r/ChapoTrapHouse moderators award toxic users who are participating in ban evasion with moderator status.

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r/ChapoTrapHouse, which is a subreddit already under admin scrutiny for promoting violence, has recently awarded two users participating in ban evasion with moderator status. Both of these users (u/ALT_LEFTIST, now posting as GAY_HOXHAIST, and u/OTIS_is_king, now posting as ussrword) were suspended by Reddit admins, presumably for promoting violence or harassing users. How do I know this?

1) GAY_HOXHAIST was immediately made mod after creating his account and went on a banning streak against "liberals" (another CTH mod told me this), and I was banned, despite me never interacting with this user (and I had plenty of run-ins with ALT_LEFTIST).

2) Another user PM'd me to inform me that ussrword was OTIS_is_king, and this user has often referred to OTS_is_king in cryptic ways (and was also immediately made mod after creating his account).

This appears to be a serious breach of Reddit moderator etiquette, and a sign of bad faith from the current top-level moderators, who have promoted a culture of harassment and ideological bias, which often targets users who they deem to be "liberals" or "anarkiddies." The fact that both of the users who are ban evading are "tankies," folks who unironically promote and praise acts of violence, says it all.

The onus of this pathetic state of affairs falls on rebr0 and ZB4. Both of these moderators have actively tried to reshape the subreddit into their own image, one that reflects their cowardly and toxic views of leftists on Reddit. In fact, rebr0 often encourages users from the r/ChapoTrapHouse2 discord to harass other users, including myself (he admitted this). Unfortunately, it appears as u/mugrimm, the most active senior moderator is unable to deal with his fellow moderators who actively put the subreddit's integrity into question.

EDIT - There's no clear indication that suspension evasion isn't "disallowed" despite this being tagged as such, and even then, the two main points here are:

1) CTH actively makes people who ban evade mods (there has to be something shady about this).

2) CTH mods ban people for no reason or for ideological/political purposes.