So yeah… maybe the turtle slowly waking up that he was just a Laptog for reddit and thrown away as soon as they didnt need him anymore ( moderation is allways a volunteer thing and shouldnt be like a 2nd job ).

  • zepheriths@lemmy.world
    71·
    1 year ago

    I am very much uncaring for turtles predicament. He or she was an ass to ever community at every possible chance. now it’s expected the community help them out? Hell no, hope the removal is permanent

    • johnthebeboptist@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      Yeah this seems like some selfawarewolves shit. And even in this whiny tirade they just couldn’t leave some sort sexist/ableist/hateful insult off. As much as spez is a fucking tool, people like turtle are the bigger reason honestly the whole site had turned to diarrhea IMO - rampant assholes taking over the site.

      • TskUghPfftUhh@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yeah I don’t get why they felt the need to bring up spez being short (is that what they were getting at?) Seems childish. Who cares if he’s not tall? What’s that have to do with this…

  • cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de
    13·
    1 year ago

    Image Transcription: Reddit

    This website is exploitative garbage with no respect given to all the app makers and third party developers that have kept its decrepit heart beating all this time, submitted by /u/awkwardtheturtle to /u/awkwardtheturtle

    /u/spez is a liar and a hypocrite, the admins are two-faced goons, and they are all toxic embarrassments instead of people. They seemed ok when I met them in person (though tiny Spez did seem like he had a lot to compensate for), but promises and assurances from people like chtorrr and redtaboo have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are stooges, not innovators.

    Let it all burn to the ground where this useless website belongs

    I’m a human volunteer content transcriber and you could be too!

    • Roboticide@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, this is a “nothing of value was lost,” moment by reddit, lol.

      Admins do to them what they did to users and now they’re pissed.

    • Maven (famous)@lemmy.world
      12·
      1 year ago

      This case is actually even funnier because that mod turned out to be right! The art was AI generated! Aspects of other people’s watermarks and other AI giveaways were left in the final art so either the whole picture was ai generated and the sketches were done after or it’s all AI generated.

      • Motorhead1066@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Are you sure about that? I know that was the case with some recent AI-accused artists, but I haven’t seen this specific case mentioned.

        The reason I ask is that:

        A. There’s nothing I can find online. If you have a link, I’d love to be proven wrong.

        B. After looking again art the image in question from January of this year, I don’t see any watermarks or AI tells (hands look perfect and natural, and I couldn’t spot any watermark residuals).

    • damnYouSun@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      1 year ago

      Oh, is that’s who it is? If so, fuck them.

      Weren’t they a massive dick about as well, it wasn’t just an accusation without evidence.

      Seems like everyone here deserves eachother.

  • NotBabaYaga@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    I really hope whatever website replaces Reddit has some sort of way to mitigate/control these “super” mods

  • halfelfhalfreindeer@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    I highly doubt this is anything but a sad attempt at getting some good PR. We’ve seen other big mods suspended supposedly permanently who suddenly negotiated their way out of it. Reddit has no reason to lose such a great employee, if they did this person would have been banned years ago.

  • bsdGuy0@programming.dev
    61·
    1 year ago

    Betrayal gives way to strong feelings of animosity. I have a supposition that most of you would do the same thing. If you were a moderator of a very large subreddit, would you really want to lose your position? If so, why?

      • bsdGuy0@programming.dev
        1·
        1 year ago

        It’s not about having wants, it’s about having principles.

        I don’t understand what you are trying to say. I do agree that principles are fundamental, and should be prioritized above all else. However, for what reason would you prioritize them, rather than be selfish?

    • fsk@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Someone would just start their own lemmy instance if the mods are unreasonable.

    • CannaVet@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      I got banned from a sub for a relatively tame normal opinion about something or other, like a video game or something. Sent a mod mail asking what happened and what could I do to make it right, got muted and then banned from 10 more subs immediately.

      I just nuked my 15 year 750k karma account after giving him a piece of mind to each modmail box. I’ll absolutely burn the earth before letting some internet loser feel like he runs my life lol.

      • paddirn@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        I got banned from r/entertainment for criticizing Lizzo’s outfit when the whole crystal flute nontroversy happened, nothing racial, nothing about her weight or about the flute-playing itself, just that I thought her outfit she was wearing looked trashy. BANNED. Reddit has been on the decline for awhile now. I just wish I could filter out ANY news of Reddit on other sites, it’s kind of annoying how much sites like Lemmy.world still lean on Reddit for content instead of trying to do their own thing.

        • CannaVet@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          Oh yeah I hate how many posts are just Reddit links.

          Do people not know you still help by visiting?

          (they don’t, people are dumb 😂)

          • paddirn@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            Yea, I’ve been going cold turkey since 6/11. I thought the whole point was to NOT GO so that Reddit could see how unpopular its decision was. It kind of feels like people are just not bothering with even trying to protest. I’m sure those that stick around will have a series of annual “that’s it, I’m done” moments coming in the future as Reddit makes more and more unpopular decisions and people just put up with it because they couldn’t even go a few weeks without visiting the site. I’ve already made my peace with the fact that Reddit is gone and I’m ready to move on. At this point I’d be more conflicted if they actually backed down on their stupid API policy and let 3rd party apps back on.