“Q3 was a strong quarter,” Huffman said on Thursday’s earnings call, in which he lauded Reddit as being “for humans by humans” and seemed to take a subtle dig at AI slop (the low-quality AI content clogging corners of the internet): “Reddit is in a unique position; we’re not trying to be the next anything. We’re focused on being the best version of ourselves and what the internet needs most: a place where people can connect on almost any topic and find genuinely useful information.”
Not a single mention of Swartz in the article. Absolute scum
he lauded Reddit as being “for humans by humans” and seemed to take a subtle dig at AI slop (the low-quality AI content clogging corners of the internet)
That’s pretty funny coming from the CEO of a platform that was already overrun by low-effort bots even before AI slop became a thing…
not to mention whose recent valuations have basically been about selling their data to train models which will be used to make AI slop
The moderator of r/jailbait?
That just means he fits in with the rest of them.
Hard to fit all those egos on Little Saint John.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Spez was the mod of a pedo sub. He’s also a white supremacist piece of dogshit.
Fuck spez.
Success doesn’t ring at your door by chance. First you have to demonstrate how horrible you are and how you can contribute to make humanity worse.
The wrong founder died, unfortunately.
Died due to criminal prosecution for something Meta was able to get away with Scott-free.
God damn America.
Wait was he the guy that hosted all of those academic articles and was prosecuted for it, the killed himself?
He hooked his laptop up to school servers and was copying all the data on them.
(1) Swartz didn’t share the files. Maybe he would have but when he earlier slurped the legal library it was to provide an indexing capability.
(2) He wasn’t a founder of Reddit (but was an early developer).
The excellent documentary on him is online for free (watch it before it gets taken down): https://youtu.be/9vz06QO3UkQ
Bleak.
But you’re not wrong. Motherfuckers.
And all he had to do was fuck over everyone who helped him get there. His co-founder and users most of all
Peak US
And his narcissism is rewarded with extreme wealth and power.
Peak capitalism.
Ah, yes. The Steve Jobs model. Find someone with true talent, attach yourself to them like a lamprey, and slyly fuck them over at every turn until you are at the top with all the money.
“Thanks for all the unpaid work mods!”
Lol he’d never thank the plebeians.
They can’t afford to pay so many mods! You’re crazy! /s
Now, if you’ll excuse him … he’s buying a new yacht.
Fuck you /u/spez.
Or fuck /u/spez, for short
One of my three strikes for my perma was because I posted that on a bandwagon thread during the API exodus lol
May you wear it proudly
If you wanna rise in the West, you better be evil.
RIP Aaron Schwartz. 🙏
RIP Aaron Schwartz. 🙏
Is he related to Aaron Swartz?
Edit: Peak documentary of his life (free) for those unfamiliar. 🥹
Important morals if you want to be “successful”: have no morals. And no self-respect either.
Morale is being happy. Morals are the
principalsprinciples of right and wrong.Principles.
Values opposing bad habits are vice principles.
Yes yes, corrected.
The same aaron schwartz that was a free speech absolutist?
Fucking parasite. I wish him nothing but the worst.
For humans by humans
Could have fooled me
For bots, by bots
Redditors: “Billionaires shouldn’t exist!”
Also redditors: Helps make latest billionaire…
The previous moderator r/jailbait is now a billionaire.
idk what jailbait is. And do not want to know lol.
I put what little I know about it inside a spoiler tag
spoiler
It used to be a subreddit related to… very young girls? My understanding is it means by taking the bait (=using the subreddit) you risk going to jail. So essentially a place catering to pedophiles. I think the sub disappeared before I even discovered Reddit, so I don’t know exactly if users were posting pictures or something else
It was a subreddit where redditors would post pictures of underage girls. The images weren’t outright pornographic, they were images some of the members took of unsuspecting girls in public or other locations(I remember there was a teacher posting pictures of his students) or images the girls posted themselves on various social media. Some were suggestive some weren’t but all of them were leered over and discussed by creeps with language that should never used towards minors.
At some point the subreddit came into the attention of Anderson Cooper which run a segment on CNN about it. Even then Reddit refused to ban the subreddit citing “free speech”. Eventually one of the people on the subreddit posted a picture of a minor and said he had naked pictures of her which created a feeding frenzy of creeps asking him for those pictures. This finally made Reddit ban the subreddit.
The guy that created the subreddit, Violentacrez, was also the “victim” of an expose by Gawker who found out his real life identity. Reddit tried protecting him by banning links to Gawker when the article came out. Before all that Reddit gave him an award and various redditors voted him as the best moderator or some shit like that. Besides /r/jailbait he was running a lot of other questionable subreddits.
The guy that created the subreddit, Violentacrez, was also the “victim” of an expose by Gawker who found out his real life identity. Reddit tried protecting him by banning links to Gawker when the article came out.
I remember when this happened. Violentacrez himself showed up in one of the threads that didn’t get nuked and tried to defend himself. I remember his (heavily down-voted) comments all being surrounded by dozens and dozens of [deleted] comments — presumably people attacking him for being a pedo piece of shit.
I’d never heard of the guy before, but I was so disgusted by the story and by his attempts to justify himself that I went back through weeks of his old posts, down-voting everything.
The next day, I came back to a week-long temp ban from Reddit for vote manipulation. Fuckers.
When I encounter teenagers who use reddit I tell them to look up “subreddit of the year 2008” just to gross them out.
Priceless. Doing the lords work
I removed it from the post because allegedly reddit had a feature were you could add anyone to any sub Reddit as moderator and someone added him. Doesn’t change the fact he allowed the sub to exist and didn’t get it banned until news coverage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communities#Jailbait
Thanks for the writeup
I’m not saying I agree with it, but this is the actual meaning of the word:
Spoiler
The term jailbait existed long before the subreddit and is used to refer to underage girls that are sexually attractive, therefore they are “baiting” you to go to jail by having sex with them.
Oh, and the posts on the subreddit were non-nude photos of underage girls the posters thought were attractive. It was very gross.
ah ok thanks
For some reason I subscribed to your definition IRL, but thought it meant “of age, doesn’t look like it”, which I suppose is how porn sites use it.
Just to note, at the time anyone could be made a moderator without their approval, so that alone is not demonstrating his support for that subreddit.
Allowing it to continue was his implicit support of it. He was well aware of what they were doing, and only acted when it became a PR issue.
Fuck you, Spaz.
