There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

Flax_vert ,

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.

Megaman_EXE ,

Oh shit that’s not good. I suppose it’s bound to happen, though. Money talks.

Could happen anywhere

sleepybisexual ,

Least corrupt reddit mod

Bassiette03 ,

What happened last night??

lemmyaccount01 ,

I’m not going to reddit can someone explain what it is ? Somebody paid a mod to promote a website ? what posts ? I don’t even know how reddit works exactly. Are promoted posts not allowed or very obvious ? They didn’t disclose ?

DAMunzy ,

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: torrentfreak.com/reddits-piracy-sub-reddit-reopen…

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.

Emerald ,

I just now noticed it says tumoil instead of turmoil

Appoxo ,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Nah OP pulled an edit

LiveLM ,

Man, what a joke Reddit has become after the 3rd party exodus, seems like most good subs went to shit.

Scrollone ,

Luckily this lead us to Lemmy and the Fediverse, which – in my opinion – is more akin to Aaron Swartz’s original vision.

princessnorah ,
@princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

He would’ve had a Lemmy instance running secretly in a server closet somewhere on the MIT campus.

Nangt3c ,

IMO this has nothing to do with the 3rd party stuff, stupid mods getting scammed for $800 has nothing to do with Reddit decisions

realitista ,

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.

narc0tic_bird ,

No honor among thieves. Remember that.

db0 OP ,
@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Good thing pirates ain’t thieves and that out moto is “sharing is caring”

3w0 ,

How do we pick a captain though? Avast

brickfrog ,

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.

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ,
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Is… Is there some reason not to send that much money via PayPal?

Asking for a friend.

lazynooblet ,
@lazynooblet@lazysoci.al avatar

PayPal allow easy reversal if transactions. Their dispute team favour protecting the buyer by far.

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ,
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I only ask because I have some members of my family transfer money between them, and it’s usually a high amount like that.

yessikg ,
@yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

No problem there

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ,
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Not…sure why someone downvoted you…

mp3 ,
@mp3@lemmy.ca avatar

Looks like OP removed their own upvote that gets added by default when posting (probably by accident).

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ,
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

That’s fair.

my_hat_stinks ,

That’s an understatement, PayPal will pretty much always side with the buyer no matter how ridiculous and outlandish their claim. I even had one “dispute” where the scammer changed the dispute reason which caused PayPal to ignore what I’d already submitted and close it in their favour by default as “no response”. PayPal is very much pro-scammer, avoid if possible.

It’s been a few years since I’ve had to deal with clients directly, I don’t think I’ll ever miss it.

TheGalacticVoid ,

As a buyer, I’ve had to fight hard to get items returned to scammy sellers.

Algernon ,

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…

ulkesh ,
@ulkesh@beehaw.org avatar

Shit site has gone to shit. Shocker.

H_GG ,

I read that the (banned) member joined reddit a short time ago, I wonder how he became a mod

hurtn ,

sucked cock

aldalire ,

Here’s a link with more than 10 pixels

AVincentInSpace ,

Oh that’s really transparently a scam

GBU_28 ,

Never assume you are asking some upper crust, high minded group.

AFC1886VCC ,

Welcome to Lemmy Reddit pirates, you should have come earlier.

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