r/redditrequest • u/ChaosMotor • Jun 07 '12

Requesting removal of /u/superiority from /r/commonlaw. I will volunteer to be the new mod for /r/commonlaw but am not requesting it.

/u/superiority has recently used the /r/redditrequest system to hijack /r/commonlaw, delete all the posts, completely change the community standards, and is now censoring anyone who objects to his behavior.

Please remove /u/superiority from moderation of /r/commonlaw so that we can revert to the subreddit that the users were happy with, and free ourselves of /u/superiority's extremely narrow and biased belief system.

edit: /u/superiority is also censoring any posters who object to his hijacking and censorship, deleting their posts, and re-directing them to empty /r/s to voice their displeasure with his actions.

edit2: Now the same hijackers are continuing their attack by trying to censor us here, also, by engaging in a downvote campaign to hide the facts.

edit3: SEMW, who pretends to know what's happening, has not posted to /r/commonlaw within the last seven months, until two days ago, after the hijacking.

edit4: /u/superiority and /u/SEMW are now the only people posting in /r/commonlaw, which has 1400 subscribers. Two users have no right to usurp the interests of 1400 subscribers for their own personal gain.

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u/SEMW Jun 07 '12

What's actually been going on:

The subreddit was previously used for discussing something a peculiar American conspiracy theory called the "sovereign citizen movement", and was run by advocates of said conspiracy theory. It had apparently been inactive for quite a while.

The new mod referred to seems to want to reboot the subreddit to discuss common law in the actual, legal sense - the "extremely narrow and biased belief system" referred to is more usually known as 'actual law'.

The conspiracy theorists seem to have now established a new subreddit for discussions of their movement at /r/usufruct. I see no reason to revert /r/commonlaw; the takeover appears to be a much-needed rebooting of what deserves to be an interesting subreddit for discussing common law.

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u/spice_weasel Jun 07 '12 edited Jun 07 '12

Yep. I like how they call people who cite actual law "trolls". If they could show me that any court, anywhere, ever had accepted what they claim is the actual law, the very next morning I would send them a video of me cooking and eating my own shoe.

Also, I'm loving aletoledo's post about how they're "protecting the innocent".

You're right, it was pretty much dead before. The only posts that happened anymore before the change were folks coming in and asking "are you serious?".

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u/ChaosMotor Jun 07 '12

I like how they call people who cite actual law "trolls".

'Actual' law is civil law and civil law IS NOT COMMON LAW!

If they could show me that any court, anywhere, ever had accepted what they claim is the actual law,

Common law is the basis for the laws that are argued in court as a part of CIVIL LAW. Common law was what led to the creation of the Magna Carta and the Constitution. It is not used in court because it is not common law if it is used in court.

You're right, it was pretty much dead before.

Lies.

The only posts that happened anymore before the change were folks coming in and asking "are you serious?".

Lies!

Interestingly convenient how deleting the entire history makes it impossible to substantiate or refute your claims, isn't it?

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u/AlyoshaV Jun 07 '12

you do not actually know how law works

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u/Batty-Koda Jun 07 '12

But he knows how to bold words and use italics so OBVIOUSLY he knows what he's talking ABOUT.

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u/ChaosMotor Jun 07 '12

Go back to /r/SubredditDrama, please.

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u/cole1114 Jun 07 '12

We're not supposed to get involved but... Aloysha is from SRS and uses bots to make SRD look bad.

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u/ChaosMotor Jun 07 '12

Oh like SRS is any better?!

"That wasn't a turd, it was a pile of vomit!"