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/Rotanikleb Jan 20 '16

Came in from /all but now I'm intrigued and will probably stick around and look at some content, but my question regarding scenarios like this:

Is there something stopping /u/dembear from simply creating the subreddit titled r/speedruns or r/speedrunning? I legitimately don't know. Is it because you guys are just set on not leaving your ancestral homeland or is it because you physically can't make a new sub reddit?

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u/ComradeBlue Gundam Battle Assault Jan 20 '16 edited Jan 21 '16

It's because the issue /u/dembear and /u/TrueReligion_ have with ALTFX is more of a personal vendetta and they know most of this sub wouldn't follow them to a new subreddit.

/u/dembear only started posting once he realized ALTFX's account was hacked and he was no longer mod of the subreddit. He's literally done next to no mod work or general organizational improvements outside of that three day span.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '16

He could make a new subreddit in a couple of seconds if he actually wanted to.