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__**[|Reddit's Controversial User Prompts Gawker Ban]**__ Stories from Gawker Media have been banned in at least three major Reddit forums after the community discovered that the identity of one its most controversial users may be revealed in an upcoming //Gawker// profile.

__**[|Unmasking Reddit’s Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web]**__ Last Wednesday afternoon I called Michael Brutsch. He was at the office of the Texas financial services company where he works as a programmer and he was having a bad day. I had just told him, on Gchat, that I had uncovered his identity as the notorious internet troll Violentacrez.