Here is the thread which made me despair of the place - please note the number of upvotes this prick has got.
https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/3s9axj/forcing_china_to_pretend_to_have_decency_a_howto/
(this will be of limited interest to people who are not familiar with life in China btw)
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 27 June 2019 13:42 (four years ago) link
seeing my r/china posts translated on chinese messageboards like zhihu freaked me out. just boring posts but still. and also i was posting under my real name and unlike twitter where your peers are always hovering beneath you, i felt like i was always in more danger of popping off in a bad way.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Thursday, 27 June 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
/r/honkler, an alt-right subreddit that - to my limited understanding - involved clown pepes saying "honk honk" instead of heil hitler, has been banned.
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
/r/honkler, an alt-right subreddit that - to my limited understanding - involved clown pepes saying "honk honk" instead of hell hitler
the right is the new counter-culture
― VAR me to the end of yawn (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
This is an r/relationships post from the SA peanut gallery thread because the original was deleted. You will not regret reading this one although you might scream. 🐀🐀🐀🐀 pic.twitter.com/nIt12atnqI— Horrendous Jake Kablooie (@JakeMHS) July 10, 2019
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Saturday, 13 July 2019 10:57 (four years ago) link
Yeah, maybe I should've posted it here instead of the Twitter thread
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 13 July 2019 11:00 (four years ago) link
oh sorry, I didn't see that
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Saturday, 13 July 2019 11:03 (four years ago) link
lol that's totally made up
― kinder, Saturday, 13 July 2019 11:36 (four years ago) link
wow there's an ExRedPill forum with titles like "What is self love" and "How do I stop worrying about my height?"
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Friday, 26 July 2019 03:28 (four years ago) link
Reads like incel fanfic:
https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/comments/cieyn5/update_my_husband_got_a_sex_doll/
― pomenitul, Saturday, 27 July 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
Discovered that my wife and I share the same biological father, we have a child on the way - what do we do and what happens next?
― silverfish, Friday, 27 September 2019 13:52 (four years ago) link
every generation has its own ann landers
― Poody Mae Bubblebutt, Miss Kumquat of 1947 (rushomancy), Friday, 27 September 2019 14:00 (four years ago) link
what a world
My [22F] boyfriend [25M] categorizes everything as Virgin vs Chad and it’s annoying https://t.co/QWmEjrqHUZ pic.twitter.com/0HV05QpzI2— relationships.txt (@redditships) September 28, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 28 September 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
Most of the fakes are over the top but that one’s juuuuuust right.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Saturday, 28 September 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
yeah i'm not sure if it's real. it's just ... what a world!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 28 September 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link
that third graph lol
― lag∞n, Sunday, 29 September 2019 03:30 (four years ago) link
the only reason i think that one is fake is cause its too funny
― lag∞n, Sunday, 29 September 2019 04:26 (four years ago) link
Ok this is gold:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/
(Mind the date, obv.)
― coco vide (pomenitul), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 18:24 (four years ago) link
"the glitch in the matrix" is a really good source of twilight zone type user-generated fiction
― treeship., Saturday, 11 April 2020 19:58 (four years ago) link
going to have this printed on a t-shirt take it to six flags and have one of their talented t-shirt artists spraypaint God Bless The Troops over it
https://i.redd.it/fgj3cc7mzkx41.jpg
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
[–]professor_coldheart 1 point 1 day ago I started thinking about the missing players and coaches. Ideally Oscar is coaching while Kevin and Darryl are playing, but probably Michael is trying to coach and play forward. On the other side, Gunther is definitely holding Rachel up, Ursula is in the game actively sabotaging her own team, and despite this and Joey flirting with Pam, The Office is still getting demolished.Eddie Menuek is the ref. He's constantly calling fouls, and everyone ignores him.
Eddie Menuek is the ref. He's constantly calling fouls, and everyone ignores him.
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
[–]Professor_Zumbi 12 points 23 hours ago I kinda like how its mashing up different eras. The artist was probably was just fond of these two shows in particular. If I had any artistic ability at all, I might draw the Office vs Dragon Ball Z.
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
I mean the artist's name and @ are in the image, if you're willing to give money I bet you can arrange it
― silby, Sunday, 10 May 2020 19:18 (three years ago) link
boy oh boy do those people over there obsess over the wrong cultural signifiers!
― lumen (esby), Sunday, 10 May 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link
god they sure do
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Sunday, 10 May 2020 20:56 (three years ago) link
Can we get one of these where one team is Carly Rae Jepsen, the Balloon guy, and Steely Dan while the other team is @Doug Henwood, @DennisThePerrin, and @dick_nixon?
― peace, man, Monday, 11 May 2020 00:45 (three years ago) link
Reddit will ban r/The_Donald, r/ChapoTrapHouse, and about 2,000 other communities today after updating its content policy to more explicitly ban hate speech. The policy update comes three weeks after Black Lives Matter protests led several popular Reddit forums to go dark temporarily in protest of what they called the company’s lax policies around hosting and promoting racist content. It marks a major reversal for a company whose commitment to free expression has historically been so strong that it once allowed users to distribute stolen nude photos freely on the site.“I have to admit that I’ve struggled with balancing my values as an American, and around free speech and free expression, with my values and the company’s values around common human decency,” Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said in a call with reporters.In a blog post that cites the company’s new rules, Huffman said users of the r/The_Donald subreddit had violated the site’s policies for years. (The site has no official connection to President Donald Trump, although he did do an Ask Me Anything there as a candidate in 2016.) “The community has consistently hosted and upvoted more rule-breaking content than average (Rule 1), antagonized us and other communities (Rules 2 and 8), and its mods have refused to meet our most basic expectations,” Huffman said.Similarly, r/ChapoTrapHouse had also hosted content that violates the site’s rules, Huffman said. The subreddit is a spinoff of the popular left-wing podcast.Reddit’s new policy begins with a first rule that requires users to “consider the human.” It reads:Remember the human. Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking marginalized or vulnerable groups of people. Everyone has a right to use Reddit free of harassment, bullying, and threats of violence. Communities and people that incite violence or that promote hate based on identity or vulnerability will be banned.That formed the basis of a policy framework that bans hate speech.“Reddit’s mission is to bring community and belonging to everybody in the world, and there is speech in the world and on Reddit that prevents other people from doing so,” Huffman told reporters. “Harassing speech or hateful speech prevents people from coming to Reddit and feeling safe and sharing their vulnerabilities ... So if we have speech on Reddit that’s preventing people from using Reddit the way that we intend it to be used, or that prevents us from achieving our mission, then it’s actually a very easy decision.”The introduction of the new policies has resulted in the removal of about 2,000 subreddits so far, and the company says “the vast majority” were inactive. Only about 200 of them had more than 10 daily users, the company said.
“I have to admit that I’ve struggled with balancing my values as an American, and around free speech and free expression, with my values and the company’s values around common human decency,” Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said in a call with reporters.
In a blog post that cites the company’s new rules, Huffman said users of the r/The_Donald subreddit had violated the site’s policies for years. (The site has no official connection to President Donald Trump, although he did do an Ask Me Anything there as a candidate in 2016.) “The community has consistently hosted and upvoted more rule-breaking content than average (Rule 1), antagonized us and other communities (Rules 2 and 8), and its mods have refused to meet our most basic expectations,” Huffman said.
Similarly, r/ChapoTrapHouse had also hosted content that violates the site’s rules, Huffman said. The subreddit is a spinoff of the popular left-wing podcast.
Reddit’s new policy begins with a first rule that requires users to “consider the human.” It reads:
Remember the human. Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking marginalized or vulnerable groups of people. Everyone has a right to use Reddit free of harassment, bullying, and threats of violence. Communities and people that incite violence or that promote hate based on identity or vulnerability will be banned.
That formed the basis of a policy framework that bans hate speech.
“Reddit’s mission is to bring community and belonging to everybody in the world, and there is speech in the world and on Reddit that prevents other people from doing so,” Huffman told reporters. “Harassing speech or hateful speech prevents people from coming to Reddit and feeling safe and sharing their vulnerabilities ... So if we have speech on Reddit that’s preventing people from using Reddit the way that we intend it to be used, or that prevents us from achieving our mission, then it’s actually a very easy decision.”
The introduction of the new policies has resulted in the removal of about 2,000 subreddits so far, and the company says “the vast majority” were inactive. Only about 200 of them had more than 10 daily users, the company said.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 June 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
Consider the Human vs Don't Be Evil
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 29 June 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
Consider the Lobster.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 June 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
Apparently follows Twitch banning the Trump channel. The infraction? Posting his initial racist volley calling Mexicans rapists, etc. They are aiming right at Trump himself, not just his knucklehead emulators and fans.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 June 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link
gosh I hope the incels are safe
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 29 June 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
What's the deal with the Chapo sub? I don't pay attention to the podcast because every time I've checked in, it's been annoying for me. But I thought those dudes were left. What is their hate speech component?
― peace, man, Monday, 29 June 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
Horseshoe theory.
― pomenitul, Monday, 29 June 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
I haven't looked, but it's not just hate speech, it's also inciting violence, harassing, and just generally aggressively flouting Reddit rules.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 June 2020 18:31 (three years ago) link
I think CTH’s biggest offense, officially, was praising the abolitionist John Brown! He killed people, you see, so he’s just as bad as slavers and Nazis.
― Dan I., Monday, 29 June 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
Huffman:
Though smaller [than r/The_Donald], r/ChapoTrapHouse was banned for similar reasons: They consistently host rule-breaking content and their mods have demonstrated no intention of reining in their community.
― jaymc, Monday, 29 June 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
It’s clearly also an effort to deflect claims of political bias
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 29 June 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
I don't know what most of these are, but of the 200 mostly inactive threads there was this group"
r/DarkHumorAndMemesr/ConsumeProductr/DarkJokeCentralr/GenderCriticalr/Cumtownr/imgoingtohellforthis2r/Wojakr/soyboys
No idea of the politics of any of them, but I assume they are very edge lord centric.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 June 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link
The Chapo subreddit at this point seemed to be primarily young trans and queer people working out their anxiety and fear.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Monday, 29 June 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
Through joking about killing slavers and Nazis
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Monday, 29 June 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
think you can guess what r/GenderCritical was about
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 29 June 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link
Apparently the Trump forum has been dead or idle for months.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 June 2020 19:03 (three years ago) link
/r/ConsumeProduct wanted to trick people into thinking it was /r/HailCorporate, but when you got there all the posts were like "Wahhhh - why are all these businesses supporting Black Lives Matter?"
― peace, man, Monday, 29 June 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, June 29, 2020 2:59 PM (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Is it when the onboard computer is warning you the gender is about to explode
― Evan, Monday, 29 June 2020 19:49 (three years ago) link
Halt and catch gender
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Monday, 29 June 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link
Reddit quarantined the forum last year and banned or restricted most of the users in February.
― time is running out to retweet boing.gif (sic), Monday, 29 June 2020 21:35 (three years ago) link
nice to know that a bunch of misogynistic rape/violence/degradation fetishist subreddits have escaped the axe. I guess banning them would amount to kink shaming or smth
― panburger partner (unregistered), Monday, 29 June 2020 22:41 (three years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, June 29, 2020 2:31 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol their #1 hobby was debating whether or not CTH is too problematic
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Monday, 29 June 2020 22:45 (three years ago) link
reddit ban for two reasons - illegal stuff and (more often) breaking rules, usually the rules about not raiding other subs, they are obsessed with this for some reason, or at least use their obsession as an excuse to ban stuff. (legal) pervs presumably keep themselves to themselves and don't get banned.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 29 June 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
Both sides do it*
*bring the American fascism that's murdering thousands vs. make fun of Matt Yglesias taking his laptop into the bathroom of a coffee shop
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 29 June 2020 22:52 (three years ago) link