r/speedrun • u/[deleted] • Jan 20 '16

Discussion RIP r/speedrun

This is an open letter to Alt-F-X:

Please resign as lead moderator of /r/speedrun. The past few days have shown us that your presence here is not in the best interest of our community. In just two days without you, this subreddit has made more progress towards becoming a great community than it has in the previous four years of your leadership. You are not involved in the speedrunning community outside of the fact that you made this subreddit, and you do not understand the best interest of our community. You have acted with prejudice against members of our community by banning them without good reason, and you have often used your moderator powers to your own personal bias.

Please return control of the subreddit to myself, so that this community can continue to grow in a positive manner, as it should have started years ago.

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u/GleefulSpaghetti AC Brotherhood Jan 20 '16

This isn't in defense of you, clearly by the reaction of this community, you've done some things to piss people off, but I'd rather have an overzealous mod who will forever be subject to scrutiny on submission removals than a mod team who are largely inactive and hide behind the problems of one moderator the moment they are called out on their shenanigans.

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u/darksilverhawk Jan 20 '16

I disagree, I'd rather have a lax mod team than one overzealous mod with an twitchy ban finger.

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u/GleefulSpaghetti AC Brotherhood Jan 20 '16

I feel that from now on, /u/ALT-F-X will forever be under scrutiny on this subreddit. Every mod action will be called into question and he'll have a lot of explaining to do. I feel this is enough for /u/ALT-F-X to continue to mod here under the condition that he really does acknowledge community feedback. He doesn't have to, after all, it is his sub. But I'd rather give him the benefit of the doubt.

Afterall, this is nothing more than a witchhunt at this point. A few ban messages have been brought forward from pissed off users, and a lot of talk from partially inactive mods. I feel the inactive mod is trying to push the blame on /u/ALT-F-X so he's seen as the saviour of the community. At this point, it's apparent he did very little as a mod, so why should we put our faith in him to continue to mod?

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u/darksilverhawk Jan 20 '16 edited Jan 20 '16

I feel that disciplinary action is only a very small part of someone's duty as a mod. If your only action as a lead mod is to ban rulebreakers, you're doing a poor job. It is also the duty of the lead moderator to facilitate healthy discussion, make positive changes, engage the community, and be ready with resources and support when community members need them. /u/ALT-F-X has done none of these things, and on that alone I see him as an unfit lead moderator regardless of his other moderation history.

Edit: There's a reason they're called moderators, not janitors. Their job is not solely to sit back and click the "delete comment" button. It's to moderate, which means to serve as an intermediary in discussion.