Hello everyone,
We're the moderation team of r/ArchiveOfHumanity, and we're in a difficult situation.
One of our moderators, u/Front-Coconut-8196, was recently suspended and has already submitted an appeal through the official process, we understand that account actions are handled separately, and we're not asking anyone here to overturn that decision.
Our concern is the content.....
Over the months, this moderator invested countless hours researching, verifying, and preserving historical photographs and documents and other archives. Thousands of posts that formed the backbone of r/ArchiveOfHumanity were made through that account and those archives were not just ordinary Reddit posts they were the foundation of our community and the reason many people joined us
With the account unavailable, years of work have effectively become inaccessible to us, rven if the appeal is unsuccessful, we're hoping there may be some way for those historical posts to remain available to the community or be restored to r/ArchiveOfHumanity since our goal has always been to preserve history, and it would be heartbreaking to lose so much of that work
What has been most difficult for us is that the suspension appeared to happen without any prior warning or explanation that we could see and when the account owner tried to log in, they were unable to access the account, and from our side the profile simply appeared as suspended
This has been incredibly frustrating because u/Front-Coconut-8196 was our most active moderator on a community of over 70,000 members. They dedicated countless hours to researching, preserving, and sharing historical archives that became the foundation of r/ArchiveOfHumanity and this is straight unfair from reddit
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Hello everyone,
Today, we share this with a heavy heart
We wanted to let our community know that one of our moderators, u/Front-Coconut-8196, has had their Reddit account suspended and is currently appealing the decision
Beyond being a moderator, he was also the most active contributor to r/ArchiveOfHumanity, responsible for preserving and sharing hundreds of historical photographs, documents, and other valuable archives, With the account unavailable, countless hours of research, curation, and preservation are now out of reach, thousands of carefully selected historical posts that he spent an immense amount of time collecting, verifying, and sharing with this community have, for now, disappeared with the account....
We may experience delays in rebuilding, organizing, and restoring parts of our archives, but what weighs on us most is the thought of so much hard work and so many irreplaceable contributions becoming inaccessible overnight..
This situation also highlights why we've been discussing building a dedicated ArchiveOfHumanity website, Relying entirely on a single platform means years of curated work can become inaccessible overnight, A dedicated website would allow us to preserve our collection more securely while continuing to share it with everyone
We sincerely appreciate your patience and understanding during this time, If you have suggestions on how we can better preserve our archives or improve our workflow, we'd love to hear them and thank you all for your continued support....
Our mission to preserve humanity's history remains unchanged