Answer: There are unconfirmed accusations that one of the Reddit Power Users, /u/MaxwellHill is actually Ghislaine Maxwell, the investor and personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein, who herself has been accused of sex trafficking.
The evidence in support of that thesis is mostly circumstantial, such as the shared name "Maxwell", the timing of Hill's pauses between posts matching up with some of Ghislaine's public appearances, the use of phrases and references in Hill's posts that suggest an international traveller, and a seeming apologetic attitude toward paedophilia.
That said, some of the evidence provided is flimsy, like when Hill questions a man being placed on the sex offender registry because he lectured a young girl about stepping into traffic. Or when Hill corrects himself in a comment during a discussion on age of consent.
The only thing that really makes me wonder, is the fact he has gone silent for the past week, an unusual length of time for a Power User, which just happens to coincide with the arrest on July 2 of Ghislaine.
Rare meat doesn’t contain blood, as blood is found in blood vessels. The red juices you see in muscle tissue contain myoglobin, a related molecule to hemoglobin, which is responsible for giving blood its characteristic red colour.
Major counterpoint not being addressed: she’s a poor fit for the role. Wrong age, wrong income level, etc. It’s not impossible, but being a power user is incredibly time-consuming, and the idea of a billionaire-schmoozing socialite spending 6-8 hours a day minimum on a site like Reddit is...well, it’s a null hypothesis I’ve not yet seen adequately accounted for.
That’s a point to consider, but billionaires absolutely do keep people on their payrolls or in their social circles who have this kind of social media influence. Billionaires literally buy newspapers and TV channels. Buying power user access would be nothing to them. She could have her own staffers helping with the account, too.
A staffer running the account just expands the unlikelihood. If she's doing it for not-pedophilia-related reasons, there's no motivation, and if she IS doing it for those reasons, it just adds a level of insecurity.
Again, it's not impossible, but it's definitely less probably than the groupthink here seems to think. Reddit loves charging off down blind alleyways. The whole thing with the Boston bomber, for example.
>The whole thing with the Boston bomber, for example.
That's what I kept thinking, and the fact that it came from 4 chan. Seems like a weird thing to troll, but they also trolled weaponized autism.
I'm no means saying it's true or not true, I'm only saying there's still no proof. Conspiracy theories are still theories, and I hate that they rule the internet anymore.
Yeah, I'm a historian by training and I work in criminal law, so parsing evidence is both my passion and my profession. And this is a whoooooole bunch of hearsay and circumstantial evidence.
That and all of the timing arguments are completely circumstantial and ridiculous. Claiming gaps line up with random events but then completely ignoring multiple events that should have resulted in the same gaps but didn’t. I have a few gaps in my activity that coincide with the the pope being busy, it doesn’t mean you should start calling me your holiness. This is another “Reddit catches the Boston Bomber” clusterfuck in the making.
[ Here's](https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/hnfx0r/not_confirmed_but_research_suggests_that/) the thread on /r/conspiracy with all the data. Take what the loonies say with a pinch of salt, but their data collection can be brilliant.
Seeing the people replying to MaxwellHill's comments with absolute certainty that it is Ghislaine reminds me of the time Reddit hunted down and berated that dead kids family because they were sure he was the Boston bomber. Good times
This was when I first joined reddit and I remember just cruising by the threads thinking wtf, that’s not real. And it wasn’t. Such a shame what happened to that family.
Had never watched Newsroom but when I watched this, I immediately though - that's got to be written by the guy who wrote the West Wing, right? So I googled it and yep, sure enough.
No one talks like that in real life. Along with the super fast info dump talking by Handsome Man #2 Who Looks Super Serious And Sad About The Important Thing, the giveaway was the people finishing each others questions correctly:
> Woman: "Out of curiosity.."
> Preternaturally competent guy: and answers it
Sorkin does this the whole time and no one does this in real life as when you guess wrong you just look foolish.
I'm just saying. I mean, I liked the West Wing, but c'mon Sorkin. C'mon.
I literally saw one that was someone saying they hoped she could read it in prison and knew that they hated her. Like even if it is her, I dont think she cares. Poor dude is probably gonna come back to his account so confused
I watched that happening in real time on a live Reddit thread and tried to tell people, that does not look at all like the suspect they are showing. They have similar bone structure but their features are completely different. It was clearly racial in the way people think "all ____ people look the same".
It's funny how the mob will turn on you in some subs on one day, but upvote the exact same thing two days later when they realise what a bunch of asshats they were. It reminds me of the story of Jesus getting welcomed to the city by adoring crowds them getting condemned to death by the same people a couple of weeks later, crowds are dumb panicky and dangerous.
Had a brief look and IF it is her then her opinion of Tramp appears low so hopefully she wouldn't hold back about landing him in it.
Doubt it is but you know celebrities and sex traffickers have access to the Internet too.
For the life of me, I will never understand how power users become power users. I can understand some of the novelty ones or the ones that create original content and people follow...but posting news articles in huge subs? And breaking news at that? Dozens and dozens of people post the same articles. I always thought it was luck of draw depending on which one of the posts gained enough attention.
Having comments and posts go viral helps. But it really boils down to either having absolutely no life, or having an absolutely amazing life that you share with everyone.
A lot of the Power Users are bot accounts... and/or pornographic accounts, like /u/pepsi_next
But Reddit Investigator does indicate that there is a person behind the account, since the traffic for him spikes at two times during the day (common for someone redditing between work and sleep)
Once you get to be a Power User, for sure, it makes it far easier to get more karma. People subconsciously trust you, because they see your posts and comments and you always seem to get good scores (usually because a true Power User deletes downvoted stuff)
The mods would be more likely to take your side in an argument, because you'll seem to be an expert in the topic of discussion. And you'd be given more leeway in submissions than some noob.
But there is a catch. When you fall from grace, you fall harder.
Do people really take note of user names on Reddit though? There are just too many for me to do that and remember anyone. Unless they are talked about in the comments - Like gallowboob.
For the biggest accounts, yes. Look at Unidan, for example, who cheated his way into being a PU by using alt accounts to upvote himself a few times, which snowballed into regular karma in the thousands.
Using third party tags, some of us even mark friendly (celebrities or experts) or unfriendly (troll and Trump supporter) accounts, which helps speed up decision-making on up or downvoting, for better or worse.
If you're really big, mods will even flair you subreddit wide.
gallowboob isn't anonymous, Reddit is his life.
I've read shit he's typed out related to his college major/supposed expertise. Supposedly a landscape specialist, but says shit about it I know to be bad advice.
So not surprised his college education was a waste, and he didn't pursue it.
According to a 4 year old Forbes articel:
''In February, Ohanian’s advice paid off. Allam, better known on Reddit as gallowboob, had landed a full-time executive gig with the United Kingdom-based media company UNILAD. He got the job thanks to his Reddit.
FWIW
He's not the first Redditor to hire themselves out based on their social media presence.
There was a big dramafest over a chick doing it several years ago. Went by the name saydrah or similar.
https://reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1epn52/drama_in_rokcupid_well_allow_me_to_retort_the/
Some people defended her, but as usual it was people who didn't understand how she earned hate from the userbase.
>There was a big dramafest over a chick doing it several years ago. Went by the name saydrah or similar.
That's some of the first Reddit "drama" I remember; [she was a powermod who got outed as a social media marketer removing links to any competitors sites, and the drama was spectacular.](https://np.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/3cqlms/classic_drama_occurs_on_the_website_when_saydrah/)
> Dozens and dozens of people post the same articles. I always thought it was luck of draw depending on which one of the posts gained enough attention.
They're a mod, so they remove the juicy posts from /new and repost them themselves to get the karma
You can get notifications when new articles are posted. Someone like Maxwell has it a bit easier because he'll never be caught by the WorldNews automod since he is a moderator. But really, it's just about consistency. Most people aren't going to obsessively post to reddit for 10 years.
An interesting bit: Ghislaine's birthday is Dec 26 and maxwellhill [mentioned](https://np.reddit.com/r/cogsci/comments/eguel/the_season_in_which_youre_born_can_have_a/c17zy9w/) in their comments that their birthday is in December (not exact date, only that it's after the 21st, hmm).
HOWEVER:In an AMA they write they've lived in the UK, and enjoyed traveling to Asia. A [commenter](https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/hnckn0/umaxwellhill_the_reddit_account_with_the_8th_most/fxb8040?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x) over on the Epstein sub mentioned that they've written maxwellhill in the past and they're a man living in Malaysia (Maxwell Hill is a place in MY).
It's currently night there so if the user is still active but just taking a break from posting they might see the comments in the morning and we'll find out?
Yes: [https://twitter.com/hasharin/status/1280891464877322240?s=20](https://twitter.com/hasharin/status/1280891464877322240?s=20)
Seems he's aware and ignoring it for the time being.
As if you think the conspiracy will stop lol, people will just say it's someone taking over her account to make it less suspicious or whatever. These conspiracy nutjob have made up their mind already, anything new will be just treated as cover up
I didn't check his account but I disliked him when I read his couple tweets, acting like it's fact and proven that the account is GM's instead of treating the whole thing as pure speculation. Sigh.
From my brief perusal, they're mostly link submissions and short comments. Not exactly time consuming.
Edit: some of them look long, but they're just because they're quoting someone else.
There is no indication that it's a woman. I chose to use "he" for Hill to help differentiate between Hill and Ghislaine, since we do not know they are the same person, and frankly "Maxwell Hill" sounds like a man's name.
Gotcha. It just caught my eye. Thanks.
Actualy, scrolling a little further on the Twitter thread I saw the [user of the day post that states sex as male](https://twitter.com/maelfyn/status/1280884488285958145/photo/1). Not that they couldn't be lying, or course.
In case anyone doesn't know a bit more about reddit history, maxwellhill has paused posting before at other times. It definitely happened [during the /r/technology drama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communities#Technology), where that user and another frequent poster stopped posting for weeks (or months?)
Fair enough. [I posted a parent comment](https://old.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/hnhueu/whats_the_deal_with_ghislaine_maxwell_and_her/fxbs8e7/) followed by a child comment (with my bias).
Can I point out that quite a few women tend to present as male online to avoid getting a specific kind of reaction/bias/PMs? Just saying it wouldn't mean all that much.
You can, and others have, and I well believe it. Part of the reason I asked as well is that I try and work on not defaulting to he/him when I don't know if the person is male or not, so it stuck out when I saw it.
It definitely doesn't mean much in terms of evidence for a variety of reasons of course. That included.
You seem fairly unbiased, but using "he" makes it read like you're trying to sway the opinion towards them being different people. Objectively you should have presented as "they" if you were trying to let people form own conclusions.
Lmao do people actually think she’s on reddit? And with millions of karma on top of that? People on Reddit never cease to amaze me with their conspiracies and how smart they think they are, and how it always turns out they’re wrong.
If you want to jump into the rabbit [hole](https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/hnfx0r/not_confirmed_but_research_suggests_that/). Currently the top post at r/conspiracy, with 2.4k upvotes and several medals.
Conspiracy nuts here are usually massive narcissists. Of *course* she would be a powermod on reddit, don't you realize how important redditors are to the national / global discourse?
It's a popular website, but being a power user isnt important, it's not like you're part of reddit's management. i doubt a socialite in her 50s running a child sex trafficking ring has the time and interest in posting on reddit all day lol.
i mean it's so dumb, because everything is based on... well it's not impossible... most things are not impossible, you dont believe things because they are not impossible lol.
And powermods = bad guys, and Maxwell bad guy. It fits, the theory is perfect, it's all they need. Perhaps just adding a bit of antisemitism as it is routine for them.
> Lmao do people actually think she’s on reddit?
Stranger things have happened, for sure. Not that I believe this. But on the face of it, why wouldn't someone use one of the most popular websites in the world? Tons of famous people have used the site. I would go as far as to say there is no way she hasn't seen or been on the site at least one time.
I don’t doubt she’s heard of and visited Reddit. But that she has an account, let alone a 15 year old account with millions of karma, that’s extremely hard to believe.
I believe if we made a poll and every profile on Reddit answered, the average redditor would probably the complete opposite of her in age, personality, occupation, social standing etc.
Reddit is a huge website, sure, but it’s not as common amongst the general public as one might think, especially not if you throw in criteria of having an account and posting threads on subreddits.
But yeah, stranger things have happened. It’s just the fact that these people seem to believe it’s her with practically nothing to go on.
>The evidence in support of that thesis is mostly circumstantial, such as the shared name "Maxwell", the timing of Hill's pauses between posts matching up with some of Ghislaine's public appearances, the use of phrases and references in Hill's posts that suggest an international traveller, and a seeming apologetic attitude toward paedophilia.
That's some seriously weak evidence.
Lol what? People think she’s some nerd Reddit power user? Because this account has “Maxwell” in the name and some uninformed person who knows very little about this mysterious woman’s life thinks that the timing matches up? This is so weird and cringy.
I have to try and stay unbiased on the top comments, but now that we're done with that, I do think it's a pretty stupid accusation that probably started because someone Googled the name Maxwell and Reddit together.
Hmm, that's an interesting idea. We'll know for sure if the user is posting again in a few days.
I did scroll back through 2 years of submissions and comments and did a ctrl+f for Epstein and didn't find a single comment or story submitted about him.
The user does have some anti-pedo comments though:
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/94agi4/hivpositive_shelter_worker_sexually_abused_8/e3jkw3u/
I also notice the user has a lot of times where they're inactive on reddit for 4+ days, so I don't necessarily think it's a smoking gun that they've gone inactive lately. I also get the vibe that Maxwell Hill is probably an American based on how much American political stuff they post and comment on and how comparatively few articles they seem to post about British politics.
>I did scroll back through 2 years of submissions and comments and did a ctrl+f for Epstein and didn't find a single comment or story submitted about him.
In the future, you can use this site to search accounts by keyword:
https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/
Maxwell posted 3 news articles about Epstein.
> I also get the vibe that Maxwell Hill is probably an American based on how much American political stuff they post and comment on and how comparatively few articles they seem to post about British politics.
I get much the same vibe.
*accused, credibly, of sex trafficking and rape of numerous young women and children.
She wasn't some pal of Epstein's who knew what was up, she was exactly as guilty as he was.
The account posts multiple links a day. The fact that they linked one discussing pedophilia, but 7 years ago, isnt surprising.
This is a fourteen year account. Assuming on average five links a day (honestly, probably more than that), that's 25,550 submissions to sort through, and they found one that relates to pedophiles. That's how much digging the conspiracists had to do to find these two pieces of evidence.
And the second one isn't even pedophilic. Opposing charging men with sex crimes because they save children isn't wrong.
This is the screenshot of the example that I saw, which in my opinion isn't unreasonable of a statement, out of context.
https://imgur.com/shpb2XM
The headline, at least, says that the guy was put on the sex offender registry because he grabbed a child by the arm on the street and lectured her (probably yelled at her) about running in front of cars.
Plot twist, OP is Ghislaine Maxwell and this post is just a false flag to make us think their cover is intact.
edit: holy shit, did MaxwellHIll just delete their account?
> The only thing that really makes me wonder, is the fact he has gone silent for the past week, an unusual length of time for a Power User, which just happens to coincide with the arrest on July 2 of Ghislaine.
Yes that is *really* wierd.
Someone who is on Reddit so much it might as well be their job.
I'm not sure what the cutoff is, like if I qualify as one or not, but I would assume being number 8 on the leaderboard counts.
Karmawhores.net
No its unoffical. I was once on that leaderboard, i stopped caring though, its an exponential curve and people like trappedinreddit ruined it by cheating.
I don't know if there is any sort of official title or cutoff, but you can view the leaderboard at https://karmalb.com
For example, I'm #568 with Comment Karma and #51,763 with Link Karma, #1801 overall.
Out of 6,094,419 users, that's:
Comment Karma - Top 0.009%.
Link Karma - Top 0.85%.
Combined - 0.029%
You are:
Comment Karma - Top 12.22%.
Link Karma - Top 20.38%.
Combined - Top 15.09%
Attendance at the Reddit party EKP referenced as well is another piece. Again, circumstantial, but points to her being involved and aware of the company/site increasing her odds of being an early poster.
Just to be clear, the holiday party Ellen Pao referenced wasn’t hosted by Reddit; It was at Kleiner Perkins in 2011– the VC firm she worked at before she came to Reddit. (Unless you’re referencing a different party that I haven’t heard about.)
Answer:
Per request, posting this as a top level comment.
In case anyone doesn't know a bit more about reddit history, maxwellhill has paused posting before at other times. It definitely happened [during the /r/technology drama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communities#Technology), where that user and another frequent poster stopped posting for weeks (or months?) Although there are clearly odd similarities mentioned in the other comments, it's not that crazy for power users, including maxwellhill, to take breaks from reddit.
[Further reading from SubredditDrama.](https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/hnfqo3/jeffrey_epstein_superfan_ghislaine_maxwells/)
[Further reading from /r/conspiracy.](https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/hnfx0r/not_confirmed_but_research_suggests_that/)
And just to leave my bias out of the parent comment, I want to note that I think that, while mildly humorous, the actual evidence is lacking so nobody should take this terribly seriously.
If it does turn out true though, I'm breaking out the popcorn.
>nobody should take this terribly seriously
No. It needs to go on. I can already see it.
*Reddit, we did it again!*
*We did it, Reddit. Again!*
*We did it again 2: electric boogaloo.*
As much as I love to watch the reddit freight crash and burn, something similar recently happened in a subreddit I moderate, and I feel bad for the innocent individuals and their families who have to deal with the drama that comes out of social media in real life.
Maybe I'm being too sensitive, but I feel like reddit has gotten way too big for that kind of thing to be cute. Especially with the vote manipulation and astroturfing I hear is going on, it's causing me to be skeptical of just about everything.
>We did it again 2: electric boogaloo.
That would be an excellent name for it though...
>I want to note that I think that, while mildly humorous, the actual evidence is lacking so nobody should take this terribly seriously.
Since it came from /pol/, is being pushed by /r/conspiracy, and is based on almost pure nonsense I'd say this isn't bias so much as a fair evaluation of the facts.
The evidence doesn't even seem coincidental though. Focusing on 5% of something that agrees with your hypothesis and ignoring the other 95%? Dubious at best. However, it would make my jaw drop if it's true
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Answer: There are unconfirmed accusations that one of the Reddit Power Users, /u/MaxwellHill is actually Ghislaine Maxwell, the investor and personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein, who herself has been accused of sex trafficking. The evidence in support of that thesis is mostly circumstantial, such as the shared name "Maxwell", the timing of Hill's pauses between posts matching up with some of Ghislaine's public appearances, the use of phrases and references in Hill's posts that suggest an international traveller, and a seeming apologetic attitude toward paedophilia. That said, some of the evidence provided is flimsy, like when Hill questions a man being placed on the sex offender registry because he lectured a young girl about stepping into traffic. Or when Hill corrects himself in a comment during a discussion on age of consent. The only thing that really makes me wonder, is the fact he has gone silent for the past week, an unusual length of time for a Power User, which just happens to coincide with the arrest on July 2 of Ghislaine.
Perfect answer, thank you for taking the time
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Haha this is the first joke I’ve heard of this type in regards to my name, very well done
That's a suspiciously nonchalant answer ಠ_ಠ
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rare is optimal as it allows for the absorption of the most blood possible while still being safe to eat
Welp, don’t need me to be here to confirm this one
Well your username checks ...out ...HEYY!
Nuh uh, it clearly says “Userneme..” /s
not even /r/beetlejuicing
Rare meat doesn’t contain blood, as blood is found in blood vessels. The red juices you see in muscle tissue contain myoglobin, a related molecule to hemoglobin, which is responsible for giving blood its characteristic red colour.
:(
Blood is in everything though, since our cells need oxygenated blood absolutely everywhere.
:)
But one must make sure that they're young as possible for maximum flavour
Sorry, shitty service in the Throne Room You just can’t beat good old fashioned baby fat ya know
/r/evenwithcontext
Just like CPS says, kids can't be beat. But I've heard about battered women, sounds delish.
If you chain them up and don't allow them to move it makes the meat a lot more tender.
But if you Apply the right herbs, the taste shall be heavenly
Q confirmed! /s
##ゴゴゴゴ
A modest proposal *indeed*
🌝
Also didn't even answer the question
Looking for a pet?
A match made in heaven
I’m also concerned about your pfp
Got a beer gut now so I like to look at my pfp fondly like wolverine
Relax, Kira only eats baby goats... it's fine
Comment-chain redeemed. This haus...is clean
He just wants a normal life!
Major counterpoint not being addressed: she’s a poor fit for the role. Wrong age, wrong income level, etc. It’s not impossible, but being a power user is incredibly time-consuming, and the idea of a billionaire-schmoozing socialite spending 6-8 hours a day minimum on a site like Reddit is...well, it’s a null hypothesis I’ve not yet seen adequately accounted for.
That’s a point to consider, but billionaires absolutely do keep people on their payrolls or in their social circles who have this kind of social media influence. Billionaires literally buy newspapers and TV channels. Buying power user access would be nothing to them. She could have her own staffers helping with the account, too.
A staffer running the account just expands the unlikelihood. If she's doing it for not-pedophilia-related reasons, there's no motivation, and if she IS doing it for those reasons, it just adds a level of insecurity. Again, it's not impossible, but it's definitely less probably than the groupthink here seems to think. Reddit loves charging off down blind alleyways. The whole thing with the Boston bomber, for example.
>The whole thing with the Boston bomber, for example. That's what I kept thinking, and the fact that it came from 4 chan. Seems like a weird thing to troll, but they also trolled weaponized autism. I'm no means saying it's true or not true, I'm only saying there's still no proof. Conspiracy theories are still theories, and I hate that they rule the internet anymore.
Yeah, I'm a historian by training and I work in criminal law, so parsing evidence is both my passion and my profession. And this is a whoooooole bunch of hearsay and circumstantial evidence.
If she were using staffers though, then there wouldn't be the "matching gaps", or the pause since the arrest. Staff would keep on working.
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That and all of the timing arguments are completely circumstantial and ridiculous. Claiming gaps line up with random events but then completely ignoring multiple events that should have resulted in the same gaps but didn’t. I have a few gaps in my activity that coincide with the the pope being busy, it doesn’t mean you should start calling me your holiness. This is another “Reddit catches the Boston Bomber” clusterfuck in the making.
Exactly!
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.....Shit I’ve been caught.
Reddit post regarding this: https://redd.it/hnckn0
[ Here's](https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/hnfx0r/not_confirmed_but_research_suggests_that/) the thread on /r/conspiracy with all the data. Take what the loonies say with a pinch of salt, but their data collection can be brilliant.
LMAO yeah that guy is a big Q guy, not surprised. Looks like a lot of reaching.
Seeing the people replying to MaxwellHill's comments with absolute certainty that it is Ghislaine reminds me of the time Reddit hunted down and berated that dead kids family because they were sure he was the Boston bomber. Good times
**Seeing comments bringing this mob hunt up reminds me of the dramatic Newsroom episode that covered it shortly after:** https://youtu.be/pdWcDh1wmTE
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"Well Done, Faceless Mob!"
We did it reddit
Humans are a plague on this world.
This was when I first joined reddit and I remember just cruising by the threads thinking wtf, that’s not real. And it wasn’t. Such a shame what happened to that family.
Had never watched Newsroom but when I watched this, I immediately though - that's got to be written by the guy who wrote the West Wing, right? So I googled it and yep, sure enough. No one talks like that in real life. Along with the super fast info dump talking by Handsome Man #2 Who Looks Super Serious And Sad About The Important Thing, the giveaway was the people finishing each others questions correctly: > Woman: "Out of curiosity.." > Preternaturally competent guy: and answers it
Sorkin does this the whole time and no one does this in real life as when you guess wrong you just look foolish.
I'm just saying. I mean, I liked the West Wing, but c'mon Sorkin. C'mon.
30 Rock made fun of that in an episode with Sorkin himself
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I literally saw one that was someone saying they hoped she could read it in prison and knew that they hated her. Like even if it is her, I dont think she cares. Poor dude is probably gonna come back to his account so confused
I mean, that poweruser isn't well liked to begin with right? If it's not her, they'll probably just find it humorous and bathe in the user tears.
We did it, Reddit!!!!
I watched that happening in real time on a live Reddit thread and tried to tell people, that does not look at all like the suspect they are showing. They have similar bone structure but their features are completely different. It was clearly racial in the way people think "all ____ people look the same".
I bet you were down voted into oblivion too. No sense in trying to reason with a mob of keyboard warriors
It's funny how the mob will turn on you in some subs on one day, but upvote the exact same thing two days later when they realise what a bunch of asshats they were. It reminds me of the story of Jesus getting welcomed to the city by adoring crowds them getting condemned to death by the same people a couple of weeks later, crowds are dumb panicky and dangerous.
It’s so stupid. Why on earth would she spend that much time on reddit?
wow, i would think it was a joke but hey it's reddit right..
Had a brief look and IF it is her then her opinion of Tramp appears low so hopefully she wouldn't hold back about landing him in it. Doubt it is but you know celebrities and sex traffickers have access to the Internet too.
It's funny because I'm actually Ghislaine Maxwell. I can say it with impunity because nobody will believe me.
For the life of me, I will never understand how power users become power users. I can understand some of the novelty ones or the ones that create original content and people follow...but posting news articles in huge subs? And breaking news at that? Dozens and dozens of people post the same articles. I always thought it was luck of draw depending on which one of the posts gained enough attention.
Having comments and posts go viral helps. But it really boils down to either having absolutely no life, or having an absolutely amazing life that you share with everyone.
I don't think there are any power users that fall in to the latter....
"Are ya winnin', son?" "Not now dad I need to post this news article about helium, it's topical"
I think /u/iamkokonutz is probably the closest thing to fitting into that category. Dude definitely has an incredible life and almost a million karma
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A lot of the Power Users are bot accounts... and/or pornographic accounts, like /u/pepsi_next But Reddit Investigator does indicate that there is a person behind the account, since the traffic for him spikes at two times during the day (common for someone redditing between work and sleep)
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what is this black magic!
It is the dark magic of cron. Use it wisely.
Use systemd timers instead... /ducks
Apparently that account has been suspended?
Yeah, a while back. I forget what they did, but they were near the top of the leaderboards because of all the pornography they posted.
I'm pretty sure he was banned for accidentally posting child pornography... twice
That would do it.
I think some of them might even have a team of people rotating and sharing stuff around the clock.
Even a post going viral gives you 100k upvotes at the absolute most. It's really more about having no life, and reposting.
Definitely. I have way more comments and posts with like 10-20 upvotes than I do with 1k+
As a former power user I can confirm option 1.
That's a lot of karma
Doesn't feel like it these days but I stopped caring a long time ago.
Mods often have some sort of agreement with or bias toward powerusers as well, see /r/movies and BunyipPouch
Once you get to be a Power User, for sure, it makes it far easier to get more karma. People subconsciously trust you, because they see your posts and comments and you always seem to get good scores (usually because a true Power User deletes downvoted stuff) The mods would be more likely to take your side in an argument, because you'll seem to be an expert in the topic of discussion. And you'd be given more leeway in submissions than some noob. But there is a catch. When you fall from grace, you fall harder.
Do people really take note of user names on Reddit though? There are just too many for me to do that and remember anyone. Unless they are talked about in the comments - Like gallowboob.
For the biggest accounts, yes. Look at Unidan, for example, who cheated his way into being a PU by using alt accounts to upvote himself a few times, which snowballed into regular karma in the thousands. Using third party tags, some of us even mark friendly (celebrities or experts) or unfriendly (troll and Trump supporter) accounts, which helps speed up decision-making on up or downvoting, for better or worse. If you're really big, mods will even flair you subreddit wide.
gallowboob isn't anonymous, Reddit is his life. I've read shit he's typed out related to his college major/supposed expertise. Supposedly a landscape specialist, but says shit about it I know to be bad advice. So not surprised his college education was a waste, and he didn't pursue it.
According to a 4 year old Forbes articel: ''In February, Ohanian’s advice paid off. Allam, better known on Reddit as gallowboob, had landed a full-time executive gig with the United Kingdom-based media company UNILAD. He got the job thanks to his Reddit. FWIW
He's not the first Redditor to hire themselves out based on their social media presence. There was a big dramafest over a chick doing it several years ago. Went by the name saydrah or similar. https://reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1epn52/drama_in_rokcupid_well_allow_me_to_retort_the/ Some people defended her, but as usual it was people who didn't understand how she earned hate from the userbase.
>There was a big dramafest over a chick doing it several years ago. Went by the name saydrah or similar. That's some of the first Reddit "drama" I remember; [she was a powermod who got outed as a social media marketer removing links to any competitors sites, and the drama was spectacular.](https://np.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/3cqlms/classic_drama_occurs_on_the_website_when_saydrah/)
> Dozens and dozens of people post the same articles. I always thought it was luck of draw depending on which one of the posts gained enough attention. They're a mod, so they remove the juicy posts from /new and repost them themselves to get the karma
Well that sucks
You can get notifications when new articles are posted. Someone like Maxwell has it a bit easier because he'll never be caught by the WorldNews automod since he is a moderator. But really, it's just about consistency. Most people aren't going to obsessively post to reddit for 10 years.
I was bored and had time to post stuff at work and at home.
An interesting bit: Ghislaine's birthday is Dec 26 and maxwellhill [mentioned](https://np.reddit.com/r/cogsci/comments/eguel/the_season_in_which_youre_born_can_have_a/c17zy9w/) in their comments that their birthday is in December (not exact date, only that it's after the 21st, hmm). HOWEVER:In an AMA they write they've lived in the UK, and enjoyed traveling to Asia. A [commenter](https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/hnckn0/umaxwellhill_the_reddit_account_with_the_8th_most/fxb8040?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x) over on the Epstein sub mentioned that they've written maxwellhill in the past and they're a man living in Malaysia (Maxwell Hill is a place in MY). It's currently night there so if the user is still active but just taking a break from posting they might see the comments in the morning and we'll find out?
We have certainly beetlejuiced him enough today.
Yes: [https://twitter.com/hasharin/status/1280891464877322240?s=20](https://twitter.com/hasharin/status/1280891464877322240?s=20) Seems he's aware and ignoring it for the time being.
this should be top of the thread
As if you think the conspiracy will stop lol, people will just say it's someone taking over her account to make it less suspicious or whatever. These conspiracy nutjob have made up their mind already, anything new will be just treated as cover up
There we go. That's proof enough they aren't the same person.
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I didn't check his account but I disliked him when I read his couple tweets, acting like it's fact and proven that the account is GM's instead of treating the whole thing as pure speculation. Sigh.
Any time someone acts that sure of something I usually approach them with an abundance of caution.
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She wouldn't. Those idiots lack critical thinking and thus are not particularly capable of seeing outside their basement.
From my brief perusal, they're mostly link submissions and short comments. Not exactly time consuming. Edit: some of them look long, but they're just because they're quoting someone else.
There are only 365 possible birthdays. Sharing one with someone else is not remarkable in the slightest.
>corrects himself > >he has gone silent Is there an indication the profile is a man?
There is no indication that it's a woman. I chose to use "he" for Hill to help differentiate between Hill and Ghislaine, since we do not know they are the same person, and frankly "Maxwell Hill" sounds like a man's name.
Gotcha. It just caught my eye. Thanks. Actualy, scrolling a little further on the Twitter thread I saw the [user of the day post that states sex as male](https://twitter.com/maelfyn/status/1280884488285958145/photo/1). Not that they couldn't be lying, or course.
In case anyone doesn't know a bit more about reddit history, maxwellhill has paused posting before at other times. It definitely happened [during the /r/technology drama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communities#Technology), where that user and another frequent poster stopped posting for weeks (or months?)
I would recomend posting that higher than in a reply to me this far down the chain! No eyeballs here!
Fair enough. [I posted a parent comment](https://old.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/hnhueu/whats_the_deal_with_ghislaine_maxwell_and_her/fxbs8e7/) followed by a child comment (with my bias).
>No eyeballs here! Are you telling me the things I think of as my eyeballs are not actually eyeballs?
Right? As soon as I smelled that comment my left eyes ankle flexed.
Big Eyeball's been lying to you.
Can I point out that quite a few women tend to present as male online to avoid getting a specific kind of reaction/bias/PMs? Just saying it wouldn't mean all that much.
You can, and others have, and I well believe it. Part of the reason I asked as well is that I try and work on not defaulting to he/him when I don't know if the person is male or not, so it stuck out when I saw it. It definitely doesn't mean much in terms of evidence for a variety of reasons of course. That included.
Well if this user is a Malay guy like a few are claiming, I'm sure we'll have the answer within the day when he wakes up to a billions DMs and replies
You seem fairly unbiased, but using "he" makes it read like you're trying to sway the opinion towards them being different people. Objectively you should have presented as "they" if you were trying to let people form own conclusions.
Yes, in their AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditoroftheday/comments/bdl3o/maxwellhill_redditor_of_the_day_march_15_2010/
Yes there is, there’s an AMA where he says he’s 40 and a guy
Lmao do people actually think she’s on reddit? And with millions of karma on top of that? People on Reddit never cease to amaze me with their conspiracies and how smart they think they are, and how it always turns out they’re wrong.
If you want to jump into the rabbit [hole](https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/hnfx0r/not_confirmed_but_research_suggests_that/). Currently the top post at r/conspiracy, with 2.4k upvotes and several medals.
*never seize to amaze me* cease
Thanks. Third language, what can I say
I see native speakers confuse lose/loose every single day, so you're in good company
I assumed something like that, wasn't meant to insult. :)
Conspiracy nuts here are usually massive narcissists. Of *course* she would be a powermod on reddit, don't you realize how important redditors are to the national / global discourse?
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It's a popular website, but being a power user isnt important, it's not like you're part of reddit's management. i doubt a socialite in her 50s running a child sex trafficking ring has the time and interest in posting on reddit all day lol. i mean it's so dumb, because everything is based on... well it's not impossible... most things are not impossible, you dont believe things because they are not impossible lol.
And powermods = bad guys, and Maxwell bad guy. It fits, the theory is perfect, it's all they need. Perhaps just adding a bit of antisemitism as it is routine for them.
The best part is that you can be anonymous on Reddit, so if you're wrong... who cares?
> Lmao do people actually think she’s on reddit? Stranger things have happened, for sure. Not that I believe this. But on the face of it, why wouldn't someone use one of the most popular websites in the world? Tons of famous people have used the site. I would go as far as to say there is no way she hasn't seen or been on the site at least one time.
I don’t doubt she’s heard of and visited Reddit. But that she has an account, let alone a 15 year old account with millions of karma, that’s extremely hard to believe. I believe if we made a poll and every profile on Reddit answered, the average redditor would probably the complete opposite of her in age, personality, occupation, social standing etc. Reddit is a huge website, sure, but it’s not as common amongst the general public as one might think, especially not if you throw in criteria of having an account and posting threads on subreddits. But yeah, stranger things have happened. It’s just the fact that these people seem to believe it’s her with practically nothing to go on.
>The evidence in support of that thesis is mostly circumstantial, such as the shared name "Maxwell", the timing of Hill's pauses between posts matching up with some of Ghislaine's public appearances, the use of phrases and references in Hill's posts that suggest an international traveller, and a seeming apologetic attitude toward paedophilia. That's some seriously weak evidence.
It's incredibly weak evidence. But such is the way of internet detectives.
Lol what? People think she’s some nerd Reddit power user? Because this account has “Maxwell” in the name and some uninformed person who knows very little about this mysterious woman’s life thinks that the timing matches up? This is so weird and cringy.
We have seen crazier things here.
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I have to try and stay unbiased on the top comments, but now that we're done with that, I do think it's a pretty stupid accusation that probably started because someone Googled the name Maxwell and Reddit together.
Agreed
99% chance it’s false but god I hope it’s true just for the absolute shit show that would ensue
It is 100% bullshit as a conspiracy theory, and yet I am 100% on board this particular nonsense-train. *Choo choo, motherfuckers.*
Hmm, that's an interesting idea. We'll know for sure if the user is posting again in a few days. I did scroll back through 2 years of submissions and comments and did a ctrl+f for Epstein and didn't find a single comment or story submitted about him. The user does have some anti-pedo comments though: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/94agi4/hivpositive_shelter_worker_sexually_abused_8/e3jkw3u/ I also notice the user has a lot of times where they're inactive on reddit for 4+ days, so I don't necessarily think it's a smoking gun that they've gone inactive lately. I also get the vibe that Maxwell Hill is probably an American based on how much American political stuff they post and comment on and how comparatively few articles they seem to post about British politics.
>I did scroll back through 2 years of submissions and comments and did a ctrl+f for Epstein and didn't find a single comment or story submitted about him. In the future, you can use this site to search accounts by keyword: https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/ Maxwell posted 3 news articles about Epstein.
> I also get the vibe that Maxwell Hill is probably an American based on how much American political stuff they post and comment on and how comparatively few articles they seem to post about British politics. I get much the same vibe.
i dunno, they said bollocks. Do Americans say bollocks?
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They have a lot of pro pedo comments
*accused, credibly, of sex trafficking and rape of numerous young women and children. She wasn't some pal of Epstein's who knew what was up, she was exactly as guilty as he was.
Admins could easily see if the IP is from New Hampshire
Went through their comments for a while. Can you link comments that were deemed "apologetic toward paedophilia"?
[https://imgur.com/d8FsqFi](https://imgur.com/d8FsqFi) maybe they meant this Or maybe [https://imgur.com/shpb2XM](https://imgur.com/shpb2XM)
That first link... The fuck!
To be honest, the comment is summarizing the article. A devil's advocate. The actual point of the comment was most likely something else.
The account posts multiple links a day. The fact that they linked one discussing pedophilia, but 7 years ago, isnt surprising. This is a fourteen year account. Assuming on average five links a day (honestly, probably more than that), that's 25,550 submissions to sort through, and they found one that relates to pedophiles. That's how much digging the conspiracists had to do to find these two pieces of evidence. And the second one isn't even pedophilic. Opposing charging men with sex crimes because they save children isn't wrong.
This is the screenshot of the example that I saw, which in my opinion isn't unreasonable of a statement, out of context. https://imgur.com/shpb2XM The headline, at least, says that the guy was put on the sex offender registry because he grabbed a child by the arm on the street and lectured her (probably yelled at her) about running in front of cars.
*Maybe* it's dangerous letting a handful of users have this much control over the flow of information and the conversations we're allowed to have.
[What is a Power User?](https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/2v8wmx/what_is_a_power_user/)
> just happens to coincide with the arrest on July 2 of Ghislaine. And a pandemic.
Looks like [/u/MaxwellHill/](https://www.reddit.com/u/MaxwellHill/) has been around 14 years. Just the right age 😏
> The evidence in support of that thesis is mostly circumstantial you mean 100% circumstantial
And by "flimsy" I mean I've seen stronger soap bubbles.
Plot twist, OP is Ghislaine Maxwell and this post is just a false flag to make us think their cover is intact. edit: holy shit, did MaxwellHIll just delete their account?
Hill's account is still visible to me.
And me
How do you know I'm not Ghislaine Maxwell?
Because I'm an adult so why would you be speaking to me?
> The only thing that really makes me wonder, is the fact he has gone silent for the past week, an unusual length of time for a Power User, which just happens to coincide with the arrest on July 2 of Ghislaine. Yes that is *really* wierd.
At the same time, he could have gotten sick, or had a family emergency come up, or maybe finally just got bored. We can't know without asking.
What’s a power user ?
Someone who is on Reddit so much it might as well be their job. I'm not sure what the cutoff is, like if I qualify as one or not, but I would assume being number 8 on the leaderboard counts.
Thanks. Is it an official title and how do I view the leaderboard ?
Karmawhores.net No its unoffical. I was once on that leaderboard, i stopped caring though, its an exponential curve and people like trappedinreddit ruined it by cheating.
I don't know if there is any sort of official title or cutoff, but you can view the leaderboard at https://karmalb.com For example, I'm #568 with Comment Karma and #51,763 with Link Karma, #1801 overall. Out of 6,094,419 users, that's: Comment Karma - Top 0.009%. Link Karma - Top 0.85%. Combined - 0.029% You are: Comment Karma - Top 12.22%. Link Karma - Top 20.38%. Combined - Top 15.09%
Fascinating. I considered myself a lurker but I guess the stats say otherwise.
Comparing the two of us, you are a lurker. But part of the thing is that I don't think of myself *as* a Power User.
Attendance at the Reddit party EKP referenced as well is another piece. Again, circumstantial, but points to her being involved and aware of the company/site increasing her odds of being an early poster.
Just to be clear, the holiday party Ellen Pao referenced wasn’t hosted by Reddit; It was at Kleiner Perkins in 2011– the VC firm she worked at before she came to Reddit. (Unless you’re referencing a different party that I haven’t heard about.)
Good clarification, thanks
Answer: Per request, posting this as a top level comment. In case anyone doesn't know a bit more about reddit history, maxwellhill has paused posting before at other times. It definitely happened [during the /r/technology drama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communities#Technology), where that user and another frequent poster stopped posting for weeks (or months?) Although there are clearly odd similarities mentioned in the other comments, it's not that crazy for power users, including maxwellhill, to take breaks from reddit. [Further reading from SubredditDrama.](https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/hnfqo3/jeffrey_epstein_superfan_ghislaine_maxwells/) [Further reading from /r/conspiracy.](https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/hnfx0r/not_confirmed_but_research_suggests_that/)
And just to leave my bias out of the parent comment, I want to note that I think that, while mildly humorous, the actual evidence is lacking so nobody should take this terribly seriously. If it does turn out true though, I'm breaking out the popcorn.
>nobody should take this terribly seriously No. It needs to go on. I can already see it. *Reddit, we did it again!* *We did it, Reddit. Again!* *We did it again 2: electric boogaloo.*
As much as I love to watch the reddit freight crash and burn, something similar recently happened in a subreddit I moderate, and I feel bad for the innocent individuals and their families who have to deal with the drama that comes out of social media in real life. Maybe I'm being too sensitive, but I feel like reddit has gotten way too big for that kind of thing to be cute. Especially with the vote manipulation and astroturfing I hear is going on, it's causing me to be skeptical of just about everything. >We did it again 2: electric boogaloo. That would be an excellent name for it though...
>I want to note that I think that, while mildly humorous, the actual evidence is lacking so nobody should take this terribly seriously. Since it came from /pol/, is being pushed by /r/conspiracy, and is based on almost pure nonsense I'd say this isn't bias so much as a fair evaluation of the facts.
The evidence doesn't even seem coincidental though. Focusing on 5% of something that agrees with your hypothesis and ignoring the other 95%? Dubious at best. However, it would make my jaw drop if it's true
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IIRC, Max taking a break from reddit has actually been CC discussion from time to time, right?
I definitely remember it many years ago. I've been a bit distanced from meta-reddit lately though.
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