Part 1

this is a sub dedicated to Indian Booklovers, we have Monthly , Weekly and Sunday Readalongs

We also have exchanges once in a while, and boy do we love our cats

From next year we plan to add a few more things that'd help us all get that 52 books (or more) challenge.

Drop by to find out what others are reading and raving about, discovered an obscure book/short story? Shill it to us. Share your shelfies (book shelves), sale hauls, bookmarks, ask for book recommendations. Talk about your favorite authors or simply participate in readalongs and post-readalong discussions.

Our mod log is public

Regarding the r/indianbooks controversy. ( you can skip this part if you aren't aware of it)

Part 2

When I waged a war on a redditor

When I sent my minions to nuke this thread

I was the mod that was removed, and since the way I was removed it seemed like an impossibility to be restored then I joined r/indianreaders instead.

So, here is my version of the drama

I joined r/Indianbooks a while back , loved being there and talking about, well BOOKS. I met some wonderful redditors including /u/doc_two_thirty , to move it more irc, I suggested a telegram group which was then made the 'official' offshoot for the sub by doc, and we had a gala time. I did the css, pitched in the idea for a book/letter exchange, and AOTM which actually originated on the telegram group (which atp had become the birthing ground of ideas to make the sub livelier)

And as it happens with every community, it started growing and new people joined telegram, but unfortunately there was a seemingly obvious rift between the old members (founding members) and the new ones, former accused latter of not being 'respectful' and respect their 'seniority' while new ones just wondered what was up with the stuck up attitude.

And then,

Meta telegram groups were made to filter out some people, until one day things got out of hand and someone baited doc and he quit the group, lots of back and forth happened, and he put up a condition, plain and simple ; ban the person and i will come back. Well, we didn't ban the person, because literally no one else (except the maybe the 4 people that are accusing me of creating sub drama) had a problem with them, they continue to be ON the group and an inseparable part of it, meanwhile the differences kept growing untill one more meta group was formed by doc, which some of the old members refused to join, including me, because we were literally sick of keep shifting every month to appease him.

Things were still amiable (with some latent passive aggressiveness) but hey, as long as we do what we love to do the most, then what's the harm. So I continued to do the AOTM and header every month and asking people to participate and make threads on the sub ( i actively avoided making stickied threads so it didn't seem like I was taking over the sub) but since doc was no longer the part of tg group, nor I of his, I had to keep updating him about everything that went on until I just simply stopped.

Final trouble started when we made a Discord group for audio discussions, and I put the link in the sidebar, I still didn't think it was a big deal, so I forgot to tell doc. He pointed that out, upon which I apologized and asked him to list out all the changes he wanted to be kept abreast about, but he said you do what you want on your shitty group idgaf. Whelp! then he sent a friend of his to be the mediator to get us to drop official from the tg group to which I replied that Doc should talk to me one on one because I am a fellow mod (Doc had stopped replying to me at this point) half an hour later, I got removed, all the css was stripped from the sub, side link and descriptions removed (that spoiler tag code is still triggering my OCD for some reason) and AOTM initiative purged, and then exhaustive marketing of the subreddit

Then I told what had happened on our tg offshoot] and then they asked Doc what was up and it pretty much went downhill from there, while I am continuously being accused of influencing people and sending them to sling shit at doc.

So literally everyday when I think I am done with this, and we can all move on, something or the other happens.

So here I am, the APPEALING TO ALL MY MINIONS TO STOP FIGHTING IN MY NAME, this is not a presidential race

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Thanks again for reading it so far and letting me introduce the subreddit and clear the air about the controversy.

Thank you and Happy Reading!!!

P.S: for those of you planning to read Infinite jest like forever, we might have an Infinite December readalong next month so drop by and bring coffee^andcats ^ _ ^

Edit: keep all drama related discussion on this thread