"We're closing our sub. Farewell." - [x-post r/WatchRedditDie]

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[–]Insider 26 insightful - 4 fun26 insightful - 3 fun27 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

CIA/NSA/DARPA usually insert their users into moderator positions and control speech from there. They have accounts in charge of multiple subreddits, then they ban accounts of real people fighting the system.

Multiple moderators of that sub have been suspended. List of moderators: https://old.reddit.com/r/WatchRedditDie/about/moderators

Moderators suspended from Reddit:

https://old.reddit.com/user/Bowles14/

https://old.reddit.com/user/mycatiswatchingyou/

https://old.reddit.com/user/DevWolf59/

https://old.reddit.com/user/blatantshitpost/

https://old.reddit.com/user/Internet_Censorship/

https://old.reddit.com/user/yeahyerright/

https://old.reddit.com/user/__Aquatic/

https://old.reddit.com/user/MydnightDesign/

The moderator who closed the sub is an astroturf. He's a moderator of multiple psyop subreddits on the conservative side and only joined r/watchredditdie 4 months ago: https://old.reddit.com/user/Potens_Loqui

Look at another mod of r/watchredditdie, he moderates 243 subreddits: https://old.reddit.com/user/justcool393/

This one moderates 287 subs: https://old.reddit.com/user/cojoco/

394 subs: https://old.reddit.com/user/N8theGr8/

[–]NutterButterFlutter 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

To be fair to u/justcool393, while he is technically a powermod, he's not of the same league as the cabal of N8s and Turtles. I've known of him for years by being in subs he's on.

JC393 is more like a silent partner, he squats to make sure subs don't get shut down as "unmoderated", and his only "ruling" is from the shadows as a coder. He's responsible for things like banning of 90.69% of r/drama users, or that time he broke a bot and ended up shutting down Reddit because of tying up all their resources.

WRD has needed to go for a while though. They've just been crippling themselves and users by adhering to the ever-increasing demands of Admins.

They should set up a redirect and call it quits. They tried some other site that no one ever heard of, and no one wanted to be a part of. Just point people here instead, and let this site grow.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well for some reason they had the bright idea to move to a Discord server, and of course it ended up getting shut down and a bunch of people got banned just for being in it. Wow, who saw that coming.