"How I Ended the Neoliberal Agenda and Saved Half the Metasphere"
148 2017-06-02 by BasicallyADoctor
“The Neoliberal Agenda” or How I Saved Half the Metasphere
Hello folks! Friendly neighborhood /r/4chan moderator here. Boy have I had a stressful last 12 hours! In fact it was just about exacty 12 hours ago when, through a very chance set of circumstances, I found myself in the center of an extremely problematic situation!
Let’s rewind back to last night. I had noticed a few suspicious donations. Thousands of dollars being funneled through the /r/4chan team for the neoliberal worm charity. I noticed that I, when logged in to the /r/4chan account, was able to see the full name of the different donors. All of the big donations were by the same guy. But I also could see my name and the other mods and donors’ names. This spooked me because it meant that my fellow mods knew my real name, and I theirs, but I wasn’t too worried because we trust and love each other.
Later on, I was watching some siivagunner before bed and decided to check in on the /r/comedycemetery discord. As I was reading messages, I got a username mention from the /r/drama discord. There was a bit of trash talk about the competition, but then it hit me: Whoever controlled the /r/drama team would see the full names of a lot of their users. Several mods included! I brought this up and we took it to a private chat room after it got a little heavy.
In the private chat room, we made a very disturbing discovery. Anybody could find the full name associated with each donation. For some reason, the website had chosen to add an “alt” tag to each donation which was the same name you put in your payment information. Since most people just autofill the form, a lot of people had their real names here. Coupled with the fact you are encouraged to put in your username (so redditors know you donated) and this becomes a bit dangerous!
So now, its 1 AM, its me and like 2 other drama users, and we are freakin’ out here! Over 300 people’s personal info is just right here! Freely available! Including some of the edgiest users with the most enemies! Holy shit! I personally laid my eyes on the full names of half the mod team!
We spend the next hour and a half frantically trying to contact the /r/neoliberal mods, the crowdrise staff, anybody we could! And finally, we got ahold of /u/ampersamp. He works with us and I go to bed about 2:30 AM. Eventually they changed the format so that individual donations weren’t shown and the teams were shown as whole entities. So we are safe now.
Where were you when /r/neoliberal doxed itself and everybody who donated to it?
/r/neoliberal statement: [http://reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/6esii7/discussion_thread/didhdk7]
141 comments
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n/a Matues49 2017-06-02
You're goddamn right.
n/a BussySundae 2017-06-02
By having the Michelin-Tire girl hulk out on bath salts. Damn right ssbot
n/a ramukakaforever 2017-06-02
Straight up auschwitz
n/a GoMLism 2017-06-02
Came for an emoji shitpost and am disappointed.
n/a BasicallyADoctor 2017-06-02
I almost got doxxed last night. I'm on 4 hours of sleep. Emojiposting is second nature to me, but I have just been under a massive amount of stress for some time now so forgive me😂😂😂
n/a MakeAmericaSageAgain 2017-06-02
Have you written anything bad on this acc though? I mean, I would be embarrassed to be outed as "that emoji shitposter from r/4chan" but it's not the end of the world in your case, right?
n/a BasicallyADoctor 2017-06-02
idk lol🤷♀️
n/a BasicallyADoctor 2017-06-02
idk lol🤷♀️
n/a LadyVetinari 2017-06-02
It might affect his medical practice I assume he would be swamped with new patients wanting emoji therapies
n/a MakeAmericaSageAgain 2017-06-02
Well he is only basically a doctor so I would assume he's still in med school or a nurse or something. If anything this is good advertisement
"Aroma therapy is for ur nan, emoji therapy if ur a real nan 😂😂😂"
n/a Thhueros 2017-06-02
I actually met one of the /r/4chan mods irl once. He even verified. He looked kind of like a dwarf and he liked memes. Was it you?
n/a BasicallyADoctor 2017-06-02
I'm 6'4" and 130 lbs so probably not 😂
n/a Thhueros 2017-06-02
Hand over your rarest Pepes or I'll dox him
You have 24 hours.
n/a Imgur_Lurker 2017-06-02
Did
Did you put a 1 where you meant to put a 2 accidentally
n/a BasicallyADoctor 2017-06-02
No 😂😂😂
n/a Imgur_Lurker 2017-06-02
Well when I hit puberty it took me a while to put all the muscle on my frame too, I'm sure you'll get there eventually I'm sure your school has a weightlifting class.
n/a BasicallyADoctor 2017-06-02
I'm not in school I just stay at my house all day and post on Reddit he he
n/a lokichilde 2017-06-02
Do u live in Auschwitz?
n/a Peetrius 2017-06-02
Oh yeah? I'm 6'4" and row for UC Davis
n/a BasicallyADoctor 2017-06-02
No wonder we see eye to eye🙄🙄
n/a HivemindBuster 2017-06-02
Do you ever worry you might just snap one day? And I mean literally, as in snap in half like a twig.
n/a b3rn13mac 2017-06-02
are u my brother 😂🤔
n/a MegaSeedsInYourBum 2017-06-02
I wouldn't worry about it. No one will hurt an actual retard, just look at how safe Chris-Chan is.
You're still just a threat to yourself ☺️
n/a wwyzzerdd 2017-06-02
The biggest fear of the white man is that someone might know his government name.
Seriously KYS.
n/a shitpost953 2017-06-02
Yes yes yes, that was me, hackerman, that discovered the alt tag while trying to copy/paste ur dank racist meme-messages into the chat. You can thank me for your good standing with the local Domino's with giftcards to KushMart.
n/a snallygaster 2017-06-02
I noticed that I doxed myself right after making an account. The website really needs to do something about that, but what can ya do ¯\(ツ)/¯
n/a DukeOfGallantborough 2017-06-02
I actually have a burner eMail that I use for sites that I don't trust.
n/a snallygaster 2017-06-02
The problem is that they made it easy to sign up for an account, but then they listed whatever name you used while making a payment (so likely whatever's on your CC) on your account and in your homepage url, with the option to change it only after you'd signed up. Luckily they also made it easy to edit and delete your account, but jesus christ what a bad idea.
Then of course there's this. That company seriously needs to get their shit together.
n/a DukeOfGallantborough 2017-06-02
Interesting. You'd think a bunch of econ PhDs would have better foresight.
n/a snallygaster 2017-06-02
They probably weren't thinking of the portion of the internet that doesn't want their identity exposed when they made the site. I mean, could you imagine 4chan users donating their parents' money to help brown children a hemisphere away?
n/a ComedicSans 2017-06-02
Tbh I could if the organisers called it slavery.
n/a MegaSeedsInYourBum 2017-06-02
As long as it isn't spent on inside pants and loli flashlights I don't think they would mind.
n/a Works_of_memercy 2017-06-02
What's that?
n/a MegaSeedsInYourBum 2017-06-02
You are missing out on something but I don't know if you would call it awesome.
n/a LemonScore 2017-06-02
You know not everyone on 4chan hates brown people?
n/a snallygaster 2017-06-02
no
n/a a_normal_human 2017-06-02
Depends, are they airlifting them from Detroit and Baltimore to over there? In that case, sure.
n/a YearsandMonths 2017-06-02
You'd think they'd protect people who made accounts even more than the people that didn't. Apparently it seems to be the exact opposite? lol
n/a Tiammatt 2017-06-02
Wait wait wait- so if you donated without signing up, your name doesn't show up, but if you decided to become a member of their service, then your name is basically public?
That's like going to Burger King and giving them money and not getting a Whopper, but if you just stand there and give them nothing, you get a Whopper.
Mmmmm
n/a Assy-McGee 2017-06-02
🤔🤔🤔
n/a Tiammatt 2017-06-02
Do you want a hwhopper now or did you think my analogy was garbage? Cause it kinda was.
It was.
n/a lokichilde 2017-06-02
Oh wait, it was only the suckers that made an account that showed their name? lol
Signing up for an account is basically saying "here, use my info"
n/a BasicallyADoctor 2017-06-02
It just made it more easier. EVERYBODY was exposed even without an account
n/a lokichilde 2017-06-02
Oh wow rude
n/a snallygaster 2017-06-02
haha jokes on you you got doxxed too!
n/a lokichilde 2017-06-02
As long as the drama mods only use their power for evil, I'm ok with it.
n/a BasicallyADoctor 2017-06-02
You were one of them who I had the name for lol 🤥🤥
n/a lokichilde 2017-06-02
I feel like I should get (((verified kike))) flair for this
n/a lokichilde 2017-06-02
I used to work for the nonprofit that handles processing all the donations for Crowdrise almost a decade ago. Should log a bug report with them. That way they'll get around to it sometime in the next 5 years.
n/a SandorClegane_AMA 2017-06-02
Reddit does not store your real name with your Reddit username.
Why would you provide both pieces of info on the same form to a third party? Keeping your IDs separate is not complex, and pretty important if you are one these controversial personalities?
n/a PM_ME_MOD_STATUS 2017-06-02
Mod this man!
https://www.reddit.com/user/EdwardHNorton
n/a shitpost953 2017-06-02
Mod this man!
https://www.reddit.com/user/EdwardHNorton
n/a snallygaster 2017-06-02
for what purpose?
n/a blaine19 2017-06-02
He founded Crowdrise
n/a snallygaster 2017-06-02
he better not come across me irl
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n/a riemann1413 2017-06-02
elbows 2 pointy
n/a WearyTunes 2017-06-02
good thing my end stinks
n/a HINDBRAIN 2017-06-02
Any death threats yet?
n/a snallygaster 2017-06-02
Nope, nobody found it outside of the exploit knowers and I'm impossible to find with only my name anyway.
n/a Hammer_of_goofiness 2017-06-02
yep, we all know all about your lifestyle now
TIFFANY TRUMP
n/a DukeOfGallantborough 2017-06-02
Does every sub have a discord now?
n/a InsectThinker 2017-06-02
https://discord.gg/C5AeMuY
n/a DukeOfGallantborough 2017-06-02
If it's the same one as before I'm actually still a member of the r/drama discord. I remember a british guy, red viper, deep voice guy, and a guy with a beard.
n/a Mircy 2017-06-02
That one is not official
n/a Jufft 2017-06-02
Neoliberal does actually. Not that it isn't complete and utter garbage but ya know.
n/a InsectThinker 2017-06-02
Thanks. Do you know if it is posted on their sub?? Couldn't find it.
n/a that-other-username 2017-06-02
It's in the discussion thread, but not on the sidebar.
n/a Jufft 2017-06-02
I think it's posted in the discussion.
n/a FTFallen 2017-06-02
link me to drama discord pls
n/a Mircy 2017-06-02
https://discord.gg/daNsSfg
n/a serialflamingo 2017-06-02
Just LMAO at people who donate to charity tbh.
n/a that-other-username 2017-06-02
Just LMAO at people who hate deworming kids
n/a serialflamingo 2017-06-02
Just LMAO at people who are autistic enough to take that comment seriously tbh.
n/a that-other-username 2017-06-02
Just LMAO at people not understanding the counter-meme tbh.
n/a serialflamingo 2017-06-02
I understood it, luvvie, it was a real knee-slapper.
n/a that-other-username 2017-06-02
thanks sweetie 😘
n/a ComedicSans 2017-06-02
Any more passive-aggressive flirting and you're officially married.
n/a that-other-username 2017-06-02
n/a BANNED_FIVE_TIMES 2017-06-02
It was
n/a serialflamingo 2017-06-02
Sorry, I plan on having a nice wedding. I can't have a morbidly obese mouthbreather as a hubby.
I wish you all the best though!
n/a serialflamingo 2017-06-02
Gosh! You're ambitious!
n/a that-other-username 2017-06-02
I like people who are equal to my morbid obesity and low intellect ;)
n/a MakeAmericaSageAgain 2017-06-02
This is proof that we have a vengeful god who hates the meek. The retribution for lending a helping hand to the poor was swift and righteous.
n/a nanonan 2017-06-02
I think you mean lending a helping hand to staff and administrators and perhaps a tiny part will trickle down to the poor.
n/a lokichilde 2017-06-02
It's okay tho. I get great smug benefits.
n/a nanonan 2017-06-02
Sorry, I meant morons who work for nothing, staff and administrators.
n/a lokichilde 2017-06-02
Ew. Volunteers are suckers. I just
make less than I would at a real companybathe myself in carbon offset dollars.n/a nanonan 2017-06-02
Oh that's cool, you're in on the carbon scam. I can respect a mafioso.
n/a MakeAmericaSageAgain 2017-06-02
Yeah, I've been to a charity organization in the third world and resources are so tragically misplaced it's not even funny in a post-ironic way. A lot of Christians thinking they're making a real difference, but are more interested in importing bibles than feeding beggars.
I was also served tea made by a mongoloid boy and had to drink it all because everyone was watching me. Nothing against mongoloids, but there is a strong possibility half of the water was actually his drool.
n/a headasplodes 2017-06-02
Yeah same
n/a a_normal_human 2017-06-02
Yeah, I thought this was a meme or some shit. People were actually giving cash to this?
n/a Ultimatex 2017-06-02
u/MrDannyOcean if you ruined the credibility of r/neoliberal then I'm coming for that bussy
n/a PhysicsIsMyMistress 2017-06-02
oops
n/a chanilastname 2017-06-02
Anyone got a tldr on this?
n/a BasicallyADoctor 2017-06-02
neoliberal worms doxed me lmao
n/a BasicallyADoctor 2017-06-02
neoliberal worms doxed me lmao😂
n/a HodorTheDoorHolder 2017-06-02
If you now know my real name feel free to PM me
n/a lokichilde 2017-06-02
If you now know my real name feel free to pee.
n/a BasicallyADoctor 2017-06-02
It I could pm it to everyone else except you and every one would know you except you're self😂
n/a HodorTheDoorHolder 2017-06-02
I wouldnt know my own name?
n/a lokichilde 2017-06-02
That's when I know I've had enough to drink
🎶Where everybody but you knows your name🎶
n/a froibo 2017-06-02
I got /u/justcool393 's name. Am I supposed to just dump it or give it to the highest bidders?
n/a HodorTheDoorHolder 2017-06-02
Give it to /u/spez
n/a Ultimatex 2017-06-02
Thank you for the sticky, unlike r/neoliberal (at least for now).
n/a that-other-username 2017-06-02
lol, he actually thinks I have any power
n/a Ultimatex 2017-06-02
Well you are a power bottom, aren't you?
n/a MyrLeaf 2017-06-02
Parties where you were never invited in the first place.
n/a a_normal_human 2017-06-02
discord is cancer
n/a Sarge_Ward 2017-06-02
My man!
n/a glmox 2017-06-02
see, if we just culled the poors, shit like this wouldnt happen
n/a throwmehomey 2017-06-02
well done OP
n/a CosmicKeys 2017-06-02
Let nobody question prince "scrooge mcduck" kropotkin again.
n/a Artremis 2017-06-02
Imagine being enough of a faggot to go on a subreddit discord. Fucking kys.
n/a AHackFraud 2017-06-02
Falling for this is a sign that you've truely master "evidence-based" policy
n/a 80BAIT08 2017-06-02
So nothing happened, you were a good boy and ran straight to mods yet you made a drama post anyway. Typical 4chan mod behavior.
n/a lets-start-a-riot 2017-06-02
That moment when you read the real name of /u/BasicallyADoctor and find that he is your physician in charge of doing your rectal examination
n/a JohnTheOrc 2017-06-02
So you came here to tell us that you stopped drama from happening? Fucking kys
n/a BasicallyADoctor 2017-06-02
I could release all the dox for like half the mod team
Will I or will I not 😶😶😯😯😯😯
I won't I actually didn't keep it but what if someone did lol they could kill a bunch of people or ruin some lives 😋🤔🤔
n/a JohnTheOrc 2017-06-02
Tell us who u/riemann1413 is so that he can be lynched as he deserves.
n/a riemann1413 2017-06-02
i didn't donate
n/a bobbybonnadouchey 2017-06-02
Who are these rich east coast liberals that donate to save some afripoors.
Barely can afford my weekly Budweiser 24 pack.
n/a riemann1413 2017-06-02
consider pulling yourself up by your bootstraps
n/a bobbybonnadouchey 2017-06-02
Maybe later, gotta go to the corner store to trade in my welfare money for cash to buy some Copenhagen snuff.
n/a Assy-McGee 2017-06-02
pretty sure he's referring to the /r/4chan mod team, friendo
n/a a_normal_human 2017-06-02
Just dump it to a pastebin and spam it on 8ch from tor.
n/a Uplift_Yourself 2017-06-02
I thought neoliberals were supposed to be smart.
n/a BadEThrowaway 2017-06-02
its kind of fun watching the impotent far-left fall over themselves trying to find why the charity was a bad thing. slight security oversight, or 56,000 children dewormed. really makes you think. :^)
n/a SpotNL 2017-06-02
How is neo liberal far left?
n/a Uplift_Yourself 2017-06-02
No, I'm just laughing at the fact that you supposedly intellectual neoliberals managed to fuck up so badly.
n/a BadEThrowaway 2017-06-02
When we fuck up badly, we deworm 65,000 children. Maybe that's why our policies tend to run the world; even when we do misstep we still manage to make the world a better place in the process. Unlike, say, leftism in Venezuela or the U.S.
n/a Uplift_Yourself 2017-06-02
Leftism has made the US a better place. Things like worker's rights and civil rights were fought for by leftists.
You guys always take pleasure in pointing other people making a mistake so don't yet mad when it gets done to you.
n/a BadEThrowaway 2017-06-02
Except when they got Bush and Trump elected.
Weird. The people who fought for that were the working class, who seem to be perfectly aligned with the conservatives right now. Maybe your focus on virtue-signalling and historic revisionism scared them off, or they were never really lefties to begin with.
Again, even as we make mistakes, we not only deworm 70,000 children, but the only people that get butt-mad aren't the people like myself that got our names exposed, but rather the bitter leftists who watch their whole "we're the ones who care about the poor" schtick as the conservative wing of Reddit throws $50,000 to impoverished children.
n/a Uplift_Yourself 2017-06-02
You're wrong, you have a very historically inaccurate view.
Anyways, I commend you guys for donating to charity, but all I did was point out a mistake of yours despite you guys acting so smart. Don't get butthurt.
n/a BadEThrowaway 2017-06-02
why are you pointing something out that you only know because we told you tho
n/a Uplift_Yourself 2017-06-02
Because it's funny how you guys act so smart and intellectual.
n/a BadEThrowaway 2017-06-02
When the counterfactual is apparently to be dumb and populist..?
n/a Uplift_Yourself 2017-06-02
You guys act smart and intellectual and make fun of others for screwing up. I just find it funny that now you guys screwed up.
n/a BadEThrowaway 2017-06-02
for finding it funny you sure are tense, lol
n/a Uplift_Yourself 2017-06-02
Whatever.
n/a LefthandedLunatic 2017-06-02
Love how a security breach on a website is being pranced around by leftists on why charities are bad. unless its chapotramphouse
n/a essjaydubyoo 2017-06-02
said no one
n/a LefthandedLunatic 2017-06-02
"I don't believe in Charities" - Bernie Sanders
n/a essjaydubyoo 2017-06-02
You said "security breach on a website is being pranced around by leftists on why charities are bad" How is a 30 year old Bernie Sanders quote relevant?
n/a LefthandedLunatic 2017-06-02
You said no one ever said that they don't like charities, so I gave you an example.
n/a essjaydubyoo 2017-06-02
I didn't mean that literally...
n/a EternallyMiffed 2017-06-02
He's a god damned card carrying communist, does he understand what the word charity even means?
n/a ur_mom_IoI 2017-06-02
i h8 context
n/a Cloacalla_Festival 2017-06-02
what is this shit
n/a Mircy 2017-06-02
I helped but I was late to take the credit :(
n/a razzmataz 2017-06-02
Wait, there's a discord for /r/drama?
n/a BasicallyADoctor 2017-06-02
What a surprise you weren't invited 😂
n/a Zeuter 2017-06-02
Deworming kids? Don't you people know that deworming causes allergies?