This is going to be a long read, and I'm not exactly sure where to begin. The gist of the story is that I made some anti-white comments, and the result was that a few generally racist subreddits flipped out about it.
Part 1:
It all started on this thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/8wa7xt/black_us_politician_reported_to_police_while/
It was screaming up toward /r/all, and I knew that it would turn into a shitshow, but I didn't have time to babysit it, so I just locked it. Normally we remove threads where "white person calls the cops on black person for doing something mundane" because it just happens so often, but today I decided to let it go and just lock the thread with a sticky comment designed to piss off people who would be pissed off by that sort of thing.
It's currently removed because we had a minor spat among a few of the mods about the appropriateness of it.
https://i.imgur.com/fe7EcBF.png
If you want to take a break from Reddit, this type of comment is known as "punching up" or taking aim at those in an advantaged social position in order to highlight injustices against those in a disadvantaged social position. (Obviously this is written from an American perspective. Breitbart says that whites are being rounded up by the truckload in Africa, but I don't know anything about that.) The idea being to try kind of a "let's see how you like it" or "think about what this feels like" at people who might normally act that way toward those who are in the socially disadvantaged group. This entire situation was an exercise in "punching up". Making fun of rich people, white people, men, able-bodied, cis-gender people, Reddit moderators, etc could all be seen as "punching up" if done properly.
There's a lot discussion about "punching up" in terms of comedy and satire, but here are a few articles I found after a small amount of Googling:
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Punching_up
https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2016/03/08/punching-up-punching-down/
https://www.buzzfeed.com/scaachikoul/why-punching-down-will-never-be-funny
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Punch%20Up (2nd definition)
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2014/07/21/never-punch-down/
Some people will argue that whites are not socially advantaged, and in fact it's the other way around. The idea isn't necessarily that white people are handed extra benefits (as though we're getting a $50 a week stipend just for being white or something) it's more that the door isn't held shut against us just because of the color of our skin. Maybe one could say that there aren't as many hurdles in general.
Denying white privilege might be like the kid of the rich family saying that he got into those good schools on his own merits, or that he deserves that Porsche they bought him. I'm not going to link much here as I know this conversation has taken place a lot already, so I'm probably not going to change anyone's mind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_privilege
http://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf
But the fact of the matter is that black people are incarcerated at a higher rate, get fewer job opportunities, and are given poorer grades all influenced by the color of their skin and the biases of others. They're more likely to be followed by a security guard in a store. This is all a result of slavery, Jim Crowe laws, and other institutional/systemic racism that still has effects today. They're less likely to see themselves represented in the media or in leadership roles. This might be an interesting thread to read:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3audi2/black_people_of_reddit_what_is_the_most_overt_or/
This is what black people deal with in real life. White people aren't being oppressed as a result of some dude on the internet calling them "mayo".
So then because of the comment/lock, several threads were created:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/8wbitf/rnottheonion_mod_locks_thread_to_prevent/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/8wcw1b/rnottheonion_mods_lock_thread_to_keep_white/
https://www.reddit.com/r/redacted/comments/8wckvu/mod_of_rnottheonion_locks_posts_to_keep_white/
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeAnarchy/comments/8wb50v/rnottheonion_mod_breaks_down_and_locks_post/
https://www.reddit.com/r/sjwhate/comments/8wxx2b/reddit_supermoderator_n8thegr8_rpics_rtifu_raww/
https://www.reddit.com/r/TumblrInAction/comments/8wzexr/well_would_you_look_at_that/
Our modmail on /r/nottheonion was also completely flooded for over a day, here's a sample:
https://i.imgur.com/UNRc6iV.png
Part 2:
The comment generated a lot of controversy, so I knew it had a good chance of winning the sitewide daily Inciteful Comment award. (You can see the daily awards here: www.reddit.com/awards).
Sure enough, it won. I got a notification on /r/reddittrophies, a very small fairly inactive subreddit that I created for the purpose of tracking the sitewide awards, since the admins don't keep any public record. I was still getting PMs, so to test whether or not people were still watching my profile, I left a comment in response to the award notification:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditTrophies/comments/8wjvl4/5_july_2018/e1vzpa4/
As expected, people started pouring in. I locked the thread with another comment similar to the one from the previous day:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditTrophies/comments/8wjvl4/5_july_2018/e1weln6/
Shortly after this, I was informed that my profile had been linked on voat.co. I found these two threads:
https://www.voat.co/v/MeanwhileOnReddit/2623188
https://www.voat.co/v/MeanwhileOnReddit/2621589
As well as several more on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeAnarchy/comments/8wszac/this_faggot_just_keeps_on_giving/
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeAnarchy/comments/8wtd3q/reddit_powermod_creating_a_subreddit_to_give/
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/8wsgc8/super_racist_power_mod/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/8wujtg/power_mod_neckbeard_un8thegr8_back_at_it_again/
Over the course of this whole thing, I had several comments brigaded as well:
https://www.reddit.com/r/thanosdidnothingwrong/comments/8vxsbn/ban_mega_thread/e1rw9t2/
Part 3
PMs and userpings were still rolling into my inbox. I wanted to submit a post to /r/ideasfortheadmins about tagging white Redditors, but that's a serious subreddit, and I figured they'd probably ban me. Instead, I was given the idea to post to /r/IFTAcirclejerk, which is a spinoff subreddit and not so serious. It hadn't had any posts in a year, only has 30 subscribers, says in the sidebar that it's a joke subreddit, and would be blatantly obvious that if anyone else showed up in the thread, a brigade was occurring:
As I write this, the thread has almost 8 thousand views, the top comment has over 1 thousand upvotes, and people are still leaving new comments on the thread, most of them racist. One of the mods told me that the thread was reported almost 200 times. My only comment in the thread has almost 500 downvotes. As a result, people went absolutely ballistic, and many new threads were spawned. At this point the timeline gets a little hazy for me, since it's harder to figure out what people are responding to, but I saved threads as I found them:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeAnarchy/comments/8wuzrj/this_fag_is_just_ridiculous/
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/8wt9oy/this_powermod_in_control_of_many_popular/
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheNewRight/comments/8wzj3b/you_cant_make_this_stuff_up/
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeAnarchy/comments/8x77ca/un8thegr8/
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeAnarchy/comments/8x2vet/this_is_a_reddit_supermod_rpics_raww_rtifu/
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/8wu50k/mod_of_rpics_just_being_a_racist/
https://www.reddit.com/r/subredditcancer/comments/8wwolm/moderator_of_several_dozens_subs_including/
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/8wzhhl/this_dudes_a_mod_on_rpics/
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeAnarchy/comments/8wvqay/hmmmm/
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeAnarchy/comments/8wvpyt/this_guy/
/r/cringeanarchy actually posted a lot more about it than I linked here, but I think there's a character limit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/8wwfnj/cringeanarchy_gets_their_tendies_rustled_over_the/
People also started spamming modmail on many of the subreddits I moderate.
This guy (among others) posted to almost every subreddit I moderate, and even confused a few subs where I don't:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DadReflexes/comments/8wwvjn/un8thegr8_a_moderator_of_this_subreddit_is_an/
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/8wyab6/i_posted_the_recent_evidence_of_the_power_mod/
Part 4
I decided to take things over to my personal subreddit, which is about the size of IFTACJ. I just use the sub to test automoderator code, CSS, and save things I want to use for later. It seemed like a good spot to do whatever I wanted so that modmail spam on other subreddits would be (hopefully) minimized.
First I posted these two threads, just to keep things going on the other subs:
https://www.reddit.com/r/N8theGr8/comments/8wyzfr/lol_what_a_white/
https://www.reddit.com/r/N8theGr8/comments/8x1mrb/whites_irl/
(That lock comment is at -350 votes as I type this)
Sure enough, they got linked elsewhere:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeAnarchy/comments/8x3aby/such_a_cunt/
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeAnarchy/comments/8x3gvn/these_are_the_mods_of_reddit/
Since they're still posting, I keep posting:
https://www.reddit.com/r/N8theGr8/comments/8x5vyq/by_request_things_white_people_smell_like_not/
https://www.reddit.com/r/N8theGr8/comments/8xfc9v/by_request_things_white_people_are_good_at/
Reaction:
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/8xc5dg/what_is_happening_with_the_moderator_of_major/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitRedditSays/comments/8x7j4n/i_suppose_when_your_greatest_technological/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/8x9xgo/un8thegr8_for_rdrama_mod/
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeAnarchy/comments/8x69t8/for_what_its_worth_he_didnt_bite/
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeAnarchy/comments/8x1ckl/this_is_a_real_person/
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeAnarchy/comments/8wzppu/the_ultimate_cringe/
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeAnarchy/comments/8x6zze/probably_a_troll_but_this_guys_a_prick/
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeAnarchy/comments/8x3f75/political_humour_mods_defend_n8thegr8/
They also turned my personal sub into some kind of pro-Trump/shitposting sub: https://i.imgur.com/kJmJHu6.png
Here are all the PMs I got over the course of this:
https://i.imgur.com/q4V4pRw.png
https://i.imgur.com/zAVuMIF.png
I thought this comment pretty well embodied it overall: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheNewRight/comments/8wzj3b/you_cant_make_this_stuff_up/e23cffl/
edit It got removed, here's a screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/5ZKX5m7.png
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People were also going over my history in an attempt to actually doxx me, and I was getting comments on everything up to and including 4-month-old posts.
Part 1: The Creation of Ban
/r/TheBanout2018 has been at the forefront of the reddit metasphere recently. The origin of this sub is due to several things. Mostly the recent rising popularity of /u/saferbot (a bot which will auto-ban users on one subreddit for participating on another subreddit) and due to /r/drama excessively userpinging u/gallowboob.
u/ShaneH7646, the creator of r/TheBanout2018 created it on July 16, 2018 as a direct response to /r/drama userpinging u/gallowboob, just around the same time that GallowBoob had been added to the /r/drama mod team for a joke, and then kicked a day or two later.
/r/drama is obsessed with GallowBoob and basically just userping the hell out of him throughout a bunch of their threads, here are two examples:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/8zma7p/which_one_of_you_fags_modded_gallowboob/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/8zrrzo/to_wave_our_former_mod_goodbye_and_thank_him_for/
The stated purpose of the of the subreddit was to get a bunch of mods together, have them all add Saferbot to their subreddits, and ban everyone from /r/drama, as well as a few other subreddits like /r/milliondollarextreme and /r/the_donald. Here's the first version of the sidebar: https://i.imgur.com/te1VWY5.png
For about 6 weeks nothing happened, but then the subreddit got noticed.
Part 2: [note from editor - don't forget to add a title here]
For some reason, around Sep 1, 2018, the subreddit got noticed.
/r/drama - Thread 1 - Thread 2
/r/cringeanarchy - Thread1 - Thread2 - Thread3
At this point, the subreddit suddenly became active, and was flooded with posts.
https://i.imgur.com/SYZGAu9.png
Almost 100 posts were made before the subreddit was taken private by Shane with a plea for users to stop harassing GallowBoob. GallowBoob left the mod team at this time.
/r/Subredditcancer hopes that the Banout accomplishes its goals just to watch Reddit burn. Thread
Part 3: Intermission
For the time being, the banout2018 subreddit is private. Some of the banout mods continue to try to get Saferbot added to large subreddits while the rest of us tell them that this will never happen. Since this whole thing is tangentially related to GallowBoob, it seems relevant to mention that during all this, the admins had reached out to /r/drama about their insistent pinging of GallowBoob. The userbase has a minor revolt and keeps talking about him anyway, which is still construed as harassment. The /r/drama mods looked down to the userbase and whispered "Stop this!"... and the userbase looked up and shouted "No.". The /r/drama mods take the subreddit private to protect the subreddit from the admins.
/r/dramabutwithpinging is created so they can still ping /u/gallowboob, but it is quickly banned.
Tensions are high around Reddit as the specters of the admins loom. Threats of subreddit bans abound. Over the course of all of this, a few people have been PMing several of us about the nature of /r/TheBanout2018, and it seems that this event was playing into the idea behind the subreddit.
Part 4: This is where the fun begins
A few days later, I caught wind that /r/milliondollarextreme had been banned:
Having been wondering what we could possibly do with /r/TheBanout2018, I decided to try to paint this as a victory for the Banout: https://i.imgur.com/DbHy1N9.png
Nov 21 had been the drop-dead date from the beginning, but I felt that was too far away to push back any further, so I added the part about Halloween, and said that we were pushing back the date to the day we had actually originally stated.
I was already being slightly brigaded because of this thread so I volunteered to be the lightning rod for the subreddit.
I then re-opened /r/TheBanout2018 and posted a thread claiming victory: Thread Because the subreddit may or may not be private: https://i.imgur.com/wjJUSLQ.png
Over the course of the day, several more subreddits got banned. We added them all to the sidebar, and split up things into "phases" to make it seem like there was some sort of plan.
All the banned subreddits are shown here: https://i.imgur.com/w0gYQr3.png
/r/subredditcancer notices Thread 1 - Thread 2 - Thread 3
/r/cringeanarchy tries to turn themselves into a subreddit about tables - Thread1 - Thread 2 - Thread 3 - Thread 4 - Thread 5 - Thread 6
I got this userping for some reason, and I totally can't decipher it: https://i.imgur.com/i90scNu.png Something about sept 11, I'm not really sure.
/r/cringeanarchy, the subreddit which voted for me as "the guy we most want to call a fag during a Halo2 match" has a few more posts, and wish each other a fond farewell: Thread 1 - Thread 2 - Thread 3 - Thread 4 - Thread 5 - Thread 6
Someone notices that there is a petition to get me removed from Reddit. Could this be their Hail Mary play?
/r/cringeanarchy had been banning users who were posting tables, but then collect their wits and begin offering amnesty - Thread
Part 5: Qristallnacht
A couple days later, and everyone's refractory period has ended. It's time to ban some more subs.
I notice that /r/GreatAwakening has been banned. It hadn't been in the sidebar at all yet, so I added it under "Phase 3" and pretended that it was part of the plan all along.
It's been long enough that I decide that I can get away with making another /r/TheBanout2018 post - Thread - https://i.imgur.com/gklBNFs.png
We even included a Straw Poll so that we could have more group participation: https://i.imgur.com/Pgi56j1.png
Since there had also been a lot of interest in the subreddit recently, I had created an automod rule which required all titles and comments to read "I fully support banout 2018". I'm glad it was there, because everyone descended upon the subreddit like a swarm of locusts from that one really long book that had the guy who kept turning water into wine.
/r/cringeanarchy - Thread - Thread 2
/r/conspiracy - Thread 1 - Thread 2
/r/sjwhate also got banned a while later - SRD thread
/r/cringeanarchy doles out some lumps with fresh memes: Thread 1 - Thread 2
The Conclusion
Well at the end of the day, the admins decided that enough was enough, and we were causing too much of a problem across Reddit. They stepped in and told /r/theBanout2018 to knock it the fuck off. This modmail has already been leaked elsewhere, so I don't see the harm in releasing it here as well. I redacted the names of people who asked to be redacted, as well as the name of the admin(s? hmm? more than 1? who knows): https://i.imgur.com/m69CteE.png
Here's what the sidebar looked like by the end of it: https://i.imgur.com/5VXePo1.png
As is tradition, here are some of the modmails we got. They ranged from completely abusive, to pleading that we not ban their favorite subreddit, asking that we ban [X,Y,Z] subreddits, to giants lists of subreddits for us to ban. There were far too many for me to really go through and find any of the really good ones, so I was kinda lazy about it:
https://i.imgur.com/gmoX3kp.png
https://i.imgur.com/OjoKUP6.png
At one point we were being flooded with posts, but fortunately AutoModerator was working around the clock to sling the chains of oppression. Here are a few examples:
https://i.imgur.com/EUQFz3q.png
https://i.imgur.com/EbUcMhH.png
https://i.imgur.com/xR6rpMq.png
I have a Change.org petition stickied to my profile to get me removed from reddit. Someone created it a few weeks ago and I thought it was funny. Someone must have linked to it from somewhere, because I suddenly started getting comments on it - Thread
And finally, the PMs I got along the way, the friends I met, the laughs and cries we shared: https://i.imgur.com/Nf6zTns.png
Two of those subreddits are banned:
Also several are quarantined.
How stale is some of this data?
Wendy's did National Roast Day ( https://stayhipp.com/media/twitter-trending/wendys-viral-roast-me-tweet-nationalroastday/ ) which was crazy popular and drove some traffic back to r/RoastMe
did that have anything to do with /r/roastme though? seems to me that it was just more of a viral ad campaign to get more people to come to Wendy's by offering Frosties at the end of the whole ordeal.
This guy is almost there. No one is saying that "white privilege" is the only form of privilege. Some forms dominate other forms, especially at an individual level.
Keep up the good work, and report these when you see them. We've been getting hit with a wave of repost bots over the past week.
That's my work! What the hell happened? Wish I was a little more savvy with Reddit. I love it here!
Just a wave of bots stealing work that was popular at one point, and trying to pass it off as their own.
Then they try to sell the account at some point down the road for spam or vote manipulation.
I think this was the first one.
Looks like it might be.
This one is currently on the front page:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PrequelMemes/comments/ae3q1h/bless_you_james/
Here are a few more examples:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PrequelMemes/comments/adzl71/are_you_threatening_me_master_jedi/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PrequelMemes/comments/ae06qg/bless_you_natalie/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PrequelMemes/comments/ae3prc/george_is_always_watching/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PrequelMemes/comments/ae3h97/bless_you_liam/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PrequelMemes/comments/adzqkd/bless_you_jake/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PrequelMemes/comments/ae4gjk/one_might_say_he_was_just_an_indie_filmmaker/
I know. There's not even one tentacle
idk I thought the whole point was that there were 2 tentacles
now I don't know what to believe, i'm so conflicted
2Supermods are even worse. The ones the mod 100s of subs. How much time do you think they spend on each sub they "moderate"?
Imagine being so pathetic you have to try and control other people's views.
Exactly. Like u/phedre, for example.
edit Downvotes? wow, talk about some censorship. thanks reddit.
If you install the /r/toolbox browser plugin, it can do this.
/u/therainbowrandolph and /u/agd504, the reposting OP is likely just a hacked or sold account using a script/bot to repost old stuff. They're all over the place on Reddit.
What’s the actual name for this type of beetle? Is it a stag?
Yeah, it's just a stag beetle.
Can we please have u/N8theGr8 and all his ilk (openly bigoted and abusive powermods) permanently banned from the site?
This is a moderator of an 'ironic' race-hate subreddit r/mayo_town whose alternate-target version r/coontown has been banned, but his own merely quarantined for some reason? This is the architect of r/thebanout2018.
Why are you tolerating this open and flagrant moderator abuse? Ban these clowns. Every mod participant in r/thebanout2018, for starters. They aren't needed. They don't do any good at all for this site.
Ok, serious question here:
What do you think that r/thebanout2018 did, was, or accomplished? Why are you using that specifically as an example of why I should be removed?
Since you're speaking to an admin right now, do you think they're unaware of TheBanout?
Is that where you temporarily petitioned to rid reddit of all grandmas
How did you even see this before I fixed that typo
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Sounds like mods would/should be hired to work full time and curate that content
My dream to move out of my parents' basement could finally be fulfilled
But don't pretend they don't exist.
The amount of admin tickets + mod actions we take daily against spam (fake accounts and fake votes to be sold, just google it) is frankly depressing at times. Admins are responsive, but it's like no matter what we do we can't leave a dent in that nefarious noise.
Users like u/abrownn and u/N8theGr8 are awesome at countering spam. I learned a lot on how to spot a spam rings or comment copying bots through them.
The point is we can't really know for sure unless they are bad at their job.
That's a good point too. Especially if their purpose is to pass it as organic posting. If the individuals are identified though they can be prosecuted.
(fake accounts and fake votes to be sold, just google it)
This is the current state of spam on Reddit. Most automated "streamer" stuff gets killed by Reddit's internal anti-spam measures. We have to deal with everything that's left, and the bots that try to appear human in order to sell off are the most ingrained in the site right now.
Here's one I spotted a few days ago that had made it to the front page:
Here's a primer on bots that I wrote for /r/theoryofreddit 2 years ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/42mkxv/bots_on_reddit_that_try_to_appear_human/
They're hard to spot, but they seem to prefer to use Imgur, and they tend to stick to the defaults and larger subreddits.
Most of the mods are sensitive a holes as well unfortunately
I mod r/aww and this is true.
Beyond being sensitive a holes, though, there's also only so much we can really do, especially since fewer of us are available on the weekends.
Here's the thread in question:
https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/a8lydt/caught_this_guy_trying_to_steal_my_yogurt
We removed a bunch of comments which were actively insulting or trying to witch hunt the OP. People were going back into OP's threads that were weeks old, and I had to lock a few to get them to stop.
They were going into other subreddits as well, which is entirely beyond our ability to do anything about.
Our modmail was flooded with people trying to get him banned, and the submission had about 550 reports on it, which is a huge number for reports.
Once the pitchfork mob gets rolling, it's hard to stop it with anything other than just putting your head down and waiting it out. Unfortunately this guy deleted his account instead.
Okay, so maybe he's telling the truth or whatever, but damn that's a horrible picture no matter how you slice it. Death grip on the kitten, sad face covered in yogurt, open yogurt on the floor. I'm surprised it got so many upvotes.
Here's what I was trying to explain to people in modmail:
You can only see 2 still frames from the event. If it were a video then we would probably have much more relevant information, but it's really easy to jump to conclusions based on insufficient information.
As far as the grip goes, it's impossible to gauge exactly how much force he was exerting. It could be an extremely gentle hold, it could have been very tight, but you can't tell that from just those 2 photos. Also if you look very closely, you can see that the top finger is across the kitten's upper chest and not its throat.
Its facial expression is obscured by the yogurt, and there's kind of a pareidolia sort of effect going on. Similarly to Batman looking like he's angrily scowling all the time even though it's just a mask.
Any number of things could have happened, and the title really came off as more of a joke to me, given their history of posting cats and kittens that appeared to be well cared for.
I also think it's entirely plausible that a recently born animal, still adjusting to its body could have mistakenly shoved its own face into its food; hell, my own daughter used to do it all the time when she was a baby.
It's a banned subreddit.
What are you trying to do? I don't recognize this dialog box.
Did you mod there?
Not banned, quarantined.
No, it was not me.
It's banned
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Thank you for the well sourced reply!
OP is just a spambot burner account to build karma and sell off as quickly as possible.
Out of curiosity, how large do you think that market is?
It must be large enough to make it worth their while, because I spot several of these accounts almost every day.
If you just google it, there are sites out there about buying/selling reddit accounts, and buying/selling upvotes, so I assume it's for that. There was even a post to /r/videos maybe a year ago about how a guy spent maybe a thousand dollars or so to get their youtube video upvoted to the front page.
I think he spent less than a hundred dollars:
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/6osp4h/guy_buys_upvotes_on_rvideos_gets_to_front_page/
Yeah, maybe. All I remember at the time was thinking that it was a stupidly large amount of money to spend just to get something to the front page.
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Apparently the only way to clear submission flair is to switch to new.reddit and use the "clear selection" button on the flair dropdown now.
I guess this is a new change in the past few days, anyone else notice this?
Users could block themselves on the settings page
Lol. What did that look like, was there any real effect?
That’s kinda a dick move for an off duty cop to pay you down.
Probably why OP got off with just a warning instead of getting arrested. I doubt an off duty cop is supposed to be patting anyone down or really doing much of anything related to their job.
edit Yeah, I misread the OP, looks like they actually got arrested by an off-duty cop. I didn't even know that was legal.
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