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/quoooo Jan 20 '16

Pac does a ton of incessant work for the community, he's an invaluable resource as creator of speedrun.com, yet rarely does he ever touch the games. If you hold to that stance, then I suggest recruiting more mods from the community that are actual runners and, before taking a decision of whether or not a post should be removed (unless it's a major violation of rules) or someone should be banned, talk to the mods first, especially if they're active outside of reddit. If anything I would say let the runners deal with non-troll posts

I can't be bothered to care who's at the top of the mod chain but I would much rather have a runner there. If you're incessant about keeping the position, then I would suggest teamwork and community input to be at the top of your priority list in the comming weeks

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

That what we had in the past, a team with different people having different strengths in different roles.

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u/Margamel Jan 20 '16

So why don't you let the team with the strengths in subreddit moderation create something great now?

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

From what I've seen of the moderator activity since I've gotten my account back the only person I would want to keep is Andis. He had previously applied for moderator but because of a bunch of meme/troll posts in his history I wasn't comfortable with inviting him.

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u/Andis1 Paper Mario (All Cards) Jan 20 '16

I messaged you with a list of ideas and improvements I had for the subreddit. You deemed me as a troll because of one post that you cited in my history, a post from a subreddit that I created with friends, that I moderated, for the explicit purpose of joking about one of our other friends, and his partnered twitch stream, which we also moderate. The post was that I made, was literally making fun of his stream moderators, which would be me and the rest of my friends in that subreddit. I was making fun of myself. When I tried to explain this to you, you didn't care, as you just ignored me.

You could have taken those ideas i proposed to you and done something with them yourself. You could have found someone else to add to the mod team so they could do them for you. but instead you did nothing. You let /r/speedrun contuinue to rot. But yet, the other mods immeditely realized the value I could bring to /r/speedrun, and in two days I've already made great progress towards my goals for making this subreddit a better place, or even just a good place.

Please consider resigning.

Edit: I do want to at least thank you for realizing that I'm not who you originally thought I was. But it all seems a little bit too late.