| >"Power" moderators, that is people who moderate a large number of subreddits, are untenable. At least you know it's just one person, spread across multiple contexts. I had a string of unusual behaviors when I ran /u/dontbenebby, culminating in being involuntarily being made the moderator of several Snapchat related subreddits around the time that Reddit let you view analytics and things I was posting were getting six or seven figure views as I dodged literal assassination attempts every time I tried to take a peaceful walk in the woods. For context, I was (in)famous for not logging IPs, or even numbers of pageviews as far back as when I dropped that Facebook zero day on my blog and virtually planted myself in the middle of the protests against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and then went on to lecture class full of CMU students they should use strong anonymity tools and careful opsec if organizing protests in oppressive regimes like Tehran or Times Square as I threw up an image of a dead protester on the screen. I meant what I said then, and I mean it now. And maybe I spoke offline with whoever made me the moderator of a subreddit I never visited, for an application I have never used? In that case, let's share it with the whole class the three core points my art was intended to drive home: 1.) They are going to nuke Penn Quarter, not Pittsburgh. 2.) It is not my problem if you drop dead of a heart attack because you fucked around and found out. 3.) I am an alumni -- that means I can do whatever I want. Anyways, I'm off to read a book and "do email". Cheers!! - Greg. |