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Spez sold Reddit for some small $mils before failing his other project and returning as a hired CEO. He is a cheapskate among media magnates. He isn't clever and is a loser. He adores Elon because he wishes he can throw money around just like him, but on the day's end he knows he doesn't have comparable wealth and he is there just because he happened to be around Aaron Swartz and other cool dudes. He himself couldn't create Reddit. And being the top admin of it now is probably the closest thing in corporate world to cuckolding, for he doesn't have a word in managing the 'frontpage of the internet' he once owned, he just follows what the board says him to. Sad piece of shit he is. Won't cry about him tho. Let misery fall onto his little empty head.
Spez was also a former mod of r/jailbait and no one should ever forget that.
They also gifted a statuette to u/violentacrez or what's his handle? for powermodding dozens of nsfw subs, including borderline paedophilic, violent and abusive ones, like revenge porn partners upload after a break up to hurt their ex-couple.
They did great at handling the search of a boston bomber. Fuck ups happen way more often than forum dudes finding ISIS camp by triangulating the sky in a picture. I'm kinda happy to have this viral and well-documented drama to refer.
They rarely ever did their job before the press got involved, or they step into prison sentence territory. My personal favorite waa when altright sub stickied a link to crowdfund a contract killer for a guy who punched a right-wing talking head Robert Spencer on camera. Then, you have fatpeoplehate and other subs that weren't as dense and worked for years. Right before Spez's very eyes. Not to say some mass-shooters were frequenting and were inspired by these spaces too.
While modding jailbait is discussed (like, you could promote to a mod role everyone – that's how he excuse it), these things were consciously enabled by him. He platformed the worst people you can think of. And it sure shall not be forgotten.