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There's a summary here https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/r45a5n/here_is_the_evidence_that_reddit_user_maxwellhill/ https://old.reddit.com/r/conspirac

There's a summary here https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/r45a5n/here_is_the_evidence_that_reddit_user_maxwellhill/ https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/r45a5n/here_is_... But of course, it's a link to /r/conspiracy and as such is tainted, but stopped clocks and all that

ZeroGravitas 4y ago
Not particularly convincing, they seem just more like the kind of person you'd expect to be a reddit admin, i.e. a dodgy pedo incel male somewhat in the same area as /u/violentacrez (summary here for those unfamiliar: https://www.gawker.com/5950981/unmasking-reddits-violentacrez-the-biggest-troll-on-the-web https://www.gawker.com/5950981/unmasking-reddits-violentacre...). > I befriended a Korean pastor and his wife (long story there) where I live and we would meet occassionally for dinner. > One day he asked if I could help teach some of his "students" conversational English. I didn't realise that he meant adults undergoing intensive training in Korea and abroad as missionaries for posting to other parts of the world. I thought he meant local teenagers who wanted to be more conversant in English - pronunciation, diction etc > So I volunteered. So, if people start looking for reddit accounts that mention maxwell and dodgy stuff, I can see why they'd stop posting.
- phpnode 4y ago
  I think part of the reason this gets so easily dismissed is that people still see reddit as a quaint little internet message board rather than an influential mainstream juggernaut that reaches half a billion people every month. That account is/was enormously powerful, with the ability to determine which stories reached the frontpage and which didn't. That makes it politically and financially very valuable, and I don't think someone would just give up that because of association with Maxwell when they could have just posted a single comment saying "I am not Ghislaine Maxwell" and everyone would have forgotten about it.

ZeroGravitas 4y ago

Not particularly convincing, they seem just more like the kind of person you'd expect to be a reddit admin, i.e. a dodgy pedo incel male somewhat in the same area as /u/violentacrez (summary here for those unfamiliar: https://www.gawker.com/5950981/unmasking-reddits-violentacrez-the-biggest-troll-on-the-web https://www.gawker.com/5950981/unmasking-reddits-violentacre...). > I befriended a Korean pastor and his wife (long story there) where I live and we would meet occassionally for dinner. > One day he asked if I could help teach some of his "students" conversational English. I didn't realise that he meant adults undergoing intensive training in Korea and abroad as missionaries for posting to other parts of the world. I thought he meant local teenagers who wanted to be more conversant in English - pronunciation, diction etc > So I volunteered. So, if people start looking for reddit accounts that mention maxwell and dodgy stuff, I can see why they'd stop posting.

phpnode 4y ago
I think part of the reason this gets so easily dismissed is that people still see reddit as a quaint little internet message board rather than an influential mainstream juggernaut that reaches half a billion people every month. That account is/was enormously powerful, with the ability to determine which stories reached the frontpage and which didn't. That makes it politically and financially very valuable, and I don't think someone would just give up that because of association with Maxwell when they could have just posted a single comment saying "I am not Ghislaine Maxwell" and everyone would have forgotten about it.