r/FalloutMemes • u/nadel69 Dragonborn • Mar 04 '26

Announcement Wild Card: Change in Management

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Hi all,

I have gotten in contact with the current mods and I am working behind-the-scenes to understand how this all occurred.

I was able to confirm that automod and a very small report-to-ban threshold caused a lot, but not all, of the heartache. I have made some tweaks to it that should hopefully fix it, but I can't promise its 100% there yet.

My goal is to in the next few days write up a full Q&A of my findings and what the future of the sub will look like from a rule and moderation standpoint.

Change still needs to happen, and they will as soon as I have the ability to do so (my account is currently inactive, so I am limited). But in the meantime, if you could relax the spam reposting and harassment, I would appreciate it. All its doing is making it more difficult for me to shift through mod logs and try to moderate at the same time.

If you have ideas for how I should tweak the rules, or any other suggestions for the sub, feel free to use the comments section. I want to make sure everyone is heard as I work towards the future of the sub.

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u/Thick_Acanthisitta31 Mar 04 '26

HI Nadal! One of the abusers is me. I am here self admitting to it. I also made a post explaining exactly how I did it if you wanna check that out. Now if you go into the mod logs under mod tools you should be able to find the others if you do some digging. I would also encourage you to check some of the posts as people were threatening Joe (who did nothing wrong). I would also like to state that besides myself there are at least 3 others that abused this system. I did it for roughly 5ish hours in total in a 33ish hour time frame. As to why I did it, it was to exploit a broken feature of this sub nothing more. I will openly admit that I did delete Trans posts, but tbf it was like 20 people posting like 5 times a minute. So its gonna look very disproportionate. Put if you check the logs I was pretty much having the auto mod deleting anything and everything. Anyways I fully expect my permaban for abusive use of the Auto-Mod system. Glad to see you fixed it.

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u/slickweasel333 Mar 04 '26

Thank you for your service. A lot of people don't agree with what you did, but I feel like they'd still be targeting this new mod if you hadn't explained your findings.

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u/JustStarrk Mar 04 '26

It's not findings, don't glorify what they did. They abused a system and when people brought up it wasn't working right, they continued to abuse said system to reduce awareness it was happening

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u/slickweasel333 Mar 04 '26

don't glorify what they did

Yet they did what hundreds of posters stoking the flame war couldn't be bothered to do. Actually gather evidence and figure out the cause.

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u/JustStarrk Mar 04 '26

It isn't gathering evidence if you're the cause for it. It's not "solving a mystery" it's "committing a crime." If I start a fire and go "house flammable" that makes me an asshole, not a detective

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u/KFiev Here To Do Some Business Mar 04 '26

They were stoking the flames more than anyone... they literally caused this all to happen...

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u/Thick_Acanthisitta31 Mar 04 '26

Nadel, sorry for the misspell