Bullshit.

Hokes actively tried to get me to apologize for not liking their moderation the moment I got there. There wasn't a day that went by that Hokes said Scarlet, I, and occasionally Unconfidence were part of an conspiracy to bring them down whenever we said that we disagreed with Hokes.

You want to throw out that Hokes did minor things? You want to say that the rest of the mods did the same things? Be prepared for me to tell everyone what actually happened then, because you're lying, and I expected better.

• Hokes would deliver speeches about mod solidarity whenever they were questioned or someone said something that they didn't agree with on this forum, trying to shame and guilt and yell them into line. Do you know why we did that? Because Hokes would use greentext to deliver their own opinions under the guise of official moderator response. Frequently, Hokes would try to get us banned from voting on mod decisions, from daily business to top mod.

• Hokes drove off RaineyJ this was, the most polite, unassuming, soft-spoken person on the team, left crying, resigning without a word, and leaving this sub, because they felt the atmosphere was so oppressive, that they couldn't express their own opinion without getting beaten down.

• You want to know what the rest of the team did yesterday? They justified what happened to her, and Mudbunny said, "How was I supposed to know?" instead of taking responsibility. Yeah, because when you have a mod that is repeatedly allowed to go outside of the rules and calls conspiracy on anyone who disagrees with them or shames them for having opinions, who could feel unwelcome, eh?

• Hokes went outside the rules. They claimed to have executive power and would remove posts that other moderators voted to approve, only saying that "I couldn't allow this thread to stand." or, "I can't trust you to enforce the rules, so I have to do it myself." They tried to enforce the moratorium before all votes were in, which is what the last removed post was about.

• They repeatedly insulted other users personally in mod mail and were never punished, with only one incident yesterday being the real crackdown, and even then, it was just a stern comment. Yeah, moderator accountability my fucking ass. Oh, and Hokes got warned for personally insulting one person in a thread months ago. Progress!

• As soon as Hokes figured out that I was close to a certain person (my boyfriend), he continually insulted him and insisted I was leaking things to him, on top of a variety of other people with zero evidence, along with anyone else he disagreed with, including Scarlet and Unconfidence. Yeah, an actual witchhunt against people Hokes didn't like from someone who constantly cried 'WITCH' when it came to people Hokes didn't like disagreeing with them.

• Hokes pushed an effort to allow no one to comment on the rule change (6), and not post the rules to the sidebar, insisting on a list of banned topics to be updated. Did I mention that Hokes pushed for the moratorium to protect someone after we'd have CP discussions continually without anyone objecting? Because, hey, what's an open discussion forum for both sides without a list of banned topics banned for questionable reasons whenever it's convenient for one side?

• After Mudbunny said that Scarlet and I could stay in the off-site mod talk board in the non-mod topics, Hokes banned Scarlet for hosting a tell-all AMA where he exposed Hokes' behavior. Mudbunny didn't see the problem. More than that, the justification Hokes used for banning Scarlet wasn't even something that he said, but another user, and was merely about Judge stepping down. Yeah, not even on the scale of what I've told you guys, but Mudbunny wouldn't DARE try to do any of that shit to me in my thread, because deep down, he knows it's wrong.

• The best part? Mudbunny just didn't check who had said what had gotten Scarlet banned. Hokes was just allowed to ban one of his critics for no reason, and Mudbunny saw no reason to be suspicious and never apologized for doing it. None of the other remaining mods gave a shit either. Hey, why should I be surprised?

You're fucking kidding me, Mudbunny, if you want to say that any mod did ANY of what you're claiming they did. Take some damn responsibility. Because you seemed to eager to do so here:

http://imgur.com/a/mK1GD

Yeah. No one did what Hokes did, and no one cared because they had no interest in holding anyone to account. What they did was deplorable, and the only crackdown was on anyone speaking out. You said that you would take responsibility, and you're still covering up for Hokes.

It's despicable.

I should have stopped Hokes from accusing those who disagreed with them as being part of a witch hunt. Sometimes, disagreement was simply a disagreement.

Yes, only sometimes, and Hokes only accused those who disagreed with them as being part of a witch hunt, not him creating an environment of constant baseless accusations of conspiracies, including continued efforts to name his critics as people leaking modmail content or doing the work of other users to the point where RaineyJ felt so beaten down and afraid to speak that she left silently, crying and feeling like no one ever cared about her contribution to the team. Oh, and only sometimes a disagreement was a disagreement.

You'll say to my face that I tried so hard to work with Hokes and that you failed as a top mod to let things happen this way, that you didn't step in and solve the problem, but around here, you're content to shove it under the rug, downplay it, and blatantly lie about what happened.

Fuck you.

. I should have stopped people trying to get Hokes disciplined for every minor thing that they do a lot sooner.

Oh yes, all of those things I listed? Minor things that everyone did, apparently. Not even remotely true, but hey, feel free to parrot what Hokes said in Slack yesterday and say it's your own opinion, despite it being entirely false.