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Mod PostThe Future of LNM (self.LetsNotMeet)

10thTARDISThe Doctor[M] が 投稿

Hello, everyone.

A couple of hours ago, Dragon posted a message to say that he was going to shut down LNM for good as a protest against the admins.

I am happy to report that we have talked, and Dragon has stepped down as top mod. I have replaced him, and I will be reappointing all of the mods who were previously part of LNM.

So, to reiterate:

LNM is staying open, I have been appointed as top mod, and we will continue to move in the direction previously stated for the moment.

Edit: Also, I want to say that while I don't agree with his actions today, Dragon was a huge part of LNM-- he created it, and he guided it along for years. And, after he had decided to shut down the subreddit, he reconsidered after hearing from the users that they really didn't want it to be shut down, and passed it on to someone else. And for all of that, I am very grateful. He could have tied it up, but instead he let it go free. We have a bright future ahead of us!

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[–]maximumhelschadenfreude 34ポイント35ポイント  (5子コメント)

i've seen you as top mod the whole time anyway ;P

[–]10thTARDISThe Doctor[S] 23ポイント24ポイント  (4子コメント)

<3 Thank you. I did check with Dragon about a lot of stuff, though, so I was really more like a steward.

[–]ClockworkFate 7ポイント8ポイント  (3子コメント)

And now you're like a king - well, a lord. Of a certain sort.

(In all seriousness, though, thank you so much for keeping this up and running.)

[–]10thTARDISThe Doctor[S,M] 22ポイント23ポイント  (2子コメント)

You might even say... a Timelord. ;)

The mod team and I love this subreddit just as much as the community does. It's why we do what we do, and why we'll continue to do everything we can to ensure that this subreddit continues to be as awesome as it is.

[–]theMediatrix 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Thank you!!!!!!!!!

[–]shantinori 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Thanks for sticking around! I love reading this sub.

[–]exubereftthe shadow beneath the sun 44ポイント45ポイント  (4子コメント)

Woohoo!! Thanks, Dragon! You meant well, but retiring instead seems the saner choice. And hip-hip hooray for Tardis! :)

[–]avecdesailes 29ポイント30ポイント  (3子コメント)

Not really sure he meant well tbh, that was a p selfish idea imo.

[–]Skepnewt 10ポイント11ポイント  (0子コメント)

Thank you for this, Tardis.

[–]SiberianH 29ポイント30ポイント  (5子コメント)

Thank you! It would have had been a shame to lose this subreddit because of his knee-jerk reaction.

[–]23423423423451 6ポイント7ポイント  (4子コメント)

And really, are reddit politics going to effect this sub? There's nothing to censor, no truths to debunk, no harassment around the site coming from here. Until they start claiming all written works as their property and start selling them off for their own profit, things should be smooth in a place like this.

[–]SiberianH 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

They shouldn't normally. The only reason it happened this time was because Dragon was being selfish and was making decisions without considering the community or the other moderators. I find it ridiculous that one person would try to talk for the whole community of LNM.

[–]Rikvidr -5ポイント-4ポイント  (2子コメント)

We do have a smallscale problem of Feminazis here. Not Feminists, those are fine, but Feminazis. They come and upvote all of the "a man looked at me and I called the national guard" posts and shit this subreddit up.

[–]exubereftthe shadow beneath the sun 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Um, no. No such thing as that person you are imagining. Maybe lots of women and girls, and the people who care for them, genuinely find such stories scary, instead of your imagined conspiracy? We as mods are cracking down on stories that don't fit the theme of this subreddit, and that kind of story (where it is more fear and less substance) is slated to be decreased. However, sexism towards the tellers and the ones who upvote them will not be tolerated.

[–]Rikvidr [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

I regularly upvote good stories about girls being stalked, and I've even given advice to some of them. If someone is legitimately being harassed, i'll try and help them, and I'll upvote their story, because stalking is not okay. But there absolutely are stories here where a girl is sitting on a park bench and some lanky awkward guy tries to engage in conversation and the girl literally runs away and locks her doors as if all men are out to rape them. Those stories are often met with positive comments from other females like "ugh so gross" "what a creep". If it were an attractive male approaching that girl, they more than likely would not run. And I am not the only one who has brought this up, far from it.

[–]mandi-von 16ポイント17ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm going to pretend all of the fireworks are going off in celebration of LNM staying open. This is such good news! Yay! :)

[–]AGhostOrchid 6ポイント7ポイント  (1子コメント)

Has posting been unrestricted?

[–]10thTARDISThe Doctor[S,M] 10ポイント11ポイント  (0子コメント)

Oops. Now it has!

[–]mjoallie 7ポイント8ポイント  (1子コメント)

So...why was the sub shutting down for good? I missed the message.

[–]GrimBrunn 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

Reddit is currently ran by an interim CEO named Ellen Pao, who over the past few months has seen the site abandon it's stance on free speech, censor subreddits over vague harassment rules, and delete threads and shadowban users posting critically of her. Many users saw these as somewhat justifiable, but others feared for the direction Reddit was heading.

More recently, /u/chooter, a well-loved admin who was pretty much single-handily running the AMA feature of the site and the only remaining contact many mods had to Reddit's administration, was let go without notice or reason. This left the most of the AMA feature of the site broken and subreddit mods having no way to officially organize AMAs or receive official help. The only response Reddit admins seemed to give was refusing to comment, directing mods to a email address which wouldn't reply, and mocking them. This lead to many subreddits, including this one, to temporarily shutdown in protest of the poor communication and attitude of the Reddit admins.

In the aftermath, it's been rumored that /u/chooter was let go because of her resistance to monitizing AMA's. It was also discovered that they also allegedly fired another employee for having cancer. This all combined with increased censorship of these topics on Reddit and shadowbanning of users, which has lead many to seek to leave the site, including I assume Dragon.

Personally I don't think the decision should have been his alone, and am glad he left it to /u/10thTARDIS to keep it alive, but it's definitely also important to recognize that Reddit isn't the same site it was a few years ago. Neither Dragon or any other user should be attacked for wishing to leave.

You can find more info in /r/Blackout2015/ or /r/OutOfTheLoop/.

[–]awesomemanftw 21ポイント22ポイント  (28子コメント)

good. All this shit with places shutting down permanently is pissing me off more than anything admin have ever done

[–]10thTARDISThe Doctor[S,M] 16ポイント17ポイント  (3子コメント)

LNM will never shut down permanently so long as I am the head moderator.

We may have the occasional day here or there where we shut down either for maintenance or in protest of something or other, but we will always come back.

[–]awesomemanftw 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

yes, and I thank you for that. sick of people shutting down their subs under the guise of "protests" when they just want attention. cough cough solidwhetstone cough cough

[–]Bennytheowl 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

The hero that we need

[–]10thTARDISThe Doctor[S] 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Nope, just somebody who has sunk a lot of time and effort into this sub and recognizes that other people have, too.

Plus, I really love reading the stories.

[–]mbapex22 7ポイント8ポイント  (0子コメント)

Woot Woot! I was really bummed thinking my favorite sub was disappearing. Thank you!

[–]terpin 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

Why was it going to be shut down?

[–]AGhostOrchid 7ポイント8ポイント  (0子コメント)

Tardis sign my chest!

[–]SkangryphAll feathers and claws 3ポイント4ポイント  (2子コメント)

I was freaked out when I saw the message about us going offline!, I was all

"I go to sleep and THIS happens!?"

I guess now were back time to keep chugging on, I still wish I knew why he/she decided to just leave and remove the sub, But will keep moving on anyway!.

[–]maximumhelschadenfreude -1ポイント0ポイント  (1子コメント)

following the mod of /r/crappydesign......who caved after a billion messages and just removed themselves as a mod, letting the sub stand. it would have looked extra dickish if it closed when the sub cited as the inspiration/reason came back online. but whatever, tis over. it was just totally shocking to not be notified at freaking all he was gonna pull that, so glad Tardis saved it -.-

[–]SkangryphAll feathers and claws 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah it seemed like an out of nowhere decision, I too am glad that 10thTardis saved us, I mostly saw 10th as the leader already because Dragon hardly ever popped in.

[–]Voiddreamer 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yay! :D

[–]Pokeman1022 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Amen

[–]Coffin_Nail 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yay!!!!!!

[–]mermaid_finzz 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

Thank God!! I was so upset after reading that! This is the ONLY sub I read religiously!

[–]KumquatEmily 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

What in the hell did I miss while I was asleep?! I'm glad this sub is staying open!

[–]NinaPanini 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

Thank goodness. I've become a more recent reader of this subreddit and would hate for it to be shut down already.

[–]10thTARDISThe Doctor[S,M] 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Don't worry, we aren't going anywhere. And welcome!

[–]NinaPanini 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Thank you!

This subreddit has made me even more cautious when I'm out and about. The stories are so addictive that I have no qualms about reading them in the middle of the night. ;-)

[–]MissAtomicBomb7 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Thank you very much! LNM has become my favorite sub and you are doing a great job.

[–]Narwhals4Lyf 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Good. I love this sub. Keep doing an amazing job.

[–]freestylewrassle 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Was having a brief existencial there lol

[–]the-crotch 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

We have a bright future ahead of us!

Not if reddit keeps going in the direction it's been going...

[–]meyersj5 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yaaaaaaassssss!!!

[–]whitneycat 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

:D

[–]howardmoondles 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

omg yes. what would i have done without LNM?!

[–]Sophiesmommy7 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Thank you!!!

[–]gymnasticRug 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

This was the first subreddit I subscribed to, so glad it isn't dying!

[–]mrbitchtitz 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Fuck yes. Favorite sub by far.

[–]badsharkmovie 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

When will posting go back to being unrestricted?

[–]10thTARDISThe Doctor[S,M] 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Posting should be unrestricted now; I unrestricted it an hour or two ago. I'll take another look at it in the morning if it's still not working-- it's been a very busy evening, and I need to get some sleep.

[–]badsharkmovie 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

NM, just saw it's been unrestricted as if two hours ago. Hooray!

[–]Greenheartpuglover 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

The doctor's job is done again! 😀

[–]Eugene37879 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

This is the best subreddit of them all. It would've been a shame for it to have closed and for the archive of stories to have been lost forever.

[–]SmokinAces998 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

YES!

[–]Rommel79 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

You mean a bright future as long as you toe the company line, right?

[–]10thTARDISThe Doctor[S,M] 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Politics on Reddit will probably have little to no effect on LNM. We're not a revenue generator for them, and we never will be, so I seriously doubt that we'll ever have issues the way that the defaults are supposedly having issues.

[–]Nucky1920 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Here, take my upvotes!

[–]RELisAwesome 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

As LNM my favorite sub Reddit, I'm so happy that it isn't being shut down

[–]hippiemomm 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yay! You're awesome! This is my favorite sub. I didn't want it to go.

[–]0verTheRainb0w 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yay! Love this sub!

[–]CatAndTonic 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Brilliant! We love you Tardis!

[–]Avicenna1 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Idk who dragon is but fuck him

[–]luckjes112 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I think it's a bad idea to shut it down. I'm no anthropologist or psychologist, but I do think that victims of stalkers at least need somewhere to vent... I think.

[–]KolaWolf 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Oh wow thank you! This is one of my favorite subreddits and I always read as much as I can, so thank you!

[–]Wackbot 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Shutting down the subreddit would only upset people. This is one of my favourite subreddits and I hate to see it go in vain.

[–]JJohnsonMtMan 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Cool. Can we stop posting "I'm a female sitting in a bar and a guy came up to me and asked for my phone number" LNM posts?

[–]10thTARDISThe Doctor[S,M] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

We're working on that! Stay tuned! :-)

[–]arbourvitae 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Sounds like a coup.

[–]somniorum 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

OH THANK SCIENCE!

[–]BriteDiamond -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

Thank you, I Love this subreddit!!!