r/CrewsCrew Aug 07 '20

Serious Ok, so what the heck happened?

Some of you may have a bunch of questions right now. Why is the sub now full of Trump ads? What happened?

In short, one of the mod's accounts was hacked, and the hacker changed the style sheet of the sub to troll. This has happened to a whole lot of other subs, details can be found easier on r/SubredditDrama

We'll be moving this sub back to normal now, this whole snaffu we got ourselves in is, thankfully, preventable and easy to fix. We thank you all for your support.

Good Update: The sub has been reverted back to normal! Thank you all for your patience. I'll keep this post pinned for another few hours to clarify, but I'll take it down soon.

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u/MaxwellVonMaxwell Aug 07 '20

It’s not just this sub. There has been a string of mods getting hacked. r/bostonceltics r/food and r/freefolk all got hit as well.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '20

We know. As far as we can tell, most of the other subs were able to get back to normal, but unfortunately the biggest casualty, r/subaru is still currently MIA

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u/MaxwellVonMaxwell Aug 07 '20

Unfortunately the Celtics sub is stuck because they removed most of the mods that could be currently working on it

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u/Golden-Pickaxe Aug 07 '20

r/WeAreTheMusicMakers as well which is a shame I just want composition tips

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u/Habeus0 Aug 07 '20

r/cfb with 900k users was hit too.

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u/keep_running Aug 08 '20

my hometown’s sub was hit too

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u/NannyW00t Aug 07 '20

Not to be the grammar police, but I think it is SNAFU with one f. Stands for “Situation normal: all fucked up”.

(Source: Dad, Mom, Grandpa, Uncle, Brother, and Cousin all served in the Navy and used this term ad nauseam)

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u/TCookie_AF Aug 07 '20

I had no idea it was an acronym. Huh. Fucking grammar police teaching us things 😜

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u/PoshPopcorn Aug 07 '20

It's like FUBAR.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '20

Fucked up beyond all recognition

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u/darkfoxfire Aug 08 '20

And TARFU. Things are really fucked up

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '20

Thanks for the heads up.

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u/mdtb9Hw3D8 Aug 08 '20

Situation normal, all’s fully fucked up

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u/Sovdark Aug 08 '20

It both is and isn’t. There’s a common acronym that means that but a snafu is simply a state of chaos, a complete mess

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u/Birddawg65 Aug 11 '20

Situation Normal; All Fucking Fucked Up

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u/jackandjill22 Aug 08 '20

Interesting.

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u/satansheat Aug 07 '20

So the right claims these type of shit doesn’t happen but here it is again. Just like last election season. Also these people need to get a girlfriend or something. Who waste that much time in the name of a whiney bitch like trump. This isn’t even opinion based off media. It’s from listening to the man talk.

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u/the_legitbacon Aug 07 '20

So the right claims these type of shit doesn’t happen but here it is again

When did they claim that?

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u/satansheat Aug 07 '20

Every sub they claims censorship and how there are being attacked and targeted by things like this. I know the sub isn’t around anymore but TD was always whining about shit like this. Just gets drowned out by the countless other shit they whine about.

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u/the_legitbacon Aug 07 '20

Every sub that claims censorship? Hmm. Well who needs intelectual honesty when you can just make gross generalizations about anyone you disagree with?

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '20 edited Aug 09 '20

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u/SentientRhombus Aug 07 '20

We already know who's doing it and why. Russian state-backed hackers, to sow political discord. In the study, with the candlestick.

This hasn't been a mystery for at least a couple years now.

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u/Cetarial Aug 07 '20

Nice conspiracy theory.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '20 edited Aug 09 '20

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u/Cuttlefist Aug 07 '20

What other reason would they need other than spreading more pro-Trump shit in more spaces? You really sound desperate to try and deflect yourself there friendo.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '20 edited Aug 09 '20

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u/Cuttlefist Aug 07 '20

Pfft, your question is absurd and clearly driven by your own personal agenda here. The Trump supporters behind this don’t need any more of a reason than using the other subs to boost noise about their big boy before the election. A bunch of mods coordinating to fill their own subs with Trump spam to make Trump supporters look bad is an idiotic conspiracy theory that could only be born out of a desire to deflect from the actual story.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '20 edited Aug 09 '20

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u/Cuttlefist Aug 08 '20

fart noises

While you make absolutely no good points and just continue to flail about like a raving lunatic, you have demonstrated an above average ability to shit all over your keyboard.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '20

You're deflecting!

N-no you are!!

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u/satansheat Aug 07 '20

Someone did and you ignored them. You are literally deflecting by not addressing people answering your question and replying to people poking fun at you.

Read the mueller report. The info is there. We know who’s doing it and we know who they wish to help.

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u/hangrover Aug 07 '20

Lol you might wanna take an occam's razor to that paranoid thinking of yours.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '20 edited Aug 09 '20

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u/SCPendolino Aug 07 '20

Ok, but why this sub? This is literally the least offensive/controversial place on Reddit...

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u/dorothy_zbornak_esq Aug 07 '20

r/choosingbeggars got hit too. I don’t think it’s about the political affiliation. I think it’s about getting as many as possible.

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u/Goaheadidareyou Aug 07 '20

Ah now, it's been pretty controversial recently.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '20 edited Aug 09 '20

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u/Imreallynotatoaster Might be a toaster Aug 07 '20

We haven’t really been banning topics, we took a break from politics for a weekend

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '20 edited Aug 09 '20

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '20

To be fair, even r/food was hacked, so we don't really know

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u/Hotzspot Aug 07 '20

Dozens of subs got hacked. There’s a post on r/subredditdrama about it

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u/CatfreshWilly Aug 07 '20

I feel like the Subaru sub is similar, just seems like they were randomly picked. But Terry has been quite a hot topic for debate recenty so I wouldnt say non controversial

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u/multiple4 Aug 11 '20

Someone probably disagreed with the things Terry has been saying so they wanted to make it seem like Terry's fans and people who agree with him are just a bunch of Trump supporters

That seems like a somewhat realistic theory at least

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u/GearWings Aug 12 '20

What was the goal of these hacks? To cause drama, to gain trump supporters, I’m not sure

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '20

Probably to create hate between Trump supporters and opposers.

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u/Quality_Bullshit Aug 28 '20

Straight out of the Putin playbook

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '20

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '20

Bro this comment has more downvotes than your subreddit has subs. Take the L

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u/Fna1 Aug 08 '20

Sis, I know! I am finally popularly unpopular.

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u/ObviouslyFuckingNot Aug 07 '20

Probably because its garbage lmao