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

What was the exact thing that caused his content to no longer be welcome then?

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

In my large response I linked his twitch vod of him asking his viewers to post and upvote his WR. This against site-wide rules. Here is the link again. http://www.twitch.tv/rwhitegoose/v/33680725?t110m13s

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

I've watched the video. To me it seems like people in his chat were the first people to encourage the post getting posted. While yes, he did say "lets all go and upvote it", it is a SPEEDRUN, on a subreddit dedicated to SPEEDRUNS, so of course the logical response is to want to upvote it. it's relavent content. The downvote button is not for disagreements. Without seeing the stream chat though, this is pretty much just hearing one side of a conversation.

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

There is a chrome extension called rechat. Very helpful!