Can you explain a bit about that? I followed the links in the article, and found them to be quite good, so reading this is kinda surprising. From my quick Googling, it seems like maybe someone thought he was pretentious, but can't really seem to get any more solid info. Did he do something that caused people to hate him?
> But kleinbl00 was also a tough-as-nails moderator when he needed to be, knocking heads of unassuming redditors who broke the rules.
From what I can tell, that was an understatement. I don't think there was any one big incident, but he often came off as pretentious and very confrontational and rude, and I guess enough people heard about that behavior that his comments stopped being well received, no matter how good they were.
> but he often came off as pretentious and very confrontational and rude
This is about as accurate as it gets. He was intelligent, there's no doubt about that, but the problem was he believed himself to be more intelligent than he actually was. He literally was a know-it-all with an answer, solution and fix for everything.
The problem with intelligent people who are extremely arrogant is that they are among the most stubborn people there are. When something is inherently subjective, they don't see it like that. To them it's only objective because their opinion can't possibly be wrong. They won't concede a millimeter in a debate.
I've dealt with people like him before so his shtick was nothing new to me. I thought the guy was absolutely insufferable. For many others, he was a novelty when he first hit the scene, his articulate and well thought-out comments were refreshing. But the honeymoon doesn't last long. The more he types out, the more he shows his true arrogant and pretentious self. This is what essentially happened. People finally recognized and saw his ego for what it was, and they had enough.
People ran him off because they thought it was a group of people with a nefarious purpose. Since he was so knowledgeable about so many things, they just assumed he couldn't be one person. And of course, any time a group of people are on reddit that spell bad news, right? </sarcasm>
