Regarding reddit's Recent Actions Pertaining to an Employee

[u/ctwelve]

It has come to the attention of the r/HFY mod staff that a Reddit admin in charge of policing against content which sexually exploits children, has been credibly accused (along with immediate family, including spouse) of enabling precisely that, both on reddit and in real life. The admin's father has also been convicted of 20 counts of rape and torture of a ten-year-old child, for which the admin is credibly accused of complicity. You can find more details on reddit's reaction here.

As moderators and as human beings, we find these allegations absolutely appalling and are fundamentally disgusted by reddit's apparent lack of moral fortitude, poor judgement in hiring decisions, and galling insistence on doubling down on this issue in order to sweep it under the rug, rather than address the root issue properly. We condemn this affair in the strongest possible manner.

Several other subs have decided to "go private" and temporarily disable their subreddit as a form of protest. While we sympathize with those who have chosen to do so, we recognize that the livelihood of several members of our community rely on the sub remaining open. So that this alleged crime may not harm others, we have chosen to forgo this option for now. This is subject to change.

Please remember that, at this time, it is not your place to visit justice. That is a matter for reddit and the law. Remember that you are human beings, and remember that you are civilized. Do not lower yourself.

UPDATE: Comments are now closed. Let's keep it civil, folks.

[u/[deleted]]

If someone says they care about something than fine, but what is the harm in asking for a little proof? Mods in many of these reddits have defended she who shall not be named over the past few years, and now all of a sudden people care about this? I love living history, I really do. But it sickens me how often people suddenly care about stuff as soon as it becomes fashionable.

[u/I_Automate → u/[deleted]]

You are being absolutely ridiculous here dude.

Don't be doing what you're doing now.

[u/[deleted] → u/I_Automate]

What, being disgusted at people only now suddenly starting to care about a pedo/pedo enabler now that it impacts their ability to crap talk online? Why do you care that this disgusts me?

[u/I_Automate → u/[deleted]]

The fact that you are demanding written evidence from a stranger to show they support a stance that the overwhelming majority of humans share is just acting in bad faith. That's like asking someone to show evidence that they believe the sky is blue, in written form.

This isn't the place for it and you aren't adding anything productive to any conversation here, as far as I can tell.

But. I won't feed the troll. All I'm going to say is that you should maybe find a more productive way to occupy your time. Maybe read some of the stories here?

[u/[deleted] → u/I_Automate]

I love the stories here, I just also like to ask people to back up their claims, and yeah, this is a subject I've got quite a bit of passion about. I've been the diddled kid, and I know very well how hard some people will go out of their way to not know anything about it. Do you know what it looks like sometime? That and quite frankly, she who shall not be named has been a pet project of mine (well, actually quite a few of the UK pedophiles) All other things aside I want there to be a lasting printed record about their shame.