EDIT5: I'll be unbanned from /r/FC and /r/LSC tomorrow. This has been sort of stressful for me and I apologize to the mods of all three subreddits
/u/Mysterious_Drifter why would you apologise for other people acting like small children? It's pretty sad to beg and scrape in front of petty bureaucrats, especially over something so pointless as a glorified web forum.
I was walking on eggshells; displaying the ut-most respect while cordially disagreeing with the mods was the only way I foresaw that I could effect change without getting banned (and re-banned) for public criticism. There are still a few mods who hate that this thread was left up and that I didn't voluntarily remove it after they threatened me.
Things are much different now than they were when this thread was made. Apologizing was to reinforce the idea that I was not trying to antagonize the mods and genuinely had the betterment of the sub at heart.
I'm still hyper-aware of everything I say because I know I am being watched and it's very disconcerting. I don't want to make enemies and my intent is to better the sub for everyone, including the mods.
Except that implies that they are providing a service to their community. These are just mindless cult members that go around sticking their purity test where it doesn't belong and LARPing as guerilla fighters.
They are providing a service to their community. Having a sub like /r/socialism allows you to cordon off the retards and give them their own safe space so they don't come out and annoy the rest of us - just like they don't put the super retarded kids in genpop at public schools.
They're like goldfish. They don't have any real perception of what they look like or how the outside sees them, but if they repeat an action 3 or 4 times and they get negative feedback each time, there's a solid 20-25% chance that they'll accidentally learn something and change their behavior.
i've had comrades that i personally can't stand and won't talk to outside of meetings, but i don't let personal shit interfere with getting stuff done. those people are not my friends. they're more like disliked coworkers you're being professional about.
You can put in the effort to make a sub harder to hijack in that way. There hasn't been any power tripping in the subs I mod and they're all political.
/r/Anarcho_Capitalism used to be great with this. Any criticism or question was welcome, even encouraged. Of course, you might get some retard whose ideological foundation is a couple of YouTube videos, but it's the only place I've had great discussions with everything from AnCaps to amazingly intelligent communists and syndicalists.
Of course, that openness lead to a lot of problems with Alt-righters trying to spread their racism there, and with increased popularity the quality of the discussion decreased, which is why I haven't visited the sub in two years or so. Still, it's possible to have great political subs.
It's not like there aren't too many of them. Or that we can tell them apart anyway. I could never tell if there were one million or one billion chinks remaining.
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n/a SnapshillBot 2017-01-14
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n/a UpvoteIfYouDare 2017-01-14
Let a thousand flowers bloom.
n/a Prince_Kropotkin 2017-01-14
Yeah, really though. This reference seems way too apt.
n/a ting_bu_dong 2017-01-14
It's a party.
n/a Dial_A_Dragon 2017-01-14
FUCK YOU GIB REFOR-
n/a dealin_roofies 2017-01-14
/u/Mysterious_Drifter why would you apologise for other people acting like small children? It's pretty sad to beg and scrape in front of petty bureaucrats, especially over something so pointless as a glorified web forum.
n/a TruthPains 2017-01-14
I don't think he is a mod m8.
n/a Promotheos 2017-01-14
U wot?
n/a Mysterious_Drifter 2017-01-14
I was walking on eggshells; displaying the ut-most respect while cordially disagreeing with the mods was the only way I foresaw that I could effect change without getting banned (and re-banned) for public criticism. There are still a few mods who hate that this thread was left up and that I didn't voluntarily remove it after they threatened me.
Things are much different now than they were when this thread was made. Apologizing was to reinforce the idea that I was not trying to antagonize the mods and genuinely had the betterment of the sub at heart.
I'm still hyper-aware of everything I say because I know I am being watched and it's very disconcerting. I don't want to make enemies and my intent is to better the sub for everyone, including the mods.
n/a Chicup 2017-01-14
/u/Mysterious_Drifter can't post here at all to respond or he will be obviously banned permanently.
He knows who his masters are.
n/a autistitron 2017-01-14
Rare footage of a /r/socialism user observing other subs
n/a TheMauveHand 2017-01-14
That'd be apt were they not West Germans looking into East Germany.
n/a TruthPains 2017-01-14
In all seriousness, /u/Jackissocool why are the mods of your sub such shit?
n/a Jackissocool 2017-01-14
That's how I like it
n/a ArchangelleLovesRape 2017-01-14
You're like one of those affirmative action businesses that only hires the retarded and disabled.
n/a APE_CHRIST 2017-01-14
Except that implies that they are providing a service to their community. These are just mindless cult members that go around sticking their purity test where it doesn't belong and LARPing as guerilla fighters.
n/a ArchangelleLovesRape 2017-01-14
They are providing a service to their community. Having a sub like /r/socialism allows you to cordon off the retards and give them their own safe space so they don't come out and annoy the rest of us - just like they don't put the super retarded kids in genpop at public schools.
n/a headasplodes 2017-01-14
I enjoy the irony of socialists constantly in-fighting when they insist on referring to each other as comrades
n/a Sardonic_Deity 2017-01-14
I enjoy seeing them call anyone they don't like "liberals".
n/a Evil-Corgi 2017-01-14
"liberals" or "fascists"
"Fascists" if the person is credibly right-wing in any way, "liberals" when they know they would look silly calling a berniebro "fascist"
n/a astraydoge 2017-01-14
Are you implying that they have a tiny bit of self awareness??
n/a Evil-Corgi 2017-01-14
They're like goldfish. They don't have any real perception of what they look like or how the outside sees them, but if they repeat an action 3 or 4 times and they get negative feedback each time, there's a solid 20-25% chance that they'll accidentally learn something and change their behavior.
n/a urboro 2017-01-14
Wow, if this had a bunch of pedantic lists and bulletpoints, I'd submit it to /r/bestof.
n/a thefran 2017-01-14
Where the fuck have you been? Everyone always accuses berniebros of being far-right.
n/a BannedFromImzy 2017-01-14
Berniebros are misogynists. It's true, the Clinton campaign said it.
n/a coweatman 2017-01-14
"comrade" is someone you have politics in common. it doesn't necessarily mean "friend".
n/a Works_of_memercy 2017-01-14
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/comradery
n/a coweatman 2017-01-14
my definition is how it is actually used in the contemporary left.
n/a JoeFalchetto 2017-01-14
Yes but the double meaning of the word makes it funny.
n/a Works_of_memercy 2017-01-14
Fair enough.
n/a coweatman 2017-01-14
i've had comrades that i personally can't stand and won't talk to outside of meetings, but i don't let personal shit interfere with getting stuff done. those people are not my friends. they're more like disliked coworkers you're being professional about.
n/a DistortedLines 2017-01-14
Well the contemporary left is retarded
n/a coweatman 2017-01-14
using "comrade" and "friend" with different meanings is actually super useful.
n/a BannedFromImzy 2017-01-14
Calling someone "comrade" just means that when you kill them or send to "political reeducation" camps you'll pretend it was for their own good.
n/a thefran 2017-01-14
Like calling people citizens when their citizen rights are about to be revoked
n/a tHeSiD 2017-01-14
Why are all reddit mods such power hungry retards? (except r/drama mods.. They are just retards like us)
n/a FreekyFreezer 2017-01-14
yeah r/drama mods dont give a fuck they just want the triple brackets to their name
n/a astraydoge 2017-01-14
Can i get triple brackets to my name?
n/a FreekyFreezer 2017-01-14
ask /r/comedicsans or some other pathetic loser
n/a astraydoge 2017-01-14
Well I'm asking you :*
n/a FreekyFreezer 2017-01-14
Yeah but I'm no mod
n/a astraydoge 2017-01-14
Shite. Mods pls
n/a 18aidanme 2017-01-14
This is pretty much every political sub with more than 10 subs.
n/a Prince_Kropotkin 2017-01-14
You can put in the effort to make a sub harder to hijack in that way. There hasn't been any power tripping in the subs I mod and they're all political.
n/a I_am_Norwegian 2017-01-14
/r/Anarcho_Capitalism used to be great with this. Any criticism or question was welcome, even encouraged. Of course, you might get some retard whose ideological foundation is a couple of YouTube videos, but it's the only place I've had great discussions with everything from AnCaps to amazingly intelligent communists and syndicalists.
Of course, that openness lead to a lot of problems with Alt-righters trying to spread their racism there, and with increased popularity the quality of the discussion decreased, which is why I haven't visited the sub in two years or so. Still, it's possible to have great political subs.
n/a wwyzzerdd 2017-01-14
/u/Jackissocool why do you deny power to the people? Some sort of tribute to Mao?
n/a Jackissocool 2017-01-14
Yes exactly that
n/a TheOneHanditBandit 2017-01-14
You are like the smartest kid in Special Ed.
n/a BannedFromImzy 2017-01-14
Or at least the one the others will follow.
n/a Ultrashitpost 2017-01-14
Why do you think Mao is so cool? Because he killed a lot of Chinamen?
n/a Jackissocool 2017-01-14
Yes
n/a Ultrashitpost 2017-01-14
That's good, cause i also hate Chinamen and love seeing em die.
n/a niggerpenis 2017-01-14
CHINACIDE NOW
n/a BannedFromImzy 2017-01-14
It's not like there aren't too many of them. Or that we can tell them apart anyway. I could never tell if there were one million or one billion chinks remaining.
n/a FreekyFreezer 2017-01-14
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
n/a BannedFromImzy 2017-01-14
My bad. Deactivating CSS makes it tricky to know when you're in np or not.
n/a afd33 2017-01-14
They're probably tagging everyone who criticizes with gold stars in RES too.
n/a BannedFromImzy 2017-01-14
I wish I could combine the RES tags from all my alts and my former accounts.
n/a StrategicSarcasm 2017-01-14
Doesn't RES store tags locally? So it's based on computer, not account.
n/a BannedFromImzy 2017-01-14
Sorry I meant the RES tags that were attached by people to my accounts.
n/a ChipChippersonAMA 2017-01-14
It's like the French Revolution all over again!
n/a OnSnowWhiteWings 2017-01-14
http://static1.cartoonsy.com/preview/263/78ca31f61e075ad
n/a BannedFromImzy 2017-01-14
That but there's a guy with a gun behid the suggestion box.
n/a humanmanguy 2017-01-14
n/a Senator_Chickpea 2017-01-14
alles in Ordnung
n/a lostshell 2017-01-14
Make it easier = contain and isolate
n/a Dango_Fett 2017-01-14
r/socialism is garbage. They banned me for saying that silencing people that they don't agree with is basically Stalinism.
n/a King_Eirik_Bloodaxe 2017-01-14
Or Maoism, or Leninism, or Titoism, or Chavezism, or Castroism, or Nazism, or Fascism, or Clintonism, irritatingcollegeliberalism, /r/socialism...
n/a HeresCyonnah 2017-01-14
I love that they still don't want it to be too community run, just run by those that the mods select.
They truly represent how socialism would end up working.
n/a BannedFromImzy 2017-01-14
Only some of them are "anarchists" too. The hardcore socialists are not fans of democracy and free speech.
n/a MrFuzzynutz 2017-01-14
This is not how socialism works. There's no hierarchy in socialism...
n/a Alexlincoln2 2017-01-14
And /r/socialism continues to be a microcosm of what actual socialism is like
n/a theherps 2017-01-14
Jesus, imagine caring that much about anything on the internet
n/a houinator 2017-01-14
It's like watching Mao's Hundred Flowers Campaign and the aftermath play out in real time.