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View submission: [Meta] Closing up shop indefinitely!
The fact that Soccer is still sitting there at the top of the mod list is ominous, though. It'd be all too easy for him to return from whatever hiatus he's on and be all, "holy crap, my precious sidebar links!" *revert*
Conversely, it's a little worrying that Wyboth has a history of participation in SRS - we don't need /r/xkcd to go from being run by Kodos to being run by Kang. Hopefully Wyboth keeps his/her politics out of the sub's moderation.
Comment by Wyboth at 22/01/2014 at 15:14 UTC
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Gender issues come up very rarely in xkcd, so my mod actions won't really have anything to do with my feminist beliefs. Speaking hypothetically, if Randall were ever to post a comic that I found offensive or disagreed with, I'd just say that I found it problematic. Deleting the post on /r/xkcd would be an abuse of power, and it'd be pointless, since it's still visible on xkcd.com. The *only* mod action I could ever see myself doing that would be motivated by my feminist beliefs would be removing blatantly racist or sexist comments, or telling people to edit slurs in their comments. I know SRS gets a bad rep outside of the Fempire, so hopefully people won't want to get rid of me just because I participate there.
As for soccer, the only thing we can hope for is that he becomes inactive for a while and he doesn't see a redditrequest thread asking to remove him. He's been active recently, though. I asked him to change AutoModerator's permissions, and he did. I might have to wait a while.
Comment by sleepsholymountain at 27/01/2014 at 15:12 UTC
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Conversely, it's a little worrying that Wyboth has a history of participation in SRS - we don't need /r/xkcd[1] to go from being run by Kodos to being run by Kang.
Haha okay buddy[1]. The Kodos and Kang metaphor doesn't work by the way. Kodos and Kang were on the same side and only pretended to be political opponents to guarantee one of them would win. srs and /r/mensrights genuinely disagree with each other and don't want to see the other gain any more influence.
1: http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Liz-Lemon-Eye-Roll-and-Exhale-30-Rock.gif
