History of /r/KotakuInAction rule changes I was looking into KiA's rule changes and trying to figure out where the disconnect came about where Rule 5 was supposed to be to prevent people from having action taken against them, to being used to remove Milo's article, while being ignored when there's legitimate calls for "witch hunting" on KiA right now(I reported the comment hours ago, and it's still up).  I remember the community being largely against rule changes like rule 11, and yet they were implemented anyway, when it was supposed to be a community decision, not the decision of just the mods. I was about to start digging, but then I figured I'd just ask the person who knew best. I haven't looked through all these yet, but it's a good place to see where r/KotakuInAction went wrong in places, and how this subverse could learn from the mistakes..... Like the community being for the removal of a certain mod, but he's still a moderator..... I won't say any names, but their user name starts with 'ch' and ends with 'a0s' Anyway, here's most of the major rule changes to my knowledg: First version of rule 5: new archive https://archive.is/RW5Up old archive https://archive.is/w4OWf Interesting to note that BasediCloud asked if people could call out "shills," "concern trolls," and "SJWs," and I explicitly said it was allowed. That somewhat changed during my watch, an admitted failure. Anyway, next part of the timeline is when the proposal to pull Ghazi and Drama threads happened: new archive https://archive.is/fcnd1 old archive https://archive.is/thpdt this was the result of the Ghazi/Drama proposal. Completely mishandled: new archive https://archive.is/FgUvm old archive https://archive.is/SYgy1 This was what happened afterward. Ended up fixing the situation, for the most part: new archive https://archive.is/e17Xi old archive https://archive.is/Ai4G4 TB's "KiA needs to do better" thing happened, and this thread went up, calling for ways to improve:  new archive https://archive.is/Ab5fw old archive https://archive.is/aR6zo Most interesting there: "Changing up the rules will be something that's voted on by the community, if there is enough support for it. We're not going to spring a "surprise, this is policy now!" sticky on you, like with Rule 11. That was a major fuckup, and we won't do that shit again." We fucked up this one, too. Result of the "changes" thread: new archive https://archive.is/uF27H old archive https://archive.is/dPrG6 And this is when the shit really started to hit the fan, with the Off-Topic stuff: new archive https://archive.is/GI0UW old archive https://archive.is/KwKHX The follow-up to that one, where the sub went in open revolt, and I ended up taking days out of my vacation to put out fires: new archive https://archive.is/53CfW old arcive https://archive.is/Z5Yq1 Vacation's over: new archive https://archive.is/uOwVk old archive https://archive.is/AgGMr I don't remember the context of this one, but it was a feedback thread for shit like open mod logs, changing Rules 1 and 3 to be less vague, and issues with SocJus/OT posts:  new archive https://archive.is/BEbE6 old archive https://archive.is/0ZelF The changes came about here, included more rule tweaks. People got pissed, I still have no idea what started this one:  new archive https://archive.is/8z89j old archive https://archive.is/drlWd ^on this, intention was to better clarify the rules, not to ban more content. Mod team started slacking on removing metareddit shit (like, "I GOT BANNED FROM HERE" threads, for example), so we used that to clarify the intent of the rule so everyone was clear. And... people got upset, said it was censorship, let votes decide everything. Most metareddit stuff leads to brigading, which is why we didn't want it. Hell, we risked getting banned for the /r/Planetside shit. :\ Mod logs got opened, rules got tweaked in this one:  new archive https://archive.is/7eK4g old archive https://archive.is/HtPww And two weeks later, I quit: new archive https://archive.is/amJ6l old archive https://archive.is/RJEk2 Information all provided by Hatman himself.  Edit: 8chan thread