Do these people proclaiming Reddit’s data as a “treasure trove of human-generated information”, or Spez claiming “We know your dark secrets” not realize that most of what people say online is at least partially a lie? Most Reddit comments were either low-effort echolalia parroting old memes or outright bullshit of the, “Yeah, that happened eyeroll” variety.
We know spez’ secrets too.
Dude loved the jailbait subreddit before it was banned for obvious reasons.
He was a moderator.
Misleading. At the point he was made a mod, the invite system didn’t exist so you could just make people mods whenever you wanted. He might not have even noticed depending on how active his inbox was or how active he was.
The better questions would be why it wasn’t banned after being nominated for subreddit of the year, and only got the axe after international attention via the Anderson Cooper segment.
Its not that he loved the subreddit, his (and by extension reddit corp) sociopathic ass simply views all that stuff as page views whether its memes, cp, or whatever. MBA cancer looking at everything as numbers.
Nice try Spez.
I love that you made a point at the end to explain why he loved it.
Reddit, and the early 2000s Internet culture that spawned it had a more absolute view of free speech than the modern consensus. Reddit’s rules were pretty much limited to:
- Don’t post things that are actually illegal to post
- Don’t break Reddit
The introduction of any other sitewide rules was controversial with the userbase at the time, and not because the average user was a creep who wanted to see teenagers in bikinis. People predicted (correctly) that other topics like piracy and darknet markets would eventually end up banned as Reddit tried to become more palatable to advertisers. People remain concerned that pornography will be banned or severely limited.
Its not that he loved the subreddit, his (and by extension reddit corp) sociopathic ass simply views all that stuff as page views
Let’s be fair to spez; there’s plenty to criticize him for, but he did not work at Reddit between roughly 2008 and 2016 when the jailbait controversy came up.
Pornography already requires the official app to access via mobile.
I just checked that old.reddit.com does work from a mobile browser without being logged in.
I will try that next time! Porn is literally the only thing I use Reddit for lol
yea but don’t jack off, it fucks up your attention span and causes brain fog
Well I thought this was an interesting conversation and now realize that you listen to bro science.
Healthy masturbation habits decrease your risk for prostate cancer. Not jacking off at all is bad for you.
My wife already knows what my sex kinks are. I’m good.
Jokes on you spez I get off on that shit.
My answer to this is so fucking what ? Boo hoo your gonna cancel me fuck you and your platform!
Yes they know the deep dark secret that I absolutely cannot stand conservative values and microtransactions. So many deep dark secrets that I expressed on Reddit.
Big talk from a small man. The internet hasn’t forgotten the buried sub you were moderator of, Spez.
We couldn’t possibly be talking about jail but I’ll take the bait.
But yeah spez tell us again about the dark secrets lol
This is a serious threat. I’m afraid he’ll release my secret… People might learn that I dabble… In… Linux…!
So it’s you ! The hacker known as “4chan”
Oh no, go tell my wife I’m sleeping around on her. Go tell my friends I’m into bdsm. I don’t have dark secrets, I have aspects of my life that I display discretion in announcing. Dark secrets sound fucking exhausting.
Not a smart move, right before the IPO. And what was this ‘warning’ about?
Not a smart move, right before the IPO.
Really? I think the opposite. He said this in a profoundly stupid way, but what he is saying is that reddit is still the largest collection of human generated content. And not just the sanitized stuff you post on Facebook or LinkedIn, but your actual political opinions, your fears, your hobbies, the totally real secrets you posted to the weekly “What is your darkest secret” AskReddit post, your porn preferences, etc. And that is likely very valuable.
He’d have a very difficult time proving any of it is authentic.
Proving all of it is authentic would be difficult, but I don’t think that is necessary. It isn’t really disputed that reddit is the largest repository of human generated content currently. It was one of the reasons the whole reddit protest thing was even as big as it was, because when the reddit results left Google, searching for real information from people became a lot harder
