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Re:Killing Community by nicbou on Monday June 12, 2023 @05:41PM (#36301592)
I remember taking part in an early Reddit gift exchange. People were gifting members in need computer monitors and and pizza. There was the jackdraw facts biologist guy. The website definitely felt smaller back then. It was toxic, but still cozy.
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Re:Killing Community by bombcar on Monday June 12, 2023 @07:23PM (#36302837)
A community that can support a secret Santa and not have it devolve into a shitfit of scamming and backbiting is still a village. Once it’s bigger than that, it starts to fall apart.
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Re:Killing Community by jachee on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @03:40AM (#36306882)
Funnily enough, Reddit cancelled Secret Santa (and indeed all of Reddit Gifts) early last year.[0] It hasn’t been a village for a while.

0. https://reddit.com/r/secretsanta/comments/nw294q/sunsetting_...

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Re:Killing Community by terramex on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @12:49AM (#36305490)
> There was the jackdraw facts biologist guy.

He even has a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidan

> In July 2014, Eisenkop's Unidan account was banned from Reddit for using alternate (or "sockpuppet") accounts. The accounts were used to upvote his own submissions and downvote submissions made by other users that were posted around the same time and were potentially attracting attention away from his own.

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Re:Killing Community by system2 on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @02:53AM (#36306508)
It was such a drama, then he came back with UnidanX. I remember that he found jobs thru reddit etc.
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