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Reddit has blocked Gawker from several of its threads in order to protect "a prominent member of Reddit's community, Violentacrez," who started the /r/picsofdeadchildren and /r/jailbait sections. Yesterday Violentacrez deleted his account because Gawker's resident Reddit reporter Adrian Chen is intending to run an expose with his "real name and picture," according to a post on Reddit announcing the ban. Chen had mentioned Violentacrez in his post "Reddit's Child Porn Scandal," where describes the user as a "50-something Texas software engineer who openly brags about having oral sex with his 19-year-old step-daughter." Because of that "pursuit to harrass and, allegedly, blackmail reddit moderators with public release of photos and personal information," some subsections have punished the entire Gawker network disallowing any of their links.

Violentacrez was a beloved member of the Reddit society, it seems, because of his contributions to the porn community. Voted redditor of the day on March 25, 2010, he was described as "synonymous with porn on Reddit." This tribute to his legacy singles out the traffic he drove to the site in its early days, "as his numerous porn subreddits brought in a lot of visitors and pageviews to this site and, thus, advertising revenue," writes user POTATO_IN_MY_ANUS. He also moderated other, more safe for work, threads, but he even called himself Reddit's "creepy uncle" in his Reddit Ask Me Anything. (That's where he talks about hooking up with his 19 year old step daughter).