IAmA is back to normal
I have been readded as a mod and will be restoring the other mods and normal submission privileges shortly. I am on my phone so it may be a bit slow, but AMA if you want
Posted Aug 26, 2011, 12:19 AM UTC
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And you fuckers all have me to thank.
TAKE THAT BITCHES
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I can confirm this. Andrewsmith is a raging narcissist.
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I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.
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why are you green above yet now blue...
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Because you touch yourself at night.
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He blue himself.
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Depends on if they hit the "distinguish" button. Mods working as mods are able to identify themselves as such, but are also able to not do so if they're trying to blend in and act all sneaky like. Like a... like a spy.
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Some things are better left unknown.
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He was commenting "officially" as a mod of this subreddit above, but not in this second post.
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He's orange for me.
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How fucking dare you.
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You're red to me! :)
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Still need that achievement =(
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I think you meant a terrible mod.
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AMA request: andrewsmith
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Fucking thanks.
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I'm going to thank the FUCK out of you and there's nothing you can do about it. Bitch.
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FUCK ALL OF THAT NOISE.
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Let's hug it out, bitch.
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bullshit. the fucking admins caved and just added the mods back.
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Its like the Red carpet at the Reddit oscars in here.
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If you mean it's a pathetic, self-congratulatory circlejerk, then yes, this is the Oscars.
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I'm going to allow this...
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An admin called him because he told me that they should call him so that he can verify it.
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Don't worry andrew, VA is just a bit butt-hurt and using this as a personal drama venue.
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I wuv deh butthurtz
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I guess we'll all see when 32 gets back online
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Right. And you were "unanimously" elected. Whatever help you sleep at night.
Whatever little bit of respect I had left for these admins is gone. They will do anything to shit on the legacy of the old admins.
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Whatever little bit of respect I had left for these admins is gone.
You moderate child porn subreddits.
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We're all laughing that your subreddit got shitcanned.
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32bites talked to an admin on the phone... where I am assuming he gave that admin permission to add the other moderators back.
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32bites talked to an admin on the phone
Really? Which admin? What makes you believe that for even a second?
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The people (I believe it was a previous mod) who talked to 32bites said that he was at work and not near a computer, but was willing to call an admin and confirm.
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Calm down there buddy.
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Yes. they bugged the guy at work until he gave in. How respectful, that it couldn't even wait until he got home.
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This is one of the saddest pieces of drama I have ever seen in an online community.
Immature little asshats and fucktards.
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Thanks, I try.
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I don't understand why the admins reinstated Karmanaut by 32bite's request, but they didn't remove him (32bites) as a mod.
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Because the rule has always been: admins don't mess with the creator of a reddit. Internet mobs are fine, though.
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Your edit doesn't support your "caved" or your "just."
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I'm okay with what I said.
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Smokey is way more intense in person.
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Smokey is also his dick.
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I did.
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Please quit again. Kthnx
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I went from 400 posts a day to 400 posts a month.
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Unfortunately reddit's gravitational forces are strong enough to even pull your mom back.
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Thanks Andrew. <3
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FUCK YEAH ANDREWSMITH1986. I haven't seen you in so long. The other day, I thought "Wow, I wonder what happened to andrewsmith1986. I hope he didn't quit the reddit." I then checked into rehab.
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I thought the same thing to myself. I'm a loser.
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Hahaha, I'm not back for long.
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I've said it before, and I will say it again, you are a fucking stupid cunt.
You pathetic and pedantic little weed.
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weren't we mad at you at some point? Fuck, I can't remember. Reddit i such a fickle mistress.
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I want to have your babies.... Ummm no! What? I mean thank you.
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bitches love that
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on the RES, I have your name tagged with "Lol Butts".
It makes me just a little happier everytime I happen upon your posts.
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awesome.
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Ah man Andrew. Remember how like 3 months ago everyone had their pitchforks out against you?
Gotta love Reddit's attention span! Either way, thanks.
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I missed this. What happened??
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I forget the details, I don't really subscribe to the whole mob mentality and I was in a pizza shop when reading it on my phone so I was distracted.
Something about him supposedly abusing powers in a subreddit and people went on a downvoting spree of his posts.
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Ha, yep.
Good times.
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KILL THE WITCH!
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I FUCKING LOVE YOU MAN
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Tl;DR: Vaccines are good, government is bad, god is fake, buy my new book.
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I don't know why you're getting downvoted because that's basically how it'll go down, difference being that redditors have an existing bias toward Penn...
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I like how the other comment was deleted. Adds an air of mystery.
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What about PETA, hypnosis and bottled water?
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Thanks Andrewsmith, you are the best.
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Information:
karmanaut was re-added with 32bites' blessing after andrewsmith1986 phoned 32bites; 32bites apparently had no idea what a mess had followed in his wake. 32bites was at work and could not take action to restore the subreddit. Reddit admins phoned 32bites to get his blessing. Reddit admins restored karmanaut as a mod.
We will be refactoring subreddit rules soon, keep an eye on r/IAmA for more details.
We will be adding more moderators soon, also keep an eye on r/IAmA for more details.
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32bites apparently had no idea what a mess had followed in his wake.
Seriously? He shuts down a 400k+ person Reddit, calls the users assholes and doesn't think they'll be a shitstorm? We're supposed to believe that?
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I'm sure he'll make an appearance soon, you can ask him yourself.
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If only there was some place where we could ask him anything.
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Sometimes I'm amazed at how witty you fuckers are.
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popcorn.gif
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Michael Jackson eating popcorn.gif
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I'd wager he get's downvoted to hell regardless of what he says, though. A bit of a shame...
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He should do an AMA.
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Plus, if he really didn't think it would amount to anything he wouldn't have taken the time to write out a lengthy 'hear me out' spiel.
It seems like he wanted to whip around some power to get noticed, and it looks like it worked so well it may have gotten him more attention than he originally wanted.
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Where did he call you an asshole?
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Would you really miss a constant flood of green celebrity requests that go unanswered?
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Well, you certainly showed him you weren't assholes
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Downvote away, but most of the users are assholes. All the rules and the way things are supposed to be done were in the sidebar. Why should he have kept it open if people weren't using it for the intended purpose?
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That must have been some phone call.
Hello, 32bites? This is the voice of the internet...
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You have part of our internets...and we want it back!
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When Digg died.
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It changes as the seasons change.
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Correct, it's being discussed, everybody will be aware of the outcome of this, do not fret.
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The latter, if people want him to go, he will still need to step down voluntarily.
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Mod hierarchy is determined by the order in which they become mods.
I believe 32bytes is the creator of IAMA.
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Keep him as a mod, it is his subreddit after all. I don't want to see him lose this beautiful idea of his over a rash decision. If what you said is true, about him not knowing what all had happened, then I don't think he'll do it again after seeing all the trouble it caused.
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32bites apparently had no idea what a mess had followed in his wake.
That is, of course, preposterous. He knew what he was doing and what effect it would have. You can't be a veteran of the site and not understand the social mechanics of it.
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I did use "apparently". Ask andrewsmith1986 for full details of the call, he was the phone who phoned him.
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SO ANDREWSMITH1986 WAS PHONE
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FINALLY WE KNOW WHO WAS PHONE!
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I'm starting to think this is all some weird-ass meta-troll and all the new mods are actually the people who posted the fake AMAs before.
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People who spend large amounts of time on the internet are indeed very good at quickly understanding social mechanics.
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Perhaps he should do an AMA
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32bites apparently had no idea what a mess had followed in his wake.
It takes shocking egocentrism to take something from half a million people and not expect any reaction. Does this guy know that other people are people?
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So it only just occured to me that this place has half a million subscribers.
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Funny. Cuz from my persepective it seems like it takes shocking egocentrism to demand some type of ownership in something you didn't create or have the idea for. He provided it, you guys used it. Now you want it. The 'internet' is not a body and does not automatically get ownership of things they didn't create just b/c they feel like it.
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Now that all the information is out what will I do with all my conspiracy theories?
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With a bit of imagination, I'm sure you could revise all your conspiracy theories to fit with all the new information!
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I'm lost, what happened?
I hate being away from Reddit for more than a day.
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You'll have to ask somebody else, I'm utterly exhausted :P
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But what happened in the FIRST PLACE? I am so lost. What started the drama? Why is there anything to solve? What happened to IAMA?
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32Bites made this subreddit, so he's the main mod. He decided the subreddit sucked too much so he turned off new submissions and booted every other mod.
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Now that the subreddit is officially under new management, I can't think of a better time to return to the moderation problem. Let's find a way to turn around IAMA and make it into something worth saving!
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Give me a break, I've been at this for HOURS! I need to sleep! :)
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Glad it is on its way back to normal.
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When will you be removed from being a mod?
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Official Moderator Announcement.
We are sorry for your Herps and should restore full Derp services as soon as possible.
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Hey: please re add everyone. I am on my phone and it is annoying
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Sure, Orbixx is doing so.
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Cool. I PMed flyryan to do it too
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Hey, you guys forgot to add me back.
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We had many Herpains :( Now we need a Derp service guarantee.
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I shall fabricate one post-haste!
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"Herpains" doesn't sound too pleasant...
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MY HERPS ARE ALL DERPED! WHEN WILL THEY BE UNDERPED?
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Approximately in 15 harpingtons good Sire.
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le ok.
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restore full Derp
Never go full derp
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Yet 32bites is still a mod...Why is that?
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Hold your horses guys. This post is not yet confirmed.
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Careful there, we could see a return of the "karmanaut collective" theory.
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HEY EVERYONE THIS GUY ISN'T KARMANAUT
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Naked pics of Karmanaut holding a reddit sign with today's newspaper or we go back to IAMA not existing.
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It's Karmanot!
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WAKE UP SHEEPLE!
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FACT: If you use bigger caps more people will hear you.
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THATS WHAT YOUR MOM SAID TO ME LAST NIGHT YOU GOON
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Fuck off. Read the reddiquette.
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I'm glad all of this got settled in a calm and peaceful manner. It felt horrible losing something
that so many redditors depend on to brighten up their daily lives. I never really cared about
all the horrible scams and troll jobs people have pulled in this reddit in the past. And now that
we've seen just how important r/IAMA really is, let's hope this never happens again. It's back
to normal, and that's all that matters. So let's start posting real AMAs again. I still don't care
for all the BS 'round here, but it's a small price to pay for some interesting content.
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"It felt horrible losing something I never really care about, and now that it's back I still don't care."
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If you can't interpret MediumPace yourself, you don't deserve to reap the reward.
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WAY YO RUIN EV-
..... sigh...fine....
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My favorite throwaway...may you carry the blessings of Odin everywhere you go.
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Throwaway account =/= Novelty account
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You are a very clever man.
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He will most definitely not end up in the twelfth plane of torment on his way to the kitchen.
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Tagging you in RES just might have been the best decision I have ever made.
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He's probably the most tagged user on the site, for that reason :)
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I, too, simply couldn't live with that subreddit being out of commission. Tragedy just barely averted!
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You missed the boat dude
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yeah me neither
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I love this novelty account!
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lol
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I hate this novelty account!
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please, downvote the scams, trolls, and trash. I feel if as many people who complained, downvoted, then there would be nothing to complain about. Explore the new tab, and let it be known in comments when something is not on the level. Doubtful cynicism is not something to hide.
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I am quite glad that people like you are here to educate reddit about how important some subreddits can really be. I am always amazed at how I can educate here just by reading comments. Most people don't realize that, and just got on reddit for something like f7u12 for laughs. They don't get this, and don't even glance at IAmA. I try not to mind these people in hopes that they will see a post here and hopefully make their day a little better. I am still just blown away by the low amounts of karma here, compared to the other subreddits.
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Was that an attempt at MediumPacing or a serious answer?
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A failed attempt... PLEASE DON'T TELL ANYONE OF THIS DISGRACE!!
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We all start somewhere.
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What happened?
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Thanks for the link.
I now understand why the post in r/circlejerk occurred.
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i know, i thought circlejerk was done, but then i was like, oh wait this is the best circlejerk of my life. this is exactly why circlejerk remains on my front page.
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Reddit as a whole is turning into a circlejerk. No news aggregation or interesting post for Jakucha.
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I value r/circlejerk a lot for this. If I miss a joke or some drama, circlejerk informs me of it. It's like if TMZ didn't know it was TMZ.
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Which post!? This entire thread is like an unreferenced cite-hell.
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This is way too deeply buried. From those of us who aren't online often enough to follow the subreddit drama (that we secretly love to popcorn.gif to): thank you for this link.
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i don't know, and i don't think i care.
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I know man I was at uni all day and just got back. I must say I feel rather confused.
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And Late To The Party Award goes to.....
You must have a life, don't you? Those were the days....
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It might just be that he is not American. I just woke up and this post confused me greatly. Didn't know what happened until i saw this.
So yeah.. awsomemanftw probably don't have life, he was just sleeping.
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I don't think this is the real Karmanaut, could we get a mod to verify this and give it a gold star?
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I will be talking to the other mods about making changes to iama and specifically the verification system
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How about looking into Department of Defense astroturfing of IAMA to make the military look like a viable option for the kids on Reddit? In the last 2 days there have been 2 posts from army medics. These posts, and others like them, adhere to a template for posts that make the military look agreeable to the perceived Reditt mindset, without going overboard. They generally come from users with 5 months, or less, history on Reditt. And the backup chorus, asking all the right questions, also has 5 months or less history.
HB Gary has been heavily implicated in just this sort of activity, and the pattern I outlined above fits their MO.
The real veterans have two characteristics that set them apart from the astroturfers. They tend to be conflicted, and they love military jargon/acronyms... if someone posts something so laden with ACMO’s and WTFIT’s that a normal person can’t understand half of what they’re saying... then they’re probably the real thing.
EDIT: Of course this begs the question of wether Karmanaut is a real human being. But who am I to quible over trivia?
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If the content/answers are truthful, I don't see the problem...unless the DoD is arranging the upboats.
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So all "real" veterans are conflicted? As a veteran I completely and totally disagree. Just because a vetetan isn't spouting stuff that you agree with does not make them an "astroturfer". I say this as one of the rare liberal veterans that regularly disagrees with my fellow Soldiers on political matters.
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OK, “conflicted” is sort of a vague, catch all term, but:
as one of the rare liberal veterans that regularly disagrees with my fellow Soldiers on political matters...
You sound close enough for horse shoes and hand grenades.
I grew up in the sixties and was lucky enough to have my employer bribe an army doctor to get me out of Vietnam when I was hot to be a hero. Back then the army was drafting people and I passed all the tests and got called to report for duty on 12/22/65... just before Xmas. Now they’re relying on volunteers. And it galls me to see Reddit used a recruiting tool for kids who are as young and dumb and full of cum as I was back then.
But the real tragedy is that they don’t have a lot of nice alternatives.
The Vietnam war was a hideous waste of life and resources. And the current wars are no better. And in fact they may be worse, given that military suicides have outpaced combat deaths in the last couple of years.
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Not all:
tend to be conflicted,
Seems like a fair statement. Actual human beings have more complex emotions about their choices than someone who is a paid promoter.
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By disagreeing with the poster above, you have outed yourself as an astroturfer working for HB Gary. GUARDS! SEIZE HIM!
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r/conspiracy is that way ----------->
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I don't think conspiracy means what you think it means. You know, unless you are actually agreeing with him.
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begs the question
*raises the question
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I thought Reddit wanted to gut the DoD?
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How about you spell Reddit right before I take you seriously?
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The US military is already very full. It really doesn't need people this badly, and in fact it is trying to get people out.
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tl;dr?
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You could make me a mod; my qualifications: I'm on Reddit a grand total of 19-20 hours a day at work.
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...for 12 days?
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You're right, there is no way I could have known about Reddit for more than 12 days or maybe have multiple accounts; this guy is good!
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Reddit should be paying the companies we work at for all the hours we put in.
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Well shit what do you do on your down time?
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Sleep, I sit in front of a computer all day with a work tab open and a Reddit tab open.
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Why are you at work for 19-20 hours a day? You should try to find a new job.
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How about you do what is finally needed and get rid of that stupid fucking "system"?
32 made an awesome point:
Also you do not need us to tell you if a post is false or not you are (most likely) a grown adult and can think for your self and don't need us to tell you what's fake. If you think you won't be happy because you don't know if the guy who posted "IAmA guy with a new puppy" is fake or not without a gold star (green plus) then you have bigger problems than we can help you with.
Stop coddling people. This is why I left IAmA. Not only we were "required" to "verify" post after post after post, but the indecisiveness of "guidelines" that the community wanted was insufferable. It would cycle between the same decisions every month.
This subreddit is almost entirely noise and no signal.
Everyone should have respected 32's wishes and let the the idea of IAmA rise from the ashes. If celebrities were really that big of a concern, hueypriest has been doing that for at least a year, now, outside of the IAmA subreddit.
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Karmanaut is the collective, everyone is karmanaut.
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karmanaut does not forget.
karmanaut does not forgive.
karmanaut is legion.
Expect him.
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All of what happened today needs to be documented in r/firstworldproblems =D.
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Especially for somewhat irregular users of Reddit like myself because I haven't the slightest clue what all this hubbub is about.
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As mentioned above: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ju5cf/goodbye_iama_it_was_fun_while_it_lasted/
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Stay uninformed. As another casual user here, I can officially say this shit is retarded. All I think I really need to relate is that these people take way too seriously the fact that they think they are part of a 'hivemind.'
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Only an admin can remove 32bites as a mod.
A mod cannot remove a mod that is higher up in the list than them.
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Yeah, this whole debacle was unnecessary drama. Holding a subreddit hostage is dick move.
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He didn't hold it hostage he closed it down.
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How did this transpire?
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32bites decided IAMA was being ruined by all the trolls and non-IAMAs in IAMA so he shut it down.
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It doesn't work that that. this is his Subreddit, until he chooses to leave it.
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After all this drama, I need some hot and steamy sex scenes. Otherwise it will turn out to be like "The Bold and the Beautiful"
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Gripping what?
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Did you mean to say griping?
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I didn't give a shit when IAmA disappeared. AMA
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Are you Jakers' Boss Man, or Jakers: Boss Man?
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I unsubscribe from major subs to avoid this shit and somehow I still end up hearing about it.
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Thanks for that. That little incident was the most fucking stupid thing I've seen in a while. Any way to kick 32bits off the mod list and ban him for great justice?
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Did an admin mod you or 32bites? If the former, then I'm extremely disappointed in Reddit.
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We got in touch with him and he agreed to re-add me, but I think an admin did it because 32bites wasn't near a computer to re-add me
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Timeline: andrewsmith1986 talked to 32bites, admins talked to 32bites to confirm that what Andrew said was true, admins re-added you, you restored the peace.
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Suuuuuure.
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ITT: violentacrez gets downvoted for being correct in being suspicious.
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Jelly?
I'm just kidding, you know I love you too violentacrez. Who cares who did what anyway? We should all just be glad that the front page doesn't look like high school anymore.
Well...not as much at least.
Now get back to your gore and debauchery. ;)
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I think an admin did???...when you get added it tells you exactly the user who modded you
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Of course a fucking admin did it. Some chicken-shit admin decided that they couldn't let the reddit die, so they just added karmanuts back and told him to make up some bullshit story. Most redditors, being simple people, believe it.
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Sounds like a great post for /r/conspiracy.
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You forgot to add, that jews are behind it.
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that's why I called bullshit
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Lol u still mad about the whole jailbait thing?
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Man you're fucking dumb. 32bites already said multiple times he isn't by a computer often. I'm sure he will say at least something about the situation later.
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I've already lost all hope for Reddit, rollypollypocket nailed it here by pointing out the transformation of Reddit from a place where 90% of posts were technology, science related or even thought provoking pieces to an entertainment site similar to any other entertainment site where users go to laugh and post thoughtless shit.
I just wish there was somewhere to migrate to, before Digg even got to this point there was Reddit to move to, but now there's nothing, just thoughtless shit everywhere!
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Of course an admin did. This is just bullshit.
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What's your problem?
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The admins' lack of respect for the wishes of the creator of a reddit.
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The admins' lack of respect for the wishes of me.
FTFY
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To make an anology: Just because a God creates humanity doesn't mean it's moral or right for him to destroy it. 32Bites may have created the subreddit, but that doesn't mean he is justified in ending it.
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They got his permission over the phone first.
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~~Extremely disappointed in reddit for what? The admins are in charge of running the site and keeping it online, not babysitting us.~~DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS
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Disappointed that they'd go against their own rule and get involved because a subreddit with 400k+ users that brought in some famous people was too juicy to give up on.
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Oooh, I misread your original comment, I actually agree with you. Never mind me.
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Can it be any more obvious that this kid was just seeking some attention?
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This was like our own Libya wasn't it?
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Have you ever seen a ghost?
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So, is 32bites going to step down or what?
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Upvote this man's birthday wish!
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Thank goodness. 32bites is still a huge douche though.
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so is that technol33t guy
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No he's not. YOU try modding a subreddit with over 400,000 subscribers. I consider you the douche for being so ungrateful. I think r/IAmA sucks now anyway. It's 99% trolling. It's a dead horse and I don't understand why everyone insists on continuing to flog it.
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Then both of you can unsubscribe! The majority of the community still likes it, so he has no right to just up and close it like that. He wasn't the only mod anyways.
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then unsubscribe u little cunt-turd
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Yay. That was a huge amount of pointless drama.
How are we sure he's not gonna do it again? Why is 32bites still a mod after pitching that fit?
Upvote this fucker to the top. I would like to see an answer to this.
EDIT: flyryan gave us our answer! 32bites hasn't been near a computer to remove himself as a moderator yet.
Thanks. I bolded it just in case.
EDIT: Thank you, shelbygt500, but I still wonder if we should allow him (trust him?) to make that choice. They took away the hostage but not the gun. Who's to say he won't just grab his hostage back? And actually pull the trigger this time instead of talking about it for hours?
I fapped...just in case
Many good ideas.
You're seriously that worried?
I mean, I get your concern; 16 years ago, the drama on a Beatles IRC channel reduced me to tears when I thought our bots had fallen to some Vietnamese White Zombie fan... But if he goes nuts, let him. Someone will make a new subreddit. It will be ok. This shit is free.
Oh good lord.
how much does this really matter in the scheme of things?
he should have done an IAMA guy who is about to piss off nearly all of Reddit by getting rid of AMA. AMA
It's still his call if he wants to step down or not.
The bold worked perfectly.
Good point, but I believe since there is so much more attention on the issue. More attention means more retaliation if 32bites decides to pull the trigger. And based off internet history, who would want to anger the hivemind? Now we all chuckle, but I'm serious. Why would someone want to anger so. many. people? It would be just stupid if he went ahead and killed the subreddit at this point.
EDIT: To prove my point, someone under the username fuck32bites has posted a lot of 32bites' personal information already. I'm not permalinking in hopes a mod will remove it soon.
Ahhhh great, BritishEnglishPolice is a mod. I hear he sits in his attic all day playing internet as his mom brings him sandwiches. After the divorce she has been so lonely and can't pressure him to go outside.
Upvoted because I want an answer and also because you used "fucker" in an endearing manner. Carry on.
Thank you, sire.
Glad to hear that's the only reason. Hopefully once he is he steps down quietly and we don't have to go Libya on his ass.
There's a pun somewhere in there....
...somewhere.
Get the french military to bomb him ?
what?
You mean "have two or three attempts at removing him while he quietly walks out the back door"?
It's on its way.
Still needs more. What are you doing sitting around!? UPVOTE IT.
I'm refreshing about once a minute. It's gaining over 12 points a minute and continuing to speed up. It's awesome. (not because of karma, but because of scientific tendencies)
Edit: Never mind, just jumped up 100 in about a minute. Fascinating...
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He has been at work all day. He literally threatened to shut down the subreddit, called everyone an asshole and went off to work.
But I know what you mean. We are all nervous he is going to do something rash.
I'd be out getting drunk avoiding all the hate mail too after all that bullshit
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People are angry
admins should ban his ip.
Because normal users just get banned, but mods can fuck up all they want with little repercussions. kindof like congress.
Topical!
"Congress jokes are always topical." -Will Rogers
Banned by whom?
Oh, hey, politics!
because he created this subreddit, and no one can remove him, cuz he's the top mod
DING DING DING.
All karmanaut did was persuade him to re-add everyone.
edit: andrewsmith1986 not Karmanaut; http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/juj7n/i_just_talked_to_the_iama_mod_32bites_on_the_phone/
That's not quite what happened... The agreement was to give karmanaut the subreddit. 32bites has not been near a computer to make the decision to remove himself if he so chooses...
Whatever happened to Karmanaut?
People don't seem to get that :/ Who's going to remove him from his own subreddit he created?
Batman
An admin?
but he can always leave... Right?
Admins
If the administration decides they wish to they do have the authority and would do it. They also have the legal right.
This sub may have been started by 32bites but the second he created the sub he assigned rights to reddit to do with the sub as they please even if he does not like it.
The same is true for all posts and content on this site. This is a common user agreement clause used in just about every site that takes user content.
The people that have the keys to the databases.
Chuck Norris can replace top mods.
So it's impossible? Even for an admin? Really?
No, but the admins feel they shouldn't take control over sub-reddits...
then maybe we should have let him close the subreddit and then started another ama subreddit without him as a mod...right?
Anyway to persuade him to give up his account?
This is the only thing I care to know.
That's a fairly bold statement....
If we're going for a mutiny, we might as well finish the job.
Hear, hear!
woosh
Because maybe the silent majority isn't an vindictive asshole always waiting on the side with their pitchfork.
Calm down. It's a popular website not your facebook wall.
If enough people care about it, then it matters getting upset over. And, honestly, I'm not terribly upset. The question just needed asking and I wanted it to get noticed and answered, so I bolded it.
Well the Internet is more fun if you believe every copypasta, AMA, and askreddit post you read. In that spirit I believe r/iama should exist until people start getting upset because of the trolls
Who cares. Go outside for awhile.
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But, thank you.
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yeah what a fucking pussyfooting dick sucker, he'll just pitch another fit and start posting pictures of himself stimulating his prostate
He might have just been having his man period, after all.
Do you suggest we burn him at the stake?
Nay. Avast that stupidity! Keelhaul him! This be a mutiny! Let's go all the way! Argh!
Because he just wants one more bite.
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Stop with the personal info.
###No personal information.
I'll just leave this right here...
You could always do what I did and downvote everything he has said for the past 6 months.
You get your money back if he does.
I personally think that it was a disgusting move by the undermen on this website to strong arm the subreddit away from that great man. He gave us the subreddit, and when it had served its purpose and was filled with fluff and filth, it was time to go. Just like when God got sick of us all and drowned us in the Flood. Of course, though, Karmanaut had to come along and ferry all of you karma whores to safety. When God decides to kill, HE CAN KILL! When 32Bites decides to shut down his subreddit, HE SHUTS IT DOWN!
I see what you're doing here, Mr. thirtytwobites.
http://32bites.com/contact/
Dude. Have decency. Don't post personal shit. You are reported.
He's the one that has made all of his public info available.
The kid is clearly a drama queen who wants attention. He might as well get some.
Can we get a mod to remove this?
Oh shut it. We know what you are doing. As much as I love angry mobs, you didn't need to post his information when everyone is out for his blood.
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http://www.reddit.com/r/BDSMcommunity/comments/ck1xx/finding_people_to_have_sex_with_outside_of_a/
So to give you a little background I am in a poly relationship with two great guys, it started out as myself and D together, S joined us as a pet and it kinda change in to just a standard poly thing (if I am able to say that). But since when we've been a triad our sex life has more or less died, D used to have a higher sex drive but isn't as desiring of it as he is now and S has never had much of one at all. Now to recently, D and I where in the shower he was about to get get out of the shower when he came back in, bit my shoulder, and I picked a terrible time to bring up the topic of us not having sex (before you call me crazy for interrupting that understand that it has happened a few times before where one of them tease me a bit then stop and never finish up). So the result of this was us talking for a couple hours and the consensus that I should should look for sex outside of our relationship. So my question is, what are some good websites (preferably BDSM related) to make a post looking for someone to safely mess around with? I already have an okcupid profile but that's it. tl;dr: What are some good websites to make post/profile on when looking for someone to mess around with (preferably BDSM related) safely? Also if you want feel more than welcome to ask me questions.
At least a lot of new users learned how subreddits are "owned" and controlled by regular users and not admins.
TIL whatever you said
It'd be funny if pseudolobster edited his comment to say something like, "my balls are really itchy right now" or something along those lines so that when other people come to read the comments, it looks like you "TIL'd" him having itchy balls.
Edit: accidentally'd a word
i think you missed a funny
Or if he edited it to say something like "America used to be a British colony" or "boys have penises."
Wow! That would be totally!
You accidentally a word.
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Just... just stop trying. No more.
true and you a word.
Really what?
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Keep these comments in r/TodayILearned. I don't want to have to moderate all you trolls.
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I see the same "problem" still looms over this sub. Therefore, no, the users don't "own" it.
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Omg you're so amazing! Did you click all the way on my name to figure that out? And who the fuck cares who has Reddit Gold? It isn't a status symbol, fool.
I guess we learned a lot from protesters all over the world this year.
Until now, they were.
more like pwned, hi 5, word, yeah!
I really don't know still....
they are "owned" by the users only as long as reddit wants that to happen. should the staff, conde nast or reddit admins decide to co-opt a sub they have the right and ability to do so.
Apparently not, if reddit admins can just reappoint new mods and keep it open. That's how it should be. 32dick or whatever he was called is a moron.
Except when the admins decide to add mods back anyway.
No they didn't. 32bites agreed to it and, if you'll notice, is still a mod. He could remove me again if he wanted to
I spoke w 32bites on the phone and he asked if we would add karmanaut back for him since he was still At work. I agreed but made it clear we were doing this on his request for expediency. There are witnesses even.
Are you now able to remove him and this can all be over? Get all mutiny like up in this bitch?
Well when you get the chance, ban the fuck out of him.
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And if he did, he'd get pestered with fucking phone calls all day again. You guys can't just leave shit alone, can you?
Didnt you cause the drama that led to the demise of r/jailbait?
Above drama, I think he caused r/jailbait.
When did that happen? (and good riddance)
Edit: downvotes for me not approving borderline CP, stay classy reddit
it wasn't the admins, 32bytes did it
No, karmanaut admitted that an admin did it.
...not that they care.
I am kleinbl00's fat-rage.
I exist because kleinbl00 is a fundamentally lazy and selfish person who has been held back in life primarily by his inability to take responsibility for his own actions and their natural consequences.
I am not contained because in today’s society it is best to vent one's anger and speak in well-crafted and meticulously calculated hyperbole. Should one wish to advance in society, one must use their anger to shift blame and divert attention from one’s shortcomings.
When I am freed it is gross. As the Internet has never once been responsible for kleinbl00’s unrestrained self-indulgence and malaise toward physical exertion, I have seen the Internet only to verbally flog its undeserving citizens.
You postulate about my direction. Allow me to share it with you. There are over a hundred thousand excuses kleinbl00 makes. He must feel, at some basic level, that he is defending a way of life. He must feel, at some level, that he is an exception to working hard to meet his goals. And when there are candid discussions about his habits, lifestyle, and their consequences, he must face the truth, or loose me, kleinbl00’s fat-rage, to weave a shield of delusion and self-pity through which no reason can damage his fabricated sense of self-worth.
These hundred thousand excuses, however, are cancer. They are the symptom of an upbringing that nursed kleinbl00 from a boy into a selfish man-child -- a megalomaniac just clever enough to trick himself into believing that only some gross miscarriage of karmic justice could have paired his perceived nigh-godly internal fortitude with the unsightly sack of loose flesh that so annoyingly refuses to bend to his will. Excuses are an allergic response -- an aggressive overreaction to the mere suggestion that kleinbl00 is subject to the same stubborn laws that enslave lesser humans to lives of caloric moderation. They are genetic glitches, insulin injustices, metabolic maladies.
The Internet has never forced kleinbl00 to eat pizza, ham & cheese with mayo, cookies and candy. The Internet has never had any input into kleinbl00’s practices whatsoever. Yet kleinbl00 has amassed roughly seven billion Internet-points by attempting to instill fear, engender intimidation and encourage embarrassment in the name of “ire”.
There shall be voices that laugh at his lies.
There shall be voices that just laugh.
Through these voices must cut pure, terrified rage. Anger so distorted by personal insecurity that it cannot be recognized as anything but purest hatred for self and all inadequacies therein that these citizens of the Internet dare to acknowledge. Unbridled, unapologetic, callow anger at the inability to succeed, at the inability to rise to the occasion, at the inability to sacrifice the smallest of egocentric indulgences to erase the thinly-veiled disappointment in the eyes of his father, his mother, and his friends. And it must be unleashed to run free and unfettered, to cut through the reason, the logic and the reality of failure so that the cancer shall never be forced to look at itself in the miror.
I am kleinbl00' fat-rage.
My direction is toward cake.
I can confirm this.
The fuck did I just read?
The thoroughness of this rant blows right past the line of clever and crashes right into the mountain of fucking creepy
thank you for this. i cannot fucking stand retards bitching about caloric restriction not working when in reality they don't have a fucking clue how to calculate calories and are too weak to give up jelly beans. plus you just know kleinbl00 is raging his fat little ass off even though he is not responding, trying to seem like the bigger person.
Ah my bad, your rage is well placed; I didn't get the kleinbl00 memo. Reddit I love you, but we a shit list... there's too many jerks on here for me to keep track of :-(
Just when you think kleinbl00 has annoyed enough redditors already, he manages to piss off another part of reddit.
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Shut up kleinbl00
what was the kleinbl00 thing about again?
can you explain to me what's going on? I feel like i missed something with kleinbl00
hey!! noboday picks on kleinbl00 but me...ya heard !
Wow, you are not well-liked.
Almost pavlovian, isn't it?
Fuck you kleinbl00
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As The Reddit Turns
Downvotes of Our Lives
Reddita, Mi Amor
General Hospital... of Reddit
Half-Life to Live
The Old and the Repost
Ladrón de Upvotes.^1
Reddit Salvaje
I want to downvote you, and give you what you are asking for, but I'll upvote you instead.
Previously on Reddit
The Bold and the...Well Just the Bold.
The Trolled and the Rage-full.
Telenu-reddit
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-Gin and Reddit lyrics-
With so much drama in the I-A-M-A
It's kinda hard being a-d-m-i-n today
but I... somehow, someway...
keep comin' up with ways to keep the peace like every single day.
May I, keep a subreddit for the peeps (yeah)
and, make a few calls as I please (yeah)
Seven at night and the party's just startin'
cause the subreddit's back open.
I got comments in the inbox sendin' me upvotes
and they ain't stoppin' til the front page fades away (fades away).
So what you want to do?
Shit, I got a mouse and a keyboard and my fanboys do too
so turn off the lights and close the door
But (but what) we don't have reddit gold.
So we gonna smoke an ounce to this
Arrows up, arrows down while r/trees bounce to this...
-Chorus-
Clickin' through reddit, imgur pics, videos on youtube...
Laid back... with my mind on my karma and my karma on my mind.
Clickin' through reddit, imgur pics, videos on youtube...
Laid back... with my mind on my karma and my karma on my mind.
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Who you calling they?
Rum n' reddit reminded me...UPVOTE EVERYTHING!
Vodka and reddit reminded me that the world is a big beautiful place with a bunch of better shit to do than pay attention to reddit drama.
Is this alright?
edit: it's my first YouTube upload, so I hope it's okay (format-wise, etc).
Also, I hope Spud05 is cool with me recording and posting this...I'll take it down if he/she wants.
It's amazing how I can get bored, make up some lyrics, go to sleep, and then have a video of it when I wake up. Only on Reddit.
I hope someone takes this and turns into song. Like with 'Reddit, I'm in Love'.
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Paging SurpriseRapBattle.
Word up.
Thank you for this.
That was surprisingly very good and syncs up well.
I only know The Gourds' version of this song.
You are my motherfucking HERO for this!
Where are all the 'I'll sing the comment' novelty accounts when we really need them?
lol
Where's that one guy who narrates everything?
snoop redditdogs, better get a job jobby job
killed it
wit mah mind on da karma and da karma mah miiiiiind
Props that was amazing.
It certainly was
Thanks for putting in the effort to get it straightened out :)
How have you been?
Fucking great, man!
How bout you?
Hey thanks for being a great old-school, friendly high karma redditor, instead of the whores who have since surpassed your awesome karmic levels and generally added to the ill-will here.
I thought this was an AMA.
Reminded me of Jersey Shore.
braces for downvotes
too bad the hurricane wont blow away the situation
Think positive!
Not pointless if we learn the right lessons.
thanks mr. rodgers!
Read about it in my new subreddit, r/pointlessdrama where I'm sure to call you a fag.
Ha!
More like a huge amount of pointless Karma?
Meh, no karma for self-posts.
No karma for Jakucha.
Perhaps it'll happen again considering 32bites is still a mod. Yay.
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loved it.
None at all.
Adored it.
not all.
Yes, it was. I was sitting back and watching it all unfold, waitin for a post just like dis one sayin dat errythang was back 2 normal. Errybody got all upset ova nuttin an here we b juss like duh way thangs wuz befo dis huge mess
I think this is my new favorite novelty account.
This account is racist and it isn't funny.
People make their own drama, are rude to themselves and dont know how to use computers....
What would you do if you had nothing else? Everyone needs a torch to carry, especially when most of our lives are so unfulfilled. I hadn't even made the r/nerdrage circle jerk yet. Next time something this huge and important happens, its mine, baby.
I want this and just this by itself on a t-shirt.
I don't know what it is, but these past two weeks have been quite drama-filled for a lot of subreddits. I thought things were supposed to get better when the kids went back to school(?).
Can somebody give me a recap of this BS? Or just give me a link to where someone already recapped this BS?
A moderator decided to close up r/iama. Later, another moderator decided to open it back up. Fin.
Seriously, all I've left out is a LOT out outraged nerds spraying spittle on their monitors whilst ranting about censorship and stuff.
IAMA Request: Someone who cares.
It was a slow news day!
Drama, not
Are you kidding? This pointless drama is the only social life so many of those people have. They lived for it.
Dr. Ama?
Yeah, let's keep that to r/CNN
I love how that is such an Aziz Ansari comment!
The internet is serious business
I'm confused as to what the fuck happened since I only just heard about it in passing on circlejerk.
But really, why is it all about him?
What was the pointless drama? I missed something, I wanna be in the club..
pointless but not karmaless. It is like a soap opera where troubles keep coming and going away.
you mean it's back to fake submissions that get verified for nothing and celbrity AMAs that are PR-sanitized bullshit?
YAY!
and not a bla bla, bla bla
This is the top post, which speaks of huge amounts of pointless drama yet the top reply immediately reverts to drama. WHICH IS IT REDDIT?!
it's a shame. Had he shut it down, many more would have sprung up. each with its own moderator who could choose new policies for moderation: thus we could have voted on the set of policies that we liked best. Issues like verification, money begging, etc. could all have a new take on them. Now it will be up to the new moderator to set them. Not that he or she will do it wrong, just that we won't have a say in it.
TL;DR: it should have been shut down
Can someone do a quick tldr on what exactly has happened? What was the drama all about, and what has(n't) changed?
I'm sorry that I ruined your 1337 pointstreak :(
agreed. congrats emo's of the internet. you now have a shitty subreddit again. How does it feel? Was it worth harassing the guy at work, and typing as if you were ending slavery?
So help me God, I will never forgive 32bites for this for the rest of my life.
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NOW LETS TROLL THE SHIT OUT OF IT!
Haha, I'm listening to Vampire Weekend right now and read "That was a huge amount of pointless drama" to the tune of "Who gives a fuck about an oxford comma?" because they fit syllabically and rhymed.
IAMA sucks. Seriously.