This sub has been on a slow downward spiral for a while now and i would like to appeal to my fellow Ents to take notice of this issue. I have seen posts in recent times being deleted/removed citing rules like "no scoring help", "no dnm talk" etc. when people are not even talking directly about such topics. Hopefully by the end of this you all can see the pitfalls of the present moderation system and voice your opinion before this sub turns into a PG 13 whatsapp group for 50 year olds. (Shoutout to Urban Aghori!)

False, the uptick in traffic stats and the huge jump in sub count since I joined in say otherwise.

The no scoring help/no dnm talk rules were taken after a community discussion. I, the community and the automod I set up will continue to report/remove posts which violate those rules.

1) First things first. The number one reason why people get caught(in fact almost all cases) is through tip-offs/snitching or careless self doxxing. Following OpSec is a good idea however it is pretty irrelevant in India for all intents and purposes of this sub. Stop acting like the Cybercrime division is hot on your trail and looking for that last crucial piece of evidence before they go all guns blazing on your front door. They are NOT. In fact they are nowhere close. I can almost hear another irrelevant OpSec rant about how important it is to access reddit through a burner laptop running linux vm; spoofed mac address and sending data through triple layered VPN's and PGP encryption. But i will save our beloved 1337 mods some time and address their concern in the next point.

Again false, an older mod informed me that the sub was mentioned in an indian national paper and all the older mods bailed after an LE scare. Similarly scams/cheats/le trolls/doxxing all have happened earlier on the sub significantly risking the community. Our older members might remember.

2) You as a moderator are in no special position to any LE because of the simple fact that you DONT have access to any information that can be leveraged unless you have your own side agenda here or doing some kind of business. In your own words from a recent post, you are JUST a moderator and take no responsibility for any illegal activity that goes on here which you are not involved in yourself. You can follow as much OPSec as your heart desires and be safe. This is just basic redditing. There was a grand total 0 MLAT requests made last year from India. STOP deleting posts unless it is blatantly causing self-harm or harm to others.

That defense doesn't work in India, if mods get hooked (especially when allowing dnm/scoring stuff) it will be for "running a community for drug dealers in India". Maybe you can fight it off at court but you can say bye bye to career prospects and future.

3) Vain boasting. You are not putting yourself at great risk by being a moderator here. And neither are you a special snowflake that cannot be replaced. Heavily moderating content. Rules are there as guidelines to help protect the community and promote activity, not to use them as excuses to flex your epeen. If you really are feeling so burdened by this responsibility then please take break and do yourself a favor. At this point it seems like a sad cycle of re validating of your self imposed burden. Moderation in a community like this should be done with a hands OFF approach. Your opsec 101 sounds more like a holier than thou preaching ceremony than a useful guide for fellow Ents to be safe on the internet.

The content is moderated as per the rules decided by the community after a public discussion, older subs will remember. The rules and moderation are pretty much transparent. If you don't like our rules, please feel free to start your own community on reddit, no one is stopping you. Or better yet start a facebook group and see how it fares, surely you'll get more traffic.

Lastly, and this was the final nail in the coffin for me to make this post when i saw this posted by you a few days ago.

"For my OC you can view the setup/design of this entire subreddit, tons of past posts and guides, most of the sidebar guides and the entire wiki"

Are you serious dude? You just ripped off the /r/naut

theme and shamelessly removed all traces of credit to the guy who actually worked hard to make a theme for redditors. Your guide is a self-jerk, your moderation style feels like a vicious cycle of ego stroking and validating your misconceptions. On top of that you have the audacity to brag about work you never did which confirms my suspicions that you are up to no good.

To any one who has been using reddit for a while it would be obvious that the theme is from naut, I never claimed to to have designed the theme.

Go to https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianEnts/about/stylesheet/ clearly mentions that the theme is from version 4 of /r/naut right at the very top.

Lot of subs use it but who do you think set up the design/automod/literally everything else, it's not running stock naut is it? Go back one year and check out what the sub used to look like. I've written tons of content for the sub a lot of it was also from a different account which might be known to older users.

I'm sure Liquent is will be ready with another Red Herring story pointing out to rules or trying to cite specific cases but we already know that he is weak in the ethics department. When the unofficial discord server is bursting with activity despite reddit being the more "safe" platform, you know things are going really wrong.

I'm sure you are pissed off because I probably cut short your attempts to dealing on here or deleted one of those desperate scoring posts.

Tl;dr: Loosen up , or take a hike.

I'm here to stay bro, feel free to start your own sub if you don't like what's going on here.