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
The long-inactive account suddenly coming back to do a mod coup is something that I noticed when I shut down /r/snackexchange in the mod protests. Spez said something about returning power to the communities and not being able to close a subreddit as a protest, so I made it the Democratic People’s Republic of r/Snackexchange and had the community vote for every moderator and rule each day. I had universal support from the userbase who understood the joke. Then some old account which had only posted there once a decade before reactivated from a dormancy period. In each day’s voting thread they proposed the exact old rules which had been erased when I changed the stylesheet. They started getting really weird and clingy in PMs, electing themselves as a mod and then using that as pretext to have the admins give them the top mod slot and purge everyone else. Their one big issue that they were excited to change was creating a 3rd party user verification website where they alone would have copies of photo IDs before someone could post.
After the community attacked them, they went silent again. The only lasting impact was to remove all of the mods who joined in the protest. I’m 90% certain it was an admin coup.
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