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View submission: [Updated] Who runs /r/Holocaust? Each line represents a moderator overlap. [OC]
What happened to that subreddit? Looking at the top postings it used to be a real place to discuss the holocaust as opposed to denialist fucktard trash spewing horse shit.
Comment by duckvimes_ at 23/07/2014 at 01:41 UTC*
185 upvotes, 10 direct replies
I mentioned it in another comment, but basically:
1. /u/soccer (a white supremacist/neo-nazi) gained control of the subreddit through /r/RedditRequest.
2. He invited all of his neo-Nazi friends.
3. Said friends turn /r/holocaust in an antisemitic, shit-filled Holocaust denial forum and ban everyone who disagrees.
He's done this with a lot of subs (/u/soccer's modlist is *huge* because of this), ~~including /r/xkcd (*visit /r/xkcdcomic instead*), which now has mods that will actually censor and remove xkcd comics that disagree with their personal beliefs.~~ Kind of pathetic, really, but there's nothing we can do about it.