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What's the origin of the pedo accusation?
Edit: Is pedophile on the list of words we're gonna make meaningless now?
He was the moderator of a sub called "jailbait" for a long time. What's less clear is if that was something he did on purpose or if someone else assigned him as a mod as a prank assuming he wouldn't notice
When someone invites you to become a moderator you have to click a couple times to accept. It was no accident.
That wasn't how it worked at first. Back when I first joined Reddit you could be made moderator of a sub by another user without confirmation