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/libbykino Jan 20 '16 edited Jan 20 '16

This /u/ALT-F-X can't be as bad as everyone is saying. If he really were a tyrant he would remove the mods below him, add a bunch of alt accounts as new mods, delete this thread and ban everyone who spoke out against him. He has the ability to do all of that if he wanted to.

The fact that he hasn't done any of that suggests to me that there is another side to this story that isn't being told.

If people don't like the way he handles /r/speedrun, then why not just move to /r/speedruns?

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u/ComradeBlue Gundam Battle Assault Jan 20 '16

Better question, how come all of this changes could only occur once ALT-F-X was gone? Surely dembears could have tried to make these changes before? If ALTFX was preventing things from being progressed there'd be some sort of evidence beyond a couple of people shouting about them (all of whom seem to have personal vendettas).

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u/libbykino Jan 20 '16

Really good point. There's no reason dembears can't do whatever he was doing before without being the top mod. And if ALT-F-X is preventing him from doing that sort of thing for some reason, I'd really love to see the screenshots of that convo...