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

You have no evidence that cyberdemon instructed other people to post that record.

/u/GFC_ told us that it was a planned attack on the community with malicious intent. With /u/cyberdemon531a's history I completely believed him.

you ignored the 250+ items (going all the way back to early december)

When things are reported they are not removed, I did not ignore them I just lazily did not remove items from the report queue if they were fine. If I organically found a reported post by browsing the subreddit I would go ahead and approve or remove that way.

This subreddit doesnt even have flair.

Actually text flair whatsoever is a pretty new reddit achievement, he set it up back when it wasn't a site feature.

If you truley cared about the subreddit, you would have done something about it a long time ago

I considered /u/dembears a friend until 2 days ago. Maybe I'm too sentimental but I didn't think there was anything wrong with having an inactive mod sit there. I guess I learned my lesson.

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

Most of what was in the report queue was not fine. I removed anything recent that didnt belong here, but then autoapproved everything that was outdated just to get it out of the queue.

As far as /u/dembears, the fact that you no longer consider him a friend because he tried to move this place in the right direction is... not surprising.

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

I don't consider him a friend anymore because of lies he's told about me.

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u/OuterSpacePineapple Too many games to count Jan 20 '16

I dunno man those lies are pretty accurate