Did /r/HateSubredditOfTheDay coddle with reactionaries? An SRS mod makes high school girl /u/Minn-ee-sottaa cry.

79  2016-05-03 by k_a_a_l_a_a_a_a

/r/hatesubredditoftheday/ was created as an reaction to /r/theredpill being SRotD. Reminder, instead of praising the sub, /r/SRotD just interviewed the mods.


Subs like /r/circlebroke were really mad about SRotD doing that. For some reason HSRotD decided to exactly the same with /r/tumblrinaction. They asked them questions and facilitated an AmA, the thread is remarkably uninteresting up until SRS moderator /u/ArchangelleFoodcake appeared.

Sorry what? You're explicitly calling them a hate subreddit but you're asking subscribers to engage them respectfully?

Not only did you say okay, but then you're all over this thread reprimanding your subscribers for being uncivil to these reactionaries, and licking the boots of said reactionaries by apologizing to them for your subscribers' oh so uncivil conduct. Disgusting.


Communist schoolboy /u/Minn-ee-sottaa who really wants to be accepted by the SRS crew, locked the thread about TiA and made a new thread to apologize about her misbehavior.

TiA mod /u/GammaKing explained what happened perfectly:

Your problem here isn't that the "interview" wasn't aggressive, it's that you didn't get the kind of "gotcha" responses to the bait questions we were sent. It doesn't support your political agenda and so you've dismissed it as a mistake. It's this kind of ridiculous, intellectually dishonest bullshit that's typical of /r/AgainstHateSubreddits. Can't consider for a minute that maybe, just maybe, TiA isn't a "hate subreddit" at all. So what you really mean is "the interview didn't give me the results I wanted", and hopefully someday you might realise that this is a flaw in your own ideology, not ours.


Edit:

Goldfish links for the two relevant threads:

The interview + AmA

The apology

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