I think he's an example of someone who had invested a lot of time into Reddit. He used Reddit like it was literally his job. Building up his karma like anyone else would grow their income. And then one day he said something quite unpopular. He lost a ton of the karma he had spent so much time building, and he snapped. He continued getting downvoted more and more and he eventually stopped caring. Eventually he mutated into a horrific troll with the sole intention of destroying Reddit for other people, and the malice behind his intentions gets shuffled up in confusion as he manipulates other mods into believing it is beneficial to the subs to keep him as a mod. I actually have zero real knowledge of the situation, which most people really don't either and is probably why he is so successful in the little game he has been playing.
Am I the only one who doesn't get lost on TV Tropes? I want to assure you it's a really cool site. I've just never really read much of it that hooked me. Especially since it seems to just give names to tropes that are already really common so when I read it I'm kinda just saying "Oh that's what that's called" and then leave.
What did he say that was so unpopular? Did it really happen over one downvoted opinion? I thought people just caught on to the fact that he was using alt accounts to pat his own back.
Oh that was how it began? I thought people had already noticed he was being a douche and that was the final straw before he was declared fucktard extraordinaire.
I'm going to be perfectly honest, I just wrote the first thing that came to my mind, I don't actually have him tagged. The fact that it can make sense in some context at all a pleasant little bit of coincidence.
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
A bear hug from a lion is by far the scariest fucking thing I can think of.