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He was the moderator of a sub called “jailbait” for a long time. What’s less clear is if that was something he did on purpose or if someone else assigned him as a mod as a prank assuming he wouldn’t notice

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When someone invites you to become a moderator you have to click a couple times to accept. It was no accident.

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That wasn’t how it worked at first. Back when I first joined Reddit you could be made moderator of a sub by another user without confirmation

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Not exactly. In the olden days of reddit no confirmation on your part was necessary.

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Oh, I didn’t know that. Thanks!

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He could have removed himself.

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I always wondered why a subreddit like that was allowed to exist in the first place. I guess I have my answer now.

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As I remember it, reddit got its start when “internet culture” was pretty heavily downstream of 4chan/somethingawful/ytmnd. And pedo-type behaviour was pretty normalized in those spaces.

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