TLDR; lost to some power hungry mods to bring us to the Fediverse!
Right, wrong or indifferent; creating this community and trying to go about getting it into the wild the right way cost me 3, yup you read that right 3 of my favorite places on the internet. All thanks to one power hungry mod.
I posted my initial contact earlier with the mods at the Discord r/PKMNTCGTrades and left it at that. Several hours later I get a random ban on the Discord. And then a ban on Reddit. Followed by another ban. And another 28 Day timeout. All becuase I made this community. The mod began our talks with, “I’m not sure you understand how this works.” Claimed I was somehow leveraging a free community and topped it off with some victim shaming. Sure I could have handled it better but as I am typing the bans are flying in. I stood no chance. I appealed it with Discord and Reddit but we know how that goes.
Hope its not for nothin.
You know. I modded one of the largest subs on reddit. In order to be approved as a mod I had to take a class on what reddit expects from it’s mods. Honestly I was floored because I’ve seen too many mods behave poorly and reddit just shrugs at the behavior.
Guess it only applies if you’re not a super mod. What do I know.
Thank you! At least I know I’m not crazy now. And thank you for your service as a mod, I’m sorry you always got shit on.