Richard Lewis banned from Reddit - Page 5

On May 07 2015 01:45 Ansibled wrote:
The np thing is kind of stupid since it doesn't do anything to subscribers and like 95% of people who get linked lol content who want to read it are going to be subscribed.

NEVER post personal information. If including screenshots, personal information must be obscured. Posting personal information of people can be EXTREMELY HARMFUL and is prohibited. Personal Information includes:

Full names (first and/or last name)
Addresses
Skype accounts
Social Media accounts (facebook, twitter, instagram, linkedin, etc) that are not publicly available*
Phone Numbers
Pictures of people who haven't connected their name to their face
Images hosted by private accounts (whether facebook, twitter, etc)
Summoner names

How is he going to do that? He damaged his own reputation with his actions. Here's a compilation of all his doxxing threats.

If you do some digging you can find several compilations of his harassment of other users. Plus, all the things the mods are accusing him of are easily proven since he uses his own twitter account to vote brigade and shit.

So, RL would have to show that the r/lol mods in fact damaged his reputation. Then on top of that, he has to show that that damage caused him financial harm, not the removal of his content from Reddit.

Here's some examples of RL's shining behavior:
RL makes fun of a Redditor's suicidal tendencies, who then actually commits suicide

He also routinely writes articles that are nothing more than thinly veiled attempts to cause drama and ruin the reputation of others.
His NDA article. Commentary on the article by a lawyer
Trying to hurt ESEX after they wrote a satire piece on him

On May 07 2015 06:34 cLutZ wrote:


Am I the only one who thinks many of these restrictions are unreasonable? In particular, full names and summoner names probably need to be posted for all moderators, and all content creators. If the other things can be extrapolated from those 2 things using publicly available information, that it the modern world.

On May 07 2015 17:54 DarkCore wrote:


It's done because there are crazy people on the internet who go on a witchhunt after people they don't like. You'd be surprised how easy it is to find where a person lives, or their phone number just from some other information you wouldn't think was sensitive, Google is a stalkers friend.

Ex: Someone gets called out for flaming in lobby, screenshots posted on reddit. Dozens of people add that person and flame them back, thinking they're justified. That's a nice example, on more serious subjects people have been caught calling with death threats. It only takes one idiot to traumatize another.

You said mods should post full names, and that's a big no-no in my books. RL might criticize in a very condescending tone, but there are people who go way further than that. Even summoner names, they'd be getting a dozen friend requests every day of people who want to berate them on their job, or just flame. Content creators are different because they willingly expose themselves to the public, and are generally not targets for abuse unless something very negative is found out about them.

On May 07 2015 15:08 RichardLewis wrote:


That's a compilation of people complaining about the same "doxxing" threats from over a year ago, with no evidence provided but the public tweets from that time. Hardly conclusive is it.



I've never harassed another user. I've verbally berated plenty but only after they've said something stupid and/or false about me, my work and my motivations.

I've NEVER vote-brigaded through Twitter.



Both of these things are inarguable.




These are not examples of my "behaviour." These are, again, examples of other people accusing me of things. I've never mocked anyone for suicidal tendancies. I've mocked someone for telling me to grow up while complaining about how he lived with his parents. This is fairly easy to prove.



This is a really stupid summary of what I do for a living, especially about ESEX. I wasn't "trying to hurt them." I even helped back their SC2 kickstarter.

On May 07 2015 23:06 Sufficiency wrote:


Hi Richard,

On reddit, you managed to belittle someone by talking about a video he made in highschool. Apparently you found this video on his Facebook. I am pretty impressed, since you must have gotten his real name and other sensitive information via a reddit handle. I am curious as to how you did it.

Secondly, on the video you posted, you showed a screenshot of your Linkdin being examined by a reddit mod. I am curious how you found out that's a reddit mod. Since you chose to blur out the names, I can only assume this isn't some publically available information. You must have figured out that person's real name somehow.

Of course you could just be doing all of this for your own research purposes (not doxing), but it does seem to me that you are very good at digging up information from the internet. It's like you carrying a loaded gun and not afraid to tell other people that you have a loaded gun; you can shoot people with it, but you insist that you won't do it. So at this point it's a matter of whether or not we can trust you with the loaded gun.

But lately, especially with the Deman email leak, this trust has been pretty shakey. I find it pretty reasonable to believe that you did dox the mods regardless of how much you deny it. It's really easy to connect the dots since you have the information and you have done it in the past.

Maybe the Deman email wasn't your best choice you've made, but I just want to point out that with great power comes great responsibility. You really should consider what you are doing and not get involved in petty arguments.

On May 08 2015 00:01 Zdrastochye wrote:
I guess in the Internet age circumstantial evidence is rock solid evidence, because I have never seen damning proof of him doing anything besides being a dickwad to people who disagree with him or insult him. And I've spent time actually reading the RL drama threads.

On May 08 2015 00:22 Sufficiency wrote:
Reddit (the website as a whole) has vast interests in protecting subreddit mods from real and perceived harms. After all, subreddit mods essentially work for reddit for free.

In RL's case, /r/lol's mods probably feel threatened by RL and raised the issue with Reddit. Reddit decided to throw the books at RL (which they are totally allowed to do) by banning his content and hurts him financially.

On May 08 2015 07:54 cLutZ wrote:


I understand it from Reddit's POV, but really the problem is they have created this money bottleneck because access to the frontpage of /r/lol is very lucrative. Instead of paying a moderator, they have forced the moderators to go rent-seeking, and they have.

On May 08 2015 11:42 Sufficiency wrote:



Here's how I look at it.

You, the content creator, is a pan-handler on the street. Reddit is this upper-class passby and your potential benefactor. If you want to make money, you better ask your benefactor nicely and don't break any rules. This, by itself, feels reasonable. I also think Reddit as a for-profit organization as done OK for themselves so far despite some of the drama (like fappening, etc.).

But I do agree that some of the subreddit (/r/politcs, /r/lol, etc.) may have a bit too much traffic and volunteer moderation may be unsustainable. It's not clear to me how this can be solved.