Early this morning u/DrunkAlunya and I woke up seeing that u/Alexitine (the top mod in this community) had added u/FamousPlan101, one of the National Bolsheviks (or Nazbols - what are nazbols?) from the ACP as a moderator. Immediately after that, the mod list was reordered and some of us most active mods in the community (like u/DrunkAlunya and u/HeinrichTheWolf_17) were removed as well.
As soon as we realized that this subreddit got infiltrated by those fascists, some of us mods got in touch with each other and decided on how to proceed. We then contacted Reddit’s support and eventually, we were able to remove u/FamousPlan101 and reinstate as mods the same old team that was here.
It is our belief that u/Alexitine’s account was hacked because (as you can see in the screenshot) the account had been inactive for some time and, out of nowhere, one day we received a warning from Reddit saying that the account tried to add someone to the moderation team. That warning got buried in the modmail but, looking at the modlog, we can see that after that warning, u/Alexitine’s account became active again in an effort to gain the ‘active’ status. And this morning, when the account finally returned active, the whole shitshow happened.
Whoever is using u/Alexitine’s account tried explaining away the whole situation by sending the message you can see in the screenshot in the mod group chat. Mind you, that was the first and only message we had received from u/Alexitine in months. And after that, nothing else.
We have mentioned all of this to Reddit’s team of course. However, their reply (so far) was that they believe u/Alexitine’s account was NOT hacked…
Because of Reddit’s reply, at the moment we are unable to fully remove u/Alexitine as top moderator sadly. But rest assured that we the other mods we are continuing to HEAVILY monitor the situation and keep an eye out for more practical resolutions.
In the meantime, I would like to thank all the users that kept telling those fascists to fuck off from this community 🫡
If you have more questions about this morning’s situation feel free to write in this post
Counterrevolution quashed! Still, that’s awful that it happened in the first place, I hope the mod team is taking steps to tighten their security in the future… though I’m not terribly optimistic. Not because I think you guys are incompetent, but because I know how bad Reddit is as a platform when it comes to subreddit security.
We’ve been in continuous contact since this morning and we are doing a complete rework/check of everything to make sure this doesn’t happen again.
And like you correctly said, Reddit is still a shit platform so there we don’t have the same type of support we might have here. But - in a tragically liberal way - we will try our best to work within the system and prepare contingency plans. Having more users join us here for example would already be a great start
good ol hyphen as an em dash, no AI here, just the way god intended