Another thing that is pretty huge you forgot. Thundergrunge sent this to me telling me I was removed.

Hey Oppa,

I'm going to be the harbinger of some bad news. I have no doubt that you are aware of the things that happened the last few days. It became something negative for our mod team. Based on the following reasoning, we decided to remove you as a moderator of /r/pokemon.

Lets clarify this decision. First of all: when I say us, I mean all the moderators. This situation was at first discussed between me, Abra, Jensenj2 and wtfReddit, and after we got to a conclusion we also decided to get feedback from the other mods. Together we came to the similar conclusion.

What happened are several things that made our mod team incoherent. This situation started with another throwaway leaker. You gave him thumbs up for a post, but in that post it was mentioned that the mods confirmed the legitimacy. You were also posting in that thread about how legitimate it was. To prevent another fiasco (like the ORAS demo throwaway) I removed the post as an emergency. This was also done because of the fact that the images that served as proof, were dead links.

A big discussion followed wherein the leaker just backed out and didn't want to show proof anymore, but where he started to discredit the moderators through his comments. Because of this this person was banned. Not a big deal being it a throwaway (which only wants to leak, so don't understand why he didn't continue anyway). However, the next time I came on Reddit you overturned this decision without any communication with any mod whatsoever. Now you showed us proof, but again links were dead. This cannot happen in a mod team, we should be able to rely on each other.

And then you posted the video where you as a moderator of /r/pokemon were actually discussing the leaks with a prominent YouTuber. You were essentially our representative, while we never discussed anything about this. None of the other mods knew you were doing this (and already so fast after the apparent leak). Besides that you are not our representative. Besides that we are a moderating team and are not a source of any kind that can confirm leaks as legitimate. We should not be presented like that, and that is exactly what you did. Besides that it made you look like the one who is in charge, while as mentioned before we must work as a team.

Besides the fact that your way of decision making does not take into account that we are a mod team and you make these kind of decisions on your own, it is also really remarkable how everything of the last few days just end up with you. It seems like you are almost in league with the leaker. But that's of course not the main reason, it did add a negative atmosphere to the situation.

So, to conclude: I want to thank you for the help you were able to give us and your positive contributions to /r/pokemon, but we need a solid team especially with the release of ORAS coming next week. We cannot rely on an individual that does not work as a teammember but rather solos it out whenever he seems fit.

Of course: if you have any questions or remarks, you can contact us through modmail. But we are not overturning this decision. I also want to highlight that this does not mean you are banned, but your custom name color and stuff will get removed.

Once more, thank you for the positive things you have done, but we will not be working with you in the moderator team of /r/pokemon any longer.

~Thundergrunge, on behalf of the /r/pokemon moderator team on this matter and on this matter only.

And also I would like to quote this from the same person who didn't believe the photos we were sent.

"This cannot happen in a mod team, we should be able to rely on each other."