Please be patient while we clean up an attack on our subreddit.

Hi everyone,

The fine people at r/C_O_B_R_A have decided to report bomb the comments in the top posts of the subreddit in order to trigger the spam filter and make it look like the mods are mass removing the comments when we are not. Apparently they care so much about censorship that they're censoring all of you to prove some weird point.

Anyway, you may see some posts temporarily locked while we clean them up and reapprove the comments. We'll reopen them as soon as we can.

Edit:

To give you all some background, yesterday we removed a post from our subreddit about a Saudi man who admitted to abusing an Egyptian laborer after it came to light that the video was fake. By that time the post was turning into a witch hunt and we had to close it down.

As this subreddit features content that makes people angry we're on a short leash with the reddit admins. We have to take a diligent approach to dealing with harassment here as the admins have told us they'll ban the subreddit if witch hunts start here. As that was what was starting over this fake video we had no choice but to shut that post down.

Without asking us what was happening or why it was happening some people from r/C_O_B_R_A decided it was a censorship conspiracy and started harassing us in our modmail. We didn't take them seriously after explaining it to the the first few of them because they were just posting obscenities and death threats. Apparently not giving them attention has led to this attack.

We have updated our spam filter so the mass reports hopefully won't remove any more comments. We will be removing the harassing comments from the people coming in from that subreddit and other outrage subreddits to try to keep posts on topic. To be transparent we will probably be banning most of them and reporting them to the reddit admins for abusing the report system, so when you see them complaining on r/SubredditCancer and r/WatchRedditDie you'll know that they were banned for the attack here.

The comments section is now open if anyone needs to get something out, but keep in mind the rules of this subreddit still apply.

Thanks, and happy new year!