I hate T_D. Never posted there, never intend to. But I've been on reddit long enough to know why T_D exists.

You're to blame. It is your fault that T_D exists.

You, the default mod team, and to an extent the admins, have created an environment rife for speculation about pushing a narrative and censoring another one.

/r/politics this election has been very controversial. Shouts of "CTR HAS INFILTRATED THE MOD TEAM" have been going around since the early days of the election. However, it's gotten way worse then baseless accusations.

The accusations got worse because automod was removing comments that mentioned it. If you don't understand how that fuels the speculation, you have no business being a mod.

The behavior of reddit admins and the default power mods has pushed people to the fringes and concentrated their speech. By concentrating it you've made it louder. You are witnessing the result of your own policies.

Instead of typing up all of this again, here is a comment I typed up in reply to /u/spez admitting to editing comments that I didn't post simply because I didn't want to have a post history in T_D.

Hey /u/spez . I'm sure you'll never see this because of the flood of mentions and replies you're getting, and I'm sure even if you did you wouldn't care, but I'm here from /r/all (as usual) and this is the most contextually relevant place to post it right now.

This is my first, and god fucking willing my last, participation on /r/The_Donald . I hate this subreddit. I hate everything about it. I hate the CSS. I hate the titles and the comments that look like FWD from grandma shit in all caps. I hate the users. I hate the pathetic attempts at recreating the heyday of memes. Everything about this subreddit is cancer. Congratulations, because you and the mods of the defaults created this shitshow. It's your fault these trolls exist to begin with. I blame you, the admins, and the mods of the defaults over any of the shitty users here.

Do you know what I would see on my front page, not being a subscriber to any partisan subreddits, during the election? Hillary Clinton defense. Donald Trump bashing. I'm not a fan of either of those people and as someone who was disillusioned by this election, I wanted a fair shake at information. Reddit failed at that, and it was active. I saw posts removed from /r/politics that were topical to the election both anti-Hillary and pro-Trump. I saw threads locked. I saw comment graveyards that could easily be read using archives which proved that the comments were benign support of the candidate reddit didn't like. So when I was looking for election news aggregation where was I to go? Not /r/politics or any other topical subreddit that should, in theory, be non-partisan as a generic news subreddit. Definitely not any of the defaults. No, I went to /r/all because the only posts that weren't extremely one-sided Salon blogs against Trump or for Hillary were in this shitshow of a subreddit or one of its sister subreddits. Even when they were completely legitimate fact-based journalism about an ongoing FBI investigation.

Most of that can be scapegoated to the mods. That's what reddit admins do best. Shrug shoulders and say the mods get to do what they want. Except this is not strike one for you against this subreddit. This is strike two. You actively edited comments on this subreddit which is a fucking despicable abuse of power but a few weeks back there was another thing that as an IT guy who works a lot in web based stuff made me raise a serious eyebrow.

A few weeks ago the front 25 pages or so of /r/all were completely filled with posts from this subreddit. A lot of people were just marginally frustrated or amused by it. I was concerned because it was very blatant evidence of you fucking with the algorithm specifically targeting a subreddit. The excuse by another admin whose name escapes me at the moment was a change to a cache database done in production unrelated to this subreddit specifically which is, to me, fairly blatant bullshit. I thought you were fucking with the weight of the posts on this subreddit for the front page but I had no real concrete evidence so I didn't talk about it much except in one private subreddit. Sounds like someone put a decimal in the wrong place or accidentallied a zero.

You actually editing comments here maliciously as the CEO of a company that's had double-digit millions of venture capital funding under the ownership of a mass media conglomerate really throws your benefit of the doubt out the windows, does it not?

There's something to be said about all the reasons people claim Donald Trump is now the president-elect of the US. I can't say I completely disagree with any of them. One of those is that the active campaign to promote Hillary Clinton in the media backfired because people were fed up with it. Whether Trump is a fraud, con artist, or real champion of the people is beside the point. Gaze upon your microcosm of that, /u/spez . Reddit is a small scale experiment that demonstrates that exact phenomenon. You and your ablative armor of moderators actively suppress news based on a political bias and /r/The_Donald is the pendulum swinging in the opposite direction. You control the arm of that pendulum. If you were doing it right nobody would have noticed and you could just say it was the userbase and their majority opinion. Instead you got greedy and your bias and collusion with the moderators was exposed.

The fact that reddit is biased at the core of the organization and actively manipulating conent is no longer just some conspiracy theory that's run about in every political thread. You've come out and given legitimacy to every politically conservative conspiracy theory about reddit tampering with the narrative.

You are the reason this subreddit exists and is constantly on the top of /r/all where I have to see it. You've created an environment where the only way I can get a perspective from both sides is to look at the obviously biased subreddits with non-partisan names and descriptions along side obviously biased subreddits with partisan names and descriptions. How do you feel about that?

Maybe you, as a defauly mod, should be focusing on the fact that you were part of the leaked chat to behind with instead of the fact that it was leaked and people are angry about it?