everybody on ilx complains about reddit

Can Reddit's toxic, pro-harassment underbelly ditch its old home and build a sturdy new one virtually overnight? Many of the free-speech purists fleeing Reddit management's newly hands-on approach hope so.

Intermittent community backlash is a regular part of Reddit life, but no outpouring of anger and bile has been as intense as the current meltdown over interim CEO Ellen Pao’s announcement that the site will now ban harassing subreddits like r/fatpeoplehate.

Some redditors are now vowing to use AdBlock and urging each other to stop buying Reddit Gold—a strategy that has been backfiring—in order to deprive Reddit of income and force Pao to resign.

But other users are determined to find a new home where they won’t have to worry about censorship for communities that freely incorporate hate speech, harassment, and otherwise reprehensible behavior.

Enter Voat, a Reddit clone that until this week received scant attention but is now blowing up as a sort of refugee community for Reddit's vilest expatriates.

they shd come to ilx

don't even joke

the banapalooza would be entertaining for about 36 hours

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

Vilest of all time

I actually had a minor flashback to that

christ I'm old and have lived a trivial life

join the growing and soon to be culled crowd

wow! i had totally forgotten about that

mods plz change board description to "free speech online community" ty

how could it still be september if no one uses usenet now

we should use usenet again, why was it we quit

lol because of Eternal September!

those ppl gotta be all gone now, faceborkin on teh phones

we're clear

Someone should wake that Green Day guy up!

(Now I'm scared someone's going to think I sincerely made a dad joke just then.)

I am so vehemently in favor of aggressive modding everywhere at all times
Let them come and be modded into dust

Im sure 4chan will welcome them all back

http://i.imgur.com/CvmzNzz.png

i've changed my mind about reddit. reddit needs to be preserved at all costs

legaladvice and relationshipadvice are both unalloyed gold

kinda lol but mostly sad

misread "resume tweaking" as meaning "going back to meth", thought his parents had a point

if only

He has no meth and he must scram :-(

<applause>

http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/3a6yi0/internet_lawyer_updates_paomustresign_on_plans_to/cs9x2ry

http://www.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/39r6vq/my_26m_girlfriend_24f_of_two_years_always/

My [26M] girlfriend [24F] of two years always includes poetry in cards she gives me. I'm not into it.Relationships (self.relationships)

submitted 8 days ago by nomorepoetry

I'll start by saying I love my girlfriend. I think she's beautiful, intelligent, and very caring. We get along together extremely well. We moved in together after only 2 months but have never had any major fights. We just work. It's a great feeling

Which makes me realize that this gripe is minor, so I don't know how to address it. Every card I have ever received from my girlfriend (birthdays, anniversaries, Valentine's day etc) has included poetry. On one side she'll write something short, but sweet and thoughtful, which I like. On the other side, she'll write a few lines from a poem or other classical literature. I get that she is a librarian and literature is something she's studied extensively and cares about. Frankly, it leaves me cold. I was a stem major and work in a scientific field now, and classical literature, ESPECIALLY poetry, do not interest me in the slightest.

I figured she would pick up eventually that I don't care about the fancy words and much prefer her own, but my birthday recently rolled around and there was poetry in the card. She even made a point of repeating the passage to me. I asked her why she always felt the need to use someone else's words, but she just replied that the words were beautiful and she felt a connection to them and us.

I don't know how to broach this topic without hurting her feelings. I would be fine if she just signed the card, or no card at all. I love this girl, but I'm tired of the poems.

tl;dr: How do I tell my girlfriend to leave the poetic craps off when she writes cards?

and he's getting absolutely taken to the cleaners over that post

yeah true

all these are very strange fantasies

what a moron

thinkpiece abt how the extreme mundanity of the reddit storytelling house style is destroying virgins sexual imagination

if only she knew that algorithms were the way to my heart

goole has got me into reading that relationships reddit and I think I am angry about it

Just email attached research on oxytocin and orgasms.

lol

roses are red
violets are too
i am not real
your STEM job will suck

goole has got me into reading that relationships reddit and I think I am angry about it

― Upright Mammal (mh), Monday, June 22, 2015 3:03 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it gets better when you imagine them all written by the same 6-10 dudes, a fact that every commenter knows

they're all really obvious or really depressing, followed by the two token commenters on each thread who say the most vile shit

"Two of the site’s most popular posts ever are AMAs: the one with Barack Obama and a conversation with a man with two penises."

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/reddits-ama-subreddit-down-after-victoria-taylor-depature-2015-7

Someone please dox that guy and let his girlfriend know what she's gotten herself into.

I was a stem major and work in a scientific field now, and classical literature, ESPECIALLY poetry, do not interest me in the slightest.

Hearsay, but

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CI9iYW7VAAAzzJN.png

TIL there's a bad Jesse Jackson

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJAMaLZUAAAATOK.png

what is anybody supposed to get out of that screenshot

reddit is the nerd drama place online

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CI_3ancWEAAx1R4.png

redditors are revolting lol

keep reddit dark forever imo

its good