I am officially calling for
/u/spez
to step down. What we saw tonight was appalling. We upvoted Donald's ama to the front page legitimately and got more comments and upvotes than the Obama AMA, yet mere minutes later, mods enact a script which steadily removes upvotes from the post. But the icing on the cake was this piece of cancer which
r/enoughtrumpspam
manipulated to get to the top of
r/all:
http://imgur.com/gaechd1
Furthermore,
r/enoughtrumpspam's mods claimed they "did not condone" such low quality posts saying they were unworthy of upvotes, yet they refused to remove the post and instead worked with the left leaning reddit mods to put it on
r/all
despite every other post on
r/all
outranking it by several thousand upvotes. It did not stop there, when
/u/spez
realized his upvote removing tactics failed to halt the incredibly vast influx of upvotes and activity coming from Facebook, 4chan, and Twitter users and realizing Trump's AMA was already on it's way to the top of
r/all, the mod team decided to completely remove the ama from the front page, and was instead replaced by (ironically) spam from
r/enoughtrumpspam. In conclusion, we have seen a general level of unprofessionalism and vote-manipulation by a reddit mod team who has abandoned what were the original principle values of Reddit to be a bastion of free speech after the fall of Digg and instead converted it into what would be a "Hugbox." I, on behalf of many centipedes, as we call ourselves, call for
/u/spez
to step down from his role as Reddit Administrator.