At this point we all know what happened in parts of Milwaukee late last night.

When things started breaking out we saw a huge influx of submissions and comments, many of them duplicates and many of them blatant racism or trolling. Since we have a very, very small moderation team the only person available was theaudi0slave on his phone.

Attempting to moderate such a large quantity from a phone, by yourself, is no easy task. theaudi0slave made the decision to combat this by quickly removing all related threads and funneling everything into a megathread where he could much more easily get notifications of all new comments.

Was it the best-case option? No. Was it best option for the availability at the time? Yes.

Once I got home I logged in to help theaudi0slave. I restored the original large thread which was deleted but since the discussion had already moved into the megathread I made the decision to leave it locked as to not split the discussion any further. Had the proper tools been available, our preferred course of action would have been to use the existing thread and enforce reddit-acceptable discussion inside it.

Our goal with this community is to foster a place for healthy discussion about Milwaukee. In order to allow for this discussion we must be strict on removing submissions or comments which are not directly related to Milwaukee or against reddit content policy which includes encouraging or inciting violence, threatening or harassing one or many people, or sharing of personal/confidential information. This means submissions which are around ethics or politics and not directly related to Milwaukee will be removed. We are not pushing any agenda or target censoring any specific group. These rules are not new and will continue to be enforced to ensure we have a welcoming and healthy community about the city of Milwaukee void of racist debates or violence inciting content.