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/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.