Why I left Reddit is surprisingly obvious...

[featherwinglove]

I haven't logged in in a while, but I've been tracking my votes. On my submissions overview which moderators can't affect by deleting my stuff, it is astonishingly obvious why I left Reddit, especially if you click on any of the last three. Is it normal to get banned from a sub and muted from modmail when asking for help? was deleted from /r/modhelp. There isn't a much more official "Yes" between that and a response directly from the people who fired /u/chooter. I've experienced some of it: /r/modhelp also interrupted a modmail conversation with a mute, and I picked up at least one stalker who began spamming my submissions on other subs with hate.

This is why it isn't so obvious what my favorite sub on Reddit is, and, as near as I can tell, the only place you can go on Reddit where you're pretty much guaranteed never to encounter this kind of nonsense. I deliberately drove that sub off the first page of my default overview before ending all activity, in order to prevent the bad moderators who started stalking me from /r/modhelp from finding it and causing trouble there. If you haven't already guessed what that favorite sub is, it is /r/factorio.

[Quad]

Hey featherwinglove, I was pointed to this post by a friend of mine and I just want to say thank you for this write up, myself and the other moderators of /r/Factorio have always tried to do what we think is best for the community, and when we doubt our own decisions we turn towards the community for all the right answers.

Thank you. :)

[Zirr]

Feel free to come back under an alt if you want to at one point

[Koub]

tbh I have never understood how reddit works. Must be too old.

[featherwinglove]

Feel free to come back under an alt if you want to at one point

That would certainly be an /r/factorio-only account if I did, and I probably would avoid identifying it with /u/featherwinglove in any obvious way. Doesn't seem worth the trouble.

For those just joining, Zirr founded /r/factorio. He's probably the second best moderator on Reddit, after /u/chooter (irl Victoria Taylor, who was wrongfully dismissed from the Reddit staff on 2015 July 2. /r/iama, which allows famous people to have conversations with their fans easily, had a ream of practical issues as a result, forced to shut down. A whole bunch of other subs shut down in protest. They came back up, but Reddit will never be the same again, especially /r/iama. If you want to learn more, I recommend starting here.)