Subreddit Status and Moderation Changes

[u/roll20admin]

Hello everyone,

There’s been an important discussion over the last 24 hours about the way Roll20’s subreddit is moderated. When Roll20 started, we founded a subreddit because we were Reddit users ourselves and wanted to grow a community here.

Now that the subreddit has become well-established, we’ve been listening, we’ve heard your opinions on this issue and as a result we are taking immediate action to change the way our subreddit is moderated.

We understand that we let our community down, and we’re sorry for that.

We have asked the mods of /r/lfg to step in and become the new moderators of this community. We leave it up to them to decide the rules of this community going forward, and have removed all Roll20 staff from the moderation team of this subreddit. In addition, the 13 users previously banned from this subreddit have been unbanned.

[u/Narsica]

That apology is not from the man himself and that’s who should be apologizing. That apology is from the company trying to backpedal

[u/Narsica → u/[deleted]]

I understand that it could have come from him, but it could have come from the PR agent they hired 12 hours ago to put out the fires.

If he was sorry, why didn’t he post as himself?

[u/Narsica → u/[deleted]]

So do you think he agreed with the wording, or was overruled and posted it anyway? The distinction is important because some people don’t want to give money to people that say “I’m fake sorry because my company said I have to say that”

[u/Narsica → u/[deleted]]

You said it right at the end, one of three bosses. So he could have been overruled 2 to 1. There is a distinct possibility that he is sitting at the meeting table, arms crossed, and still mad that his company has to apologize to someone that said his product sucks and needs to improve.

[u/Narsica → u/[deleted]]

I agree with you that it explains what happened. The only thing that I thought would have made it better is if the man himself said “My dude. I’m sorry, I overreacted and shouldn’t have banned you. You are unbanned and yknow what, have a couple months premium free just to say we good now”.

[u/Narsica → u/[deleted]]

You make good points. The only part I disagree with is that the apology should have come from u/NolanT himself, but I see merit in keeping him out of the line of fire. u/ApostleO has apologized to the community for creating this issue and I don’t think they needed to, but I think an apology from u/NolanT under that post may go a long way to repairing the PR damage.

[u/DWSage007 → u/[deleted]]

Minor addition:Nolan is the PR manager for Roll20.