Awkwardturtle The banned 1000 sub mod Talks about the admins after Ban and got a message "let all burn to the ground"
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 ).
Lol.
An actual bad person when given mod status in too many subs: "This site is great"
Site admins ban him and deny appeals
The bad person: "This site is exploitative!!"
Reddit sucks, but this is probably the one good thing to come from Reddits recent actions.
Fully agree. Power mods like him are a huge problem on reddit and I hope this will not repeat in the fediverse.
It will but they'll be server admins instead.
Hopefully no instance ever becomes too popular by itself where this will heavily affect everyone though.
That's the one thing I like a great deal, is the decentralization. I'm sure at some point we'll see heavy manipulation across the Fediverse but it will be of a different nature. If mods start running a fiefdom on a major instance, just leave the instance.
I've been disenfranchised by the mods for a long time, so while I don't like seeing what use to be a good thing burn to the ground, it really is rooted at the poor administration overall at the site that allowed abusive moderators to run major subs. This outcome is more akin to the snake eating its own tail, but I agree. These toxic abusive moderators getting booted out of a major vein of public discourse is only going to be a positive.
Aaaaaand he's gone
🦀🦀🦀
Well that's not what I meant when I said to suspend akwardtheturtle but I guess it succeeded.
It's almost hilarious that this guy was given a taste of his own medicine.
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.
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.
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).
Apparently the artist provided a lot of evidence that it was his own work and had even provided the PSD files to journalists who reached out to him.
This seems unusually high-effort for 'AI generated art.'
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! 
I can't wait for the future where ai can very reliably transcribe anything for the blind folks out there so they can freely browse stuff like we all do.
Good human
Turtle is the most drama-seeking person I've seen on Reddit and I've been there a long time. They always seek out drama and then screenshot it and post it to r/CenturyClubDrama. They contribute like 80% of the total posts to that sub. They also post really long rants and then ban the person they're ranting at so the person can't comment back. Don't be like turtle.
That fucking CenturyClub bullshit; I lasted about 2 days after getting invited to the subreddit a few years ago. What a morass of powermod drama queens and groupthink twats. For some god-unknown reason, I got an re-invite during the protest blackouts from one of their mods, no clue why. Because they were going to talk me out of shutting down a +1M sub?
I would take anything this chode says with a huge grain of salt, but it was pretty clear that he was buddies with admins and other "power"-mods because he was not only getting away with stuff that others were getting banned for left and right, but I personally have been perma-banned for "harassment" a couple times for even bringing up their toxic behavior and why I think it was a problem to different mod teams.
Anyway they're mentally unwell, their dick is small and they can go fuck themselves.
Decent guys with small dicks are twenty miles above this turd.
Aww, thanks! :)
I really hope whatever website replaces Reddit has some sort of way to mitigate/control these "super" mods
Please let them stay away from the Fediverse... Stay the fuck away from Lemmy and Kbin. Get out, touch grass and eat some ice cream but stay away from us.
Major "you can't fire me, I quit!" vibes
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
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.
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..
I don't particularly feel bad for you.
The two bad guys fighting each other, just like in Russia
They're still fighting, just not in public view .
I hope they don’t end up over here. “Power mods” are just the worst.
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.
Yup, that sounds like AwkwardTheTurtle.
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.
That's how I lost my original 10+ year Reddit account.
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.
Employee? These people are doing it for free!
Yeah, that's the point.
The best employees are the ones who would do anything to stay 'employed' even when you don't pay them.
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?
Yes, I would want to lose that position. I already have a job. Reddit is a diversion, not a life.
It's not about having wants, it's about having principles.
Love how the sycophants act all indignant like they weren't kissing ass and licking boots yesterday. Same fuckers that enacted the will of reddit against normal users now want to be seen as fellow refugees.
They can all get fucked.
Hes just bitter and angry that his only way to power trip and his only fullfilling "thing" is gone.
Should platforms like kbin/lemmy/etc have limits to how many magazines/categories a single user can moderate?
Wouldn't this just encourage alt accounts to get around the rule? You're only hiding it with sockpuppets instead of allowing it to happen transparently.
I still think it’s a good idea. You can create alts to get around bans for instance, but it’s a powerful mod tool nonetheless. Most people will see the rule and stop there, and if they don’t then it’s a good way to justify an IP ban for repeat offenders.
As an aside, the thought of the kind of person that would break rules so that they can provide extra unpaid labor makes me queasy.
If the admin find out they can then take action
Yes , 5 max maybe 10 thats it.
I would even allow as high as 25, but probably an amount that can be controlled by the instance. But we should stop these 1000+ communities controlled by one mod.
Given what Lemmy and kbin fundamentally are, open source federations, this can't be done, at least not universally. Instances will set their own rules and other instances cannot directly set those rules. It is impossible to enforce this.
That said, it makes sense for instances to set similar rules, and tools to help are a good idea.
Its not really possible. Just open a new community on another instance
Reddit was always flawed in that reddit mod ranks were based off time added. So you ended up with a few people that own tons, and can just unmoderate everyone below them. So they arent even accountable to their peers. I recall WallStreetBets had an attempted coup for a deal or something.
He was banned BECAUSE he was badmouthing Reddit. Some of his subs were participating in the blackout and he had pinned some stuff about it. I thought it was very interesting.
I don't mean to defend the guy, but fair criticism isn't worth banning someone for
Turdle is a hypocritical piece of shit
Imagine wasting this much of your life modding this many shitty subreddits. Holy jesus.
I think I've got better things to spend my imagination points on
Bans people for being men and gamers 😖
Gets banned too 😭😭😭😭🤬🤬🤬
Asshole CEO and Power-tripping mods in a stand-off. I love it.
It's not even a standoff, an asshole working at Reddit (probably not even the CEO) fired an unpaid volunteer and they're ugly crying while drinking boxed wine and freaking out about how they're gonna regret letting them go online.
It's entirely one sided and nobody really gives a single shit about this dummy. I hope they get the help they desperately need.
Karma
Couldn't have happened to a nicer person
That guy did NOTHING when he had a chance to stand up against what was going on. he even was mad he got banned bc he admitted he wasnt one of the ones who enacted any actions in protest, and that it was another mod who did it. Were always so annoying and bein an antagoniste just bc he knew he wouldnt get banned for it and drunk from online "power" so idrc.
Good thing for him is that usually when reddit makes a good decision is not permanent so maybe he will be unbanned soon.
I’m a little bit out of the loop here… Why don’t we like awkwardtheturtle?
From what I’ve learned in the last week, it seems like they abused their mod powers in some of the subs they were on. Someone at Reddit probably used all the chaos to get rid of them now, when many people had been complaining about them for a long time.
She's sexist against nonbinary people. She used to identify as nonbinary, but when she got banned from r/ennn for gender essentialism, she threw a temper tantrum about it and said she was going to be a trans woman because enbies are mean.
Well well well. How the turn tables...
Fuck her power tripping ass lmao. Mald harder.
Double-Schadenfreude.
I just hope even better happens to the rest of the power mods
Jesus Christ, title gore...
Was spez naked? How did he know he was tiny? Or is it years of experience with admins.
They said the power mods were in bed with the Reddit admins but I didn't know people meant it literally
He's big mad.
Lmao did admins ban that fat pedo turd?