Can someone please Eli5 this? Recent events?

Very much not a fan of civilized posts discussing this being deleted.

I upvoted the post because I want people to see it.

His account was apparently reinstated, which was the wrong move.

Put this turd on blast until he's permanently banned from Reddit all together.

Make more threads, draw more attention, report report report.

Most of the sub does not care about this drama.

you really have nothing better to do?

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Then this sub is doomed.

Agreed

Yup. Ridiculous that we can't discuss this sub's issues publicly

Oooh once years ago but I keep meaning to go back. I’m very close to it.

Is discussing the status of this sub with all the drama not relevant to us? Why was this removed?

And he's still listed as a moderator.

Which smells like BS. The sub might have been largely unmoderated, but it would take me .2 seconds to find a sub in much worse shape.

While I would love this, I can’t see how this won’t be a huge waste of money. I can’t see how they can get it to a low enough price point to make people use it and also how many people will be “regulars”.

I think he's back in control - him, or people just like him. The "Mods" just deleted this post.

Given recent events on this sub, clamping down and deleting posts is the WORST thing you unknown mods could be doing right now. And who the hell are you, anyway?

I was mostly just thinking of the combination of lush greenery overtaking once-nice but now sedated houses, and generally unfriendly natives.

I’m not sure but can we please make r/truerandomthoughts a parody sub?

Sheffield

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_1,_1969,_Berkshire_UFO_incident

It’s just Reddit

Yes. That was lunacy.

He went into the classic paranoid mod mode, banning everyone who commented on certain threads - and in many cases muting them as well. It happens fairly often around here. The process seems to be:

1. Newish mod decides they are God, here to punish those who are heretical in Their eyes. They shall hereby be referred to as The Mod.
2. Innocent users have their posts taken down.
3. Those users complain. Brief conversation takes place in the sub about what's happening.
4. The Mod attempts to defend their actions to the sub. But since their actions are indefensible, the vast majority (in this case, EVERYONE) disagrees with The Mod.
5. The Mod's Wrath is incurred. Bans and deletions come more quickly.
6. Protest from the users increases The Mod's divine wrath. The rate of bans and deletions escalates. Preemptive muting is employed, as is banning on the basis of posts and comments outside of the sub in question.
7. Around this time one or more alternative subs are created by some of the newly-banned. Some members move there to talk about what's going on. This offends The Mod's sense of propriety, since to question Their Holy Will in a place They cannot control is sheer blasphemy.
8. People complain to Reddit, and The Mod starts worrying about getting negative attention from the admins. Like a cat covering up their scat, They start hiding or deleting any conversations that They feel might make Them look bad. In this case, that includes all the batshit-crazy stuff in their personal ranting sub.
9. Here we fork. Either Reddit and/or the owner of the sub does nothing, in which case the more aware segment of the sub users leave for the new alternative sub. We now have two separate communities where once there was one, to the detriment of both. The original sub either eventually dies off, or just dwindles and becomes irrelevant to most people.
   OR,
   Either Reddit or the sub owner comes in and finds the sub in flames. They take hasty action to eliminate The Mod, and hope that the sub will recover with minimal damage. The Mod crawls off to lick Their wounds and plot a comeback, some day.
10. Or - maybe - The Mod comes to their senses. Can't say I've ever seen that happen before, but I suppose there could always be a first time!

So what’s the future for this sub? Is he still mod?

Where do we go from here?

Let's not leave out the fact that the entire downtown is a ghost town and the town is unable to attract many businesses, and those that do open are open for a short time.