From my perspective, those of us in the White Nationalist community tend to have a unacknowledged camaraderie which is based on our shared experience of being oppressed dissidents. Even if the White Nationalist community is divided into tons of different camps that like to bicker with one another, we still tend to support each other when we're in enemy territory or facing a common enemy. We're also an inherently subversive movement which is constantly trying to penetrate mainstream institutions in order to advance the movement. That's why we tend to look out for one another.

I was supporting you guys as oppressed dissidents since before I ever even turned alt right. When I first showed up, one of my first actions was to make it so that people wouldn't get banned for posts made in far-right subs like /r/European. When I had more clout, I famously and publicly unbanned the entirely of /r/European. You need to understand that I wasn't the number one mod. I was the number five mod and the number one mod also modded subs like /r/conspiritard, /r/stormfront, and /r/nazihunting. After I unbanned /r/European, he told me that he'd have demodded anyone else who tried to do that. I had waited just long enough. That on top of unbanning bajillions of alt righters is plenty.

Moreover, at the end of my run I got demodded because I was planning on using The_Donald to create and popularize /r/altright, which was gonna be run by Jared Taylor, Richard Spencer, Ramzpaul, and Walt Bismarck. You can ask any of them. You can also reach out to former Coontown mod /u/JediMasterMaceDindu, who I'm sure GreatApeNiggy knows how to contact, and ask him about how I was working to try and sneak him onto the modlist and somehow get a throwaway past the other three mods who had to review him. I did plenty to subtly shill for the alt right. Not to mention, I eventually became the reason you were allowed to echo and use happy merchant memes.

And one of the ways that you can achieve that is by not immediately banning your fellow White Nationalists like almost every other subreddit does. Instead you could simply remove their extreme comments and send them private messages telling them to tone down their rhetoric in order to avoid alienating the other normies.

I don't think you understand quite how ban-heavy /r/The_Donald was. We were so ban heavy that ordinary users had often been banned and unbanned half a dozen times. "Not immediately banning" was a courtesy that we couldn't grant to literally anybody other than the mods because the sub was just so unbelievably trafficked and trafficked by rule breakers. We banned so much that getting regularly banned and unbanned was just kinda part of posting on The_Donald. We had so many bans that we once accidentally invited a guest for an AMA and then accidentally banned them.

Edit: Read this post I wrote and just look at the comments to see quite how ban crazy we were.

And by the way, I never really posted anything in T_D that was extreme. I'm very cognizant of tailoring my message to my audience. I knew that most people on T_D were Alt-Lite, and so I mostly kept my comments in line with that Overton window. Go type my username into the search bar over at T_D. You'll see that my posts were pretty damn tame. Which is why I was so surprised when I got permanently banned without warning. You act like I was some sort of mentally deranged skinhead who couldn't control my urge to post extremely bigoted content.

I wouldn't have banned you for any of that and judging by the dates, it's incredibly unlikely that I would have banned hardly anyone for anything. By the time we upped our number of mods from about 10 to about 60, we were active and influential enough that I had significantly more important shit to do than work the modqueue. On top of that, we didn't keep records of who banned who for why, so someone would have had to go through the modlist of each moderator until they found the guy who banned you. It seems incredibly unlikely to me that I would have banned you for that or that someone would have gone through that investigation. It seems more likely to me that someone just threw you a name.

You keep citing the sidebar rules as being a sufficient warning, but you have to know that most people don't bother reading all of that bullshit before they start to post. I'm sure that people violated the sidebar rules all of the time, yet you didn't immediately perma ban them without warning.

No dude, the assumption was that everyone would read the rules and that if they didn't read the rules then they'd PM us and promise to be better. We threw around bans like candy though, mostly for breaking the No SJW rule. Nobody got a warning, though people who got banned for rule 3 were often forgiven as you can see from other comments in this thread.

It seems like you reserved that trigger happy response for White Nationalists - which undermines your claim that you were secretly a supporter of the Alt-Right.

Oh boy. You don't know how bad we got when we were being trigger happy. We would encourage our subscribers to go through people's history to find any evidence anywhere that they might be a leftist. We didn't care how we found out about leftism; we would just ban or pre-ban for it. If someone had ever been a leftist then they had to publicly and verifiably disavow their leftist ideology before posting on /r/The_Donald and then they were forced to assimilate. It wasn't enough to merely claim to no longer believe in the left, but they also had to insult left wing heroes like Bernie Sanders--often publicly. Once they disavowed and promised to assimilate, we'd use toolbox to tag them and then they'd have a target on their backs. That's being trigger happy. What we did with the alt right was what one other alt righter her called "VIP treatment" to me.