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Comment by giziti at 01/02/2014 at 06:37 UTC
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The most recent flareup was that somebody noted that conpsiracy and mensrights were linked - MR was more recent - and was curious about what was up, as xkcd hadn't really commented on the latter. People then commented that the moderator was kind of shady. In response, the moderator banned a bunch of people, deleted the discussion, and added theredpill to the sidebar. Now, mensrights isn't intrinsically bad - there are some bad discussions, but the idea of it isn't bad. And conspiracy has some perhaps tangential relation to xkcd, but more from the "making fun of" side. The moderator then added automoderator to remove any possible discussion of this issue, including the existence of this place, which was started in response.
About a month ago, a new moderator managed to get himself added, and he finally succeeded in removing the link to theredpill, which was the most odious thing about the whole kerfuffle. As you can see by perusing previous discussions in this place, at that point, people here were saying, "Great, this place can shut down, there's no need for us anymore." soccer removed nothing. He has done nothing constructive about the entire thing.
However, that moderator got booted and now we are where we are now.
Comment by Shanman150 at 31/01/2014 at 19:03 UTC
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Well, it's more about the fact that /u/soccer doesn't run the subreddit at all. He didn't make the CSS, he didn't put it up, that was stuff from /r/xkcdcomic. He never ever comments, and he's never posted to /r/xkcd. There are people far more willing and more able to run the subreddit. Yet, just earlier this week, he removed a mod who was actually making the subreddit into a better place and instead added two other mods who ALSO do nothing with xkcd.
People are upset because the title subreddit for xkcd is being run by someone who's only concern with xkcd is that he doesn't want to be removed from the subreddit he owns.
In addition, he changed it to approved submission only, so we're not even allowed to post anymore.
Comment by eightNote at 01/02/2014 at 09:33 UTC
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somebody else removed those, and got removed frm modship as a result