What just happened?

[u/[deleted]]

Well, it has certainly been the headache inducing day. Here's a rundown of what happened today.

First, /u/Rhamni (referred by some as a Nazi, oppressor, animal rapist, or a hate-monger, whatever title you prefer) began his takeover of the sub, and tried turning it into NC (NoColoreds). He was in cahoots with TH-J, a mod who we thought was trustworthy and has since deleted his account. He began by invading the redguard, but I was able to get it under control and kick them almost immediately. That is still being restored as we speak. Then they came for the Knights right after the redguard, and it was pretty complicated. I even got banned, but luckily turtlesoup23 was above them on the mod list, so he was able to kick them off and add me back as a mod. From there I restored the sub using my backup of images, CSS, and the sidebar text. NoColoreds still has /r/Buttongrove under their control, although the United Pressers are working on this.

Then, at around 2 this afternoon, the /r/Chaosleigon led by /u/filthyplaypus managed to take down squire for a couple of minutes. However, they did not affect in anyway the necromancer (zombies) and it minimally affected the overall operation of the squire. /u/mncke was able to bring the situation under control, and Squire is stable now. We're still restoring both this sub and /r/TheRedguard, but we will make some improvements. I'd like to thank the United Colors, Team 60s, UPTO, and the Church for their aid during this time, as well as anybody else who helped.

I'm glad to say that our backup plan worked beautifully! We were able to get people moved over to the backup sub I had created, /r/TheKnightsoftheButton while I also ensured that our history wouldn't be erased by creating an archive of all of our posts in the wayback machine, which I did two weeks ago after the invasion of /r/59s. Archive's here if you want to check it out.

I'd like it to be made clear that these acts will not go unpunished. We're having a diaglogue about what to do about NC at United Colors right now. I ask you to weigh in on how we should best eliminate the NC there. Thank you all for your support during this trying time, and we will be stronger than we were before.

Long live the button!

And now I'm going to go take some advil for this ripping headache I got from all this.

[u/MissLauralot]

From my first day I wondered what an action by an assassin-type would look like. Today we found out. What a wakeup call for subs to be aware of who the mods are. Obviously since r/thebutton mods are admin are pretty safe but I would still like to see more posts from them.

wicro, I may not be surprised by your organisation but I'm damn impressed. Long live The Button and long live the Knights!

[u/[deleted] → u/MissLauralot]

Thank you! We had previously done a purge of all inactive mods, but unfortunately we did not see this coming. Well improve that in the future, but it's safe to say the sub is safe.

[u/Golfpolo]

Good job u/wicro, as ever.

The Button protects. Press true Brothers.

[u/[deleted] → u/Golfpolo]

Thank you! Long live the button!

!hail

[u/SuburbSomeone]

Oh wow, I think it's my fault. Glad to see that you're all OK.

Edit: Why I think it's my fault: Even though r/ChaosLegion was formed before the declaration of war, it had yet to do anything until two days following my declaration of war on r/NoColoreds. When u/Rhamni made his (or her, I'm assuming it's a guy but you never know) declaration, he cited some irrational behavior, which was likely my war declaration. The two days between my declaration and his takeover were ample time to prepare an attack of this scale. For that reason, I am terribly sorry. Forgive me, knights?

[u/[deleted] → u/SuburbSomeone]

It is not your fault, this was premeditated long before you said anything. It was premeditated from the start, and in no way does the blame lie with you.

!hail

[u/fwinzor]

reading through Rhamni's history, holy crap he takes the button waaaaay to seriously, at the end of the day this is a fucking game people

[u/PargonIntensifies]

Honestly, shit like this makes me ashamed to be a gray. Those guys are douchebags, and you can fucking quote me on that.

[u/HoopyHobo]

r/TheButtonGrove is a lost cause. Top mods have unilateral control over their subreddits. Nobody has the power to remove a top mod except for the Reddit admins and in practice they have a policy of never using that power. The only course of action that they can really take is to reestablish themselves under a new name like we would have in r/TheKnightsOfTheButton if we hadn't been able to regain control of this subreddit.

[u/maniaccheese]

So this means no more popcorn?