Psssh. Okay. Here's the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. robingallup took a picture of a house that looks like a duck. He hosted it on his own webspace (this is before the existence of Imgur) and served ads. Saydrah removed it. Then Saydrah made the mistake of pointing out that Matt Inman, who was using Reddit to pimp The Oatmeal, had a background in SEO. Then Reddit pointed out that Saydrah had a background in SEO and was also a bitch. Then Reddit lost their fucking mind and reposted naked pictures of her, doxed her, called her grandfather's house with death threats and generally went batshit fucking insane. Future admin qgyh2 decided to remove her as a moderator of /r/pics, primarily because Reddit went batshit fucking insane. The admins, faced with their first real instance of the mob gone wrong, did exactly nothing. Know how that burning monk is the shot that indicated that Vietnam was gonna be a war, and it was gonna be awful? Here's the picture of Reddit's downfall:What happened this weekend saddened us. Saydrah's postings have been additive to the community, and we have no indication that she's been anything but a great moderator to the communities she moderates. Moderators are not exempt from our anti-cheating measures, and, though I hate to have to put it in these terms, we've "investigated" Saydrah, and we didn't find any indication of her cheating or otherwise abusing power.
