Yup. I think he might have deleted at first, then realized it would create a further loop of drama.

Locking it just as bad as IMO as it stops constructive feedback and criticism. I don’t think anybody has an issue with blocking racist or homophobic shit, but it the power tripping, karma farming, and general psychotic behavior that is harming the subreddit.

And the he has posts a generic automated message from Reddit that is likely sent out in bulk as the evidence to justify his abuse.

Absolutely wild. I made a new subreddit that I'm just cross posting from for people who got banned. It ideally will be a temporary thing until that mod situation is handled.

Big yikes

That mod started their own subreddit where they basically post threads with titles directly addressing the people that were banned.

He says shit like, “I’m on the right side of history.” Completely delusional, man.

I got banned for commenting (as an Asian person) in the thread asking where other Asians live, eat, hang out, etc.

I couldn't find any other mods listed so I didn't even think it was worth submitting a modmail to ask about my ban. The only rule that I possibly broke was "don't be uncivil".

Wouldn’t you prefer more teachers or better teacher pay?

I’m truly tired of this talking point.

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Also got the can on multiple other accounts by that wonderful human. Actually apparently I’m a nazi, that was the message I got before I got the ban hammer.

He seems like he doesn’t socialize with anyone offline and he is on an internet power trip.

It's locked now lmao

Thank you for sharing it. You’re 100% right with everything you said. I also like how Linux-is-best gave you the same ban message that I and everyone else got even though it was kind of a different situation and then just copy and pasted it in response to your follow up question too. This guy only knows Crtl+V.

Nope, if you send in a mod mail message he bans you (like he did to me https://imgur.com/a/iGGznUu). You'd have to directly message one of the other subreddit mods for them to do something. But you can't see who mods a subreddit after you're banned.

Can you comment on the way this guy acts by any chance, /u/Ky1e? The new subreddit mod for /r/massachusetts, Linux, is straight up running the sub into the ground and banning users that didn't violate any rules (such as me).

Edit: Oh god, it's basically just ky1e, everyone else is either bot or dead accounts. The new guy basically runs the whole subreddit. That's awful.

Edit 2: Ayyy he blocked me.

It's basically that mod's subreddit for bragging and gloating about how he moderates. Every post you see there is him gloating to someone he banned for whatever reason.

For example, when he banned me for asking why comments were being deleted on his ICC spam post, he refused to reply to my message asking why he banned me (see the chat log here: https://imgur.com/a/iGGznUu)

He then immediately posted this post on his subreddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueRandomThoughts/comments/11v8kda/but_but_but_it_was_ok_before_no_it_was_not_you/

https://imgur.com/a/iGGznUu

No way. If you don’t mind me asking, what did you say and what was the ban message?

God forbid you simply ask why comments are deleted. This whole situation is crazy.

Here's the post but with the deleted comments for everyone else to see:

https://www.unddit.com/r/TrueRandomThoughts/comments/11vabpj/trust_me_you_dont_want_me_to_become_political_i/

Yeah, I got banned from sending in a mod message asking why comments were being deleted on that thread too.

That mod also is trying to use Ukraine to karma farm points. When people asked why he was posting about that on the Massachusetts subreddit he responded by banning multiple people. See the deleted comments here (set the drop down to show all comments).

When I sent a modmail question asking why so many comments were being deleted, he responded by banning me. Here is the chatlog.

Power tripping facebook content moderator getting off from not having anything meaningful to do at his janitorial job by banning people on a subreddit he managed to get mod status in. Either that or he's still reeling from his divorce from 8 years ago that he rants about all the time on his subreddit (I am not going to link to those posts out of privacy, but they are public on his profile).

Dude's fucked up, should not be a moderator.

Update: He has locked OP's thread.

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/u/ky1e is another Massachusetts mod I think

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And the post in r/Massachusetts calling out the mod is already removed.

https://old.reddit.com/r/massachusetts/comments/11w45v7/the_newest_mod_here_is_a_metafacebook_employee

Edit: and now it’s back?

They seem psychotic. Yikes.

This has more to do with inflation, an increase in student enrollment, and the $7 million the Worcester Cultural Academy will be siphoning away in order to keep Old Sturbridge Village afloat. The truly wild thing is that that charter school was already in the budget before it was approved.