Hello Vive sub. We want to apologize for any confusion and set the record straight. We approached the moderation team about helping out with this sub in order to make it a hub for up and coming Vive information. This meant AMAs with our team, developers, and industry insiders. We also planned to create reddit exclusive content for you, our most knowledgeable supporters. Our hopes were to drive traffic here from other sites because you as a community, our are most important and valuable friends. You have the unique ability to share both your passion and critiques of what we are trying to accomplish in a constructive manner. By pushing traffic here from our social handles and calling it our official subreddit, we were attempting to let the broader public know, this is where they could have a deeper conversation with your community.

The moderation team allowed me to be a moderator, of which I never changed anything or had plans to. Our team simply wanted a public figure on the forum in case you had a deep question and wanted to find me easily to ask. We were hoping to give the moderation team perks for growing this community and had hopes of working with them to test our system themselves so they could be among the most informed.

This new sub in question looks to be from the moderation team 500500 banned as moderators before having a conversation with me. We have nothing to do with it and did not ask that to happen. I had reached out to him a couple of times in the past week in hopes of working with him and the rest of the team. He did not respond and was absent from reddit for a few days. The rest of the team made a judgment call and allowed me to join the moderation team. Again, our only hopes were to create unique content for this reddit community and thank the moderation team for spreading the good word.

We apologize for any confusion this may have caused and would gladly answer any questions regarding the situation. This was never a “corporate take over” situation and we wish 500500 would have had a conversation with us about our intentions prior to this decision. We still want to be a part of this sub and create amazing exclusive and informative content for your community.

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We want to let the community decide what they want our involvement to be from this time moving forward. At this point we understand moderation rights were not the best option and flair would have been a better alternative. To add clarity around the ‘perks’ mentioned, we wanted to offer mods invitations to local events to try the Vive in person in order to better understand how it works, updates on when major events were occurring, and the ability to offer feedback on what type of content could help the community grow.

We’d like to work with our partners to plan future AMA’s and other reddit community initiatives. We have always welcomed criticism, as much as praise, because it is the driving force that allows us to offer a better product to you, the community. Please let us know if and how you would like us involved moving forward.

We truly value your feedback and would love to stay engaged with you on reddit. If you would like us to stay involved, we’ll keep a close eye on the types of AMAs and media content that you think would best help the community flourish."