The head moderator of that subreddit was violentacrez aka Michael Brutsch, a troll prolific to have articles about him in The Guardian [1], The Atlantic, [2], a

The head moderator of that subreddit was violentacrez aka Michael Brutsch, a troll prolific to have articles about him in The Guardian [1], The Atlantic, [2], and The Verge [3] among others. It's well within the realm of possibility that he added spez as a joke. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/oct/16/reddit-violentacrez-gawker-expose https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/oct/16/reddit-vi... [2] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/what-was-reddit-troll-violentacrez-thinking/263648/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/what-... [3] https://www.theverge.com/2012/10/18/3523434/violentacrez-michael-brutsch-apologizes-cnn https://www.theverge.com/2012/10/18/3523434/violentacrez-mic...