Not sure I'm fully onboard with this to be honest.
I mean, we're all adults living in a civilised society and you missed an apostrophe, it should have been "you're a cunt", not youre.
We all know better for next time ;-)
Facts.
Facts.
I’m actually proud of this and might frame it for my office 🤣
I'd be thrilled to know I personally offended a CEO
Wait a minute, why does Reddit call it a ban? Normally, account bans are called suspensions unless it's a shadowban. I got one for abusing the report button, and they called it a ban. Why is Reddit mixing these terms? It doesn't even make sense at all.
As you should be. This is my first comment here and fuck spez, the greedy cunt.
On a fine Monday morning, Steve Huffman, known colloquially as Spez, awoke from his gold-threaded sheets in his penthouse, sipping on his ethically questionable yet preposterously expensive civet coffee. He looked out his windows, the horizon offering the perfect view of his kingdom, his creation, his Reddit.
Having decided to raise the cost of API use to levels that would make a NASA engineer's jaw drop, Spez had embarked on a mission to squelch third-party apps, steering users towards the official (albeit buggy) Reddit app. He chuckled to himself, confident that his plot was as foolproof as an uncrackable safe.
Little did he know, the storm was brewing.
As he logged on, dressed in his favorite power suit, he noticed the eerie silence. Subreddits, once buzzing hives of memes, jokes, and shower thoughts, were now as barren as the surface of Mars. The once-mighty r/AskReddit, now reduced to a ghost town, echoed with digital tumbleweeds.
Confused, he navigated to r/pics. The screen loaded and his eyes were met with an endless scroll of buttholes, every variety, shape, and color imaginable. His newly nanobot-manicured eyebrows knitted together in bewilderment.
“Must be a new meme trend,” he said, shrugging it off.
He then moved to r/science, a bastion of intellect and reason, only to find NSFW content occupying every single thread. The Higgs boson was being discussed in a manner Einstein could never have predicted.
“What in the name of...?” He blinked, checking whether he was still on Reddit and not some obscure corner of the dark web.
He decided to investigate, opening his mailbox. "Surely my loyal subjects will inform me what's going on," he mused.
And inform they did. His inbox was flooded with messages, each more colorful than the last. "Spez, you're a legend!" one began, before ending with a plot twist, "...at being a daft cunt."
"Has everyone lost their minds?" he wondered, failing to connect the dots.
He banished anyone who dared cross him, banning his way through his subjects like a monarch with an itchy trigger finger.
As the day wore on, Spez grew restless. His grand plan was not unfolding as expected. But, in his characteristic arrogance, he was certain that the chaos would soon subside and he would ascend as the one true app lord.
In his plush office, surrounded by screens showing falling Reddit stocks, he clutched a crystal ball he bought from a New Age store, whispering, “Soon, my Reddit will be worth billions…” The crystal ball, deciding it had enough, promptly rolled off his desk and shattered on the Italian marble floor.
In the end, a day that began with grand ambitions ended with a lonely billionaire, surrounded by pictures of buttholes, an inbox full of profanity, a shattered crystal ball, and a kingdom in chaos.
Unbeknownst to him, the Reddit community reveled in their rebellion. They might not have won the war yet, but oh, how they celebrated the battles. As the moon replaced the sun, one phrase echoed throughout the kingdom of Reddit, repeated in posts and comments, whispered in DMs, etched into the heart of the rebellion,
"Fuck Spez."
I need this entire comment printed out and framed. Its composure is truly artistic!
Fuck, take my money
Let’s sing all together:
Well Spez is a cunt, he's a big fat cunt, He's the biggest cunt in the whole wide world. He’s a stupid cunt, if there ever was a cunt, He's a cunt to all the boys and girls.
On Monday, he's a cunt, On Tuesday, he's a cunt, On Wednesday though Saturday, he's a cunt, Then on Sunday, just to be different, He's a super King Kamehameha Cunt.
Have you ever met Reddits Spez? He's the biggest cunt in the whole wide world, (La-la-la-la-la-la-la) He's a mean ol' cunt and he has wangy eyes, He's a cunt, cunt, cunt, cunt, cunt, cunt, cunt.
Cunt, cunt, cunt, cunt, cunt, cunt, cunt, He's a stupid cunt! (Woah!)! Reddits Spez is a cunt, And he's such a dirty cunt! (Cunt!)!
I really mean it, that Spez, he's a real big fuckin' cunt, big ol' fat fuckin' cunt, u/spez! Yeah, cha!
Don't do it BeardyGrumps....
Wellllllll
I'm warning you....
If only we had Lemmy Gold...
Any ongoing crowdfunding for your upcoming book? Give me a link please? You got me interested. Anything published already?
"an endless scroll of buttholes"
art
This is now canon.
This if Fucking magnificent 🤣
This is a masterpiece
You use your words prettier than a $20 removed.
This is pure, artistic and linguistical gold. Bravo!
If only we had Lemmy Gold...
Claim you're Australian, and live in NSW.
Show that it is your constitutional right to call any leader a cunt
https://nswcourts.com.au/articles/court-rules-its-ok-to-refer-to-tony-abbott-as-a-ct/
Sue Reddit
To be fair, Tony Abbott is actually a total cunt, so the case result was always going to be.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qmmdH5vcnKw
EDIT that was the wrong one:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nLz6MPCoNUE
These are to be used contextually obviously.
I'm pretty sure he was a laughing stock across the world when he was in.
Then US one upped us.
I tagged him in messages for a few days calling him a cunt but never got banned. I guess DM was the thing to make it be effective?
Admins, or at least him, don't get notified when you tag them
Good. Fuck u/spez — that little cunt
Like 3 days ago I got a site wide ban for posting a picture of the comments spez altered on TheDonald like 4 years ago. Reddit has gone downhill ever since Pao got the CEO title and has only gotten worse under spez.
do you happen to have a link for that image? would love to post it myself 😅
Pao was hired to do a specific job, she did it, and then she was sacrificed. She was 100% a scapegoat.
called /u/Spez a cunt
This is inaccurate, /u/Spez lacks warmth and depth and has never given anyone pleasure.
Must be a fun place to work 🙄
Sucks because it used to be an awesome job I bet
No, they talked about it, it was brutal, they were overworked for a good while, then when the money came in they went dumb corporate.
There was a while where they said the stress felt like it was worth it then everything fell apart, this was around when pao was in charge and the ama lady got fired.
That sounds about right, it's been coasting on the momentum from past glories since then, and we were protected from the worst of it by third party apps and good mods and communities in smaller subreddits. Both things they're now ripping apart. Curious to check Reddit again in a couple years and witness just how bad it got.
Should definitely be banned for not using an apostrophe.
Surprises me that you get banned for it but whenever someone else call another person that - they get away with either a warning or nothing happens. Lol.
Glad to see my permanent ban for reporting one fucking Fox News post on politics for blatant climate change denialism is on level with this. For using the report function to bully/harrass ffs. Laughable!
Place was becoming a shitehole months before these API changes anyway.
Fuck /u/spez
I'd rather not
I got a couple of bans from automod because some precious mods get offended by you overwriting your comments with Power Delete Suite. Some of the comments were like 5 years old or older that were overwritten and got me banned.
I got a bunch of automod messages too when I did it. If you edit a message, automod reviews it just as if it was a first post. If the edit breaks the sub's rules (as it will if you used a generic message for all your posts as I did) then it'll get blocked. Don't think that's being precious, just how automod tools work.
The message I received specifically mentioned editing past comments so the rule they made specifically targeted this. There was nothing in the post that might ordinarily get you banned.
Well tbf spez is a cunt. A big, silly, greedy cunty cunt.
What's somewhat depressing is that he didn't have to act like that. It's done in no favours at all and yet he still chose to be a complete twit.
Sweet what kind of stuff do u do? Thinkin about sharing some of mine on here tbh
They banned me a few days ago and didn't even have the courtesy to tell me why. I asked and got no response.
That part about bullying was pretty ironic huh.
Totally worth it!
It's part of the migration plan to help users move away from the platform.
I reported him for help, he might be get suicidal when reddit bombs. Don't want him to take the easy way out now.
Just sign up as a reddit refugee, I approve. Also since I have no fucks left I've been using my alt account to troll r/conservative. Happy to be here, the thing with replacing mods and forcing communities to reopen was just so fucked up.
It only took me one comment to get banned there and it was a legitimate question lol. Biggest bunch of crybabies on the internet, I have to laugh every time one of them brings up free speech or echo chambers.
As a conservative myself, I can say for certain the mods in that sub suck. They are exactly what they rail against, pisses me off so much.
I do consider trolling in /r/conservative to be a party foul in the "don't feed the trolls" category.
But eh, it's all going downhill over there anyway. We're just happy lemmings relaxing on the hill as the city burns down in the valley.
Gonna have to troll the democrats now. Oh wait they don't need any help with that.
Billionaires are the worst kind of people. I can’t wait for the revolution to come for them. It’s going to be a good time.
Feels a little generous even calling them people.
Rabbits
Something something fava beans, chianti.
Rabbits
Jesus christ
You did the right thing. You told the truth.
No one regrets getting banned from digg.
You know for a fact he put that ban through himself too.
Much like on twitter, you can insult us common folk (and landed gentry), but insult a celebrity or rich person, and that's a ban.
Chad move tbh
lmaoooooooooo worth every penny 🤣 🤣 🤣
Oh no u/Spez got harassed. Who would've thought?
Wear that permaban like a badge of honor
I wished him to get floppy teeth and only be able to eat shit.
*You're
Right? They didn’t even keep my apostrophe in there. Lazy Spez
I like to think in the alternate universe where Aaron Swartz doesn't commit suicide, he eventually ends up making a competitor that doesn't fall victim to the failures some of these companies have
He's here in spirit
Not sure I'm fully onboard with this to be honest.
I mean, we're all adults living in a civilised society and you missed an apostrophe, it should have been "you're a cunt", not youre.
We all know better for next time ;-)
You should try appealing and say it wasn’t inflammatory, in fact really is one lol
On the last day the apps still worked I told spez to get fucked like 6 times. Maybe I got banned. Dunno. Never logging in to find out. 🤗
I wrote something like this and mentioned him in a comment. And the bullying modcodeofconduct user also hoping to be banned and nothing. I guess I need to go via DMs
Appeal it.
Make the argument that this was just a factual, well-established fact and not harassment.
o7
Lmao good on ya
They started the harassment and bullying by overpricing their API. Ban themselves right IACF.
This is an automated message; responses will not be received by deadbeat admins.
Thank you for your service 🗿
I racked up 10 bans on that day shit posting to mods. Felt good man.
With a bang
I've just deleted my accounts, I entered 'Fuck u/Spez' hundreds of times into the feedback field.
Dang, that was a sweet idea. Way better than deleting accounts. Great job!
The whole ban invasion rule never made much sense to me. It's completely unenforceable, there's absolutely no way with their platform for them to tell if a user is using a new account to evade a pre-existing ban, so why the hell are they going on about it?
I'm not sure if you use the app if they can tell it's from same app installation.
It's enforced, believe me. Even with a VPN. I think they must use browser and app fingerprint, it isn't just IP.
In the end it really seemed like I had been flagged as an undesirable. I'd have what I thought were pretty reasonable discussions at night, and then wake up to another account permabanned. The last couple I didn't even get a link to the offending content, just a message about being in breach of their content policy in some undefined way.
I fucking hated that site anyway.
If you're going through many extra steps to change your online fingerprint, then you're correct. But there are things they can use to match accounts together. Even a simple IP address combined with behavior from that address can be effective.
In my limited experience with ban evaders while modding on reddit (on a ~100k subscribers size sub), reddit's automatic systems do catch some ban evaders. We would sometimes ban a really angry person and later find multiple comments from different accounts in the filtered queue trying to continue their bickering.
Don’t threaten me with a good time!
incredibly based
Yeah I'm here because of a perma ban also not just because of the API changes haha. Fuck Reddit, kinda glad they ripped the bandaid off for me. It really was an addiction.
Proving the concept correct!
o7
This is the most epic way to end a Reddit run
Marvellous.
super petty on reddit’s part.
In a random message or you sent it to his account?
Dm
Excellent!
🫡
I've deleted my account on my own, to not grant them the last admin power trip. Left them a nice parting message while I was at it.
This is the way
Based!
Not sure I'm fully onboard with this to be honest.
I mean, we're all adults living in a civilised society and you missed an apostrophe, it should have been "you're a cunt", not youre.
We all know better for next time ;-)
o7
Imma start doing that with all my throwaways from now on
Bro gotta commend the badassery
Fuck money hungry /u/Spez, an all censoring Reddit admins.
While I side with mods protesting, sadly some Reddit mods are also first class censoring cunts.
This is beautiful. Thanks for doing your part!
Lmao I've been permabanned so many times, reddit really has gone to shit the last few years...if you dare have an opinion that goes against the majority you're in for a bad time. Fuck reddit.
I'm permanently suspended from reddit for (as far as I can tell) abusing nazis and proto-fascists that were shit-stirring on a sub I moderated
very cool!
So say we all.
This is like when Johnny Sack had to unexpectedly return home to retrieve his sweater he forgot only to find Ginny Sack gorging herself on her hidden stash of snacks and candy while she was supposed to be on a diet.
honestly not a fan of people being treated like this
Wow I'm sure you epically owned spez soooo hard in that message
