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[[File:Maxlore1.png|left|thumb|342x342px|'''Max5923''' announces the creation of the givable '''moederator''' role, as he was the only one able to give out mod permissions at the time. Having an inactive user in charge of a duty like this clearly couldn't work out in the long run.]]

Having been active so little, and planning on taking a break from social media anyways, '''Max5923''' decided to step down as Lead '''Moederator'''. Although he remained in the server as a mostly inactive member, on December 17 '''Max5923''' abdicated as '''Owner''' and granted full ownership of the server to '''Mr. Sex'''. As one final action before giving away ownership, another role, named '''moewner''', was created, meant to be given to the most trusted members of the mod team. While the ownership of the server could not be shared between multiple members, '''Max5923''' wished to distribute the power among the '''moederators''', ultimately granting the role to '''koonsbmw''', '''Walter''' and the aforementioned '''Mr. Sex'''.  

After the change in ownership was finalized, the '''moewner''' role went beyond its intended purpose, and was given to other mods, most notably, '''Gladiux''' and his partner in crime, '''Gio'''. Although it seemed like a harmless idea at the time, this shift in power established a hierarchy in the mod team, giving full permissions (and disproportionate powe) to a select few. Once the '''moewner''' role was given to someone, it could not be removed without the direct involvement of the '''Owner'''. This essentially cemented the power of '''Gladiux''' and '''Gio'''.<ref>As much as you can call Discord modding perms "power", that is.</ref>

On December 17, a new user joined the server. This was not an uncommon occurrence and their presence barely noticed by the '''moederators'''. After posting a few messages in furry-speak, this user seemingly recognized '''koonsbmw''' as the furry moderator of the 69MoeLester420 subreddit.  

The conversations on the server continued unchanged for a time. The fact that the user cared so much about the '''moederators''' was strange as most Reddit users don't give a swag who their moderators are. Even so, it wasn't weird enough to stick in the minds of the '''moederators'''.

The '''moederators''' would not be scared so easily. On January 17, '''Mr. Sex''' installed '''9GAG'''. He acknowledged he had strayed from the path of the wholesome chungus, and wished to redeem himself through a pilgrimage to the dankest site there is.  

On January 19, both '''Walter''' and '''SlenderSmurf''' woke up to their Reddit accounts temporarily suspended. The reason? Harassment. The '''Cockroach''', the absolute human filth that it is, decided to report the modmail conversation to the Reddit admins, the low-life weasel, hitting and provoking for hours on end only to call the teacher the moment someone insults it back. The punishments, lasting 2 days and a week respectively, were served with dignity, as would be expected from Reddit mods worth their karma. It is important to note that it wasn't the length or even the existence of these bans that was insulting, but rather the fact that someone would stoop so low as to involve the '''Reddit admins''' in the situation. That is a sign of the lowest breed of man, one so pathetic and worthless, whose existence is so absolutely pointless, they would make a deal with Satan himself for temporary pleasure rather than admit defeat. It was like this that the '''moederators''' knew right away the type of person they were dealing with, yet even taking into account the racist tendencies the '''Cockroach''' put on display through their comments, nothing could prepare us for what would come next.

On February 13, as the encounter with the '''Cockroach''' started fading from the '''moederators'''' memories, an '''image''' got posted on the '''r/69MoeLester420''' subreddit. Not any ordinary image, as one may see from the fact that its very existence warranted an entire paragraph of text. '''The image''', featuring an uncensored, bloody penis cut in half in an incredibly unclean, gory fashion, got posted nineteen times. Nineteen. That is almost as much as 9+10. This would mark the '''First Impact''', otherwise known as the '''Penis Gore Incident'''. Such an event is especially terrible for a small subreddit, as was '''r/69MoeLester420''' at the time, not even having reached 5000 members, as such a high influx of gore content on a subreddit where the mods aren't terminally online might result in the entire subreddit being banned. The '''MoeLester Nation''' forever stays grateful to '''koonsbmw''' for being the first one on the ground and dealing with the situation in a quick and efficient fashion. Sadly, as one might expect, this was far from the only encounter with this user.

Remember that lockdown idea the '''moederators''' had, way back before the partnership with '''r/IDONTGIVEASWAG''' and '''r/IkeaFreshBalls''' was signed? The idea was, instead of leaving the floodgates open, each post would have to be approved by the mods. Although the idea wasn't implemented before, this situation provided the perfect opportunity to test it out. As the code was already in place, all that was left to do is to announce it. By the end of the day, the temporary lockdown had gone into effect <ref> WalterWhiteOnReddit (February 13, 2023). https://www.reddit.com/r/69Moelester420/comments/111jz94/attention_moe_lesters/ ''Reddit.'' </ref>, intended to stop any raids in the following days, until another, more effective and less intrusive method of moderation was found. At the advice of '''Sam''', still a regular member at the time, a minimum karma limit was set up, filtering out any posts made by clearly new accounts.

[[File:Cockroachlore2.png|thumb|317x317px|The '''Cockroach''' attempts to scare the '''moederators''' with a threat of another raid, mere days after the first one.]]

The '''Cockroach''' was far from done. Unbeknownst to the '''moederators''' at the time, a vile scheme was being planned in the most twisted corners of the internet. A call to arms, intended to bring the Soy Army to the side of the '''Cockroach'''. Unfortunately for it, it would seem that not even the userbase of such depraved websites as soyjak.party would wish to associate itself with such an insult to what it means to be a human being. <ref> The Cockroach (February 16, 2023) https://soyjak.party/raid/res/33873.html''Soyjak Party.'' </ref> Yet even so, give up it would not. On February 16, just as the lockdown was lifted, and the new measures put into place, a post from one of the '''Cockroach''''s alts made its way into the subreddit's mod queue. It was clear right away that this was not the last we would see of it. Soon after, a GIF with the caption "LOL UKRAINE", showing the death of two soldiers in the midst of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War, got posted, soon followed by a text post, written by a friend{{Citation needed}} of the '''Cockroach''', asking for its unbanning. Both posts were quickly removed. The '''Second Impact''', thankfully, proved to be much easier to bear through.

[[File:CockroachLore5.png|left|thumb|383x383px|Testing, testing... The '''Automoderator''' is up and running. Showcased here are the first three cases documented by the bot, the bans of the '''Cockroach''' as well as its friends{{Citation needed}}. The usernames have been edited, as the '''moederators''' do not wish for any readers of this article to harass what clearly are children.]]

The '''moederators''' did not have to wait for too long for proof of this thesis, as on February 21, the '''Third Impact''' would occur, this time on the server. '''69MoeLester420''' was under attack. And the worst part? We didn't even know about it. A few days before the incident, several users had joined the server, seemingly nothing out of the ordinary, some of them staying quiet and keeping to themselves, others occasionally even interacting with the mods. As the '''Second''' '''Impact''' was still fresh in the mods' minds, the conversation sometimes steered in that direction, with the new users playing along as though as if nothing was going on. It was on February 21 when the sleeper agents woke up. While not much remains as the messages were deleted automatically when the bans were dealt, one video remains, saved before the purge by '''Kae''', which can only be described as edgy,  an edit of the National Victory Celebration held after the conclusion of the Gulf War in 1991 <ref> As confirmed by our local military expert '''koonsbmw'''. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv4ElNBqXXY </ref> from all around the world with nothing but "RACISM IS NON-NEGOTIABLE" written all over it. There is but a single issue the '''Cockroach''' didn't anticipate. Every time a raid of its occurred, an additional line of defences was placed. Just as the subreddit placed a minimum karma barrier, along with some other measures to protect from raiders, some to protect from the '''Cockroach''' specifically, so too did the server soon start putting protections in place in order to prevent this from happening again. The '''Automoderator''' was set up, automatically kicking out any members below the minimum account age. From then on, it was only a matter of how long the '''Cockroach''' was willing to wait between each raid. The minimum age could always be raised, and not even the '''Cockroach''' could keep on waiting forever. The tides had shifted.

The day was January 20. '''KittenStomper6617''' had, by that time, become an integral part of the server. Although he did not care about moderating at all, he was considered a part of the '''MoeLester family'''. It is no wonder that the '''Puss in Boots incident''' caused so much devastation to the community. It is a piece of drama that could have easily been avoided, yet snowballed to colossal proportions. Most of the '''moederators''' would like to leave this chapter behind and forever forget about it, not in the same way as with the soon to be mentioned '''Gladiux''' situation, but rather in the sense that it just sucks that it happened, with no contempt being held as much as the wish to leave the person behind and move on.

It was not long after that '''KittenStomper6617''' left the server. As far as anyone is aware, he hasn't stayed in contact with the other mods. The whole fiasco left everyone with a lot of mixed feelings about the entire thing. While it was agreed that what he did was bad, the '''moederators''' were left wondering whether they had gone too hard on him. No matter our feelings about him, nothing can change what went down on that day, the relationship with him permanently ruined, '''KittenStomper6617''' becoming another lost '''moederator''' in the list of many, additionally soured by the fact that he was the original creator of the subreddit. With yet another chapter of the server's history closed, the turbulent ride is nearing its end.

It was always quite clear that '''Gladiux''' was a dick. There is no going around it. From the very beginning of the server, if someone was to be leading the charge against whichever '''moederator''' happened to slip up at the time, it was '''Gladiux''', with '''Gio''' by his side, hurling insults and aggressively making fun of them until they willfully left on their own. For a long time, this behavior was tolerated, while clearly toxic, it was always directed at people the members of the server took issue with anyways, and as pointlessly mean those comments were in retrospect, at the time, it wasn't taken as an issue. But when the mod drama died down and '''Gladiux''' had to find a new target, things turned for the worse for him.

'''Gladiux''' did not stop at '''Sam''', however, soon providing the same courtesy to some of the new members of the server. While in his mind this may have been a brilliant satire of how Discord power mods act moronically and ban anyone who dare say a word to them, in reality, he was doing the same exact thing he was criticizing. It's not really a joke anymore once you actually go through with it, it's just annoying to whoever is on the receiving end. How funny is it being the butt of the joke? Not much, according to '''Sam''', who had gotten quite annoyed by '''Gladiux''''s behavior by then, and started making calls for the '''moederators''' to do something about him. As it was obvious that the joke was being taken too far, to the point where new users were turned away from the server solely because of his presence, '''Walter''' decided to talk to '''Gladiux''' about it. Not wanting to cause any drama, God knows there had already been far too much in the past of this server, he politely asked for him to stop and tone it down a notch as it was quite obvious the new users were starting to fucking hate us.

Of course, we all know where this conversation actually led to. Had he listened to it, there would have been no point in writing this section. This behavior continued in the following days, and on February 9, after '''Sam''' had repeatedly been kicked out, '''Walter''' received DMs from both him and '''Kae''' asking for '''Gladiux''''s removal. In the back of his mind, '''Walter''' had already considered '''Gladiux''' to be an asshole we shouldn't keep on the mod team for a while. The only issue was that, although '''Walter''' was the server '''Owner''' at the time, '''Gladiux''' was higher in the '''r/69MoeLester420''' hierarchy. This meant that even if '''Walter''' had stripped '''Gladiux''' of all his mod duties on the server, nothing stopped him from doing the same to '''Walter''' on the subreddit. And to a Reddit mod, there is nothing more terrifying than that. The mods needed divine intervention, and thankfully, '''Moe''' was ready to help. While the conversation on the server continued as normally, behind the scenes, in the shadows, a conspiracy was starting to form and be taken into action. On the subreddit, both '''Gladiux''' and '''Gio''', his loyal partner in crime, got all their moderating permissions taken away. They did not get completely demodded, however, allowing them to keep their place in the mod hierarchy should things change in the future. On the server, meanwhile, '''Walter''' removed their '''moewner''' roles, before finally announcing it to the server. It was the perfect crime.[[File:GladLore1.png|center|The announcement that brought about the first exile of '''Gladiux.'''|thumb|1292x1292px]]

[[File:GladLore2.png|'''Gladiux''' announcing he would ban '''Walter''' after having his '''moewner''' role taken away.|frame]]

It wasn't long before '''Gladiux''' had realized what had happened. The response was pretty much what we had expected. The first thing he mentioned was how he wanted to demod '''Walter''', thankfully, however, '''Moe''' had made sure that would not be possible. '''Gio''' immediately started complaining about how he was punished for nothing, even though the reason for him losing the '''moewner''' role was the unstopping encouragement of '''Gladiux''''s behavior at every turn, which all active members of the server could attest to. While he wasn't the one dealing out time-outs and kicks, not only had he done nothing to stop it, but actively cheered it on. '''Gladiux''' got kicked out from the server by '''Kae''', while '''Gio''' remained disgraced, from now on as '''moederator''' instead of '''moewner'''.

Here's the funny part. Do you notice those four 👆 reactions under the message? People were approving massively of this decision, even though '''Gladiux''''s behavior was like this since the very beginning of the server. It's just that no one had spoken up about it. We all wanted him gone but were afraid to tell him all this time for whatever reason. To avoid drama, to not have us kicked out from the subreddit, or most likely, not knowing how much the others on the server shared our feelings about him. It wasn't before we were certain there was a significant amount of people that hated him that we even thought about removing his role. And it all goes back to that at the time harmless decision to give him the '''moewner''' role all those months back. He was granted authority he never deserved and asserted it through his aggressive behavior during the past few months. No one could have demodded him on their own, it was only when the people of the server united that anything could have been done.

And so the '''moederators''' waited patiently. Radio silence was all that followed. Not a single word was heard from '''Gladiux''' for days, until the moment he decided to join '''███'█ ██████ ███████''' on March 17. For a little while, everything was great, things had gone to become just like they used to be all those months ago. On March 19, things changed, as the conversation, prompted by '''Gladiux''', once again shifted to the topic of '''Sam'''. As previously noted, it was always quite obvious that '''Gladiux''' paid special attention to whatever '''Sam''' was doing, seemingly a target he had marked for himself, one which he would viciously attack over the many months of the server's history. Yet even though his treatment of '''Sam''' may seem unfair, it was never blind hatred, and always backed up by some sort of reasoning, which was not easy to ignore. After a comment of '''Sam''''s, who was known to be a minor at the time, linking to an '''e621''' image of '''toothless dragon porn''' found under a meme on '''r/doodoofard''', it was ultimately decided that a server like '''69MoeLester420''' may have been a poor influence on him, and he was soon banned from the server, never to return, the final chance given being wasted. Although such imagery was all too common on Reddit where weird porn passes as humor, the mods agreed that it still should not be encouraged, leading to this decision. On the same day, '''Gladiux''' would rejoin the main server, his roles given back to him, and it was all like nothing had ever happened.