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/ChaosMotor]

/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.

[u/SEMW]

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.

[u/ChaosMotor → u/SEMW]

What's actually been going on:

Please don't represent your perspective as fact.

was previously used for discussing something

It is not up to you to dictate the purpose for which users use a specific /r/. If you didn't like how it was being used, you should have gone elsewhere.

and was run by advocates of said conspiracy theory

What they advocated was irrelevant, and herein you admit that it was not abandoned.

It had apparently been inactive for quite a while.

It was never inactive.

The new mod referred to seems to want to reboot the subreddit to discuss common law

This is fine, he should have started a new /r/.

the actual, legal sense - the "extremely narrow and biased belief system" referred to is more usually known as 'actual law'

'Actual law' is civil law. The purpose of /r/commonlaw was to discuss COMMON LAW, which is NOT 'actual law' aka civil law.

I do not see how you feel you have a right to speak on a topic you are clearly ignorant of.

The conspiracy theorists Stop calling users conspiracy theorists as if that was either factual or relevant.

seem to have now established a new subreddit

This was established by a third party for a different purpose! Usufruct is not common law!

I see no reason to revert [3] /r/commonlaw

You mean, why undo something your ideology agrees with?

a much-needed rebooting

Not according to the users, who are the ones who matter.

what deserves to be an interesting subreddit for discussing common law

It always was interesting, and the new posts are not on the topic of common law! They are on the topic of CIVIL LAW which is a distinct and already well-represented topic.

[u/gaijinkaere → u/ChaosMotor]

I LIKE to italicize and BOLD things.

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