What dark secrets do popular subreddits have in their past?

1. Wasnt there a programming sub where one of the mods was found out to be a pedophile with child porn on their computer?
   — Scamperillium


2. The Ask a Rapist thread for this sub. Afterwards some therapist basically just made a self post explaining how dangerous it is to encourage rapists to relive their stories and giving them a supportive environment (people were thanking the rapists for their perspective and I remember some negative comments towards the rapists got downvoted hard)
   — gottaBeSafeDawg


3. Well Ask Me Anything has torn some people to shreds. Be it asking questions they shouldn't ask, or of people doing AMAs and not knowing what they were in for. 1. Rampart 2. The baseball players with drug use.
   — InuGhost






4. Not super dark, but /r/skincareaddiction had a mod scandal several years back where they profited off of the website and removed content questioning this (and banning mods who disagreed with the practice). Reddit admin had to handle it, new mods came in, and all went back to normal.
   — DNA_ligase


5. This isn't really dark but when the new World of Warcraft expansion, Warlords of Draenor, came out, the servers were packed and were having issues and I think there was some DDoS attacks and it was almost impossible to login and play. The mod of r/wow got so pissed that he couldn't play that he made the sub private in a misguided act of protest to Blizzard for not "getting their shit together" as if they were really happy with the fact that people couldn't play their game on launch day. Eventually that mod was ousted I believe but it was such a childish thing to do, especially since the people who couldn't play were going on the sub to discuss and vent and stuff.
   — House_Of_Pies


6. That guy that cut his penis off and ate some of it because he thought god wanted him to die
   — SullenArtist






7. r/ApplyingToCollege had a mod who posted her essays that got her accepted into an ivy online, and it turns out that parts of it were plagiarized from a previously accepted essay.
   — Goliof


8. /r/all that time reddit "solved the boston bombing"
   — My_Ex_Got_Fat


9. That time everyone fucked a coconut on r/tifu
   — trenzalore54






10. /r/victoriabc was being secretly modded by the local police dept, who would regularly remove posts and ban submitters that posted anything that painted them in a bad light. someone caught one of them accidentally admitting they were a cop in one of the cop subs and that they were being paid to moderate the sub by the dept. resigned as a mod shortly after they were outed. they were immediately replaced by another with a very similar writing style. Pretty much still puppet moderated by the cops to this day. that is about as dark as I've ever found. edit: it's still this way to this day AFAIK. post anything that paints VicPd (news article etc) in a bad light you will either get downvote brigaded or more likely, banned.
    — Numerolophile


11. r/anime had a top bathing scenes post that r/all wasn’t too happy with
    — Nineflames12


12. Wasn’t there a rapist AMA once?
    — throw-away_catch






13. How has nobody mentioned /r/AdviceAnimals and the multi-million QuickMeme scandal in this thread yet? That was a biggie.
    — Oxide42