PSA:
Just in case this wasn't obvious, the mods are targeting some this sub's most active contributors. Their reasoning is that it's "brigading", attacking/manipulating/starting shit in another subreddit than the one they're mostly active in.
Read this over and think through how insanely stupid this stance is. Where are they brigading from, then?
Apparently, according to the mods, this is justifiable because most of these folks are on a joke sub with 300-ish members, with barely any activity. TheEliteSneakerheads was named in one of the weekly release threads right here on r/sneakers, as you know. It became a copypasta and then a sub. As a joke. At best, it's been poking at the cook group problem in sneakers by posting recipes. It's harmless.
There is no brigading.
There's the more active members in a sub* asking what the hell has gotten into the mods because they're clearly okay with the worst quality posts while singling out people that gasp dare ask what the hell has gotten into the mods.
This is active contributors wondering why one of the mods made up imaginary self-promotion accusations and then in a backwards way decided to modify the self-promotion rule…which needed no modification, as the accusations only existed in one mod's mind, and not in screenshots.
This are some folks that (sometimes daily) post interesting sneakers (You know, the subject of the sub) and that wonder why there's a seeming tolerance for resellers and why it took 3+ months to stop the automoderator weekly thread to stop pointing to a website that was shutdown and why there is no rhyme or reason to the sticky release threads ("that shoe is a retro, it doesn't get a release thread" two weeks later, creates a sticky thread for a second drop of a Yeezy)
Basically, you've got some people making noise in these threads because things are going backwards. And you've got a mod (because, let's be honest, there's very little evidence of this being anything but boosted on his own) that's taking these actions personally (maybe it's that feeling of guilt eating at you, boostie). And as a result, he's banning people for the. dumbest. reasons.
I've defended the mods in the past, because moderating is a shit job. But, hey, guess what? I'm only going to defend you if you do your damn jobs.
TL;DR: There's no brigading. The mods are ignoring the actual problems and are going power-crazy on the stuff that shouldn't matter. Boosted takes any challenge of the mods personally.
Sidenote: I'm curious if I'll get banned over this. Allons-y, submit button. Let's do this.
(I didn't use a hashtag, so I've got that going for me. P.S. Boosted: Hashtags don't do anything on Reddit—you're literally banning people over typing letters. Good job.)