• Canaconda@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    /u/Spez (creator of /r/jailbait) should be in the car next to Andrew and on the gallows next to Trumpstein.

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      22 hours ago

      It was created by Violentacrez, not spez.

      Prior to late 2012, it was possible to make someone a moderator of a subreddit without their consent, which was sometimes done as a joke or harassment. That’s why spez was briefly a moderator of r/jailbait.

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        9 hours ago

        Fair point! But he still created a website that allowed that kind of content and is a POS human that deserves what he gets.

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          8 hours ago

          I must also point out that he did not work at Reddit between 2009 and 2015.

          I’m not going to try to talk you out of hating spez, but maybe try hating him for something he actually did.

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            8 hours ago

            Not sure what that timeframe has to do with anything. I hate him for his role in reddit.

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              reddit was created in 2005, so (and please forgive the rounding errors i do not like mathing before coffee OH CRAP) spez worked there for four years, then took six years off, then worked there again? whatever that means.

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                6 hours ago

                I know that. Not sure why you guys think that’s relevant. He still created reddit and manages it now.

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                    5 hours ago

                    Gotcha. To me it sounds like you guys are trying to refute an allegation I’m not making. (that he was involved with epstein)

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      1 day ago

      I’m not defending the guy but wasn’t it that a mod of that subreddit added him as a mod as a joke? I don’t think spez created it.

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          It was always the version of events that I’ve read.

          I just did a quick search and found this, a video claiming that he was a mod, but the majority of comments indicate it’s not true and that it was debunked.

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            1 day ago

            Spez actually owns site where majority of comments stick up for said owner? Sorry man, that ain’t proof. Wtf are you sticking up for spez anyway? I don’t know anyone sane that would.

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              He was a mod for a while, but not the top mod. Top mod is the creator, unless the creator quits, passing it off to second mod. And he was mod at a time when anyone could be added as a mod without their consent. No need to accept an invite.

              It’s bad enough that he was happy to let the subreddit exist for as long as it did even after significant on-site pressure to remove it. The same thing he did half a decade later with the_Donald. The fact that it took mainstream media criticism to be willing to take it down should be scathing enough. We don’t need to make up bs.

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                23 hours ago

                Hoffman was a founder of Reddit, he was a part of the very creation of the site. He also had absolute and unlimited access to every bit of data that reddit ever had or created. He was also well known for editing other people’s comments for his own amusement and narcissism. He not only could have easily been the creator, but he could have been the very mod who made his other account “a mod as a joke”. He definitely could have removed himself as a mod of jb just as easily as any of the other well known edits he did to Reddit. And he definitely had direct and unfettered access to every single photo that was ever uploaded or linked to Reddit, even the ones that were so illegal that even the jailbait mods took them down.
                So, the other guys opinion that Hoffman was the head pedo and creator of jailbait is just as valid and verifiable as your opinion that it was a joke that he nothing to do with it.

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                  19 hours ago

                  Hoffman was the head pedo and creator of jailbait is just as valid

                  No, it is not.

                  your opinion that it was a joke that he nothing to do with it

                  Not the opinion I expressed.

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              Well where’s the proof that he created it? I’ll happily stand corrected.

              I just think that if we’re going to attack someone, it’s probably a good idea to use facts that are true and not made up (it’s likely that op just misremembered the details) otherwise it just puts doubt on any further valid points. I’ve no interest in defending the guy but I do think we should try and keep our facts straight when we criticise someone.

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                I just think that if we’re going to attack someone, it’s probably a good idea to use facts that are true and not made up

                Err … sir. Do you understand how the internet works? “Facts”? “Truth”? “Not made up”? These are not things a shit poster craves.

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      Ironically, Huffman doesn’t seem to be in the Epstein files. This isn’t because he isn’t a pedophile-- he very likely is-- but he simply wasn’t important enough of a person for them to invite him or even talk about him.

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        4chan had approximately 10x the users as reddit did in 2011 when Epstein and Poole connected.

        But ya fuck u/spez. Even the biggest losers on earth hate u/spez

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      /u/Spez (creator of /r/jailbait)

      oh 🫣 I’ve probably heard that before but I must not have committed it to memory

      Well that explains why Reddit was so ridiculously pro-porn and porn-riddled in general.

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        That’s cos it’s not true. He was a mod of it for a while, but I’ve not seen any verification of how long that was, and it was at a time when you could just add someone as a mod without them needing to approve it. But he was definitely not its founder.

        He did allow it to stick around until the mainstream media started kicking up a fuss about it. That would be bad enough. We don’t need to make shit up.