Note: "Banned" within the context of comments is a moderator removing a comment.

/u/Saydrah was a moderator of a few large subreddits including /r/AskReddit, /r/pics and a few others.

This comment kicks off the drama, saying that the OP has a history of SEO, and uses way to game the system. It exploded, and /u/raldi, a former reddit admin, responds here. People get upset with the admins because /u/kn0thing had banned /u/cr3, and the raldi gets involved in the slapfight thats caused by the admin response.

This provides context for what happens next. /u/Saydrah defends the OP, with this response:

>I upvoted you, but I think it's important to note that Reddit is a site that explicitly invites self-promotion when it's conducted in an appropriate manner. I personally don't find most of The Oatmeal's comics very funny (though the one about why he hates talking on the phone made me chuckle) but he's a friendly fellow who is nothing if not honest about that he's promoting his own sites and making money. He's also a decent cartoonist and seems to be a hard worker.

>In short, if he's "gaming the system" by creating original content that people like and presenting it in an attractive manner that's not full of gratuitous ugly ads, more power to him. I'd rather have 100 like him on Reddit than the people who start a blog and post one stolen image at a time with five or six Google ads per page and then spam it to r/pics.

Bickering ensues, and people eventually start calling for her to be removed form a moderator from the subreddits that she moderates. Saydrah makes a post in TwoXChromosomes (direct link) about it, and it isn't well received, garnering almost 3500 downvotes with only 2000 upvotes. She eventually deletes the submission, however it's linked to by many other places, and the damage was already done.

/u/krispykrackers, an /r/pics and /r/comics moderator, removes her from both subreddits. One day before, the admins make a blog post about it. I've copied the relevant section here:

>What happened this weekend saddened us. Saydrah's postings have been additive to the community, and we have no indication that she's been anything but a great moderator to the communities she moderates. Moderators are not exempt from our anti-cheating measures, and, though I hate to have to put it in these terms, we've "investigated" Saydrah, and we didn't find any indication of her cheating or otherwise abusing power.

A thread is made when it's found out that she was removing negative replies, which causes some bickering about how many care about it in the top comment. The person announces that they did not delete their comment, and the top mod of /r/pets, /u/neoronin, replies, saying that Saydrah did in fact remove the comment. The moderator eventually removes her.

Also, it was announced that Saydrah stepped down from AskReddit and other subreddits in this post by /u/karmanaut. She did an AMA, that turned out to be a complete disaster in October of 2009 as well.

She also did an AMA when the whole drama broke. She claims she has not been paid to submit content to reddit. Sort by q+a to get her responses to the questions floated to the top.

She also did another one in October of 2012 (direct link, unavailable due to /r/InternetAMA being private). Some violentacrez drama was in that thread, as well. However, this drama is unrelated, and already has a SubredditDrama recap over it. Go check it out if you have a day to lose.

She was shadowbanned by the reddit admins. It is unclear whether or not this was done because of spam, or whether she requested it, which she had said in her third AMA.

Relevant Threads

Title	Description
So i missed this whole Saydrah fiasco....can someone give me the quick recap?	AskReddit thread recapping part of the drama.
[comment in Saydrah's AMA]	Another recap of the drama via a question in her AMA
Re: Saydrah: what do we do now?	Self post to /r/reddit.com by /u/qgyh2 asking the community what they think about it.
Dear AskReddit, Should Saydrah be left alone, demodded or banned entirely for her recent actions of banning negative replies as a mod of r/pets? Lets leave the hyperbole and drama behind and have an objective discussion.	AskReddit discussion on if she should be removed as a mod, banned or if nothing should happen.