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View submission: /r/xkcd kerfuffle megathread
I'll just go make some popcorn until someone explains what's going on.
Comment by altrocks at 28/01/2014 at 07:26 UTC
44 upvotes, 2 direct replies
The quick version: A lot of people don't like the mods of /r/xkcd, especially soccer, because they have rather inflammatory beliefs that run counter to what much of the xkcd community agree with and also what the author would like.[1] Some have dealt with this by creating and/or joining this sub, /r/xkcdcomic, while others are trying to get /r/xkcd to be given over to Randall (/u/xkcd) and taken away from soccer by the Reddit admins (so far with no success and no reason to think there will be any success in the near future).
1: http://i.imgur.com/7ylhcBM.png
Recently (like in the last week) there has been some shaking up of mods, changes to subreddit CSS, shadowbanning of people, etc. Some of it even made it to SRD, and a bunch of posts have been made in here and in /r/xkcd about it over the last couple days.
Comment by porygonzguy at 29/01/2014 at 03:35 UTC
7 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Here's[1] a recap I wrote up on it.
