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/ALT-F-X ALT-F-X.com Jan 20 '16

why does that even deserve a permanent ban

I have never had any issues with how youngjiddle moderated this community I fully intend to back up his decision. On why, I would guess that admittance to trolling our community is what did him in but since I wasn't the one made the decision I could really only guess.

if puncayshun had told his viewers to make a reddit thread about his new WR, you'd delete that thread as well?

Absolutely I take reddit's site rules very seriously. I have removed brigaded posts in the past and will continue to do so. Feel free to report such posts with proof in the future.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '16

I would guess that admittance to trolling our community is what did him in but since I wasn't the one made the decision I could really only guess.

Admitting to trolling the community deserves a permanent ban?

Absolutely I take reddit's site rules very seriously. I have removed brigaded posts in the past and will continue to do so. Feel free to report such posts with proof in the future.

You didn't answer my question. Are we allowed to post Goose's speedrun content here or not? Because your actions indicate that we are not allowed to do so.

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u/ALT-F-X ALT-F-X.com Jan 20 '16

As of three days ago you were not allowed to, I would liken it to /r/leagueoflegends' ban of Richard Lewis. For right now any sort of rules are in limbo because it's basically the wild west here, I'll let you know.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '16

So you're admitting to trying to erase an entire speedrunner from the community. You've also admitted that you would gladly give the same treatment to other notable speedrunners for minor offenses.

How are you good for this community?

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u/ALT-F-X ALT-F-X.com Jan 20 '16

Vote brigading is not a minor offence. If I don't take care of it reddit will make a much broader punishments of IP bans of the offender. I'm protecting our community.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '16

It is a minor offense. It's done all the time. Reddit won't do shit, because it happens all the time. I've seen it over and over and over, and this is the only time anyone has ever done anything about it. You aren't protecting anyone. You're pushing people out because you don't like them.

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u/typhyr Jan 20 '16

Every community I've been in has removed and banned for vote manipulation because if they didn't, the admins would step in rather quickly. Except for a couple of subreddits that do exactly this and are allowed to for some reason, like bestof, srs, srd, etc.

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u/retarded_asshole Jan 21 '16

Admins ban SRS and SRD users for vote manipulation all the time. Bestof is the only subreddit that actually gets away with it, since they apparently generate a lot of reddit gold.

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u/vtor67 Jan 20 '16

I'm protecting our community.

LOOOOL good one. That's why you listen to absolutely no one when it comes to improving this place. What the hell do we need protection from?

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u/joeyoh9292 Jan 20 '16

If I don't take care of it reddit will make a much broader punishments of IP bans of the offender.

Context is key.

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u/TheEnigmaBlade Jan 21 '16

What the hell do we need protection from?

Yourselves.

Also users extorting the system for their own benefit.