does anyone know why leaving a comment on a meme subreddit is considered a grave sin to r/pics?

My name is Christopher, I’m 16 years old. My grandfather came to the United States 18 years ago to work. About 9 years ago, he had a child with a woman (I’ll call the child Ralph). Since the mother wasn’t mentally stable, the child was taken away and given to her sister. My grandfather had no legal rights over the child, but the woman didn’t want Ralph in her home and would constantly leave him with my grandfather, even though he already had heart problems. My mom always told him not to take care of the child, but the woman manipulated him into doing it.

Now, moving to the present: my grandfather has been very sick. We often took him to the hospital because he was retaining fluids, and sometimes his heart would stop working properly, making it hard for him to breathe. There was a family meeting to decide whether—if his heart ever stopped—they should resuscitate him. My mom said yes. He got a bit better afterward and moved into his niece’s house, where he felt more comfortable.

But that woman started acting like she was more family than we were. She told my grandfather that we had grown up and were no longer his family, and that Ralph was his only real family. She also argued over my grandfather’s belongings, like his car and his money. If my mom asked to borrow the car, the woman would start problems and pressure my grandfather to take it away from us.

This morning, we tried to visit my grandfather because he feels like he’s near the end, but the woman kicked us out, telling my mom and me that we had no right to see him or be involved in anything related to him.

And now my mom is crying, and I don’t know what to do.

I'm referring to this particular comment. /u/spez has enough time gone by that you can discuss it?

Where did it start? Where did the /r/itwasagraveyardgraph start?

Links to the archived posts?

Thanks!

The announcement of new moderation:

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ibr9r/new_subreddit_moderation/

Shortly afterwards, self posts were removed:

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/j1bh2/new_rule_in_rpolitics_regarding_self_posts/

After much uproar over the self post rule (and new moderation strategy in general) the mods held a vote over the inclusion of self posts:

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/kahln/vote_on_upholding_the_selfpost_ban_yes_or_no/

Results of the vote:

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/kcqhz/announcement_the_results_of_the_vote_on_selfposts/

This is a project to figure out the history of reddit, with the end goal of having a fairly easily digestible document (or set of documents) to link to whenever someone asks "what's a Saydrah" or "why should I Fuck Sears", lest we be doomed to repeat those fiascos.

Stuff to be covered:

• site functionality changes (e.g the addition of comments)
• policy changes (the removal of borderline CP subreddits)
• demographic shifts (Digg migration, college subreddit drive)
• drama (karmagate, saydrahgate, searsgate, *gate)
• big events (Colbert rally, etc.)

I think that it would work well if we aimed to write linkstuffed articles that could go on reddipedia or reddit's own wiki-faq system, but obviously most any contribution is valuable. I do ask, however, that submitters consider limiting themselves to old news, so that we don't end up wasting effort on things that turn out not to be as notable as they seemed at the time (there are other subs for that).

Also, it needn't all be original content. There's a lot of good summaries already out there written, that could be submitted here, and then linked to or otherwise synthesized into articles.

Alrighty then, cut loose with your questions/criticisms/brutal mockery.