<story><title>Reddit.com appears to be having an outage</title><text>Errors&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Something went wrong. Just don&amp;#x27;t panic.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Sorry, we couldn&amp;#x27;t load posts for this page. [RETRY]</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>skhr0680</author><text>A meme pointing out that u&amp;#x2F;spez was a mod of r&amp;#x2F;jailbait in 2008 was the top post on r&amp;#x2F;all a few hours ago</text></item><item><author>r0bbbo</author><text>Lots of speculation on Twitter about this—a failed attempt to re-open all closed subreddits and instate their own moderators. I can&amp;#x27;t imagine it&amp;#x27;d be that, although I do enjoy the conspiracy, and more likely they were using the window of reduced traffic to make some larger changes and they went awry</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aw1621107</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s worth noting that a very old user (&amp;#x2F;u&amp;#x2F;andrewsmith1986 IIRC) responded that at that time it was possible to add arbitrary users as mods without needing interaction&amp;#x2F;feedback&amp;#x2F;etc. from the user in question. If that was the case, then any user being a mod on any particular sub at that time doesn&amp;#x27;t really mean much.&lt;p&gt;Obviously I can&amp;#x27;t reference the comment in question right now, but I&amp;#x27;ll try to remember to circle back and add a reference when(&amp;#x2F;if?) Reddit comes back up.&lt;p&gt;Edit: &amp;#x2F;u&amp;#x2F;andrewsmith1986&amp;#x27;s comment can be found at &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;old.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;dankmemes&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;1477psa&amp;#x2F;all_3_are_going_to_lie_to_you&amp;#x2F;jnuy0xf&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;old.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;dankmemes&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;1477psa&amp;#x2F;all_3_ar...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Reddit.com appears to be having an outage</title><text>Errors&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Something went wrong. Just don&amp;#x27;t panic.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Sorry, we couldn&amp;#x27;t load posts for this page. [RETRY]</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>skhr0680</author><text>A meme pointing out that u&amp;#x2F;spez was a mod of r&amp;#x2F;jailbait in 2008 was the top post on r&amp;#x2F;all a few hours ago</text></item><item><author>r0bbbo</author><text>Lots of speculation on Twitter about this—a failed attempt to re-open all closed subreddits and instate their own moderators. I can&amp;#x27;t imagine it&amp;#x27;d be that, although I do enjoy the conspiracy, and more likely they were using the window of reduced traffic to make some larger changes and they went awry</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trompetenaccoun</author><text>Doesn&amp;#x27;t seem that unbelievable when you look into some of the other stuff he&amp;#x27;s done. For example he secretly used his admin powers to edit user comments from users he didn&amp;#x27;t like or who criticized him.</text></comment>