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A comment on Christopher "moot" Poole, Founder of 4chan doing an AMA on Reddit.

Re:Christopher "moot" Poole, Founder of 4chan doing an AMA o... by cryptoz on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @12:42PM (#2383318)
Wow, he's had a reddit account for 5 years. That's pretty insane, especially since reddit wasn't big at all in those days. It's funny that people keep commenting that reddit's becoming 4chan, when in fact moot was probably one of the first redditors.
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Re:Christopher "moot" Poole, Founder of 4chan doing an AMA o... by citricsquid on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @12:45PM (#2383331)
He doesn't confirm it anywhere, it's possible (and likely maybe?) that the admins noticed the account "moot" was inactive and gave it to him, they were the ones who co-ordinated this, so it makes sense they would give it to him.
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Re:Christopher "moot" Poole, Founder of 4chan doing an AMA o... by saurik on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @04:44PM (#2384375)
If you were really going to do that, you almost certainly would clear the metadata for the username first (or like, attach the username to a different underlying "account").
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Re:Christopher "moot" Poole, Founder of 4chan doing an AMA o... by Tiomaidh on Saturday April 02, 2011 @05:21PM (#2400986)
His first post/comment was that thread though (unless he deleted everything previous to it).
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