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I really wish people would stop posting about this most recent bout of reddit drama on HN. Are people not noticing that every article so far has been deleted?
Huh. I didn't view this as a Reddit vs. HN elitism post. I viewed it as a solid example of the inherent problems with balancing anonymity, legality of content and freedom of speech on a user-generated website.
this whole thing has really turned me off reddit. i blocked it in my /etc/hosts and my productivity has gone way up. also, makes me appreciate the efforts of HN to keep things civil and intelligent - even if it means a lot of my posts and comments go nowhere.
> this whole thing has really turned me off reddit. To me, that's like saying, "that dirty alt.binaries.whatever group really turned me off USENET." The reddit I visit doesn't have any violentacrez. Nor does the reddit my wife visits. The thing reddit gets right is the ability to customize and narrowly define what content you get fed. Mine looks like a more scattered HN. My wife's looks like a text-based Pinterest.
It seems like he is only remorseful because he got caught. And as Cooper pointed out: he only mentions the negative impact on himself and his family (what about the girls whose photos he posted?) and tries to shift most of the responsibility to Reddit.
Redditors, in general, loved what he did. His subreddits were hugely popular; /r/jailbait was once voted subreddit of the year by the community, and he himself was once moderator of the year.
Now he has been unmasked he is facing the wrath of the wider population, which doesn't 'get' Internet humor, the tongue-in-cheek nature of trolling, will never admit to finding teenagers attractive, etc. Meanwhile, in distancing themselves from him, the Reddit staff have thrown him under the bus.
You can see why it's tricky for him. Part of me thinks he doesn't really have anything to apologize for.
Why would this man agree to interviewed? Does he like the attention? Does he actually regret his actions? Does he like when others think of him in disgust? His intentions here are suspect to me. Possibly one more troll?
He's not some vile monster, he's just a regular family man who enjoyed a bit of Internet trolling in his spare time. He didn't do anything illegal, and throughout his time on Reddit he was being cheered on by a broadly supportive community.
I'm not blaming Reddit for what this guy posted, but the truth is that Reddit encouraged this kind of posts (they gave him an award!). Let's see how this affect reddit in the future.
The awards were based on community voting, Reddit had no control over who won.
He drove a huge amount of traffic to the site in the early days with his porn subreddits.
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blame the victim mentality.
Why is he a victim? He chose to make his identity known to people! He attended Reddit meetups. People knew him. Was he not aware that he was trolling and doing nasty stuff? If he was unaware, then I can understand him feeling like a victim; but he was fully aware that his actions were considered abhorrent by many people, and still persisted. So, naturally, people want to know who this person is, what makes him tick,…
"CNN was a huge mistake, which I will not repeat." http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11pka1/violentacrez_on...