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He's exactly what they want. A complete straw man with a hateable face, a genuine Nimrod that thinks he's the smartest guy in any room he's ever been in. Sprinkle in being a privelaged yes man and he's the perfect face for an ownership group that wants to remain anonymous. He's literally Tom from Succession, might even be who that character is based on IRL.
The older redditors may remember that he was moderator of some VERY dodgy subreddits back in the day and tried to cover it up. We remember, it will come back to haunt him at some point.
If you can sate my curiosity, what dodgy subreddits?
It's difficult to prove these days as most of that era was wiped and the internet archive doesnt have much from that time.
There are some people saying it was possible to add arbitrary users as mods for a while, some that say he made himself a mod as part of cleaning up that subreddit. but a lot of people also say he was a mod for a very long time.
/r/jailbait
Do you mind me asking which dodgy subs? I'm mostly familiar with his election 2016 (non)work and half assed too little too late follow up. I was on Reddit from 2010 or 2011, but I really don't recall knowing anything about senior leadership until 2014 or 2015
/r/jailbait