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/r/Conspiracy modmail leak and collection of public mod-log evidence showing how rogue mods have ruined the integrity of the entire subreddit. A sub that for 7+ years was consistently unbiased and anti-authoritarian rapidly became a political propaganda hub for an authoritarian warmonger president.[META] (self.undelete)

TheGhostOfDusty が 投稿

For in-depth context behind the motivations I have for publishing this information click here.

Modmail Leak:

Collection of evidence from the public mod-log that shows rogue mods subjectively approving blatant rule-violations due to incompetence and/or bias:

After I quit moderating /r/conspiracy last November I would occasionally check the public-mod log and screencap instances of moderator abuse. This collection is very incomplete, and I recommend everyone to check the mod-log for themselves when they notice a rule-violating post or comment left unmoderated.

A few weeks ago I was quietly and permanently banned from the sub that I have actively participated in for ~8 years (and modded for 11 months) because the rogue moderators were frightened of having hard evidence of selective rule enforcement posted in relevant comment threads (example thread, notice the comments that were censored in that thread).

These shameless hypocrites have a public-mod log to "prove" that they are being objective and moderating by the rules, but if you dare to use it to actually prove otherwise then they will censor the proof and ban you without citing a rule violation. Think about that for a minute... Partisan politics is a helluva drug.

Mods who quit in protest:

/u/TheGhostOfDusty

/u/9000sins

/u/SovereignMan

Mods who quit for unknown reasons:

/u/mr_dong

/u/smokinbluebear

Rogue mods who actively engage in subjective, biased, feelings-based moderation that directly contradicts and undermines /r/conspiracy's longstanding decorum rules:

/u/AssuredlyAThrowAway (ringleader)

/u/Sabremesh (ringleader)

/u/IntellisaurDinoAlien

/u/JamesColesPardon

/u/DronePuppet

/u/Ambiguously_Ironic

/u/User_Name13

/u/axolotl_peyotl

Mods who barely ever moderate:

/u/Sarah_Connor

/u/creq (unbiased IMO)

/u/Flytape (censored a very popular non-rule-breaking post unflattering to Trump for bogus reasons)

Top mod who has been completely inactive for many, many years:

/u/illuminatedwax

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[–]TotesMessenger 21 ポイント22 ポイント  (7子コメント)

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[–]AssuredlyAThrowAwayworldnews&conspiracy emeritus 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (6子コメント)

Welp, incoming brigade on the way :/

[–]Mircabre 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (5子コメント)

Hi boo just dropping in to say hi

[–]phedre 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (4子コメント)

Well hello, whatever are you doing here?

[–]DeepDickedHillybilly 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (2子コメント)

A/S/L CHECK??????

[–]phedre 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (1子コメント)

ew. who invited the incels?

[–]Mircabre 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Shilling for bipolarbear0

[–]Jeyhawker 19 ポイント20 ポイント  (9子コメント)

authoritarian warmonger president.

Obama? Sorry :D I haven't gotten to the rest of your comment. But ALL U.S. presidents are 'warmmongerers.' Hell that's the main reason for advocating from a break from establishment/CIA to go to Trump. At worst, he can't be any worse.

[–]TheGhostOfDusty[S] 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (8子コメント)

Trump's "War on Terror" propaganda is more xenophobic than Cheney's. Pay attention to who he's nominated to run the CIA.

[–]Jeyhawker 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (7子コメント)

You should actually give Ron Paul a listen, some time. Along with Greenwald and Putin for change.

[–]TheGhostOfDusty[S] -2 ポイント-1 ポイント  (6子コメント)

[–]Jeyhawker 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (5子コメント)

Why are you sending me links to Greenwald the post after I tell you to give him a listen! :)

Let me get this straight? You'd rather have HILLARY? You'd rather have the CIA that's trying to subvert the Trump presidency???

I don't quite get you. Not trying to be hostile....

[–]TheGhostOfDusty[S] 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (4子コメント)

The point of including that fact about Trump in the title was to highlight the bizarreness that /r/conspiracy moderators would strongly support someone who is very similar to Bush II when it comes to the "War on Terror" and abuse of authority (executive orders, etc.). It's highly unusual in and of itself, but selectively moderating based on that bias is just negligent.

[–]Jeyhawker 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (3子コメント)

Trump is trump. He is gonna be a shitty president. Still better than what the CIA wants... droning and going to war with some every country in the middle east.

Working with Russia to defeat ISIS, that we more or less created. is an optimistic scenario. As much as the 'rebuilding' of our military talk scares the bejesus out of me. Anything going against the grain of CIA is better than the years that we've had before it.

I don't much care about /r/conspiracy. Nothing wrong with many of the posters there, I'm sure. But there are better places to be.

[–]TheGhostOfDusty[S] 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Still better than what the CIA wants... droning and going to war with some every country in the middle east.

Again, look who he tapped to the run his CIA. I don't think your optimism is warranted, but I do hope that I'm wrong.

[–]Jeyhawker 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Oh.. lol Optimism? Overall? Eek. Country is fucked. But there are positives that could come out of this, this particular presidency. It's such a curiosity because it's painfully obvious from the IC perspective that he has no attachments. His ridiculous persona be-damned.

Watch all the youtube Greenwald interviews the past 3 months. Do a filtered search and go down the line. They are great.

[–]Jeyhawker 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Plus we get a media that's critical of him and our executive branch, and critical like crazy. Dishonest as fuck but it's still something new. What our media should be. It will keep him in check and pull in a few people that might actually care rather than just 'anti-trump' people.

Positives. Not optimism. But positives. ;)

Don't get yourself wrapped up in a tizzy over some subreddit drama.

[–]Drowninginkittens 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (1子コメント)

ITT censorship mods losing their shit like they guilty af

[–]Manalore 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Nah, just people who are tired of dealing with his shit. The mods therefore would have a lot to say in that regard.

[–]AssuredlyAThrowAwayworldnews&conspiracy emeritus 10 ポイント11 ポイント  (66子コメント)

I can't speak for the entire mod team; but you started advocating for a ridiculous amount of censorship, and had no ability to understand the nuances involved in moderating a community that is routinely attacked by outside groups.

You would constantly attempt to undermine the free exchange of ideas, and then when other mods would disagree and argue for non-censorship (I noticed you call the two who stood up to you most often "ring leaders), you would accuse them of bias (in favor of the free flow of information?) and generally just start yelling.

I'm sorry you had to leave the mod team, but censorship of the kind you were advocating has no place on reddit; to the point where even your close friend flytape explained that your ideological censorship was just not a good fit for /r/conspiracy. I noticed that you didn't leak that modmail though :/

Best of luck with everything dusty.

[–]Kind_Of_A_Dick 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (8子コメント)

Which mod was it that tagged the initial Trump Dossier post by calling it a 4chan hoax and then deleting it?

[–]TheGhostOfDusty[S] 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (1子コメント)

It's in the second set of screens.

I think someone tagged it "unverifiable" first according to the comments, so that was (at least) the second tag.

Here it was removed.

[–]AssuredlyAThrowAwayworldnews&conspiracy emeritus -2 ポイント-1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Seems to indicate it was tagged as a raid, and removed as such.

[–]AssuredlyAThrowAwayworldnews&conspiracy emeritus 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (5子コメント)

It was tagged as "/r/politics raided" I believe, as once we were shown the link to a comment in /r/politics calling for a brigade of the sub (in that particular post) we removed that thread by consensus.

[–]geraldo42 22 ポイント23 ポイント  (0子コメント)

It was flaired as "4chan hoax". I don't believe for a second that you don't remember that but nice attempt at disinfo.

[–]TheGhostOfDusty[S] 11 ポイント12 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Always vocally misremembering things in your favor...

[–]Manalore 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

The wilful ignorance and irony of this comment should be enough to crash reddit. Do you get off on lying or has the mental gymnastics permanently warped your ability to not disingenuously misrepresent events?

Maybe I should quit while I'm ahead here, talking to you is what got your lacky mod to ban me from r/conspiracy, and these comments will not be representative of how I comment there moving forward.

[–]Kind_Of_A_Dick 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (0子コメント)

There was definitely a 4chan hoax tag on it at one point in time. I unfortunately don't have a screenshot because I didn't think to get one at the time. There may have been a change and I've seen a few posts tagged and removed after a brigade since then, except for ones heavily upvoted and commented on by t_d regulars. Then again maybe I missed the ones your mod team has removed for those reasons(brigades by t_d).

Quite frankly, your sub has undergone a definite change in the time since the US election was in full swing. After PG was shut down it got really bad and became the new Pizzagate sub, with most of the posts dedicated to the witch hunt that has become. You even have a sticky showing the archived post that was at the top of PG when it was taken down, for whatever reason. There's talk on the sub of the mods, at least some of the mods, being complicit with pushing an agenda. I won't lie, I've made the claim multiple times because that's how it seems to me and I wouldn't find it surprising if mods of a conspiracy related sub were heavily compromised in order to advance an agenda.

[–]TheGhostOfDusty[S] 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (56子コメント)

Prove it.

*Everything you just wrote is directly show to be a lie in the screenshots I posted above.

[–]Flytape 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (20子コメント)

Seriously dusty? You were removing shit left and right for your personal definition of sensationalizing headlines.

God this is a sad fall for you.

[–]phedre 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

pls post more birdmask videos. kthx.

[–]TheGhostOfDusty[S] 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (18子コメント)

Not true. My definition was the dictionary definition. Yours was "personal".

And none of you would ever be willing to even discuss removing rule 11 to avoid continuing to be massive hypocrites. That's the sad fall amigo.

[–]IntellisaurDinoAlien 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (6子コメント)

As someone who used to respect the person you appeared to be I say this with love man, seek professional help please Dusty before it's too late. You're spiralling out of control into a madness of your own making and it's tragic to watch.

I fear one of these days you'll wake up and realise that only people who know they will never have anything of worth to offer the future live solely in the past and just end it all.

The fact you felt obliged to preface this with an acre of your 'glorious' past as a Digg patriot just confirms that you feel this was the last time you had anything of worth to offer the world and still feel we somehow owe you a debt of gratitude for participating in what was ultimately some worthless internet drama. Ron Paul failed man, not because JCM was mean about him on the internet, and not because you failed either. You failed when you forgot to build a future beyond the bullshit arguments you have to create for your necessary sense of relevance.

Please, just seek some help, because you're really not acting any better than the people you hate so much.

[–]TheGhostOfDusty[S] 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (5子コメント)

Go on...

[–]IntellisaurDinoAlien 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Really, that's the best answer you can come up with? Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helped me a lot man, join us in the future please. Take care.

[–]Kind_Of_A_Dick 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Why are you resorting to such a cliche TPTB tactic of ruining someone credibility by making a public attack on the quality of their mental health? I wasn't too sure what to make of dusty, but the more you visiting mods post the more convinced I am of what he's saying.

[–]BudrickBundy 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Disgusting and not funny! Was that a self-portrait?

[–]headlineisBULLSHIT 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Is this you?

[–]Flytape 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (10子コメント)

Why don't you leak the mod mails about it then.

Go on, and leak your most recent ban appeal too.

The simple fact is that we discussed these things as a mod team, you didn't get your way and then you left in protest and started being a little shit in the community then got banned and now this.

The fall is yours alone, And now I don't even want your friendship.

Bye dusty and have a good life,

F

[–]TheGhostOfDusty[S] 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (9子コメント)

You clearly haven't looked at what I posted.

[–]Flytape 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (7子コメント)

I'm mocking the fact you're leaking mod mails about nothing.

[–]TheGhostOfDusty[S] 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (6子コメント)

The fact that you appear to consider secretive, hypocritical, self-serving behavior from authority figures "nothing" makes me question your competence to objectively moderate a conspiracy theory forum. :/

[–]Flytape 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (5子コメント)

For someone who removed a shit load of "sensationalized" articles, my favorite part was

A few weeks ago I was quietly and permanently banned

Anyone who has ever modded anything on reddit knows that the only way to "quietly" ban someone is to do some fuckery with automod. That didn't happen to you dusty, your own screen shot shows that you recieved the standard automatic ban notification generated by reddit whenever a ban is issued.

Your screen shot also shows at least 3 mods expressed a willingness to unban you, thus making your dramatic statement "A few weeks ago I was quietly and permanently banned" false on both counts.

Just admit it man, you're being a cunt about shit you don't like.

[–]TheGhostOfDusty[S] 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (4子コメント)

Anyone who has ever modded anything on reddit knows that the only way to "quietly" ban someone is to do some fuckery with automod. That didn't happen to you dusty

I was banned, no reason was given, and my appeal in modmail was ignored for days. Silence.

Pretty weak nit-pick there.

Just admit it man, you're being a cunt about shit you don't like.

Oh the irony.

[–]ky1e 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Either that, or he doesn't want anyone else to look at it.

[–]AssuredlyAThrowAwayworldnews&conspiracy emeritus 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (34子コメント)

I mean your entire premise in this OP is that the mod team wouldn't acquiesce to your requests for censorship; it's a strange argument from you really, "The mods of /r/conspiracy wouldn't go along with my demands for them to censor the subreddit, so I resigned!"

I also find it interesting that the one mod you call "principled", was also advocating censoring an entire topic on the subreddit.

[–]TheToastIsBlue 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (18子コメント)

You keep saying censor, but it sounds like he just wanted the subreddit's rules to be more objectively applied. Isn't that what mods are for?

[–]TheGhostOfDusty[S] 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Thank you.

[–]AssuredlyAThrowAwayworldnews&conspiracy emeritus 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (16子コメント)

He was asking for the rules to be applied in a way which would target certain topics, and was willing to disregard our commitment to the free flow of information in the process; which is why he eventually parted ways with the mod team.

[–]TheGhostOfDusty[S] 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (6子コメント)

Prove it.

[–]AssuredlyAThrowAwayworldnews&conspiracy emeritus 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (5子コメント)

Question, did you send this thread to the modmail of any subreddits after you posted it?

[–]TheGhostOfDusty[S] 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (4子コメント)

That's what I thought.

[–]AssuredlyAThrowAwayworldnews&conspiracy emeritus -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (3子コメント)

Wait, so is that a yes or a no; because from what I'm hearing you sent this thread around to subs that you knew were antagonistic of conspiracy in the hope they would upvote it...

That's not good dusty.

[–]TheToastIsBlue 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (8子コメント)

Why would you have a rule that was only enforced "sometimes"?

[–]TheGhostOfDusty[S] 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Great question.

[–]AssuredlyAThrowAwayworldnews&conspiracy emeritus 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (6子コメント)

What you're saying is "why would you look at context when applying the rules?" Which completely disregards the nuance of individual users, their behavior, and it's impact on the community.

For example, dusty removed a post that was #1 on our sub for having a single words caps locked in the title (I think it was critical of Hildog or something). That type of censoring, and blatant disregard for the nuance of applying rules is why he left the team and won't be back.

Another issue was that dusty started removing posts that didn't line up with what the msm was saying, calling the titles "sensationalized"...another example of his failure to understand nuance, and the censorship that resulted.

It really put a strain on the mod team to ensure his censorship didn't run rampant, as he would lash out at anyone who questioned him or his motives.

[–]TheToastIsBlue 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (5子コメント)

Do you guys have a rule about Caps lock?

[–]AssuredlyAThrowAwayworldnews&conspiracy emeritus 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (4子コメント)

Yea, large amounts of caps lock in a title or comment are not allowed per our rule 6.

[–]TheToastIsBlue 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (3子コメント)

So you are arguing for selectivity enforcing the rules?

[–]TheGhostOfDusty[S] 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (14子コメント)

Cool story bro.

[–]AssuredlyAThrowAwayworldnews&conspiracy emeritus 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (13子コメント)

I'm not really following here; you're asking undelete to go along with a complaint that you weren't allowed to censor enough by your former co-mods.

It's like I'm in some kind of bizzaro world.

[–]thirdegree 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (12子コメント)

I mean, you're a conspiracy mod. You live almost exclusively in bizzaro world.

[–]AssuredlyAThrowAwayworldnews&conspiracy emeritus 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (7子コメント)

Yea but censorship of specific topics is one thing that is usually held as entirely antithetical to the mission of the sub; as we would then be no better than a curated mainstream outlet.

We do remove things in /r/conspiracy for sure, but it's a nuanced mechanism and we go out of our way to ensure that we respond to things like brigading/outside manipulation rather than the content of whatever topic is being discussed. Dusty wanted to go in a complete different direction and actively begin curating content that he disagreed with, and at that point the mod team made it clear he was no longer a good fit for the ethos of the sub.

[–]thirdegree 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (5子コメント)

To be clear, the topic he wanted removed was pizzagate? Like, I get if y'all don't want to hold yourself to any standard of proof, but if you did, pizzagate would be the first thing to go.

Or maybe just anything Alex Jones says.

title+body+url: 'Alex Jones'
action: remove
action_reason: Actually insane

Would improve the sub a good bit.

[–]AssuredlyAThrowAwayworldnews&conspiracy emeritus -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (4子コメント)

So infowars is actually on the site wide spam filter run by the admins (not sure for what reason); we actually use automod to approve that domain, just as we use automod to approve comments from shadowbanned users if we can.

Also, one of the mods who stepped down did so because he felt that we should have banned discussion of pizzagate entirely. That suggestion made me very uncomfortable, as the idea of banning discussion of a topic on a conspiracy sub is really just profane.

[–]thirdegree 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (2子コメント)

not sure for what reason

Realllllly now? You're not sure why infowars, these guys, these guys, fucking these guys, are spammed?

I don't necissarily disagree with "the idea of banning discussion of a topic on a conspiracy sub is really just profane", though I would like to hear your opinions on this whole incident.

[–]TheGhostOfDusty[S] 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Also, one of the mods who stepped down did so because he felt that we should have banned discussion of pizzagate entirely.

Prove it.

[–]nanonan 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (3子コメント)

We are all in bizzaro world, it's just that /r/conspiracy can see that.

[–]thirdegree 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (2子コメント)

/r/conspiracy couldn't see its hand in front of its face unless someone shot a grainy youtube video of it first.

[–]phedre 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Four hour long grainy youtube video with a shaky cam and a bird mask hand puppet.

[–]thirdegree 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Sounds kinky. Name a time and a place.

[–]PantsGrenades 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Hey, I've been trying to publicly address astroturfing since ~ 2013. To be honest I'm not too fond of libertarianism, but if you're earnest in regards to safeguarding the free market of thought I'd like to work with you.

Could you please repost your findings (and perhaps any additional relevant info) to /r/EffortPost?

[–]BudrickBundy 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (6子コメント)

defaming Ron Paul

I do not recall having ever "defamed" Ron Paul. Get a grip son!

jcm267 then contacted reddit administrators and falsely claimed that I had doxxed him, and it worked

False. I never did that.

bigoted sockpuppet abuser jcm267

More hilariously false conjecture.

went on to create a subreddit that all redditors are now familiar with whether we want to be or not, /r/The_Donald.

Technically not true. Another user created /r/the_donald and gave it to me because he liked what he saw me do in /r/BernieSandersSucks. /r/the_donald was the only Trump subreddit that was properly moderated early on. Eventually, some great folks came on to help out. And it really wasn't any redditor who started /r/the_donald, all of the credit goes to Donald J Trump!

This "conspiracies do not exist" war-supporter

More lies.

avid supporter of disgusting Israeli extremism

LOL!

strangely changed his mind ... Donald Trump was "not a serious candidate"

It's strange to change your opinion on something? I fell behind Donald Trump very early on.

"after the election things will calm down" but it only got worse as jcm267's 'The_Donald'

By the time the election rolled around I had nothing to do with the place.

defaming Clinton supporters as pedophiles

You really need to stop falsely accusing people of defamation. It's obnoxious. Call them conspiracy nuts if you think their opinions are off-base, and considering that the subreddit's name is literally "conspiracy" there's no reason to be so upset that people started posting about this shit in /r/conspiracy.

Hysterical, breathless witch-hunts

LOL. This coming from the Grand Poohbah of hysterical, breathless witch-hunts.

Sadly, jcm267's original goal on reddit with his hate-group /r/Conspiratard, which was to discredit and ruin /r/conspiracy,

More falsehoods. /r/Conspiratard is not and has never been a "hate group". Further, my goal on reddit was to entertain myself. Until /r/the_donald blew up that's all my reddit activity was ever for. When I was moderating /r/the_donald I was sincerely trying to help to get Mr. Trump elected president. And I really do think there is a chance that /r/the_donald made a decisive difference in the race!

[posting of modmail leaks to trash the subreddit's mods]

You are a TRAITOR to your fellow conspiracy nuts.

A few weeks ago I was quietly and permanently banned

HAHAHAHA!!! After years of your multiple accounts trying to become a mod there you finally became a mod and modded for just a few months, and now you're BANNED. That's hilarious! It couldn't have happened to a more deserving individual.

edit: grammar/spelling

[–]headlineisBULLSHIT 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Thanks for your work on TD. IT DID MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

[–]TheGhostOfDusty[S] 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Oh hi jcm267!

[–]TheCreepero -2 ポイント-1 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Damn you're delusional. Just like all American subhumans.

[–]Diaozhatian86 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (9子コメント)

Stopped at "authoritarian warmonger president". Trump is only one of those things, and it isn't "authoritarian" or "warmonger" either.

[–]headlineisBULLSHIT 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Seriously. If you're putting in this effort to prove a point, why would you alienate half the users. It's beyond me.

[–]Paterno_Ster -3 ポイント-2 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Did the mean man hurt your feelings?

[–]Poolb0y -2 ポイント-1 ポイント  (5子コメント)

The man only knows how to sign EOs. He is definitely authoritarian.

[–]Diaozhatian86 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (4子コメント)

Every president signs EOs. You must be trolling.

[–]Poolb0y -2 ポイント-1 ポイント  (3子コメント)

Hence the 'only'.

[–]Diaozhatian86 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Still not true. Look at these bills he's signed: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/signed-legislation

And even if he had only signed EOs at this point, that still wouldn't make him authoritarian. That's still completely within the scope of his powers as defined by the constitution and interpreted by the supreme court. I think you just want to smear him as being authoritarian for signing EOs because you don't like him or the EOs he's signing.

[–]Poolb0y -3 ポイント-2 ポイント  (1子コメント)

They're shit and so is he.

[–]Diaozhatian86 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Still not "authoritarian" though. Stay salty

[–]TwasIWhoShotJR 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (4子コメント)

So wondeful of you to post this bizarre rambling wall of garbage. If this had been smeared on a wall in feces I may have been able to make more sense of it.

Thankfully someone as clear headed and not-insane as /u/AssuredlyAThrowaway is here to bring legitimacy to your ramblings.

Precious.

[–]TheGhostOfDusty[S] 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

[–]AssuredlyAThrowAwayworldnews&conspiracy emeritus 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Not sure if back handed insult or compliment.

I will go with back handed insult.

:/

[–]phedre 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (1子コメント)

There's nothing back handed about it - that's straight up shade right there.

[–]AssuredlyAThrowAwayworldnews&conspiracy emeritus 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I was giving him a chance to be polite :/

[–]curiosity36 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I've got a lot of reading to do. r/con didn't used to be a bastion of alt-right theatrics though. Duck is right about that.

[–]AnindoorcatBot 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Retard spends hours making post no one will read. More at 11.

[–]cojoco 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Note that /r/uncensorship also documents removals and approvals from /r/conspiracy,

https://www.reddit.com/r/uncensorship/search?q=flair%3Aconspiracy&sort=new&restrict_sr=on

[–]ky1e 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (13子コメント)

I can corroborate. The mods you have put under the "Rogue" category have been participating in routine abuse of their responsibilities as moderators, especially /u/AssuredlyAThrowaway. I was personally banned from the /r/conspiracy subreddit after a personal disagreement with that moderator and /u/Flytape, who were nice enough to mention me in their infamous video podcast, which serves as a prime example of how they operate: They treat /r/conspiracy as though every subscriber to the subreddit is also a subscriber to their personal philosophy, and so they moderate the community in a cult-of-personality fashion.

This includes posting and stickying false evidence in an effort to discredit the admins of reddit, whom one of the /r/conspiracy moderators has led a self-declared "war on reddit" for the past 3 years (that mod being AATA).

I don't know about what went on with the OP here, but do know that the structure of the moderator team of /r/conspiracy has had an adverse affect on its active community, as well as the subreddit's passive readers and the platform of reddit as a whole.

[–]AssuredlyAThrowAwayworldnews&conspiracy emeritus 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (10子コメント)

Wow, weren't you the mod who wrote a how to on including moderating reddit on one's resume?

Haven't you been on a years long campaign to downplay moderator censorship on reddit?

Didn't you leave this site long ago?

How upset are you that the admins allowed /r/conspiracy to be in the /r/popular listings?

Also I don't have a war on reddit; I have a war on paternalistic, manipulative mods like yourself who look to use your position to advance your world view, and hold the free flow of information in lower regard than a street whore. What the mod structure of /r/conspiracy had a negative effect on was censorious, Bernaysian-esque, manipulators such as yourself; who use mod spots to curate content, rather than engender the standing of the individual person.

Shame on you, I wouldn't let you run a pre school much less a subreddit.

[–]The3rdWorld 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Also I don't have a war on reddit; I have a war on paternalistic, manipulative mods like yourself who look to use your position to advance your world view, and hold the free flow of information in lower regard than a street whore.

but actually i think there is room for both in this infinite cyber world we inhabit, we just need to be more clean on which is which - personally i've long thought conspiracy should be but one of a range of conspiracy subs all with different flavours and different mods, there should be the uber-sub of course but there should be a sub for non political conspiracies, a sub for news about the vast-right-wing conspiracy and a sub for news about the vast-left-wing conspiracy... trying to umbrella all the conflicting conspiracies into a single do-everything-serve-all mega sub isn't working.

most importantly there should be a sub where people work together in the community to build data-structures that allow us to analyse, visualise and understand the various conspiratorial news stories as they develop - certainly using the wikis to make information trees and source tables and etc... make each conspiracy have it's own page which is a title then a brief rundown of the events, list of the key players, etc.. but each paragraph or sentence of that is a link which connects to a page behind it laying out all the evidence, arguments and sources for that claim or statement... probably this should have a table at the top with a list of sources for the claim and a col stating their source for the information, their bias (i.e. for ufo stories is member of USAF, if from a senator elected on democrat ticket, etc) and if they've ever contradicted it, etc...

it wouldn't be too hard to make a reddit bot that deals with all the handling and formatting of the wikis so trusted users just need to message it and it'll make the changes to the tables and text then propagate the changes upstream... (so when new info comes in you go to the source-page and click to edit whichever paragraph or sentence is affects and it opens a reddit message window where you put in the new text followed by a | or something then a link to the source of the information and each of the cols separated by a > then if you have more sources another | and the same as before...)

i mean just thinking out loud but you see what i'm getting at? if there was more of a network of subs with people dedicated to those subjects and a more central kinda project sub where the various subs use the tools and teamwork to present the information in the clearest possible way then the main conspiracy sub would become more of a meta sub linking to and talking about the findings of other subs, more general conspiracy-community news and that sort of thing.. it could be glorious.

[–]ky1e 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (3子コメント)

I did do that, and I received positive feedback from other volunteer community moderators who wanted to make practical use of their experience. I stopped moderating, but haven't "left the site".

It's still upsetting to me to watch a community as large as /r/conspiracy deal with poor moderation structure and practices.

[–]AssuredlyAThrowAwayworldnews&conspiracy emeritus 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Wait wait, I forgot your best moment.

Didn't you, after /u/creq exposed the word filter censor that was setup on /r/technology and joined the mod team, offer to help with their css, only to change it so it referred to their own sub as "shitty"?

Didn't an admin say that was a really shitty thing for you to do?

[–]ky1e 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Your specious recounting of disparate events, while I'm sure personally entertaining, have no basis in objective reality.

[–]AssuredlyAThrowAwayworldnews&conspiracy emeritus -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Wait, so did you edit the css or not?

[–]ky1e 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (4子コメント)

Your comments on my style of moderation are so off-base that I don't think you know who I am.

[–]AssuredlyAThrowAwayworldnews&conspiracy emeritus 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (3子コメント)

Wait, wait; so did you, or did you not, offer to help a mod team only to edit their css to include an insult aimed at the sub?

Sounds like you're a really awesome mod.

[–]ky1e 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (2子コメント)

It's exactly this kind of vindictive behavior from its moderators that leads me to be seriously worried for the /r/conspiracy community.

[–]AssuredlyAThrowAwayworldnews&conspiracy emeritus 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Oh, so you did edit the css after being asked for help, only to add a insult!

Good to know.

[–]ky1e 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

No clue what event you are referring to.

[–]Flytape -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Oh yes ky1e let's make Conspiracy great by installing the exact same mods that already mod the rest of reddit... The only mods you're ever happy with. Then Conspiracy can be just like /r/punchablefaces where the actual community is run off by super hilarious SRS femster unionists who always make the same joke. "Feminism is taking over".

You want to talk about cult of personality then let's remember all the #modtalk leaks from snoonetIRC where you and your super progressive friends like bipolarbear0 get to pretend to be neo Nazis and shit post in subreddits you don't already control.

You're the worst kind of people, always pretending to be the good guys with your moral high ground.

[–]ky1e 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Again: This is how the /r/conspiracy moderators operate. I have no idea what these events are or why they are brought up in relation to me; they are just trying to discredit me because I criticize them.

[–]SnapshillBot 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (1子コメント)

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[–]Canadian_POG 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

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[–]DeepDickedHillybilly 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

That's a lot of links my friend!

[–]creq 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (1子コメント)

I've been around more trying to help with things.

[–]TheGhostOfDusty[S] 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I have noticed. Appreciated.

[–]shegotmass -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (0子コメント)

So for everyones information OP wanted the conspiracy sub to be a shilled low iq attracting, liberal butthurt communist sub like a default subreddit while censoring any negative post that call out the lies from the various liberal ideologies/politicians.

Then snowflake is now posting Reeeeeeeee butthurt in hope for agreement towards a liberal safe space and liberal propganda in the conspiracy sub.

All while censori