Can’t say I was a fan of ATT, but they put in a huge amount of time working for Reddit for free. Reddit admins have definitely shielded them in the past from a lot of deserved flak with the implication that a terminally online asshole is exactly the kind of free labour that Reddit wanted. It’s a fascinating change of attitude for them to turn on ATT now; it really shows where their priorities are.
Oh, it wasn’t for free.
Awkwardtheturtle is supposedly the Digital Marketing Manager, Assistant Director of Web Services, Digital Communications Specialist, and Digital Media Strategist in the Innovative Learning Technology Initiative, all operated from within the University of Southern California. Most of their work consists of creating media strategies for pharmaceutical companies. They have a constant Slack channel with direct access to the admins at all times and regularly met with the admins in person. From their qualifications, they likely provided Reddit media strategies.
They still have some of their numerous alts online, which they’re currently being outed.
Worth noting that the subs their alt manages aren’t participating in the blackout. Curious that.
Better late than never
Infamous? What’s the scoop? I’m ootl.
Edit: just read about it in the actual r/ootl… Which they also moderated at that time. Quite surreal with today’s context.
They are a sexist, racist power-mod who regularly bans users they personally dislike. Because they controlled hundreds of subreddits, if they banned you, they banned you across pretty much the entire site.
They are infamous for encouraging male suicide, getting away with their hate speech and selling drugs to minors.
…oh, wow. Well, fuck this specific mod then.
pret much 3:
Was he banned for those things or participating in the protest?
Reddit is going same path like Bud Light
It seems that most of young managers are just kiddos without reality check.
Reddit is going same path like Bud Light
No, because Bud Light is only hated by weird bigots who care too much about stuff that doesn’t affect them at all. Reddit is hated by normal people who never asked for their favorite discussion site to make the browsing experience worse. A better example would be Digg.
lol … so you decide who is weird bigot and who is normal person
grow up
out of curiosity what made you think that this place absolutely rife with communists would accept your bullshit even a little?
Honestly, I didn’t realized that this place is full of leftists or communists.
I wouldn’t never be here if I knew earlier that communists are here.
Anyway I requested to delete my account.
I didn’t know wanting to invite migrants is a communist thing now.
Are you really that dogmatic, mate?
Wow, cluelessness with a side of ageism. Didn’t need that with my coffee.
what ageism? it’s all about experiences, experiences
what happened with accepting another view? ehm
Any reason given?
Most likely refusing the admins.
Awkwardtheturtle is a part of the Powermod Slack Team, who aren’t the best friends with the Reddit admins.
According to their own complaints, probably because one of the thousands of subs they were mods in went dark. Another user here mentioned that their subs didn’t participate in the protest, but the mod said that one of the mods higher up in the list kept one dark.
Good riddance I guess.
