What is Michael Brutsch, aka Violentacrez, doing in a private moderator discussion board on Reddit?

One day after Gawker outed Violentacrez as Michael Brutsch, “the biggest troll on the web,” Brutsch was back, this time as himself, mrbrutsch. What's more, according to a leaked screenshot that SocialTimes obtained yesterday, Brutsch has been invited to participate in secret moderator discussions in a private subreddit. Why?

One day after Gawker outed Violentacrez as Michael Brutsch, “the biggest troll on the web,” Brutsch was back, this time as himself, mrbrutsch. What’s more, according to a leaked screenshot that SocialTimes obtained yesterday, Brutsch has been invited to participate in secret moderator discussions in a private subreddit. Why?

Reddit has made contradictory statements in the media regarding its latest pubic relations debacle involving the now defunct troll, Violentacrez, and the sleazy and sexual subreddits he was highly involved in, either as moderator, contributor or creator.

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