I was on a random sub called badchoicesgoodstories and there was an odd essay/conspiracy post about Hitler that seemed off, because it quoted statements Hitler had made in campaign speeches and purported them as factual accounts of the Nazi party policy. I commented that this was a bad way to approach what amounted to campaign propaganda, and that I had family history that diverged from the claims this post had made. I had also quoted from an encyclopedia which is considered first line reference material for the Third Reich. I found myself immediately banned from 20+ subreddits all at once for “spreading disinformation,” and on questioning it, the person revealed themselves to be a psychotic narcissist, they also deleted my one comment then inserted a false quote of me in response to make me look like a Nazi.

Then I looked at other comments they removed and realized they basically do this all the time, found similar posts containing accounts of how shitty they were, then I started adding people who they were shitty to to a private sub where we could discuss this person (they basically would search their name on reddit and if anyone complained about them they’d go call them Nazis and harass them in whatever sub it happened to be.) So we basically created a list of all their current and previous alt accounts and subreddits, following their own gratuitous self-promotion to their Amazon pages, Goodreads reviews, their publisher company LLCs that published books between all their pseudonyms, one of which was a real-estate holdings company. They tried to get us banned for “stalking” them but since they promoted all of this on reddit themselves and operated as a public figure, their books, comics, memes, were all merchandised and sold through online marketplaces and vendors, there wasn’t much they could do.

They had all their primary accounts suspended recently and lost all their main subreddits, presumably for harassing former co-mods, according to one of them. I currently mod a lemmy community that contains a snippet of their behavior and the full list of their alts and subs, although they’ve left their official name mostly behind and I think trying to keep a lower profile now.