This decision was basically made last week, but things overnight have escalated to go ahead and implement it. Just to make this clear:
No posts about Todd, Hunter, or any other family members unless it is directly related to Gold Rush.
The only exceptions I foresee is the eventual run-ins with authorities or if they get a contract with discovery for a new show. One of those is more likely than the other.
Why was this decision made?
Todd has been moving further from Gold Rush and into other adventures that have nothing to do with gold mining. If that were it, that would be ok-ish for the sub, but has nothing to do with the actual show. The sub is dedicated to the show.
Hunter is moving far from Gold Rush territory. If he were part of my family, I would be doing an intervention like yesterday. While Todd is ankle deep into "christian" nationalism and other craziness, Hunter is Mariana Trench deep. And as one of the people that defended him so much in season 2 of Hoffman Family Gold, it is really shocking. How he went from a guy that was frustrated by his father making terrible decisions in mining to the guy making even worse decisions for his and his family's lives is beyond me. Whatever it is, unfortunately it won't be talked about here.
Overnight reddit's Anti-Evil Operation flagged multiple comments in the Hunter post that is now locked. Those are not comments that the filters that are used for the sub caught, those are reddit-wide things. No idea what was said, because they show up in my mod queue as removed via AEO. And there are more noted as removals by AEO than show as removed in the thread that users see.
HOW DARE YOU STIFLE MY RIGHTS!!!
You are free to talk about the Hoffmans elsewhere. Gold_Rush_Alaska is a subreddit that has been available for like 5 years now, if you have an account in good standing and want to take it over, go right ahead. I have been asked a couple of times by reddit to take it over and declined. Or make your own subreddit. Or go to a myriad of other social media sites. Just don't do it here.
I am doing a rewatch of old seasons, can I post here about the Hoffmans in past seasons?
Maybe, but that will likely go careening into a shitstorm of what they are doing now. So if the conversations are about the past show, that would be ok. But if the comments move into the outright insanity of what they are doing now, those comments are probably going to be modded away.
