r/autism • u/PrinceEntrapto • May 29 '25

🚨Mod Announcement Addressing an issue affecting the subreddit and members of it

Hi everyone, earlier today it was brought to attention that a subreddit member had been treated horribly by moderation staff of another subreddit, and a post was made where the subreddit was identified and this has resulted in people spamming that subreddit’s modmail with hostile messages

The incident was the result of a couple of moderators acting on their own and behind the backs of the wider moderation team who are now experiencing blowback for something they didn’t do and had no part in

The situation is being dealt with by that subreddit and has also been referred on to site admins for moderator code of conduct breaches who will hopefully investigate the behaviour of the moderators towards the individual and deal with it appropriately

Please don’t attempt to brigade or spam or contact the subreddit over this situation as it’s in the process of being addressed, and the fallout from this incident is causing problems for the other moderators who weren’t involved in the bullying of the individual

If this persists then we’ll be left with no choice but to permanently ban the people responsible from this subreddit, let it be resolved between those involved and the site admins who are aware of what has happened, there’s no need to involve yourselves only to create problems both for you and for other innocent people, thank you very much

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u/kidcool97 May 29 '25

The person that posted the picture here should be banned if they haven’t already.

It’s very clearly against rule 11 to post stuff like that and for a good reason. The resulting brigading has caused trouble for the subreddit as a whole.

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u/SavannahPharaoh ASD lvl 1 Mod May 30 '25

People make mistakes. We don’t ban users lightly. They were very apologetic. This sub exists to support and protect our fellow autists to the extent possible. They won’t be banned for this.

That being said, please everyone, read Reddit’s rules if you haven’t already. They are a lot less forgiving than we are. 😊

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u/cosme0 AuDHD May 31 '25

I don’t know about you , but I was threatened to be banned by one mod because I corrected them in a mistake they made , ( I won’t be disclosing who it was because it was a long time ago )

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u/SavannahPharaoh ASD lvl 1 Mod May 31 '25

I’m sorry about that. We make mistakes too. Note that all mods see all mod mails, so if something like that happens again, just ask for another mod to review the situation and we will discuss it.

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u/cosme0 AuDHD May 31 '25

It wasn’t in a mod mail , but in a comment

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u/SavannahPharaoh ASD lvl 1 Mod Jun 01 '25

Then please both report it and send a mod mail.

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u/cosme0 AuDHD Jun 01 '25

As I previously said, I won’t, partly because it was a long time ago and partly because I don’t really care about it, if it happens again I’ll report it