That was the circlejerkers posse. Sorry, they were mine.

Some Reddit history:

/r/circlejerk used to be a controlled environment for trolling. Then YTKnows decided to turn /r/circlejerk into Staples. A cadre of some of the harder trolls splintered off into /r/CIRCLEJERKERS, probably the most-often-banned subreddit in the history of Reddit.

There was a circlejerker by the name of RyanBatts who thought I was awesome. he wanted my help in setting up /r/education or something. Unfortunately he was an alcoholic and imbalanced. The other mods in /r/education asked my help in controlling him. About the time I added YTKnows to the mod list of /r/favors. This annoyed the circlejerkers... however in their midst were drunkenjedi and grandpawiggly, friends/admirers of mine. I got leaked modmail of them attempting to dox me.

One of the more imbalanced of them, a guy going by pozhualista, noticed what I had going on with /r/youngluck so he decided to stir up shit in there. This upset my other mod, a very nice and reclusive ex-mormon lady in her '50s, so I banned him. Thus began the circlejerkers' jihad to googlebomb the notion that youngluck was in jail for molesting his son.

I stirred up shit with the admins because that kind of shit ain't cool. Hueypriest told me there was nothing they could do about it because stuff they did in their own subreddits was their own thing and stuff they didn't do on Reddit was entirely out of their control. He hinted, however, that if they violated the TOS he'd ban their subreddit. Thus began a nine month campaign of trench warfare where I occupied the circlejerkers with baiting tactics against me so they'd get bored with Dante (what his ex was able to find on the Internet did occupy a court of law off'n'on for about a year, so I wasn't completely successful). I got maybe eight of them shadowbanned, several of them multiple times, and had three of their subreddits banned.

It turned me into a real dick - goading trolls as part of your daily routine is bad for your constitution. About that time I pissed off Violentacrez by implying that the admins had some sort of responsibility to civic behavior - he's more of a fan of unrest. An enemy of my enemy is my friend, and VA started hanging with the circlejerkers. Modded them in /r/jailbait, in fact, just to piss off the admins. Thus was jailbait banned briefly, then unbanned as soon as the circlejerkers were unmodded.

Meanwhile, I'm a cranky fucker. And i was unduly rude to someone asking for heaven and earth from the designers of /r/favors. As there were at least a couple in there who were homeless, I was short in the modmail. It being summer, a witch hunt commenced.

A couple months later, drunkenjedi pointed me here. I stuck around. As soon as google searches for my handle started pointing here, the circlejerkers followed. The simple fact that you responded to them in a civil fashion and didn't stomp on them diffused that situation - they were trying to get my goat but since I didn't follow them, I couldn't see their antics. And since their antics were largely intended for me, they decided that Hubski wasn't "trollable." Some of them have stuck around.

Meanwhile on Reddit, a large number of them were IP banned as soon as Yishan took over. That thing I asked for to defend Youngluck? Sure, no problem. Youngluck, in the meantime, became an admin himself. So three years later and a shit ton of blood in the water, and all is right with the world. Other than the fact that one of those original leakers of the modlogs from /r/circlejerkers decided to dox violentacrez to Gawker for lulz.

There you go. Hubski's role in one of the biggest internal dramas in Reddit's history. At least nobody had the bomb squad called on them.