https://www.reddit.com/user/IsNotTheImposter

https://archive.is/sNbZt

https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/kfnfkt/hi_im_new_happy_holidays_its_friday_lets_talk/

https://archive.is/VGZex

Hello everyone! It’s the end of another week, and nearly the end of the year! I can’t wait to say Goodbye to 2020, but we’ve got some exciting Holidays before then.

As we celebrate these various Festivities and the end of 2020, I wanted to hear what your plans are for celebrating. They don’t have to be related to a specific Holiday, we can just celebrate Hogmanay, but how are you celebrating this Month?

Of course, a big thing about this season is food, so Sprouts; yay or nay?

Hope you all have an amazing Holiday, and we'll see you in 2021!

Hi! You may be wondering who I am, as I’ve not posted in r/ModSupport before.

I’m u/IsNotTheImposter and I joined Reddit at the start of the month! Before working at Reddit, I’ve been a Moderator on the site for 5 years, so I know the hard work that goes into keeping your subreddits great communities! You’ll see more from me next year, but today I’m excited to talk about Winter Fun with you all!

seems to fit the timeline, and the mod background

this is the guy who codes the auto-moderator. etc

https://www.reddit.com/r/trans/comments/mcuu7f/please_dont_panic/

Some of these rumors involve one of the mods on our LGBT subreddits, someone who is a mod on many subs because they're particularly skilled with CSS and coding AutoMod. They're one of the folks who helped write some of our anti-troll filters and have helped our communities weather organized attacks by transphobes in the past.

I, personally, have received at least half a dozen info dumps full of claims about these people and how they are connected, but unfortunately none of those info dumps seem to align very well. They're jumbled and the details don't fit together. Some of them share common threads, but until that information starts making a coherent picture, I'm forced to assume it's spurious accusation until proven otherwise.

(Making flagrantly false accusations linking LGBT people to pedophiles is an old and favored tactic of a bunch of alt right transphobes. They think it's funny and effective.)

What some of y'all don't know is that reddit rolled out an anti-brigading feature last year called 'crowd control' - namely, if someone doesn't participate here regularly, or if they don't have a certain amount of participation on this subreddit, they get a little flag next to their username with 'Crowd Control' written on it.

So when I go look at a thread full of people panicking on this subreddit, and I see 60% or more of the users there have the 'Crowd Control' flag next to their name, then I know that most of those people came from elsewhere. They're not legitimate members on this sub, they're brigaders who are probably here to just stir up more panic and chaos. That is not helpful.

Now, we're going to investigate and we're going to get to the bottom of this, but that will take a little time. We'll need to sort through all this conflicting information until it actually makes some sort of sense.

Please, do not get swept up in a panic. We've seen the alt right try to pull smear jobs on trans mods in the past, and we've seen various organized groups of transphobes doxx our mods and send us death threats, etc. Heaven knows we've weathered more than our fair share of hardship.

That's just the way the Internet is, sometimes. It doesn't mean our subreddits aren't safe, it just means that these are large, public boards and sometimes people come here to try and cause a ruckus for their own ends or their own amusement. There are people out there who see trans folks as easy targets for all sorts of malicious nonsense.

As mods, we do our very best to protect y'all from some of the worst the Internet has to offer, and most of the time we succeed. We've got a lot of sensible, experienced folks who usually have some pretty solid judgement when it comes to helping guide our communities through this crisis or that.

As a community, we're better than that. When those around us try to pull us down, we try to rise above. It's not always easy, but it's the right thing to do, so we do it.

So please, take a deep breath, sit back, and take a moment to recollect your thoughts. The trans community on reddit has been here for well over a decade, now, and we're not going to just up and disappear over some witch hunt or some he-said, she-said drama. We're still going to be here tomorrow, and the next day, and next month, and next year, and so on. So please give us a little time and we'll get this sorted out, alright?

this reminds me of that time the RNC-GOP "fired" Nathan Sproul's company, only to hire him back the same day, under a new company name.