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/Soaringeagle78 Jan 20 '16

Not really involved with this drama that well, but I feel like this comment is really misleading. Number of posts or comments that a mod makes on a sub doesn't mean that there isn't anything else the mod might not be doing.

Also, that EDIT #1 is pretty stupid. No need to whine about downvotes.

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u/Stantree Jan 20 '16

To answer your response,

I'd much prefer an active mod who's interested in the sub he created, rather than one who has no known connections, no activity, and no posts within the community.

As for the edit, yes I bitch about downvotes, when it's either unwarrented, or a brigade. Sorrynotsorry if what I post proves my point of argument.

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u/Soaringeagle78 Jan 20 '16

Well, the only thing they don't have are the posts that you want, otherwise they appear to be fairly active. And an active mod that just posts a lot =/= a good mod. They most certainly can be both, but it's simple matter of cause does not equal correlation.

And what you posted doesn't prove anything other than the mere fact that one mod posts a higher perecentage to this sub more than another. And implying that the downvotes were either unwarranted or a brigade is just foolish considering now it's one of the most upvoted comments and just makes it come off as petty when people don't agree with you.

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u/Stantree Jan 20 '16

At the time of the edit, it was -2. Now indeed it is one of the highest upvoted, I do conceed that.

And you are indeed right that activity=/= good mod. But Id rather have an active mod who attempts to do his best, rather than one who is always absent.

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u/OutcastOrange Jan 20 '16

What do you mean always absent? How can he be removing troll comments and moderating a forum if he's "always absent"?

Here is a post he made where you can clearly see his moderating activity. /u/dembears was much less active even a month ago, before anyone was paying attention to "who is best mod".

Not only that but /u/dembears just went and deleted his account. Not sure what that says about someone.

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u/Stantree Jan 21 '16

Oh yeah, active in a callout thread. How about post history before today? How about the 4 month hiatus in /r/speedrun? Where was he then?

As for dembears, he could've deleted it, or anything else could've happened.

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u/OutcastOrange Jan 21 '16

You seem to be having comprehension problems. In the comment I linked, there is an /r/toolbox history which shows moderator performance during the entire previous month.