There are a lot of bullshit posts in this thread. Yours as well, OP. Actually attempting to defend this shitbag.
I paid a lot of attention to the Richard Lewis bullshit. This is why RL is banned from the subreddit.
http://NP.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/30u2dk/meta_im_leaving_the_mod_team/cpvu3qk
"Basically, someone told RL to "grow up mate." In RL's lust to make a swipe back, he checked their posting history and cited a suicide thread as ammunition to discredit him. RL later claimed he didn't actually read the suicide thread, so I guess that means he somehow stumbled on the perfect thread to undermine the other person purely by "coincidence." In the same post, RL offered to talk with the other person about their suicidal thoughts, "despite the shit he'd talked about RL" (apparently grow up mate counts as shit talking), as if RL was the one showing generous mercy to someone who had committed the greater offense."
[with a few other sources in the link]
The cause of a lot of the dramas:
Richard Lewis's crowning piece of evidence as to how corrupt the mods are, the NDA they signed with Riot, is actually allowed by reddit's rules:
This guy, ignoring his career in journalism, is an asshole all around. He constantly, with several warnings (more than anyone else would have ever gotten), abused those would criticize him via reddit.
He even went so far as to threaten to dox the moderators, write several articles about how the mods of /r/leagueoflegends were somehow corrupt because of an NDA they signed. He also doxxed several writers of Esports Express (esex) the esports satire news site over some joke article they wrote about him.
Another fun thing he did is that he revealed his sources
There's this kind of person that you meet online a lot, they're often referred to as "toxic". Richard Lewis is a toxic, crying pissbaby with no sense of online professionalism and no morals. His writing is generally fine but he has the attitude of a child if you disagree with him or critique his work.
You want an example of that? Here you go. RL being a shit head. This isn't a contained incident, this happened regularly.
So much could be said about this fuckhead but I'll stop there, this is already too long. I do have more and can probably source anything i've said. most of what I mentioned I already have sourced.
The /r/leagueoflegends community will be better off without him. He's a pustule and I'm glad he got popped.