Drama, power struggles and admin abuse in /r/MarchAgainstTrump leave one Redditor standing -- /u/gets_it_mountie. But who is this mysterious redditor who just appeared out of nowhere, and more importantly, is he really fit to mod? Suddenly, 17 hours ago he made his first comment in months and took over /r/MAT after 3 years of nothing. What's going on?
First of all, he admits in this comment here to being a throwaway of a main account he likes to "keep out of politics". Well, it turns out this main account is the powermod /u/adeadhead. Among other defaults, this user moderates /r/camping, and what do you know? /u/gets_it_mountie is "off on a camping trip". Don't believe me? Ask the people who knew him for 3 months in /r/MAT, or look at this leaked chat between him and barawo33. The source threatened to leak full screenshots if this thing escalates further. But more importantly, this redditor has a dark side which can't be found on his main account that I'm here to expose.
The first alt he joined /r/mat with was /u/karmanautrino who is, surprise, surprise now suspended. Don't believe me? Here's a screenshot from the early days of /r/MAT where he invites a new mod to join.. There's also a waybackmachine archive of him having power there. The admins don't just permanently suspend accounts for nothing, so you can bet it was something interesting. And notice how gets it mountie doesn't appear on the MAT modlist until RIGHT AFTER karmanautrino is suspended, despite three years of inactivity.
Oh, but that's not all. More importantly is his alt /u/Boornish who is a MOD ON /r/TRUMP_TRAIN with a flair that says "Trump Supporter". Here's his most recent comment from four months ago, in MAT promoting trump_train.
Remember all those claims in the early days of MAT that the head mods were secretly trump supporters? Well, what do you know? This guy certainly wasn't helping. The takeaway is of course that these new mods are power hungry lunatics who care nothing for the sub and will do anything for more.
Archives in case he deletes anything:
Comments: http://archive.is/7VOrh, http://archive.is/2Y7rd
/r/Trump_Train mod: http://archive.is/aPveM
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