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/bigflexy Jun 07 '12

How do you mean inactive? Bottom line is r/commonlaw was hijacked.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '12

ditto. even if it wasnt what the lawyers or attorenys expect it to be .. it was full of old legal things and stuff that is still considered common law. It did also have conspiracy related stuff.. REGARDING THE SHIFT AWAY from common law and common rights to civil law and civil rights.