On the same day, the community and marketing director for Catalyst Game Lab, Rem Alternis, posted to the newly created r/officialbattletech forum and said that Zimmerman had been tapped to carve out a space on Reddit that could be maintained by the community but would enjoy the publisher’s active cooperation. Despite this, the moderators apparently claimed they would continue to review the rules before setting r/battletech to private and invite-only sometime later, effectively limiting who could access the forum. Users pointed out that Catalyst Game Labs had promoted the zine on its official Facebook page and that frequent freelance writer Russell Zimmerman was included in the contributor list. The original rainbow Pride flag entered public use during the 1970s. It did not escape the notice of either users or the zine’s creators that contemporary Pride events have existed since at least 1969, commemorating the Stonewall rebellion amongst New York City’s gay community following a police raid on the eponymous Stonewall Inn. LEGO might not be a canon clan in the Battletech universe, but they stand in for mechs in a pinch.
The moderator further said that the team uses the year 1988 as a measure of relevance, and since “Pride month is a relatively recent thing in modern history (1999), it runs afoul of that 1988 statement as well.” They also raised an issue with real-world flags depicted on both fan art and painted models. When pressed for explanation, moderator u/Mr_Severan cited a rule that referenced not allowing posts that discuss “the Real World, politics, or current events in this subreddit,” according to a now-deleted post. Members of r/battletech accused the moderation team of power abuse and blatant bigotry on June 3rd after several posts highlighting the Battletech Pride Anthology fanzine were deleted or otherwise removed without warning, according to an editor of the project who spoke to Dicebreaker via email. Publisher Catalyst Game Labs stepped in to create a new, official forum before a long-dormant founder of the original subreddit returned to effectively clean shop. Moderators within the Battletech Reddit community have been ousted for their bigoted reaction to a Pride Month zine of queer fanfiction based on the science fiction miniature skirmish game.
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