I admire your optimism , but the collusion in the leaked modchats shows his hatred and contempt for this sub clearly . <| sep |> Abuse of power is not trolling . That needs to be made clear , and you NEED to accept that . There is a level of responsibility given to you , one that you have ultimately shown you cannot handle . This behavior is something that I would expect from a child , not a grown man who runs an entire company . You know the internet has a portion of community that can ultimately be vile . You should have known censoring the people would upset them . And you should have known that people would call you names . I will bluntly say , that if you didn ' t know any of the above , you are no where near prepared to be in the seat that you are . If you couldn ' t handle it , there ' s no way to have known that . Speaking up would have been fine , hell you could have made a simple post calling these people out an expressing you ' re feelings . BUT , you didn ' t . You hid in the darkness and acted in secrecy as a coward . I don ' t think you ever would have come clean if this were swept under the rug . You should be ashamed . You should know an apology won ' t be accepted by most . You should step down .