Reddit /r/piracy in turmoil as a mod caught taking bribes to promote posts
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All the principled pirates have jumped ship to lemmy so it was bound to happen sooner than later.
I honestly see no reason to use Reddit for its Piracy Megathread. Lemmy’s user base is much more friendly, helpful and the Megathread here is the same (if not better) organized than there.
Not only that, I remember there was quite some problems among the mods on Reddit. So I’m not surprised something like this happened. Once there’s a slight fracture, it’ll slowly but steadily get broken into pieces entirely.
I don’t see much decent content on both Piracy and PiratedGames subreddit anyway. Majority is memes, ‘is this safe’ and spam posts about empress.
The megathread is here if anyone is wondering
I mean...Aint our admin also the former main mod of the subreddit?
Yes
Welcome to Lemmy Reddit pirates, you should have come earlier.
An LLM database builder.
Haha, damn.
I tried to find reddit on duckduckgo to answer this quesiton, but I didn't get any results :(
That's some low effort spam, no wonder even Reddit's default spam filter caught it and that mod had to manually approve it. Back when I was helping mod on Reddit we used to see that sort of discord link spam nearly every day. Just spam/removed it & moved on.
The sad thing is that r/Piracy mod likely got scammed himself. Besides that mod who would really believe a scammer is going to send $800 via PayPal of all things? Most likely some sort of scam/hacked account, the payment will be reversed and that mod's PayPal account may get locked/banned in the process.
It’s harder for corruption and lawyers to target multiple instances rather than one centralized location
Love the recruiting that you all are doing in there.
Of course getting people over from reddit is nice, but honestly the exact same thing can happen here as well. We'll always depend on the integrity of the people with mod status.
Man, what a joke Reddit has become after the 3rd party exodus, seems like most good subs went to shit.
IMO this has nothing to do with the 3rd party stuff, stupid mods getting scammed for $800 has nothing to do with Reddit decisions
Well if all the good mods leave and you only have the bad ones left or people who come in just to profit, you get this.
Oh that's really transparently a scam
Out of curiosity, is our megathread the same as theirs? If so, it might be time to make our own independently of theirs.
So we aren't using an unauthorised copy?
How baller would it be to pirate a piracy megathread
Disappointing tgat we arent when you put it that way
Check the wiki. We already have our own
With blackjack and hookers?
I just now noticed it says tumoil instead of turmoil
Nah OP pulled an edit
Shit site has gone to shit. Shocker.
I thought I wasn’t gonna give a shit about this, but it was quite enjoyable. Too bad, so sad! Looks like that guy’s discord is now well known for the wrong reasons…
Least corrupt reddit mod
I read that the (banned) member joined reddit a short time ago, I wonder how he became a mod
sucked cock
fuck reddit lmao
Least controversial day on Reddit.
This is a copy and paste from one of the mods of r/Piracy:
The mod u/ Furdiburd10 who manually approved and stickied the post has been removed from the mod team. Reddit's spam filter actually caught it early on and the community helped mass report. They also fully censored comments from yall calling it out.
Sorry we let this slip. This shit happened seven years ago too for folks that were around that time: https://torrentfreak.com/reddits-piracy-sub-reddit-reopens-after-mutiny-shutdown-170523/
Edit: If you were banned by this loser or muted, please DM me and I'll comb through the logs and work on reinstating you back.
The fact that even happened tbh is insane tbh, but I’m so glad that people are now jumping ship tbh esp what the dumb decisions Reddit has made in the past couple of years.
From now on, unless I see three declarations of honesty, I'm going to assume they are being at least somewhat dishonest.
My reply to to be honest is always oh, were you lying before?.
Usually gets a confused laugh.
Looking through their comment history, they proclaim their honesty quite often, it's pretty funny when you're looking for it 😆
I've now tagged them so I'll remember that they are very honest:
I took a bribe on my Minecraft server once. Although I made them change it from going to me to being a direct donation and keeping it a secret. I also confirmed it with the owner who was basically paying for it out of pocket lol. Good times.
Oh shit that's not good. I suppose it's bound to happen, though. Money talks.
Could happen anywhere
Never assume you are asking some upper crust, high minded group.
What happened last night??
it was never a matte of if. only when
No honor among thieves. Remember that.
Good thing pirates ain't thieves and that out moto is "sharing is caring"
I'm concerned about this comment in the linked Reddit post.
What does it mean, "same mods"? What about "safety"? Can someone clarify?
I used to be top mod of piracy until the reddit blackouts last year, where I was demoted by the admins in a secret coup. I was reinstated by other mods, but have been idle since.
sunbothersco is also the top mod in /r/piracy and it mostly maintaining the megathread but is not very active in lemmy.
We absolutely will never boost posts for money here.
Thanks. That's interesting, I didn't know the mods here were mods there too. I believe people here wouldn't be letting things fall apart (there is a reason people moved away from Reddit and the quality of content here is proof).
I was surprised to see those comments implying the megathread was no longer reliable though, I figured it was a stretch but had no idea why would they be thinking that.
Just wanted to say thank you for your service over the two platforms.
To be quite honest, I wouldn't mind sponsored posts as a way to support a community or instance, as long as they were completely disclosed as so and if the sponsor had no control over the moderation.
Most likely this incident is an indirect result of that coup. After that, they had to rapidly replenish the mod team and didn't have time to vet people, so they ended up with someone like this.
FWIW my recollection from looking over sunbothersco at the time was that they were a clout-seeker with no meaningful history on /r/piracy - they were repeatedly and aggressively asking to be made top mod of a wide variety of subs at the time, with no real connection between them. It sucks that reddit was forcing out top mods, but I wish they'd at least followed through on their threat to make it democracy, since there's no way we would have ended up with someone like that if the system had been anything but "randomly hand the sub to whoever asks first and loudest."
Can't wait to look back on this comment in a few years
It seems that all posts/comments advocating migration to Lemmy are downvoted there. It’s truly sad that they still don’t realize Reddit is not a safe place anymore to talk about piracy and stuff
look at that idiot, typical redditor behavior talking shit from their ass as if they are experts on what they are talking about