Here's HeyMoon's post if you prefer to read that (contains more details about the drama)
(Reposting in case kiwifarms goes down permanently) (edited for clarity) @X (formerly chiobu)_
A reddit admin was caught abusing her position to set her tile cooldown to zero (note: cooldown is 5 minutes and 20 minutes for email verified and unverified users respectively) in order to erase an Orange Cat (A) that was previously posted by Reddit on twitter. (A)
This cartoon cat was the creation of Anton Dimitriev, a Ukrainian artist who is currently living in Kharkiv that is besieged by the Russian military as we speak.
His art station: https://www.artstation.com/mine_flood (A)
His deviantart: https://www.deviantart.com/anton-d/gallery (A)
In addition, reddit permanently banned everyone who placed a tile in that area or tried to change her tiles to repair the Orange Cat. Merely placing pixels near the cat resulted in a personal ban, resulting in the bannings of users from /r/AnarchyChess as their subreddit logo bordered the Orange Cat.
People who tried asking about their bans had their posts removed as well
https://old.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tukjit/why_was_my_account_shadowbanned_after_placing_a/ (A)
Reddit went a step further and manually gigabanned the accounts so that whenever you try to visit an account banned for placing a tile - you get this page. (this is the ban crystalvulpine was talking about when he said he received the ChuckSpears treatment)
Example of an account chucked by the admins - they last posted yesterday proving it is a real account. As you can see, this was an active and real account that was not only banned, but deleted (the sub he posted in has now gone private, so this is an archive).
2nd example - proof (A)
Other people caught on, resulting in posts calling it out that reached the front page. Initially the admins tried to do damage control by setting a filter on /r/place to automatically remove any post that mentions the cheating or the Orange Cat that was overwritten. Another reddit admin responded (A) saying admins have been cheating to "keep the canvas safe for everyone," a laughably poor excuse considering they didn't interfere with people drawing peepeees, the 4Chan logo, or swastikas over the German flag.
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One thing that isn’t really mentioned much is a lot of the unjannied accounts got banned from doing anything on /r/place (something like a 12000 minute timeout). Somehow, that happened to my 5 year old unsuspicious main account but my (then) newly made account /u/nobaitistooobvious was fine
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I don't remember how exactly they displayed the timeout, though I think it was
~5790(days).hh.mm.ssor such, but I definitely remember they were setting timestamp-to-place-next-pixel as January 19th, 2038. Seemed like they had a signed 32-bit Unix timestamp for when an account could place its next tile, and gettingr/place-banned set that timestamp to 2³¹-1.Jump in the discussion.
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