Late addition, but it's important. I was a mod for 2 years, and we had a lot of posts like these. I don't doubt for a single second that the OP is telling the truth, yet thousands of "newbies" automatically assume he's making shit up. He's not making shit up (what would be the point?). I've had the same "runs" before and done the same shit, and back when I posted here on a daily basis, everyone loved my posts/comments. Why the fuck is it so hard for people to accept the fact that this guy was successful with some girls?!? It blows my fuckin mind that people can't simply accept it and learn from it -- they need to criticize everything and then say it's impossible for them to accomplish.
No -- all of this shit is possible for you yourself to accomplish if you put in the legwork. Over time, it actually becomes super easy to do.
tl;dr -- right after TofuTofu became infamous on various shows that downplayed his actual humanity (I hung out with the guy in San Fran one night -- he's not the person who was being portrayed on those morning shows), r/seduction went to shit. We became famous on the internet, but for all the wrong reasons. I was IN San Diego when it all happened, and I basically just shut off my computer and went to tan on the beach instead of dealing with the bullshit. Our own mods even disgraced the guy, simply for writing a book that he had always said he wanted to write. I'd still love to write a book myself, and our head mod is already a dating coach himself.
Like you said though:
you have people who come here judging the shit out of the most successful people here, stymieing their own progress by adhering to the same rules that made them sexless in the years prior to discovering this subreddit, and just an overall "shutting down" of open thought, good ideas, and opportunities to learn from success and failure.
It's just like r/foreveralone, where nobody offers any legit advice, and they all just wallow in their own pity. Good luck with that. Go ahead and do that, and I'll go fuck girls in the meantime. I don't need to mod seddit. I have a life already, and I can just do that instead. I'm 24 and my girlfriend is a 50-year-old MILF. We've been dating for about 14 mpnths now. If EvolutionTheory disagrees with me about how to mod the sub, then so be it. None of it really matters to me at all.