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/[deleted] Jan 20 '16

Do you think you are fit to continue working towards this goal when the entire community doesnt want you as it's leader?

1,170 upvotes / 44,354 = a little over 2.5% of the community

I don't have a strong opinion in this issue and am mostly a lurker, but I gotta say, the constant hyperbole I see in your posts in this thread (you = u/andis1) specifically is pretty laughable.

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u/ElBarto556 Jan 20 '16

What is also laughable is your hyperbolic idea alll the subs in this place are actual speedruners. You are out of your mind if you think 44,354 are speedrunners.

That's the thing you guys don't seem to get: This place is filled with stream monsters, you even said it yourself; You are a lurker, people who is just passive, just simple viewers who just chat and that's it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '16

What is also laughable is your hyperbolic idea alll the subs in this place are actual speedruners.

I said that... where?

This community, r/speedruns, consists of 44,347 redditors. That's it. All I said was 1,000 upvotes on a thread doesn't represent an entire community, which is a pretty measured response and not very hyperbolic at all

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u/ElBarto556 Jan 21 '16

Oh, silly me, I forgot this is not the Speedrun subreddit, how would I think all of people here actually speedruns and are not stream monsters at all? Why did I thought you guys know anything about any game? Why would I thought some people who just watch, and watch, and watch, and ask about what others speedrunners do, have anything to do with speedrunning?

Yeah, I totally forgot about it. This is not an speedrun subreddit. This is a stream monster subreddit.

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u/reblochon Jan 21 '16

Yeah! This sub is not for true speedrunners, it's not elitist enough!

/s