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>Why did it take so long to deal with characters like violentacrez? He wasn't dealt with. He deleted his account in a frantic and futile attempt to avoid expos
by Zuider 11y ago
>Why did it take so long to deal with characters like violentacrez?
He wasn't dealt with. He deleted his account in a frantic and futile attempt to avoid exposure.
Violentacres/Violentacrez (had to block him twice) set himself up as king of the reddit underworld. The admins cast a blind eye to his antics, and in return he prevented the raw sewage from gushing onto the clean streets of the reddit front page.
He was a troll from the start, and deliberately so, even in his choice of username which he had stolen from a popular blogger at the time. This illustrates the kind of brinkmanship that was his trademark - it is not quite impersonation to steal someone else's anonymous handle, but it is not quite ethical either.
His one good point was that he kept the other reddit trolls busy via interminable (literally) troll-fights.
- vehementi 11y agoWait, who is right, you or danielweber above?
- Excavator 11y agoIn so far as I can remember he had good relations with many on the staff and even ended up with a special icon next to his username. The /r/SubredditDrama posts in regards to the incident are correct as I remember it: Part I - violentacrez: https://archive.is/7ygdr https://archive.is/7ygdr Part II - CreepShots: https://archive.is/8AVd8 https://archive.is/8AVd8 Part 2 above ends with a link to VAs alleged last comments with an alt: http://i.imgur.com/E8fCA.png http://i.imgur.com/E8fCA.png
- remarkEon 11y agoWow, guess I somehow missed this dramafest.
- jsmthrowaway 11y agoThe special icon was subreddit CSS added most likely by himself. Give me five minutes and a subreddit and I'll make your username 72px. The admins didn't bless him with a flag at any time. It's a common meme that violentacrez was "special," had some kind of sway with the admins beyond any other moderator, received instruction from the admins that was unique and not the usual ban threats that many subs get in modmail, and so on. Most people who say these things heard it from someone else, because the actual story is that he was barely tolerated. He even says so himself in your linked thread. I don't get the elevation of violentacrez to something special. I see it a lot (friendly with the admins! The admins asked him to help with creepshots! it's all over this thread) and I don't get it. He was a power mod. So are hundreds of others. There are a bunch of Reddit yarns that put the Kubrick lunar landing to shame; some of them are making an appearance in this thread.
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- nailer 11y ago> He wasn't dealt with. He deleted his account in a frantic and futile attempt to avoid exposure. Doxxing is doxxing. It doesn't become 'exposure' when people you like do it.
- Zuider 11y ago>Doxxing is doxxing. I meant that the reddit admins didn't 'deal with' Violentacrez. Chen doxxed him, destroying his career, despite the full knowledge that Violentacrez had innocent dependants who would also be hurt badly. If Violentacrez deserved to be 'punished', then whatever punishment was meted out should have fallen exclusively on him. >It doesn't become 'exposure'. Bad choice of words. I intended the term in a literal sense, not a judgemental one. It was revolting how Chen made Violentacrez crawl in the false hope he could salvage some part of his livelihood. >...when people you like do it. I dislike the people who doxxed Violentacrez very much. I disagree with the use of doxxing as a tactic.