Six years ago reddit Mod u/davidreiss666 knew that reddit's infamous Maxwellhill, aka 'Max' is a 'he'.

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/23p696/meet_the_reddit_power_user_who_helped_bring_down/cgz8ecm/

edited 6 years ago

Hey there. I do want to point out that the article gets some basic facts wrong.

First, I resigned before r/Technology was removed as a default subreddit. I was given a heads up that it was coming, but that heads up came 4-6 hours after my resignation.

Second, the person who originally added Anutunsil as a mod of r/Technology was me. About 2.5 years ago, we needed more mods there and >

Anu was then one of the best mods on Reddit. I knew her, I added her. This is how I felt about her then.

Then a few days ago Anutensill removed AgentLame and TheSkyNet and the new-mods they were adding. I thought about it long and hard, but I had no other options. I removed Anutensil as a mod of r/Technology in response to her actions. There was no communication from Anu before she removed mods, after she removed them. or after her removal. She seems to believe she doesn't have to talk to her fellow mods at all.

Things in the subreddit were then stable and good for a day. I was receiving notes from people thanking me for doing the right thing. Then Max showed up the next day to undo everything. He added Anutensil back. Then he was removing moderators, adding mods, repeating, mixing, and never communicating with anyone. That's when I resigned. See this.

Then about 4-6 hours went by, and the Admins removed r/Technology as a default. I was not a moderator there when they did that.

For more back-story, I have made various previous comments. Please see these:

Long explanation including a lot of back history.

(so info pertaining to 7 years ago) http://archive.is/xWpH8 https://np.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/23covg/davidreiss666_explains_what_happened_a_year_ago/cgvse8p/ (notable from series: So Max nick flaired himself 'king of the Hill"? http://archive.is/xWpH8 https://i.imgur.com/PHUmgnX.png)

My resignation announcement.

Another comment here in SRD.

And in tech, I posted this response to Rolmos. The new mods of Technology decided to remove it. But there are some copies of it in the thread.

Back in the day, Maxwellhill was the first redditor to 1 million karma. At the time, I tried to get the Admins to say something nice about him. I know they offered him a trip to Reddit Headquarters then which he turned it down. He was also the first redditor to get 2 million karma. I posted about that in r/CenturyClub when it happened.

Other thoughts.... total, /u/Maxwellhill has modded, at one time or another, several default subreddits. He now mods r/Worldnews and r/Technology. The later only just having been removed. But he once modded r/Pics, r/Funny, r/AskReddit, r/IAMA, r/WTF, r/Politics and a few others. He was forced to choose when the three-default rule was handed down from the Admins.

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