2y ago

u/Awkwardtheturtle posting an update on her reddit ban

teddit.adminforge.de Off topic, but awkwardtheturtle admitting that he had some connection to the Reddit higher-ups : r/AlzheimersGroupBackup

This post is not about the api situation, it’s about awkward saying he has met the Reddit admins in person, meaning he h

u/Awkwardtheturtle somehow posting an update on her reddit ban ... on reddit itself if i'm reading the pic correctly. Not sure how that's possible, maybe someone saw an edited post from her?

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Wasn't /u/AwkwardTheTurtle kind of exploitative herself?
- So the lore goes. I never interacted with this - or any power mod on reddit - so I can't speak from personal experience.
  The point I'm getting at though - reddit wants cooperative mods who would have gone along with the new rules.
  This powermod was likely one of those folks, who didn't support the protests or blackouts, and seems to have just got taken out in the crossfire.
  Furthermore it's revealed that this powermod claims to have had a connection to reddit admins.
  So basically if this person's connections couldn't save their account, especially this kind of mod that reddit would likely have wanted to keep, it shows how powerless even reddit admins are over corporate. (A lot of us here might have already known this, but even so.)
  reddit is really shooting themselves in the foot here, blindly kicking out not only protesters but folks who might have gone on to be great loyalists.
  
  Furthermore it's revealed that this powermod claims to have had a connection to reddit admins.
  A lot of American mods do; there were a few years there with top admin and community teams did a 'roadshow' type thing where they'd schedule meetups and connect with mods in person. Having met admin in person isn't really that wild an indication of favour, so much as having showed up to an event somewhere.

I'm all for the spez hate train, but insulting someone's appearance makes me question what she looks like rofl

i thought awkwardtheturtle was an admin favorite
- Right??? And reading between the lines of her post, it seems like the admins she reached out to offered to help; and gave reassurances but ultimately couldn't do anything.
  So how come even the admins can't do anything here? It's almost as if spez is the one banning them, and only spez is allowed to approve unbans ,or something crazy like that.
- Actually, seeing some evidence that other folks, non-protesting mods, are also getting permabanned without recourse. See for example https://teddit.adminforge.de/r/ModSupport/comments/14hrr28/redditkeepssuspendingoneofthemoderatorswho/

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