adjust accordingly, or 2. happily ignore all contrary evidence and paint all your enemies as part of global conspiracy, or maybe repeat measurement, believing you got something wrong, until you get what you want.

            the most important thing about conspiracy theories is that it allows believer to feel Special, because they know something all the plebeian masses don’t and that makes them Enlightened, obviously better than anyone else and immune to all criticism. it’s highly corrosive to any critical thought and allows that pattern of thinking to spread from one issue to another. here you have this elaborated in detail by Folding Ideas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44

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    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

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    That’s how much reddit cares about you even if you did the job of tons and tons of paid employees.

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    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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        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”.

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        this. I know many power mods, they just bring in new mods and replace you if you aren’t active.

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          Or just replace you even if you’re active and stand up against them being assholes to the community.

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        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.

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          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.

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            16 hours?! Ouch. But judging by some other comments in this thread, that mod didn’t actually properly moderate either way =P

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          Why would they need to reply to every post? I think most of them would take maybe 10 seconds to validate.

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    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.

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    The reason was not right, they should have been removed from power ages ago, but at least this collateral damage is a tiny bit of justice served at the end.

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      Ye mods on reddit ( and on lemmy ) should be at most Moderating 5 maybe 10 subs INCLUDING ALTS.

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        With lemmy, if someone is squatting a bunch of forums and moderating them, you can always start your own lemmy instance and start your own forum with the same title.

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    One must have really nothing to do of their days to hoard sub moderation titles. I don’t even understand why would someone give mod role to someone with 999 other roles. What would you expect to happen between hiring a power thirsty mod or a mod that will not even be actually there.

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    “I haven’t even done anything in 6 months” is a really funny statement to make as mod. Apparently they never considered just… not being a mod for a place they don’t care about?

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      tbh with him being a mod in so many subs i wonder how he never got fired for being inactive or how no one thought what human can mod 100+ subs and sleep eat get groceries and still have time to adequately moderate their sub on top of being a well known power mod hated by everyone who knows about them just what are the people who run these subs like what is going on in their heads when adding moderators

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        I’ve been learning from reading through mod posts from the small(ish) subreddits I’m a part of that a TON of mods are inactive, and asking admin to remove that mod went nowhere, big surprise.

        Also mods that care mostly about their particular subreddit and interest do a great job there, but might not be on the rest of reddit enough to know what’s going on. In one of the subreddits turtle modded, they saw that they’d been banned from reddit but didn’t know anything about turtle the inactive-for-years mod or any context.

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    Hahaha awkwardtheturtle is a horrible online bully, now they’re begging for their fake internet power back, brilliant.

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      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.