Okay, so it seems that there's still a bunch of people who are still coming in here and trying to brigade our sub. Please quit doing that; it isn't helpful.
However, since some of y'all don't know who I am and why I do what I do and why I mod all the things I mod... Here's a little bit about me:
I give a shit. As in, I care deeply about our communities on reddit and about keeping them safe as best I can. This doesn't always make me the most popular person around, but I am consistent. My morals are ironclad.
You may have heard the phrase 'the buck stops here'?
I live it. I make sure of it.
I spend my time quietly, in the background, happily helping out as needed. I only step up to the fore when I feel it is necessary to do so.
It's no secret that I'm a Furry. The Furry fandom, for example, has had their own history of fighting off the alt right over the past few years, and has also had trouble with Neo Nazis and pedophiles trying to sneak in and groom minors.
I'm one of the people who fights that sort of thing. I go out of my way to defend and protect the people I care about, not only from external threats, but also from internal ones.
For those of you who remember Laurelai, I was modded directly beneath her, doing everything within my power to blunt some of her worst outbursts and trying to keep her abuse to a minimum, and did so for years until she finally left the site.
A few years after that, we had a coterie of transphobic subreddits, led by a 14-15 year old boy in Kansas, who decided it would be funny to spend the better part of a year seeking out depressed and suicidal trans folks, with the intent to harass them and encourage them to commit suicide. To 'push them' to what they called 'the day of the rope.' To that end, our modteams and I spent hundreds of hours watching our /new queues, night after night, kicking these guys off our subs and updating our AutoMod filters to thwart them as best we could until the admins finally kicked them off the site entirely in August 2015. That took 8 months, and we lost a few people who deserve to still be here with us along the way.
I decided I was not going to stand for that sort of bigoted bullshit and I did everything I could to stop it.
I mentioned the Furries earlier; the alt right have threatened to kill several of my local friends because our former con chair upset them in some way. I did everything I could to prevent that. That took me almost three years, but I got it done.
I also mod on an app called Telegram, where among my other duties, I help fight people who are spreading child porn, bestiality, and preying on minors. In 2019 we had a group that was trying to synthesize ricin in order to murder a specific fursuiter over some sort of personal drama. We also had a guy who was grooming a 15 year old boy, hoping to encourage him to commit suicide and live stream it, just so the groomer could get off on it. Both times we got their info as best we could and got it to the authorities.
I had the chance to go to AnthroCon that year, but my room arrangements fell through at the last minute, so instead I spent the whole weekend hunting down, exposing, and destroying a child porn group on Telegram. (In over 20 years, I've still never made it to AnthroCon. I just can't afford it and it seems I'm always busy.)
I deal with some of the worst the Internet has to offer, and I decided a long time ago that when I found this sort of stuff, I was going to stand up and do something about it.
I'm one of the nicest people you will ever meet, but I will not stand for people who hurt children. I don't like people who go out of their way to hurt others. That's just who I am.
I'm pretty slow when it comes to making a decision sometimes. I figure if something is worth doing, then it's worth doing right. This doesn't always make me the most active mod or the quickest to respond. I always like to get all the information and review things from all the angles before making a decision. That slows me down, and it doesn't always make me very popular when a group of people are angry and demanding something must be done right now.
I also have a lot of trouble with depression. I'm not always as effective as I know I can be. I don't always live up to my own standards and I know it. I'm not as active as a mod these days as I used to be. But I try. And when I fail, I get back up, kick my own tail, and I get in there and try to fix things. I do the best I can.
That's who I am. That's why I do what I do. I keep people safe.
So you see, I have no reason to lie, protect, or defend someone if I find they've been doing something immoral. But I am also going to be thorough and fair.
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