Archive: https://archive.is/ANg4N

Deleted comment available in modlog:

Yeah, Okay, he "spoke" to her. According to her he was implying that he was going to rape her. Good Kill.

https://voat.co/v/historicimages/modlog/deletedcomments

The context here is that @watitdew is claiming that a fourteen year old black boy deserved to be tortured and killed by a vigilante mob. An offensive opinion posted by someone who clearly posts in racists subs, and is most likely a racist himself, but he wasn't being uncivl, nor was he being a dick. (Even if he was, that's quite a subjective opinion, and something the community should decide, not a mod.)

So the mod deleted an opinion he disagreed with and found offensive, left his own opinion up, and then claimed that it was uncivil and that the poster was being a dick.

Reply from @LockeProposal, the other mod in the subverse in question:

Thanks for trying to give us some breathing space. @someguyfromcanada and I are actively discussing the issue right now via PM. I floated a possible solution and refinement of the rules (something we were already talking about since I came on-board just last night - I'm working on some CSS for the sub and we were going to address the sidebar after that. This situation really came at a bad time). I can't make any promises right now, and we're still work-shopping it. I assure you that @someguyfromcanada is an exemplary mod and certainly took no action out of malice. I would say that mod-abuse is a strong word for it, but the community doesn't know him as well as I do. I only ask to please reserve your opinions of him until we've finished deliberating. I don't believe we can un-delete comments (as far as I'm aware), but we will be discussing the future of the sub and how it operates. This is less an issue of mod-abuse, and more an issue of whether or not the rules of the sub were interpreted correctly. Thanks for being patient. We're listening to the community.

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