Long time reddit transparency advocate /u/go1dfish shuts down his /r/POLITIC subreddit, opens a new (user generated) transparency tool called /r/modlog, says goodbye to all of his reddit friends by name, and then leaves a note in /r/SuicideWatch before all activity stopped on his account.

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/36ogis/long_time_reddit_transparency_advocate_ugo1dfish/

created by bilbodabbins32 on 20/05/2015 at 21:41 UTC

118 upvotes, 4 top-level comments (showing 4)

/u/go1dfish was a former mod of this sub, and one of the oldest reddit users on the platform.

His goodbye post to undelete,

My participation here is an artifact of an earlier better time that has long since run its course. We've still been able to pretend like reddit was here and it was still the best way to spend time online, but I grow tired of this delusion.

When reddit was first started there were no subreddits. As subreddits were added (first by the admins and then later by the community), the original "front page" remained as /r/reddit.com.

The defaults didn't exist for the first 2 years. There was only /r/all and /u/jedberg saw that it was good. Politics, technology and police abuse ruled the day. (Don't taze me bro!)

Then reddit decided that democracy wasn't good enough.

http://np.reddit.com/r/ideasfortheadmins/comments/8h8sy/subscribe_new_users_to_rall_18_reddits_instead_of/c09c9gy

And things went considerably downhill from there. I had no idea of this change at the time, and I blissfully ignored usernames for the first few years of my reddit experience.

Link to removed /r/suicidewatch post[1].

1: http://np.reddit.com/r/SuicideWatch/comments/36ncwt/im_not_just_saying_goodbye_to_an_old_friend_im/

The content of his last comment;

We're not just saying goodbye to an old friend, we're saying goodbye to thousands.

Reddit is not a platform to express my ideas or participate in the conversation. So I won't.

I hope other reasonable people will come to the same conclusion.

It's the only way we have to show reddit that they are systematically harassing the community by their own definition.

Safety doesn't matter on a burning platform.

Drama abound in the comments as /u/go1dfish calls out various reddit admins, board members, mods, and users by name.

A long discourse about /u/kn0thing and the history of reddit.

/u/go1dfish reveals that it was old guard moderator /u/BritishEnglishPolice who was the impetus for all of his transparency bots due to a conversation wherein she derided /u/go1sfish for defending free speech on reddit.

Disagrees with old guard reddit mod /u/anutensil's political views, but respects her moderation and reddit company.

An homage to /u/-moose- (formerly /u/yrugay)

Thanks admin /u/deimorz for creating automod, therein encouraging go1dfish to take a stand against heavy handed reddit moderation.

Comments

Comment by blaaaahhhhh at 21/05/2015 at 04:48 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Lost about 2 hours in this post.

The anarchist mods were dicks... That downing street memo should be reposted, also i don't understand the comments in the 9yr old post... Most importantly, why isn't a log of all mods available, it seems obvious and simple.

Comment by Putin_loves_cats at 20/05/2015 at 23:25 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Maybe it was metaphorical?

Comment by [deleted] at 20/05/2015 at 22:04 UTC

2 upvotes, 2 direct replies

I just contacted reddit admins and asked them if they have any means of checking if he's alright.

Comment by [deleted] at 21/05/2015 at 00:16 UTC

-13 upvotes, 2 direct replies

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