Hetalia Moderator Wank
I do believe this is my fandom's first wank! I'm oddly excited.

Hetalia: Axis Powers is a popular webcomic turned anime about personified nations of the world (yes, really). There has certainly been controversy over the series, but it's not too bad a fandom, considering the enormity of the fandom and its propensity for slash (Hetalia is full of canon slash after all).

Not today though!

hetalia, the main community, has over 13k members. Yet despite that (and its average thirty plus posts a day), there are just three mods. This a story of a_liger, midnightbanshee, two of those mods.

The wank starts when a_liger makes a post in her own journal about how the profile needs to be overhauled over at hetalia to cut down on unnecessary posting and such. This appears to be all fine and well, until a_liger insinuates that she feels as if she is the only mod who does work. midnightbanshee agrees that the profile page needs to be revamped, but is otherwise very displeased.

When a_liger asks if she has any other suggestions she eloquently replies with: Yeah. How about not acting like a self-important pompous ass? I'm sure mods who communicate with each other respectfully without making grandeous claims of LOL BEING THE ONLY ONE TO DO THE WORK would work better. Lots of good wank in that thread, as a few people duke it out with midnightbanshee.

midnightbanshee also takes a moment to ominously reply to a_liger: Next time - assuming there is a next time- please run through the proposals with the other mods before posting for opinions from your friends. I have gotten in touch with Youko. She is going to have a word with you soon, I expect.

Flit over to the Hetalia anon-meme, where the anons are quite annoyed (there are loads of threads, starting on page twenty). They like a_liger for the most part, and decide that the rational course of action is to troll the community. So they do, but according to the anon-meme, only one troll post is put through (also, many of them apparently did not even know midnightbanshee was a mod). This is a cap of it: Prussia has a nice butt.

Then midnightbanshee takes it to the community. She decides to lock down hetalia and put it on moderated posting for twenty-four hours due to 'various reasons.' In short, all hell breaks loose. grele calls hypocrisy, and it just goes downhill from there. Lots of tl;dr and skirting the issue from midnightbanshee, and lots of tl;dr from other posters as well in addition to members wondering why a troll is considered an emergency, beautiful voices of reason, a gold star, etc. And as much as this lockdown supposedly had little to do with a_liger's post, she keeps getting brought up.

midnightbanshee spends quite some time talking back and forth to a troll. A few more threads, then here comes herongale, a friend of midnightbanshee. She tells us that a_liger's post looked like a powerplay(!) and wonders if a_liger is scared of her fellow mods. Many people respond.

Wank is possibly still growing. We'll see how it turns out!

edit: Fixed the few errors in the post. Guh. That's what I get for writing this out at six in the morning.