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Nameless_Mofo 14 points ago +14 / -0

I am using this right now. Just got a text earlier today from those traitorous cocksuckers begging for money. Thanks for the assist! :-)

spez: reply sent. Will update if someone actually sends a response.

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itswood 5 points ago +5 / -0

Can you educate me on what "spez:" means? I see it used differently and I'm lost.

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Faraday27 17 points ago +17 / -0

"Spez" in place of "edit". A reference to when u/spez, reddit's dear leader, stealth edited TD posts.

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Return_Of_The_LAMFF 3 points ago +3 / -0

Spez is the owner of reddit and someone who was roundly mocked on the original the_donald subreddit.

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10MeV 2 points ago +5 / -3

That was an evil moderator on the old "The_Donald" subreddit, who edited users comments that criticized him. It became a shorthand for any edit on that forum.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/reddit-ceo-edits-user-comments_n_5839cf32e4b000af95ee5b68

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ColbyP 20 points ago +20 / -0

Spez wasn't a mod for TD, he owns reddit. The only reason he could edit other people's comments was because he had an admin account. It was actually a huge deal when he got caught because it proved that nothing on reddit could ever be trusted, as an admin could come in at any time and change what you had typed to whatever they wanted.

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10MeV 6 points ago +6 / -0

Ah, ok. Thanks for the clarification! I didn't realize that.

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Nameless_Mofo 2 points ago +2 / -0

Sure, "spez" is a reference to our days back on reddit, when the CEO Steve Huffman, whose username is u/spez, admitted to editing some user comments that pissed him off especially.

In response, for years, the "edit" button on posts & comments was actually labelled "spez" by the mods, and whenever people would edit their posts, instead of writing "edit: blah blah" they would write "spez:".

Old habits die hard, I still write spez because it was a big thing for such a long time.

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Return_Of_The_LAMFF 3 points ago +3 / -0

Wish I could see the look on those traitorous cocksucker's face when they read your response!