Censorship, Mods r Sus and Brigading
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TL:DR
In this community post I will provide context behind some of the hot topics currently floating around our sub. You will find detailed conversations with the reddit admins that will address the accusations that the Superstonk mod team imposed these restrictions on the community . You will find a defense on the attacks that have been made on our character and motivations. You will hopefully understand better what reddit considers brigading and how that could impact our future.
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Introduction
We've shared some of this before but here is a compilation of everything which we hope will properly address the worries and concerns I am sure a lot of you are feeling. As you will see in this post we are in a quagmire of complicated and delicate situations that make even explaining what's going on difficult without breaking our own rules, reddit admin imposed restrictions and sitewide community guidelines.
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1. Censorship
You might have had a post or comment removed before or at least seen it happen. You have heard us mention all the admin restrictions before but I would like you to really see what we have been dealing with. Here is a chronological breakdown of the communications we have had with the reddit admins regarding our sub.
It began with our ability to link to other communities being removed. We had code inserted into our automod that we were not allowed to “tamper with”.
Followed by an admin telling us we needed to add a ton more mods and we were in danger of having the ability to mention other users taken away:
It gets difficult to share conversations for a while here as they are extensive, sub specific and user specific. I don’t have a clean and simple screenshot but will do my best.. We had 2 admin involved situations with the Jon Stewart AMA and the Ortex debacle. I am showing these conversations to give you an idea of what we have been dealing with.
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Another recent interaction began with the following message during the Ortex AMA. After it… uhhh did not go well on our sub you might remember Ortex decided to try an AMA on another sub. When one of our community members posted a redacted image pointing that out, one of our mods made a sticky comment on that post reminding people to not brigade. The post in question however technically followed the rules by covering the other subs name. This was not good enough for the reddit admins and because our mod did not remove it they took that as us allowing brigading. The original post was nuked and our mods comment was removed and had their mod permissions taken away but we have an old screenshot.
Out of the blue we got this message with no context
Followed by our response to Admin 1 with which we had the most contact with here
And then Admin 3 here
Then out of nowhere we had the ability to tag users and even for users to tag moderators removed. We were able to scramble and build a bot that would at least notify us when someone was trying to get our attention eventually but here is that convo:
We then reached out with the most professional redress of our grievances we could come up with here:
I know this was a lot but you asked for receipts and we are providing them. I hope you can see by the heavy redactions and the context of previous convos with admins why we have hesitated to share this before. If you made it through these conversations, even just the highlighted parts I hope it can inspire you to try and work WITH US instead of AGAINST US when it comes to these restrictions.
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2. MODS r SUS
If I may, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself before we get into the details.I love this community and I love this stonk. I never expected to be put in a position like this when I became a mod. I started out on this sub as a meme lord, dabbled in some DD and eventually found my groove making educational/hype vids like:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/nkqai5/why_the_dumb_money_is_still_betting_on_gamestop/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/tks4qp/gamestop_a_long_story_short_when_your/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/nucecc/the_economy_is_a_meme/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/nzm19r/is_gamestop_finally_crashing_buckle_up/
Eventually I was nominated and promoted to moderator after a bunch of posts like this and I can’t tell you how excited I was. I would finally have a chance to make a real impact. I made a couple more videos after that but at nowhere near the same pace. I couldn’t believe how much work there was to moderating and what little free time I had ended up being devoted to handling community drama, answering modmails, coming up with sticky comments etc. When the DRS theory started popping up there was a lot of confusion so I ended up putting together this post to help clear the air.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/ptvaka/when_you_wish_upon_a_star_a_complete_guide_to/
So why am I “bragging” about my contributions to this sub? Well, you should take into consideration who the OP of any post is at a bare minimum. If you click my username you would not find, for example dozens of posts in memestock subbreddits or posts here claiming the Bobby float was locked and pushing you to invest in it. If you dig really deep and find the “DD” I made 84 years ago you will find data being presented, questions raised and speculation being made clear. If people disagreed with my post I certainly didn’t call them shills and block them. My username is just a click away:
https://www.reddit.com/user/Doom_Douche/submitted/?sort=top
Does that make me right about everything or smarter than anyone else? Of course not, however, I've been here since day one of this sub and I've spent thousands of hours since then supporting this community.
If you click any of the profiles of the other moderators page here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/about/moderators/
You will find hundreds of posts and/or thousands of comments filled with positivity, support, education, mediation and general helpfulness. It's easy to isolate a single comment because drama is spicy and apes are bored but it’s plain ignorant to ignore the magnitude of their contribution when you weigh the decision to hop on the “Mods R Sus” bandwagon. Do you think it's more likely that Kenny has me on his speed dial and I am playing the long con by devoting my life to this subreddit, creating DRS guides, making videos, running AMAs, approving low karma apes and writing community posts like this just so I will one day have the opportunity to “suppress” some apes DD that finally figured out the KILLSHOT strategy i've been hiding this whole time?
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3. Brigading
And now here we are. We have people actively encouraging traffic being sent to other subreddits, award bombing and mass voting. On the eve of our review from the admins where we are desperately trying to get permissions restored to this sub. I don't know whether I should laugh or cry.
I do know that I trust Gamestop, I trust their chosen transfer agent Computershare and I ultimately trust this community to come to the correct conclusion through civil discourse. We understand better than anyone that the newspeak version of “BRIGADING” that has been applied to our community is so confusing and oftentimes contradictory that it can be hard to follow but there's one simple solution. Just don’t do anything like it. The only thing it will accomplish is making sure we never get our perms back or eventually get this place shut down. For now, please continue to report rule-breaking content, we'll do our best to moderate it, and remember, we're all in this together
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3. In Conclusion
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Previous relevant community posts:
Karma Restrictions
No Brigading
More recent No Brigading post
Tagging users
Even more recent No Brigading post
The until recently most recent no brigading post
Oops my bad THE most recent NO BRIGADING post
Posted Apr 29, 2023, 9:08 PM UTC · edited