Thank you to everyone for your continuing support. To everyone who replied to the original announcement or messaged us privately, your words of kindness mean a lot.

Unfortunately the situation is not looking good. We've been targeted as a "hate sub" in the past and honestly I don't care, everyone is allowed their point of view no matter how wrong it is.

Online threats mean nothing to us, I don't know how many times we've been called women abusers, misogynists, psychos, virgins, faggots or how many times we've been told to kill ourselves. But its always been in the realm of online and online threats mean nothing to us - you very quickly get a thick skin modding here (and we wouldn't have been chosen as mods if we didn't already have a thick skin as it is haha).

The problem is now they are trying to take this offline and try and use real life details to cause trouble. In the past people have lost their job, lost their family or even gotten national attention from doxxing ruining their lives - think violentacrez back from the 2011 days and any of the right wing mods from the recent election. It's straight up bullying, terrorising and intimidation.

At the moment we are monitoring the situation. The initial threat came that they want us to give the control of PPD to them so they can shut the sub down - and if we don't they will release personal information about us then use that information against us i.e. phoning our places of employment, harassing family members etc.

Personally I've not been targeted specifically but I know that some of the older mods have been - some of their real personal info was revealed to them, more than enough that we took this threat legitimately.

Alot of the mod team are seriously considering stepping down over this. Whilst we all truly believe in the subs message of equality, it's not worth ruining our lives. We'll keep everyone posted but this unfortunately feels like we're fighting a losing battle.

The primary issue is that our stated online opinions are controversial enough to cause us trouble, they don't actually have to lie - employers wouldn't want the hit to their reputations if this became public, even though we've done nothing wrong.

A few hours ago I received word from /u/mustaka that unfortunately the doxers carried out some of their threat and did contact his employer. He says that although there are no immediate consequences he is under review and it's quite possible he won't need to return on Monday. Our thoughts are with him, this shouldn't happen to anyone.

It appears though that this is just the beginning and apparently he is just the first. As developments happen we shall keep everyone informed.

Once again thank you for your all for your continued support. We do this for you guys and it's nice to know it's appreciated. For however long it lasts anyway.