https://www.polygon.com/2018/7/13/17568556/kotakuinaction-reddit-mod-shut-down-administrator

A Reddit employee stepped in to save KotakuInAction, the platform’s main pro-GamerGate subreddit, after its founder decided to shut it down Thursday night, calling the community a “viral cancer.”

KotakuInAction’s founder, a Redditor who goes by david-me, published a lengthy explainer on his decision to turn r/KotakuInAction private, boot out all moderators and, essentially, try to shut down the subreddit. The post details his reasoning for starting the subreddit back in 2014 when GamerGate — a reactionary, hateful campaign that targeted women and marginalized people in the games industry and manufactured a cover of being interested in “ethics in games journalism” — first started. The post provides additional context for deciding to take action against the community he founded.