Thanks for the input! Could you elaborate? I had heard good things!

Mount Auburn, no question. CHA is… not great.

I was also out of the loop, looks like it started here: https://old.reddit.com/r/CambridgeMA/comments/yiossn/notice_were_taking_a_break_from_bike_related_posts/

And continued with a pinned post a few hours ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/CambridgeMA/comments/yje899/open_request_for_ideas_on_cambridgema_can_be_made/

Context is important then, isn’t it?

As a fellow Cambridge resident, joined. Thank you!

Yeah, your responses continue to illustrate that you just don't get it/appreciate the fact that this is a problem of your own design. It's not on everyone else to demonstrate to you that they want to be part of whatever sort of solution it is that you imagine yourself being at the center of... appoint new mods and step back.

Are you sure that yours isn't? Reading these posts as someone who has no idea what's going on or what the conflict is seems surreal.

Exactly.

But the sad fact is, if someone hurts our Mod’s feelings he takes it out on this community. It’s sad, but that’s where we are at /r/CambridgeMA.

I seem to have missed the underlying conflict here. It sounds dramatic and bicycle -related on the basis of the comments here and posts over there....?

Joined and unsubbed from this one!

I can see this comment. Thanks for sharing the messages.

We need to allow posts about cycling on this subreddit. What's the point if we can't talk about the ways we move around our city?

As someone who has lived in Cambridge and Somerville in the past 6 months, seems like the place to be

I was part of the initial wave of permanent bans on this sub after publicly disagreeing with this rule.

I few minutes ago, I was (seemingly?) unbanned and “temporarily muted” on this sub. Please let me know if this post is visible as I am unsure what the mechanics of a mute are.

Receipt: https://ibb.co/pxKcspt

I look forward to discussing a path forward towards restoring a degree of trust in the moderation of this community.

That said, until at he abuse of power demonstrated here in the last day has been meaningfully addressed, I will be remaining unsubscribed and will work to contribute to r/camberville

As things stand currently, I believe that the mod here should work with the community to onboard a mod team in line with the ethos of Cambridge and then gracefully step down.

Edit: Mechanics of a mute: https://www.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/205269739

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You created the toxicity by banning all posts about cycling because a cyclist spit on you.

Meanwhile, you ignored your moderation duties for years, including plenty of pretty toxic posts on this and other topics. Dat moderation backlog…

But no! Someone outside of Reddit does something bad so now the people you have power over get punished! Yes, this is a normal and totally healthy reaction. You also banned many people who were respectful but challenged your arbitrary decision even when you asked them for feedback… It’s only healthy, right?

Your lack of self-awareness is only matched by how totally unqualified you are to have power over anyone else. You cannot even control yourself.

Thank you for your feedback.

My pleasure. I hope you consider it seriously.

Thank you for your feedback.

You created a rule based on something that happened to you OUTSIDE the sub. And now you're trying to solve a problem that wouldn't have existed in the first place if you hadn't done that.

You blanket banned anyone that mentioned bikes. That had everything to do with your personal position and opinions and nothing to do with effectively moderating the sub.

>Everyone who's been banned will have their banning reconsidered if they want to be part of the solution.

Don't reconsider. Immediately reverse all bans. Appoint new moderators. Step down.

Your toxicity meter is broken.

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The bans were put in place to limit toxic posts while a new path forward is created.

This is just sad.