We're going to be moving forward here on /r/wow. I'm going to acknowledge the incident that happened. Our previous moderator, /u/nitesmoke made the subreddit private for a bit of time. He then set it to public. Then he went to work the next day.
At work, he received a large number of phone calls, complaining about his actions.
This isn't acceptable, friends. It's really awful - you've made an impact on this guy's life, and he could get fired. Many of you probably find that hilarious; well, if you do, you suck. It's not hilarious. It sucks. So when he got home at night, he burned that mother to the ground. (He removed all the moderators, and set the subreddit to private, and it seemed likely that it would stay that way.) I'm not here to say "let's all forgive him". What I'm asking is that you understand that the actions that you take online can have repurcussions in the real world. When you cross from online harassment (which was already heinous - here is a copy of his inbox from the last day or so) to real-world harassment, there is a huge problem.
