Hi there. Here's my side of the story.
It all started when we added
/u/peetrius
as a mod. We added him to the skype chat. From the start, he was distinguishing comments unnecessarily, acting rude in the skype chat, and not being an effective moderator. 3 days ago, another current mod of this sub, as well as another user, brought his activity to my attention. What we did was the rest of the mods talked. Together. We came to the verdict that he was not representing the subreddit particularly well, and was acting out of line. So, I messaged him privately.
[3/16/15, 7:45:27 AM] jortbru1299: Dude you gotta tone down that kinda talk
[3/16/15, 7:45:36 AM] jortbru1299: A ban is not the answer
[3/16/15, 7:45:53 AM] jortbru1299: I will remove you as mod if that behavior continues.
Notice the date on this is 3/16/15. One of his major arguments was that we did not tell him before we demodded him. We did that, too.
Here's what we said when we released him as a moderator.
Thanks for your time,
/u/peetrius. We as a mod team just felt like you were not meeting the high expectations that the CinemaSins subreddit and the rest of the mod team need. Thanks for your time, and we wish you the best of luck in your future moderatorships. jortbru1299
So we did.
Tonight, we started receiving comments from him, posted to the most recent sins video thread. I'll let you formulate your own opinions.
text: Funny coincidence how the Sin Suggestion Thread was posted a day before this.
Since the moderator who posted the reply calling me out on my supposed false accusations here's a screen shot and text of the reply I was going to make until he or another mod deleted it.
Text:
/u/pyth110
It's not really funny, it was planned that way. Remember when we talked about it in the Skype mod chat?
my reply: It was hardly planned that way in the skype chat. jortbru made that decision on his own without consulting the chat. Here's the exact message of his reasoning
>well I want to get the SST participation up again, and if people see it was actually a video, they will want to participate again.
Although it's nice to get participation up he removed me because I called him out on making sin suggestion threads which the mods don't even care about the sins they wanted requested.
/u/subnam
rewatched the movie to suggest sins that you jortbru knew weren't even going to make it into the video because it would be released the next day. even
/u/piano1987
recognized how useless it is to make a sin suggestion thread for a video that was already finished. I asked what's the point of doing this and even said that this was a poor way to get the community involved, but immediately after I said that ardvark and jortbru said I was being removed.
Here was my thought process for the SST this week.
And so few of you lot participated in the SST before this video came out? I was trying to see if you all thought like Chris and Jeremy.
And that was that.
/u/peetrius
thinks that the only reason we removed him was because of his comments relating to this SST. It was not. Here are the messages he sent in the skype chat.
Here's what he said about how the rest of us are "jealous" of him.
[3/13/15, 6:16:26 PM] Peetrius: 100k is the lowest it looks like
[3/13/15, 6:16:37 PM] jortbru1299: How do you know?
[3/13/15, 6:17:38 PM] Peetrius: because I got gold and you guys didn't.
[3/13/15, 6:18:00 PM] Peetrius: I would have gotten it regardless since
/r/4chan
has 600k
Basically he said that we were too irrelevant to get gold.
In conclusion. I have been humiliated and my integrity has been questioned all throughout tonight. I take great offense at the accusations that have been placed upon me.
Feel free to look here.
I hope everyone is able to formulate their own opinions on the matter. If anyone wants to ask me any more questions, go ahead. I want to be open with everyone.