this is a copy of a private message sent to the mods of /r/gaming about censorship and a brief description of the issue that took place

http://s12.postimg.org/r69nfg81p/tribestodd1.gif http://s12.postimg.org/cyjyqsvct/tribestodd2.gif (note I am not the person that took these screenshots or the person in the email).

Hello mods of /r/gaming ,

Recently we had a Starsiege: Tribes thread reach the front page of /r/gaming only to be deleted by /u/someguyinahat when he ignorantly stated that Tribes was not freeware, while simultaneously disbelieving proof that it was.

This enraged a fan forum of 40k people, located on one of the oldest video game reporting, free speech, and activist websites on the internet, www.tribalwar.com/forums, who then organized and spoke to the IP owners of the Tribes franchise, HiRez Studios, about said incident. You can see the results in the screen shots above.

I am sure some of the mods of /r/gaming, especially /u/someguyinahat, can remember the malicious hate mail and threats they received when this happened.

HiRez is officially fine with distribution of Tribes 1 with updated graphics as freeware as confirmed by the emails in the images above. These are not doctored, and I encourage you to email HiRez Todd yourselves if further evidence is required.

I am also sure the mods of /r/gaming are aware of the serious monetary and social interests often at play in thread creation on the major subreddits, and that this was a cause of concern to /u/someguyinahat.

However I have to say ignorant and malicious censorship in an attempt to protect large corporate interests is blatantly immoral and shameful, especially so when the corporate interest sides with the party you censored.

Deleting that thread even made /u/FishStix1 an admin at www.twitch.tv and son of billionaire Sun Microsystems co-founder and now Venture Capitalist and Philanthropist, Nat Goldhabber, post a duplicate of the same thread on /r/games because he was personally offended and saddened by the decision to censor the successful marketing and resulting awareness of Starsiege: Tribes on /r/gaming.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/3coz2l/tribes_2015_a_graphically_updated_free_download/

I can not locate the thread that was deleted as I am on a different account, and I am not holding my breathe that it can be recovered. This is concerning because that thread had been marketed and designed in a specific way to reach the front page, complete with a precise strategic submission time to make it gain up vote momentum so it would viewed on the front page of /r/gaming by the morning crowd.

This was not from vote rigging but from social marketing and quality thread authorship (which is further compounded by /u/FishStix1 making a duplicate of the thread and having it also be highly upvoted on /r/games).

Can the deleted thread that made the front page or top 40 (and was impulsively deleted as soon as it did) be recovered and made visible AT A SPECIFIC TIME of our choosing? Or if you are feeling particularly moral and just, stickied temporarily for the day.

Most importantly will there be further pointless drama and censorship of Starsiege: Tribes 1's high resolution graphics remake by /r/gaming's moderation team in the future?

Regards,

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