Reddit Bans Anti-Woke Warhammer 40K Subreddit, HorusGalaxy

After facing harassment from social justice warriors within Reddit, the subreddit HorusGalaxy has been completely removed from the site.

Anti-woke Warhammer 40,000 fans have been under constant attack from social justice activists who want to transform the hobby into their extreme leftist political image. Commentators get their YouTube channels reported on the regular, mobs form online to target players who don’t ascribe to radical identity politics, and groups get targeted on places like Reddit to try to gatekeep the war gaming and science fiction reading hobby in the name of politics.

A the beginning of April, TheHighLordIsHere shared that Reddit had removed a mod from HorusGalaxy for “continued violations of Rule 3.”

He noted, “Reddit admins have banned another one of our moderators for an arbitrary reason again. (See attached image for what they said.) This is yet another example of how they seem to be looking for any excuse to target this subreddit simply because we don’t conform to the ‘approved’ way of thinking.

“It’s clear that the goalposts keep moving,” he added. “We’ve done our best to follow the rules and conform as much as possible, but it doesn’t seem to matter—they will still find a way to come after us. They explicitly threatened further action against this subreddit, We’re not sure what will happen next, but if they decide to shut us down, we want to make sure everyone can regroup.”

Then, on Wednesday, April 16th, TheHighLordIsHere shared a screenshot from the Reddit moderation team that he was removed as a moderator from the subreddit with Reddit informing him he violated the Moderator Code of Conduct: Rule 1.

He wrote, “Well it happened, , I don't even use reddit or comment on anything but still got removed lmao. sorry to say guys but I think the sub will be taken down soon, I advise everyone to join the discord just in case. This site sucks.”

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According to Reddit, Rule 1 of the Moderator Code of Conduct states that mods should not “create, approve, enable or encourage rule-breaking content or behavior.” This means that moderators shouldn't approve, facilitate, or encourage content or behavior that violates the Reddit Rules or other policies.”

Examples of this include “encouraging, allowing, or engaging in sitewide rules violations, such as content containing non-consensual intimate media, promotion of hate based on identity or vulnerability, or prohibited transactions; assigning user flair that promotes hate based on identity or vulnerability; using automoderator to leave a pinned comment containing spam on all posts; adding banned moderators back to the mod team on alternate accounts; using community styling, such as banners, to share content that violates the Reddit Rules; allowing community members to instigate harassment or share personally identifiable information of someone.”

In another post to the Kotaku in Action subreddit that he posted on May 1st, he noted that not only was he removed, but that 13 other moderators were removed as well at 8:29 AM on May 1st.

Former moderator MirageoftheEmperor provided context and noted that he and the moderators he had added were removed from the subreddit without any explanation.

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Another moderator, Alternate40KRules, who had been a moderator for almost a year was also removed. A post on the subreddit notes he was removed, but does not give a reason.

Now, the entire Reddit has been purged in the next step at trying to silence critics of radical identity politics in war gaming.