This is shaping up to be a case of miscommunication . I believe you ' ll find us in agreement on more topics than we thought initially . In particular , yes , I find it a bit distasteful that the admins pulled the plug on rpizzagate in such a hamfisted fashion . I suspect that the NYT article put quite a lot of pressure on them . I wish that they had waited longer to provide the rpizzagate mods with time to comply with their requeststhanks upizzapartywithkids for your . I think most mods understand that neglecting to aggressively deal with doxxing is the fast track to banhammerland , so I presume that the mods were treating the issue with the seriousness it deserved . If the admins felt otherwise I think that they should have provided evidence of non or subparcompliance on the mods ' part . I absolutely did not dismiss pizzagate wholesale . I made a good faith effort to look into it . Nonetheless I do disapprove of the decision to remove the place dedicated to discussing it . At the end of the day , the truth is that it ' s a hard thing to discuss without doxxing . You ' re accusing real people of being pedophiles . That ' s the entire premise of the scandal . And you ' re collecting 20 , 000 people in the same place and saying , Let ' s all discuss how these individuals are pedophiles . That ' s worrisome , and I can understand why the admins are upset that their site is being used in that way , particularly given that there isn ' t actually any evidence that the individuals in question are indeed pedophiles .