Hi everyone! We thought you would enjoy a peek behind the curtain of how Anti-Evil Operations actioned our sub prior to our demise. We'll eventually put this all on our Wiki as well - we've always planned to make a timeline and history of all "Drop The T" events (on Reddit as well as offsite), we just never really got around to sitting down and officially writing it all up. If anyone wants to give it a try, we'd be happy for the help!

For now, lets just look at r/LGBDropTheT.

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A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY

Our sub was created on February 21st 2019, after a hostile takeover of our prior sub r/DropTheT by a powermod alt account who requests subs for the sole purpose of erasing them and/or remaking them into a space other than what was originally intended.

On March 25th 2020, we received our very first AEO removal. We shared about it here. To recap:

• This is the post that AEO removed.
  
• The post was nearly 2 weeks old at the time it was removed.
  
• Admins did not reach out to us mods about it. Instead, I reached out to them by sending ModMail to r/ModSupport.
• Admins said the reason for removal was because it linked trans people to pedophilia, and we should be careful about bullying/harassing behavior.
• It was Admin crickets when I asked about bullying/harassing behavior towards us.
  
• Since privacy is no longer a concern, here's my message with the Admins.
  

Remember, for over a year we existed, and only one single action was ever taken by Admins, despite our sub being the recipient of numerous brigades and massive amounts of report abuse. And an Admin even said our discussions are fine.

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THE PURGE

3 months later, on June 29th 2020, GenderCritical and 2K other subs were deplatformed. Within one hour, our sub was mentioned in the Announcements thread.

And then the report abuse began rolling in. Posts that were months old getting spammed with the new report reason "It's promoting hate based on identity or vulnerability".

For two days our sub was brigaded heavily, and then traffic began tapering off a bit as users across Reddit adjusted to the new norms. The abuse did not end though, it just lightened a bit, and we stopped keeping track of how many posts and comments were being reported and how often. MOD PRO TIP: One way of combating fatigue during a brigade is to NOT handle the ModQueue the moment something is reported, as chances are, it's going to be reported again and again and again. So we just let them repeatedly report things, and would approve or remove every few hours while continuing to check the sub's new posts and comments for rule-breaking behavior.

To get an idea though, after 4 days, we tallied up a count of how many posts/comments we approved. Remember, this is not total reports on posts/comments, this is just how many times we clicked "approve" after an hour or two had gone by.

• Posts: under normal circumstances, we approved 5-10 posts per day. During the brigade, we approved an average of 241 posts per day.
  
• Comments: under normal circumstances, we approved 30-40 comments per day. During the brigade, we approved an average of 258 comments per day.
  

On June 29th 2020, roughly half an hour after the Announcements thread went live, AEO removed a post in our sub - the second post ever. Again without notice or discussing anything with us mods.

We realized our days on Reddit were numbered, and began announcing SaidIt as our backup to get the word out to as many of you as possible.

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THE DAY OF RECKONING

On July 10th 2020, shortly after 11:30am Pacific Time, our sub was banned.

We had 23.3K subscribers: https://imgur.com/a/bGMeVTY

After the initial purge of wrong-think subs in June, Anti-Evil Operations became more active in ours. Content continued to be removed over the course of the next week and a half, 20 submissions in total. 10 were made prior to the content policy update - in some cases, months earlier - and the other 10 were made within 1 day of the update.

And now for the grand reveal!

Would you like to see EXACTLY what they removed?

So as to not make this any longer than it already is, I'm stickying a comment below.