So many people say that this is Subreddit run by trolls, to make this short I will list my evidence in bullet points:
First of all, censorship. THe mods delete posts that they don’t like Evidence and more evidence
Second of all, the mods used to have this Subreddit be a pink clusterfuck. proof
Who are the mods? Some don’t even contribute to this sub.
There is a lot of things that can be said about the founder and lead mod of this Subreddit, the user has recently deleted his history. Also, there have been many threads where he has shown an aggressive attitude, I can’t get proof because he recently deleted his comment history.
I don’t want to cause drama, but this has to be addressed, the sooner the better in my opinion.
Firstly, the post was asking about the Subreddit itself (I mean the first deleted post) this is also known as a meta post, the general thing one should do is answer the questions asked and to be transparent when doing this. Deleting it is straight up censorship.
Secondly, when this Subreddit was for the “mumble things” lots of people asked what was going on and why the theme was like that. Each single time that question was answered it was done in an informal way trying to anger the person who asked. I also PMed the mod team with a long essay like request just to be told to fuck off, this harms your reputation.
Why do you need to know WHO the mods are?
The mods are what makes the Subreddit, each mod should go through a heavy interviewing process along with a long background check. From what I can see this flat out didn’t happen.
Also, why did Trollingisfun delete his comment history, he had some very immature and sometimes straight up anger filled posts there.
The first deleted account was banned for spamming after making a critical post about this Subreddit. They only talked about /r/dicebattlefield4 in one post and comment and got banned, is that fair?
Now let’s compare this Sub to /r/battlefield and /r/battlefield_4, 2 communities with mods with good backgrounds with set guidelines, meanwhile we have a bunch of people who suddenly changed to make this Subreddit look more legitimate with no announcement or explanation what-so-ever.
As a mod of /r/battlefield we think this is going to have a big confusion and think it’s better to not jump ship every year, why should we?
Most other games have a general subreddit for a game series and not 50 others.
You deserve you harmed reputation (I mean the Subreddit by “you”). You, yourself seem like a good individual, however; I simply cannot trust a community run by people with such dark backgrounds. I tried to reason with Trollingisfun and his responses were straight up hostile. Somebody whose name (not a sole factor though) comment history, executive history.
I was talking about the previous post that was deleted, it seems like some people on your mod team do not like criticism.
I have not once seen Trollingisfun responding calmly and professionally.
You have a contrast here, once community with:
A good name
A bad background
Mods who have not been involved with the BF community for a long time (they have been here for months, they should get deleted soon if you want your Subreddit to gain trust)
A head mod who is a straight up dickhead (nothing personal, but I can’t describe him in another way) with unprofessional all around behavior and a shady background
A community which hasn’t tried to talk to the other Battlefield communities (which I know /r/battlefield_4 has done)
And you have 2 other Subs (/r/battlefield_4 and /r/battlefield) who have:
Hand picked mods
Talked to each other
CSS team
Are transparent
No shady background (good intentions)
What you are doing now is splitting the community, if you personally want to craft a community I suggest applying for a membership over at the other 2 Subreddits
Unless Trollingisfun suddenly explain everything and has had a sudden moment of enlightenment I would recommend for people to not trust this Subreddit.
I don’t think he means a “real” background check… But looking into peoples character (meaning how do they handle themselves in their comments, post history, etc.) is a very real thing.
Chiming in randomly here, but your (you, not subreddit) answer just blockaded itself around the sole point of, in layman’s terms, “we had this name first, so shut up and deal with our ways”…
How is that, fair for us, the BF community, or new, prospecting players/redditors who are interested? This is starting to get selfish… I honestly do wish that there were a way to “impeach” or “request” new mods with enough votes, because I would most DEFINITELY sponsor the other, aforementioned subs.
Simply implying the “grand notion” that the sub’s name is the best fit, does NOT automatically grant one the overall benevolence of acquiring the migrating redditors’ respect/subscriptions. Defacto bf4 subreddit… Pssch…
At this rate, I completely agree and stand behind ‘honeynuts2’, SIMPLY from reading your replies and argumentative tactics.
Just found this subreddit the other day… But I was a part of /r/Battlefield3 from release date and months beyond that. It blew up. HUGE. I think now it has 60k+ subscribers?
Look. I’m not trying to pick a fight here, but I think I can clarify what OP is saying, as a reply to something you just said.
I believe it is inevitable that this subreddit will become the defacto bf4 subreddit.
I agree, and I think OP would too, and I think that because of this OP is saying “you guys need to get your shit together before the subreddit blows up in popularity in the coming few months.”
I could be wrong, of course. (And I also agree. You guys really should make a concerted effort to whip this place into shape. Maybe talk to some of the guys over in /r/battlefield3?)
For now, that’s OK, but letting it fester like that is not a great idea. There needs to be discussions and planning – managing a big subreddit can be a big deal, especially in the coming months leading up to the release of BF4!
Thankfully j_cz confirmed that there is collaboration in the works with other mods of /r/battlefield3. This is a very good thing. In the BF3 subreddit the mods expertly handled moderating the subreddit by keeping it free from childish bullshit (for the most part) and also handling the influx of players as BF3 released. That’s the kind of thing I would be worried about in this subreddit, too. I think the URL alone (/r/battlefield4) means it will end up being the default subreddit, so we need to make sure that there are quality moderators here to keep things as organized and in-check as the guys in the BF3 subreddit did.
(Note that I’m not addressing the character of any of the mods here – I have no idea who they are so I won’t offer an opinion on them, since I have none yet!)
The mods of /r/battlefield_4 include the mods of /r/battlefield3, who were quite happy to get modded up in this subreddit, something we in /r/battlefield didn’t constitute sound judgement - it represented an endorsement of this subreddit by the mods of /r/battlefield3 and in my opinion was an act that put their own personal desires to be at the forefront of a successful battlefield subreddit as opposed to putting any potential community first.
In /r/battlefield the mantra we’re running is community and quality, quality, quality. The goal is to support Battlefield as much as possible, be it the reddit battlefield server communities, be it competitive battlefield, be it brand new players needing a place to start and learn the basics of the game, be it those looking for resources to find folks to play with.
Every single new release there’s going to be this whole issue of “where shall we go, oh noooo!” when somebody has bagged some subreddit down the line, barring 2143 should that game ever happen, which I had the foresight to get a long time ago.
In /r/battlefield we’re just going to be quietly pushing to support and deliver the absolute best that we can, why? Because we’re Battlefield nuts, and crazy about communities.
I guess I should say this opinion is my own as other mods there might be supportive of /r/battlefield_4, I’m not and vehemently believe in the team we’ve got in /r/battlefield and the philosophy we’re undertaking there.
There’s been quite a bit of internal discussion on this this topic recently, and I think many members of the community will be pleased with the solution we arrived at. The official moderation discussion thread is now at:
Personally I would like all moderators of this sub that were in power during trollingisfuns time in power to stand down. You clearly cannot be trusted to run a subreddit responsibly if you stood by and laughed while tearing the battlefield community apart. Someone who was such an asshole to run this subreddit like it was, in my honest opinion… doesn’t deserve to be in power again.