/r/WoW is private again (self.realWoW)
realWoW
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Nitesmoke must be trying to log in.
Reason
/r/wow page says: The World of Warcraft subreddit has been shut down due to doxxing.
176 comments submitted at 00:48:42 on Nov 17, 2014 by Caspaa94
From what I can tell, all moderators of /r/wow (including myself) except nitesmoke were removed.
Cant reddit admins step in here? They have stepped in on less before.
I hope they do, I don't want to be accidentally going to /r/wow all the time cursing then typing in /r/realwow instead.
They will hopefully just remove nitesmoke and reinstate all the previous none 10 year old mods.
Well technically it IS his subreddit. I wouldn't be surprised if this was all a scheme to sell the subreddit to someone else.
He was just the first person to realise a WoW sub-reddit hadn't been created yet.
They can, but this only happened 5 minutes ago so give it a few hours. It had 200k subscribers, after all.
Yea, they will step in, just pm them and give them time. He can't take down a sub with 200k subscribers because he's having a fit.
They could. They probably won't. If they let /r/xkcd sit in the hands of someone who used it as a front to broadcast for subs about misogyny and anti-semitism (it's better now, but only because the original holder goofed and forgot to log in for a prescribed period of time), they're not likely to do anything as long as nitesmoke is willing to squat on the sub.
Yeah I was just thinking about the /r/holocaust drama from earlier this year.
It's one thing to step in on how a sub is moderated. It's another to step in because an entire 200k person sub was brought down.
We have a request in /r/redditrequest to remove nitesmoke and put in aphoenix for /r/wow.
So it makes sense right now:
Nitesmoke has become ¨obsessed¨ with his power as /r/wow mod and now the rest of the mods are going to make an offensive and call all of the campions of /r/wow in order to dethrone nite.
Things will happend and nite will be put to trial by Reddit admins in wheter he'll stay as a regular user or be banned. In the meantime the Reddit admins put aphoenix as /r/wow head mod
Nite will escape the admins's veredict and will go back in time to gather an army in order to re-conquer /r/wow and take control of the other MMO subreddits
Reddit: Siege of /r/wow
^^^^Yes ^^^^I'm ^^^^kinda ^^^^imaginative
URL?
http://np.reddit.com/r/redditrequest/comments/2miiuj/rwowiwouldliketorequestthisiamaformer/
Thank you. :)
Unfortunately he's allowed to do with his own sub what he pleases, if he wanted to open it to be about only rule-34 ponies tomorrow he'd be allowed to do so within the site rules.
can't he just give reins to the other mods? what even happened?
And that's exactly part of what's wrong with reddit. Large subreddits should be more than just their founders' playthings. /r/wow should really belong to the other moderators and the thousands of people who subscribed to it every bit as much as some guy who just happened to squat on a good name.
I'm sure some people would enjoy that. But hey, if it somehow put his childish mind at ease then I say go for it ~
I think another mod has reddit requested it.
aphoenix is trying to gain control.
si, i know
http://www.reddit.com/r/redditrequest/comments/2miiuj/rwowiwouldliketorequestthisiamaformer/
He deleted his twitter as well.
Epic ragequit.
What a fucking loser.
edit: he is now claiming it was shut down because he was doxxed, so fucking full of shit and unwilling to even take responsibility for being a complete douchebag. Hilariously sad.
Yeah this is a rage quit of biblical proportions
he said he was planning this from the start.
Yeah right he did that. This is just his kneejerk response cause people called out his bullshit. Textbook ragequitters 101.
So true. "No I didn't rage quit, I was planning this all along, I'm not mad, your guys are the ones raging"
"I demodded everyone and made the sub private again because of consumer advocacy, guys. You should all be on my side!"
Where did he say that? The guy's a real loser.
Not to shut it down permanently, which is what he seems to have done.
You think we would have said what we said and supported him if we thought he was going to shut the whole fucking thing down permanently? We had no idea.
With all the time he has spent being a little bitch on reddit, he could have reached level 100 on two characters already! fucking casual.
if only he could log in
What a fucking piece of shit. He deserves the shit storm that will follow him anywhere it can.
Yep.. I was removed. So was aphoenix.
me too! :)
Did you add your voice to the "hey dude, step down" modmail chain too? I know me, aphoenix, roboticide, and sharkraptor all posted to it.
I never ended up replying to it, and I don't see a way to reply to it now. Where could i do this? I pretty much told him I thought the way this was all handled was stupid.
Everyone told him his choice was stupid, even if he thought it was right.
But the four of us ended up actually telling him he should step down as top mod. I'm assuming he got home from work, saw it, and didn't take it well.
Oh well. Occasionally when you do stupid things you are going to have people tell you that you are stupid.
did you guys remove him from power in the reddit guild on sargeras?
Actually all you need to do to be considered a reddit guild is have primarily reddit members in the guild and have a guild subreddit. Anything else to do with the guilds themselves are strictly up to the people in them. We don't have any say with what goes on in individual guilds. In this particular case I have no idea, I play on Malganis.
Oh well, was fun while it lasted. Hopefully this new sub takes off. Best of luck to you all :)
The ex-mods should have a group chat. I'd be willing to use Facebook, or we can maybe meet in /u/aphoenix's /r/WorldofWarcraft.
Yeah i've been talking to him a bit in game. I'm up for talking wherever.
Lol, forgot about the game client. Not a bad idea, although I'm at work...
Not to mention queues... but queues...
You can chat from the launcher.
True, but we'd have to exchanged RealID info, or be in the same guild, no?
Most of the /r/wow mod team has already exchanged Battletags.
Well... That makes sense.
Can i come too..
We should just use that subreddit... the title makes more sense and it was created before this one
We're discussing it. /u/aphoenix already controls it, so that's nice.
I'd like to use /r/wow if we can get it back. If not, we'll see.
Dog move.
Now he can mod /r/wow himself while we start /r/realwow (level 1)
We should have setup the sub a week ago, we could have gotten the boost to level 90. :P
wtf are you guys serious, there was so much stuff on /r/wow, is it all lost and done with?
Not really anything worth it to be honest. Posts about queues and personal stories. More can come just as easily.
The only thing I'll miss is the list of resources from the sidebar, hopefully they can get something like that up here soon. (actually soon, not Blizzard soon :P)
Soon^tm
Oh jesus, really? What are you thinking is going on?
Spoiled babies in charge of a subreddit, that's going on
Yeah, for sure. He's being a little bitch about not being able to play a fucking game. Many others are having the same problem as him. I've been in queue since 12pm today, 7 hours later and I'm not in yet, but you don't see me acting this fucking childish.
What did he think would happen from shutting down the sub? Blizzard would drop everything and let him in?
He deleted his twitter from the looks of it.
We don't know.
I bet nitesmoke is probably being harassed by some le epik trollz after his "protest" the other day.
From the page where it tells you it's private:
>The World of Warcraft subreddit is no longer here. Please visit one of the fine new subreddits.
To me that says that he's tired of dealing with people talking shit about him and quit.
Now it say it's been closed for doxxing.
His lack of understanding along with selfishness is unbelievable... Does he not get that when the 100,000+ people are stuck in queue and want to keep up-to-date their first point for reference is /r/wow ? The acts of 1 man took years of hard work and destroyed them in a flash. GG /r/WoW and hello /r/realWoW
I think is time you and the other ex-mods message the admins about that spoiled baby and get the sub out of his hands
Sounds a lot like what happened with /r/bloodborne a while back. The head mod removed all the other mods, banned a bunch of people, then appointed one of his alts as a second moderator to try to make it seem like things were still cool.
/ Flaps lid menacingly
/ Directs a wooden stare at nitesmoke
Why can't I just have an Inventory Window like everybody else?
/ Shrug
How absolutely pathetic.
what a dick
I believe he removed himself as well.
I doubt it. If you mod a private subreddit, it doesn't show up on your profile. I don't see why he'd unmod himself if his goal is to keep everyone out.
If you need any help, ask us. We'll be glad to lend a hand.
I mean, this is just the perfect example of why you should not bestow full power to one man.
Did you kick him from the guild on Sargeras?
Seriously? I was with them before, but if that's true then that's TERRIBLE
uh, his Twitter... does not exist. He deleted his twitter.
https://twitter.com/nitesmoke
This is like the siege of orgrimmar except garrosh = nitesmoke