Also, whatever had happened to Modtimus_Prime_RT, he’s back in action. Seems his arguing with reddit admins might have gotten a 1-day suspension… The only difference between his responses to them and mine was whether undeserved politeness was a 6/10 or an 8/10.

Here’s the DM I sent to you on reddit, once I came back from focusing on real life this afternoon and evening - after I took the sub private, following the suggestion from Modtimus_Prime_RT… whose account now looks deleted. Oh for fucks sake, he was the primary active mod other than myself…

*It’s been a melodramatic few days. It may well be the case it’s unrelated to developments within Tesla - there’s certainly been a long enough period of folks using u/ posts on RealTesla to harass the mods of the main forums that, even though we delete those soon as we see them, it’s believable they might for that reason alone do their Streisand Effect robo-bans. But it’s also the case that harassment of our sub and today negative admin attention came on only as the stock went off a cliff for days on end.

I set the sub private after another mod suggested it, in reaction to a warning from the reddit admins that our sub, to their view, exists to harass the main Tesla subs and their mods. The timing on that message was almost comical, to be honest, as it came shortly after yet another round of one of their mods and I coordinating on removing genuinely harassing posts targeting them, posted by trolls onto RealTesla.

Then, separately, there’s been a week-long campaign to mark seemingly every damned post or comment in RealTesla as “targeted harassment.” I suspect the volume of harassment reports - even though they were almost entirely fraudulent - are why the admins came in.*

Also, in the hours since cliff re-opened the sub, there’s been two waves of mass-reporting of comments and posts, including comments from over six months ago. Per advice I got on the mod support subreddit yesterday, I’ve been submitting fraudulent reports to the admins… not that I trust it’ll do anything for us right now.

Ah. I haven’t followed PAVE too closely once Ed left, but had a positive impression of it from when I did pay attention. That’s too bad that they’re proving to be just another ineffective body.

Adam, are you familiar with PAVE? If not, their work might be of interest to you. https://pavecampaign.org/about/

Doesn’t the DSA use a rose emoji as their online signal (similar to social democrats using socks and neoliberals using globes)? Something like that should serve as both a subtle cue and one that your in-group should recognize.