All quotes
“I feared retaliation. While at work today I received a number of phone calls from people telling me that they hated my guts, trying to buy the subreddit from me, and a number of people trying to get in to different accounts of mine with the password reset tools.”
— 32bites, Creator and head moderator of r/IAmA2011-08-26
- Speaker
- 32bites
- Role
- Creator and head moderator of r/IAmA
- Date
- 2011-08-26
- Type
- mod
Context
Written during the August 2011 crisis in which 32bites threatened to shut down r/IAmA — then Reddit's flagship Q&A community with half a million subscribers — before handing it to moderator karmanaut. One of the earliest documented accounts of the harassment volunteer moderators absorb when they cross their communities.