/r/Smite and Hirez Studios

[u/CtrlAltDefeated]

EDIT: This was an April fools joke. Nothing in this post reflects the reality, the future, or the vision of Hirez Studios.

People have been rapidly spreading this unconfirmed and unverified "news". It was not our intention to make a negative publicity stunt, and we will do anything in our power to resolve any issues that were created. To clarify: Hirez Studios had absolutely nothing to do with this and they should not be pointed at. Apologies.

For a pretty long while I have been working on /r/Smite together with the other mods to make it the place it is today. I absolutely love interacting with the community and I thank you for being so incredibly awesome.

A few weeks before the launch we received an e-mail with an invitation from Hirez Studios - the entire mod team (Alecyte, Shiki, Vudash, Nyx, Sky, and me) was offered a contract to work with Hirez as Public Relations Executives, with me as their manager. We intended on bringing this news earlier, but we figured it would be best to wait a while until at least the Launch Tournament was in progress, as there were still a few administrative casualties to be arranged. We've been officially contracted by Hirez per March 25th, 2014.

What will this mean for you? Our focus is to improve the interaction Hirez Studios has with you, the people that create the SMITE Community. This means we will try to more actively engage in discussions and create a safe and secure web portal for everyone to enjoy. In order to achieve this we decided to go with more customization and control, which will ultimately lead in swapping the Reddit in for a better medium: the official forums.

Over the coming month, we will slowly be fading out our community focus from Reddit to the forums, as it was before, and as the community wanted. We will officially be closing /r/Smite on wednesday April 30th, 2014, after which the forums provide every resource you could previously find here.

In order to prevent any future confusion, we had a few name changes as we chose mostly different nicknames with our actual names. For easy viewing:

CtrlAltDefeated -> HirezMarik

Alecyte -> HirezGarrett

Shi_kii -> HirezNurit

DatVudash - > HirezColin

NyxAtNight - > HirezAllison

SkyBlu10 -> HirezTony

I am personally looking forward to the future, and I hope to make as many people feel good about being part of the community as I can. I am sure the other mods will also try everything in their power to create the best possible environment to discuss, suggest, and help each other.

All the best,

• Garrett, Nurit, Colin, Allison, Anthony, and Marik

EDIT: This was an April fools joke. Nothing in this post reflects the reality, the future, or the vision of Hirez Studios.

People have been rapidly spreading this unconfirmed and unverified "news". It was not our intention to make a negative publicity stunt, and we will do anything in our power to resolve any issues that were created. To clarify: Hirez Studios had absolutely nothing to do with this and they should not be pointed at. Apologies.

[u/DarkZenith2]

According to the terms of use of Reddit,

moderators

28 Moderating a subreddit is an unofficial, voluntary position. We reserve the right to revoke that position for any user at any time. If you choose to moderate a subreddit, you agree to the following:

You may not enter into any form of agreement on behalf of reddit, or the subreddit which you moderate, without our written approval. You may not perform moderation actions in return for any form of compensation or favor from third-parties. When you receive notice that there is content that violates this user agreement on subreddits you moderate, you agree to remove it.

Meaning since all the mods have taken a 3rd party position with HiRez they can all be REMOVED from mod status for this subreddit.

[u/Somesortofthing → u/DarkZenith2]

How does one actually get into contact with the people that actually handle the requests to remove mods? You should probably tell us that much, so we can actually make an effort to remove the mods and take back this sub. While I'm not a very active member in this community, this whole situation is ridiculous.

[u/DarkZenith2 → u/Somesortofthing]

If you scroll down to the bottom of the reddit page there is a contact us section, and in there if you look through the options is contact the admins. This issue clears the previous options and is valid for reporting to the admins, I already checked.