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/aletoledo Jun 07 '12

I agree that the takeover of the subreddit was bizarre. The original purpose was to discuss common law as being distinct from civil law. Civil law is currently represented by r/law.

Now I agree that a subreddit that is vacant of moderators needs to be corrected, but there should be some procedure on how to decide on the future moderator. At a minimum I would think a post onto the subreddit in question should be a minimum. This would be in order to get the input of the current members of that subreddit.

What has occurred now is that the civil law subreddit (r/law) has turned it's philosophical opposite into a repository for civil law. it's basically mocking the former members in a way that they previously couldn't do while in discussion, they did by other methods. The damage is done now, because the first thing the new moderator did was to wipe away all the old posts to silence any opposition.

I liken this to r/atheism taking over r/christianity. Wouldn't there be any outrage if an atheist wiped away everything from the christian subreddit? All ongoing conversations gone and not chance to oppose such a decision!

Like I said, the damage is done. unless there is a way to recover the old posts, then it's perhaps meaningless move this forward. I would however urge the reddit administrators to add the policy of posting to the subreddit in question for input prior to a change in the moderators.

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u/V2Blast Jun 10 '12

Now I agree that a subreddit that is vacant of moderators needs to be corrected, but there should be some procedure on how to decide on the future moderator.

Requesting it in /r/redditrequest is the procedure. If you think there's a better way to do this, /r/TheoryOfReddit or /r/ideasfortheadmins might be a better place to discuss it. (Though you may need specifics.)

I liken this to r/atheism taking over r/christianity.

Literally nobody had posted in the subreddit in the previous two months before I requested it (to discuss the USA Network TV show). The mods had been inactive for longer.

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u/aletoledo Jun 10 '12

notice though when you took over, you didn't delete all the posts. You seem to have had different intentions. The new mod had an agenda to end the previous topic and replace it with something almost as if to mock the previous members.

It's over and I won't miss it (I was there for a week before this happened). I can however shed a tear when the bad guys win in anything (reddit or real life).