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View submission: The history of the /r/xkcd kerfuffle.
What happened with /r/trees? Also, I don't know about other situations, but I trust that Randall will do good things with the sub if he was given control. He said that he rarely uses reddit anymore, so he would just be on top in case any other bad mods were added. He'd appoint a few other mods he likes to watch over the sub, I assume.
Comment by Anomander at 09/02/2014 at 00:49 UTC
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/r/trees started off as /r/marijuana or the like.
Head mod was racist islamophobe, enforced said beliefs on users.
Users lost their shit, founded /r/trees, and now the original is a ghost town.
The example being that it is possible to transfer over when moderation kills a community.
Comment by badbrownie at 09/02/2014 at 00:50 UTC
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/r/marijuana used to be the default place for smokers but there was some uproar or other about the mods and everyone just up and moved over to /r/trees. Sorry, I don't remember the details.