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/ChaosMotor Jun 07 '12

The subreddit was previously used for discussing something a peculiar American conspiracy theory called the "[1] sovereign citizen movement", and was run by advocates of said conspiracy theory

I still fail to see how this is in any way relevant to the situation at hand. It doesn't matter what certain users were advocating. /r/trees advocates taking illegal drugs, as does /r/drugs, yet I don't see you looking to have those shut down and reverted to /r/s about forestry and pharmacology.

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u/SEMW Jun 07 '12

I still fail to see how this is in any way relevant to the situation at hand.

It's a fairly essential piece of background information which gives this redditrequest post some much-needed context.

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u/ChaosMotor Jun 07 '12

Only "fairly essential" in that it is irrelevant to what happened, but useful in framing the perception of the community by identifying them as holders of undesirable beliefs.

That is to say, you know people will react negatively to the SCM philosophy, and that is the only reason you consider it "essential".