Disclaimer - The following is my view and my view only, and does not represent any of the other default moderators.

Hi all. I am a default mod, posting under an alt, because sadly that's what reddit has become.

I'm here to talk about The_Donald (or T_D as I might refer to it in the post) and why it's making reddit worse, and especially so for us default mods.

Before I begin, let me be clear - I am all for free speech. I think that it is one of the basic human rights. However, free speech does not mean hate speech is okay, which is what I will be getting into.

Also, I don't think that what spez did is good. I think it's very unprofessional and the type of thing I would expect from a middle schooler. However, that is not the point of this post.

T_D used to be a quiet subreddit supporting Donald Trump. I was fine with it then. After all, this is reddit, and candidate subreddits are good. However, over the past few months, it has grown into a hateful, sexist, racist subreddit that frequently reaches /r/all.

I am going to provide reasons how it is making life difficult for default moderators (note the disclaimer).

/r/politics this election has been very controversial. Shouts of "CTR HAS INFILTRATED THE MOD TEAM" have been going around since the early days of the election. However, it's gotten way worse then baseless accusations.

/r/politics mods have been sent death threats, gifs of dead animals, and have been the targets of brigades that originate on T_D. And the T_D mods don't really care. Here is an example of T_D mods not caring about harassment. Here is another one. The thread in question is here, where T_D is literally making fun of harassment and death threats towards a moderators dog (and calling them "a little bitch"). On any other subreddit, the comments would be removed and the people behind them would be banned. Not on T_D, where the mods don't really care about any of it. T_D members even go so far as to attack the /r/politics mod in question over at /r/RandomActsOfChristmas (see here and here). During the leaks, different default mods were mentioned in T_D by users calling them horrible things (like this). Did the T_D mods care? Nope. They left those comments (and many more like them) up. For example, look here.

Yes, some of you T_D people might say that I'm a special little snowflake and that I need to get off reddit because this is all it took for my fee fees to get hurt. Consider this - other DM's have been sent horrendous stuff for the past year, and you guys didn't care. But when a few comments were changed by /u/spez because you guys were calling him a pedophile (with no evidence) you guys flipped out and acted like it was the next Watergate.

Thank you for taking the time to read my post. I am making this post because I believe /r/The_Donald is making this website worse for moderators and users, and I believe it needs to be banned.

EDIT: someone pointed out /r/Altright, which is an issue, but it hasn't harassed users like T_D has, which is why it isn't as big of a deal.

EDIT 2: a lot of people have a problem with my free speech line. In the US, sure, you might be able to spew hate speech. However, reddit rules state that hate speech is not okay.

EDIT 3: /u/TrumpShaker has provided screenshots of other modmails sent. Here they are. My argument still stands, and I won't be backing down from it.

EDIT 4: I'm not a /r/politics mod. That's all I'll say.