r/watchpeopledie has gone private - the admins have had a word with them...

218  2018-03-16 by Eight_Ace

211 comments

C'mon Reddit, ban the porn next. Let's see if anyone with a dick will stay here for your "wonderful discussion platform" without having boobs to look at.

Imzy didn't have porn, even though tumblr is filled with it

I seriously see that happening a few years down the line

Why now first? I mean, there are a metric ton of suicide videos on wpd. What made this one so diffrent that vice had to make an article about it?

Spez for funkytown.

Welp.... I guess this is where reddit either takes a stand or lies down and goes into the mass grave of other ruined social media. We might have to make a mass exodus to 4chan.

Sarcasm and flippant behavior represent contempt, which is the opposite of intellectual integrity. You seem like a real fool of a human.

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ACTUALLY READ THIS PLEASE. 20 messages in less than a minute in mod mail...

Due to a ToS review thanks to the (surprisingly still relevant) Vice article, we're going dark for a bit til it's resolved. Go here for more info; https://www.reddit.com/r/WPDtalk/comments/84s3s6/why_was_the_recent_video_of_the_18_year_old

No, there won't be invites. Not until Admins get back to us. No it's not removed, pulled, or censored. We are just waiting

I don't think the admins have actually said anything to them, they're just acting like teens on weed who just heard sirens fly past them. I mean yeah, maybe the admins will bring the hammer down on them, but in that case that would open up a few subs that frequently link to videos containing death and violence, e.g. /r/askreddit and /r/CatastrophicFailure up to scrutiny. Then again, /r/watchpeopledie is dedicated to this stuff so they may get benned by virtue of the sheer volume of death vids.

I think they'll have to start banning the executions, especially the Isis and cartel flavored ones.

There was a video there a few weeks ago of some 13 year old girl in some shithole country with her arm hacked off, while alive I might add, and being repeated beaten with a machete.

A later video showed her being beheaded, which I couldn't bring myself to watch. Some things should not be so easily accessible..

girl

Dude, he’s already dead you don’t have to misgender him too.

Apparently on the beheading video people worked out it was a girl because of a bra strap that was seen. Can't confirm though.

Huh, go figure.

It wasn't a girl it was just fucking idiots....like you.

Holy shit how many comments did you type out in under 1 minute. Furiously slapping your virgin troll dick off the keyboard.

:)

He was antifa tho. Bout the same.

Thinking like this is how censorship begins. Why should we have to pay for the irresponsible actions of others when it comes to keeping an eye on what kids do on the computers their folks get them. Why must i have to deal with censorship.

Cus their folks are dense and can't protect their kids, or they're too lazy.

But i thought you agreed since you said somethings should not be easily accessible, im a bit confused on your stance.

I'm not really bothered to be honest, was my own fault for clicking it.

I edited my comment but i hear you.

This is censorship. If people don’t like the videos then don’t watch them. This is the thought police. They’re everywhere! What has happened to the free unfettered internet!? It resembles mass media more and more everyday.

Reddit has VCs and advertisers, of course it's a mass media outlet. What's more worrying is the move of deplatforming entire sites TBH. When they came for SF, I didn't say anything because I'm not a huwhite supremacist but eventually, they'll come for liveleak as well. And then there will be no one to speak up.

Fucking governments ruining everything fun in this world. Almost makes me think Rand was right.

Reddit has VCs

Let Charlie do his damndest, we'll smoke that little yellow rat out of his hole just like we did back in '67.

Ayn Rand or Rand al'Thor?

Some things should not be so easily accessible..

Like your faggy feelings.

You ever had someone hold you down and force you to swallow a hot, slippery fart boy?

I'm not interested in your sexual fantasies.

link?

Honestly, maybe vice "journalists" and internet feminists should be forced to watch shit like this until they realize how pathetic they are for throwing conniptions about people being mean on Twitter.

The last time the admins updated the site-wide rules regarding violent content, this is what they said about /r/watchpeopledie:

r/watchpeopledie has been reviewed, no plans to remove it for now. However, there are posts within the sub that are borderline so we'll be reaching out to the mod team to clarify the policy with them.

Reddit's site-wide rules say you can't glorify violence but they don't mention that you can't depict it. Seems like people are too retarded to actually read these days.

awwwwwwww well fuck

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About fucking time

RETARD ALERT 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

You know, after seeing all these threads on Reddit and seeing lots of people talk about how watching others die helped them to live safer and reflect on the fragility of life, I realized that there was more to this issue than just "About fucking time." Once again, r/Drama has made me a more well-rounded and balanced person.

You have learned about

RADICAL CENTRALISM

Just as good, if not better, then radial tires!

ELI5: how's he retard?

I mean how messed up are this people that they just wanna sit there and watch people die.

I didn't watch the videos because I was some sadist who enjoyed watching people die, I watched them so that I could learn to appreciate life more.

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FUCK VICE

What vice article is the issue?

Almost certainly tbh

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvegg5/reddit-suicide-video

This is the one that mentioned /r/drama. The ones on other sites that followed it called out WPD

When mods asked us what to do I was the one that suggested a self quarantine of the sub. That is the only solution because mainstream finds it too violent and all it needs is scrutiny and the sub would have been closed down. Just going onto the quarantine list of subs would be fine because no one can say that they accidentally walked in on it. It is properly run and most users are civil.

Just going onto the quarantine list of subs would be fine because no one can say that they accidentally walked in on it. It is properly run and most users are civil.

thats retarded and will put it in the company of literal hate speech.

Hate speech needs to be banned, quarantine is just saying it is not mainstream and universally accepted. But not does not violate TOS

not all hate speech is banned on reddit and quarantined subs are p much hate speech or pure degeneracy

/u/WarSanchez hates this one

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I will not pass judgment on these mentally ill people.

Vice is why we need mayocide

I just died inside..

Why clonazepam? I don't remember like 6 months because of that shit.

Jesus, this thread made me remember one warning by one of the doctors I used to visit (dealing with diabetes back then, it's fine now). He said that I should be lowering my dosage of clonazepam. I haven't.

I honestly can't remember October ~ December 2016, and some periods of 2017.

It really fucks with my memories.

I'm no doctor but have you asked to be weened of it and replace it with diazapam (Valium)? I regularly take alrprazolam and haven't had near the amount of side effects I had with klonopins. Talk to your doc mate.

Some people close to me have suggested something along these lines, yeah. It's just really expensive right now to book an appointment with him, and I'm already spending a lot with the medication for Crohn's.

Thanks for worrying about me m8

Shit that sucks, sometimes i forget that how bad the US health system is, isn't just a meme. All the best.

Oh, I'm actually brazilian. I even have it better than most people around here, I have a healthcare plan, but you have to use the doctors that the plan covers. It's fine to go the doctors for Crohn's in my case, but the only psychiatrist covered by my plan is awful and replaced all my medication. He's the crazy one lol

From my understanding, in the US you can go to any doctor that accepts your plan, but you have to pay out of your pocket until you meet a certain threshold for your plan to pay the medical expenses in that year.

In Brazil you can go to any doctor that accepts your plan, and you don't pay anything out of your pocket. The network of doctors that would accept your plan isn't the best unless you are rich though.

Did your memory eventually go back to normal?

Yeah no problems since then, and that was like 5 years ago.

That's relieving to hear. Enjoyed Clonny for a year (used it because of anxiety) until it started screwing up my memory. I stopped, now just waiting for it to go back to normal

How much were you using daily?

Like he’d remember.

Ahhh, I see what you did there

And don’t you forget it.

I didn't always take it daily. I would usually stick to 0.5-1mg

That low of a dose affected your memory? Oh, geez.

After about a year of taking. Guess it's more of a long term thing. I guess it's worth mentioning that

  1. Memory was already kinda screwed up by brain surgery.

  2. Pristiqe (SSRI) also messed with it so...yeah. Aren't I lucky?

How much were you using daily?

How much were you using daily?

How much were you using daily?

Too much, to be fair I was drinking a lot.

I don't remember like 5 years of my life because of it.

Seems common, xanax doesn't effect my memory nearly as much.

Cool, can I watch?

Does someone know an alternative subreddit/website?

If you’re going to make a subreddit out of snuff films, then there really isn’t anything anyone can do for you

Suck vice's dick harder

There's way worse on reddit these days though.

Yeah, there is the stuff \u\Death_Trolley posts

No one cares about your opinion.

They weren't "snuff films", there was nothing pornographic about the videos.

I HEREBY CALL ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO RISE UP AND EXECUTE THE TRAITOROUS TRUMP FAMILY.

what did tiffany and barron do wrong tho?

Bad genes

tiffany is pretty cute despite inheriting trump's butthole lips.

actually, now that I think about they're great DSL.

wish somebody made a rule34 of this.

Bad jeans

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Heh, I already filled out an FBI form

What if /u/Karmaisforsuckers isn't under the FBI's jurisdiction?

I live in an igloo in frozen Vancouver

Thats the plan

All pubescent, edgelord-wannabes on Reddit are crying themselves to sleep rn

The only 'edgelords' I see are the people making extremely toxic comments like yours. Just because you don't like something does not mean you have to crusade against it and kill it with fire.

cri

toxic

drama

Oh but little did you know, they are one and the same

Just because you don't like something does not mean you have to crusade against it and kill it with fire.

Nonsense now stop liking something I don't reeeeeeeeeee

Aww... Now I need to signup to sketchy sites to get any enjoyment

This is my gripe the jokes were better than liveleaks as well

I have no real opinion on the subject, I just want to see nedgelords REEEEE about this being a free speech issue

I’m a little irked that VICE thinks the sub promotes violence. Like how

Maybe they posted it knowing that we’d collectively sperg it to the front page of the sub and give them clicks. Who else would read that shit

If telling people there are only two genders is a triggering issue, then these people seeing the ugly reality of the world we live in would probably literally kill them. Thus, it promotes violence like a flame threatens a snowflake.

>when your only hobby is being mad about trannies

sounds like somebody is getting triggered here

Like how video games do, its an easy target and ignorant.

Reddit needs to respect my right to watch terrorist/cartel propaganda

Oh but it does good sir! Just not americans. :)

Tbh most of the commenters there were trash I agree, but i'll miss the sub because it made me value life a lot more. You don't realize life is so temporary until you see a woman split in half by a speeding truck in an instant.

I just loved going there because the comments were hilarious

Also good for figuring out where not to take vacations. I'm looking at you Brazil!

If your get youe opinion or viewpoint of a country from a subreddit that only shows people dying all it demonstrates is how ignorant you are and how you lack an any critical thinking abilities.

Uma delicia to you too my brother.

If you get your opinion or viewpoint of a country from a subreddit that only shows people dying all it demonstrates is how ignorant you are and how you lack any critical thinking abilities.

Got your back, bud!

I take it youre brazillian?

Cool Story, bro. I hope you don't live in Englewood, Chicago lol

You don't realize life is so temporary until you see a woman split in half by a speeding truck in an instant.

couldn't you just do that by smoking a ton of weed or dropping some acid because both of those things seem substantially less traumatizing

Have you ever taken too much acid?

no but acid has the potential to be fun whereas watching a video of a woman dying will not entertain me, but simply give me a boner

watching a video of a woman dying will not entertain me, but simply give me a boner

You must have a very small penis.

you gotta work with what you're given ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If it's giving you a boner, by definition it's entertaining you. Check yoself b4 you wreck yoself

You'll wish it were truck.

it's more about realizing what kinds of horrible things people are capable of. At least that's how it was for me. Humans are animals that have a natural instinct for self preservation. we've evolved to not do things that can easily kill us. However, because of the PAX AMERICANA I think we have forgotten how horribly we can treat other humans. WPD really educated me on the depravity of some humans. It really tempered my heart against that sort of thing.

Why pay $100 to learn something in 5 mins, ffor free?

The comments were the best part. Always have been and always will be.

this tbh

I genuinely miss Rotten.com

It's still around!

The soft white underbelly of the internet!

heh

God the Admins are huge pussies holy shit WTF is wrong with them!? Can't they grow a fucking spine and leave these subs alone instead of bowing down to media pressure every time some shitty news rag writes a negative article about a weird subculture they barely comprehend? Reddit really does care more about PR now, huh? Whatever happened to free fucking speech? Inb4 private company yada yada yada. Bullfuckingshit!

Maybe they'll ban r/suicidenotes too because it glorifies suicide or some shit. What about r/trees? Can't have any edgy shit now can we? Don't wanna spook those fucking Advertisers! Admins truly are cucks.

Maybe they'll ban r/suicidenotes too because it glorifies suicide or some shit.

i'm almost certain that they will. r/sanctionedsuicide and r/truesanctionedsuicide (essentially support groups for suicidal people) were banned without warning just yesterday.

Wait was it actually a support group?

they both were, yes.

Do it got banned without the admins even bothering finding out what it was for?

do you mean the mods? i'm not sure what you mean.

The admins knew what it was for, they had communicated with the mods multiple times in the past.

I love that sub 😭😭

Holy shit, Reddit's ''road to IPO'' bleaching 'operation is in full force.Everything must go.
Bye bye old reddit - it's been a good 7 years.

That sub isn't even remotely interesting so it will stay unbanned I think.

You're probably right tbh.

I don't understand why they cave so easily. The media has such a short attention span. So you get a negative article on Vice? So what? Tomorrow everyone will move onto some new story and this suicide will be forgotten. Just ride it out and nobody will care

Exactly! u/spez just hates me tbh 😭😭😒

Wasn't Vice one of the sites that had a rash of touchy-grabby higher-ups recently?

If so... pot, meet rapey pot.

what about /r/suicidewatch?

What about the Droid attack on the Wookiees?

FUCK WERE NEXT

Naw, they'll go after /r/barelylegalteens next or something.

In these troubling times we can settle for no less than firmly legal teens!

smh absolutely disgusting

That sub was NOT as advertised

we had a good run

"good"

Honestly...surprised it's lasted this long without any kind of intervention

I dunno, ot is like this sub is made of teflon, it seems that all the bullshit just slides off onto another sub for some reason.

Or maybe they just think we are all idiots.

It's because people on the mod team, like /u/annarchist, know just how to work the admins' poles.

Ive been in the crosshairs of the femcels for most of my 9 yrs here. just so happens they work for vice now.... i tend to be diplomatic

It's not like they ask a lot, you just need to emulate their moderation policy. Basically ban a few egregious posts and make a sticky saying 'Stop being retarded'. If people can't even do that, they deserve banning.

real news

ban /r/trees too, track down all their IPs, and report them to their respective authorities.

You can track my ip and report me. The cops will come and smoke some trees with me. It’s legal here :-)

Or /r/shoplifting where people brag about and post pics of the shit they steal. Weed is legal in a lot of states now, /r/drugs is full of literal crack heads.

Weed is legal in a lot of states now

still illegal federally.

Unless session indicts Mueller he can go fuck himself too.

"I can't watch my murder videos now so I'm going to go after harmless potheads so they can't have their subreddit too". Great suggestion, Einstein. There's a difference between illegal and immoral. I'd argue smoking pot is better morally than watching death porn, but I'd also argue that both should be allowed. Arguing against another's freedom to do what they want, because you can't do what you want is pathetic

This but completely unironically

Less weed = more opiate abuse = more mayocide. This checks out.

implying all stoners aren't mayos

I'm not, this is why the plan works so well

I knew a black stoner once. Guy wouldn't smoke with me because I was white. Racist as fuck.

blackpipo smoke crack

haha nice

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lol this is so fucking dumb

ctrl + f 'the_donald'

Aww yeeeee

It's the new SRS, in more ways than one

They're coming down on watchpeopledie but not the Donald? Fucking unbelievable

kek

Does anybody have a link or slow motion of the dudes head exploding?

I’m serious, not trolling. That vid isn’t that bad.

Just go on there and find it

The full 40+ minute video with some girl crying and begging him not to do it then his mum breaking down in the aftermath was dark. More so the personal pain inflicted on them than his act. It's still around if you do some basic google. TBH if you want to kill yourself a) There are less messy ways of doing it. b) if you are going to do it don't be a cunt and do it someplace someone close to you will have to find you/clean up your mess.

Where is the video in general? I haven't seen it.

I'm not going to post it publicly because ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ╯╲___卐卐卐卐 modz are (((Nazis))) I did send you mail though.

Well he did use a tarp...but the splatters on the ceiling tell me that it wasn’t the most effective.

The whole vid is pretty entertaining but seriously fuck that vice faggot.

So edgy tho. I bet you wear a black leather jacket with a chain.

Only around my cock.

I bet you can fit it in a link.

Wow resorting to penis size insults. You must be a feminist.

Nah, I can just tell when someone is trying to overcompensate lol.

Someone posted a screenshot of his head being unmasked as he shit it and the brain tissue splattering everywhere.

Link? Or can you PM it to me?

Does anybody have a link or slow motion of the dudes head exploding?

Go on the deep web you'll find way cooler stuff to jerk off to. Hell your dick might explode. /s

When the Nazis used to execute pregnant women in death camps, often they would throw their corpses into massive fire pits of burning bodies. After a few minutes you would hear explosions - their bellies would pop due to the heat boiling the amniotic fluid and causing expansion, resulting in rupture of the uterus and abdomen...

See, you're alright pal! You're alright!

A lot of people are suddenly gonna find it much tougher to find material to jerk off to.

I don't think there was many people masturbating to those videos.

On reddit maybe. All you have to do is go on voat or bestgore to find you fill.

What a bunch of dumb cowards. Reacting like this just reaffirms the idea that there's something morally nefarious about the subreddit. Now Reddit thinks if /r/watchpeopledie is under so much pressure as to shut down their own subreddit, why shouldn't we win some PR points and just shut it down indefinitely? All this did was attract more attention.

Nobody gives a rats ass about the SJW hipster millennials at Vice who are "deeply offended" by literally everything.

Theres something about your tears that i find peculiarly delicious.

Please Jesus use your walnut-sized brain to type something a little more inciting. I don't like butter on my bread before I toast and eat it, darling.

Why does stupid people tears taste like licorice?

*do

nou

gotem

*Got thems've

Salted licorice is the best

I thought the same thing, hence why I put the splash message up on the private page...


ACTUALLY READ THIS PLEASE, DON'T SPAM OUR MODMAIL!

Due to a ToS review thanks to the (surprisingly still relevant) Vice article, we're going dark for a bit til it's resolved. Go here for more info; https://www.reddit.com/r/WPDtalk/comments/84s3s6/why_was_the_recent_video_of_the_18_year_old

No, there won't be invites. Not until Admins get back to us. No it's not removed, pulled, or censored. We are just waiting. Seriously, dozens of modmail in less than a minute doesn't help when we are trying to message and talk to admins.


If the admins tell us to do something, we do it.

And it's private til we have finished said discussion with them,of our own volition, as we will have to change some things around to keep it up I reckon.

Tldr; Calm your tits.

Get the admins to promote me to /r/watchpeopledie spokesperson, get me a phone interview with Vice, and I'll tell them to shove it up their ass as I send them a video of a cartel flaying. That's a follow-up article right there with +100,000 /r/watchpeopledie subscribers. There's no such thing as negative "media" attention. The sooner the admins realize this, the sooner I can /r/watchpeopledie.

These tits aren't going to calm, I'll fix this. Give me a fax number and I'll send my resume. Afterwards I want a moderator position + the top 5 most offensive videos stickied with mirror posts in /r/drama and /r/announcements. Opportunity being squandered like piss in the wind because people don't have any balls.

Lay off the sauce

Yeh... Not gunna do any of that.

lmao ikr fucking tossers we have for admins

There's no such thing as negative "media" attention.

Despite this cliche being proven wrong again and again and again.

Wait, so the admins haven't actually talked to you guys about it? You're just reaching out to them in precaution?

Oh they have. Their talkin consisted of a few paragraphs basically saying their latest review of the sub breaches the ToS, and what are we gunna do Bout it, be quick in responding.

We did so, every moderator, within the hour, near all of us asking (some demanding) they actually point out where it's going pear shaped and how we can fix it. Waited 18 hours or so, got a longer, vaguer response saying everything but that, including how reviewing the sub is damaging the teams mental health or something.

Thats when I lost me shit. Started me endgame I had prepped since the Davis Hanging, and let it loose.

Dialogues have been screen capped, will eventually be released depending on the outcome with the admins themselves.

Thank you so much for the work you did on the sub, as well as all of this. Im glad the /r/WatchPeopleDie mods are going all out on this to try to help keep the subreddit. It angers me that they just gave you a vague response. Them saying "reviewing the sub is damaging the teams mental health or something" just shows they want an excuse to delete the subreddit since they're not even giving a specific reason.

If they really delete it, I'm going to be infuriated. But reddit loves to censor what they don't like anyways (or they will try to do more so after this outcome. No company likes when there's a giant PR shit storm.).

Cheers mate :)

Thanks for everything man.

If WPD I'll be down to like 2 subs I frequently visit so I'll probably just leave the whole site if WPD goes away.

Ugh, they actually probably fucked up by going private tbh.

I think they would've been better off proactively approaching the admins and asking if there was anything we can direct the users to do in order to stay in their good graces.

Yeah, that makes them look really suspicious from the perspective of the media because "if you have nothing to hide, why go into hiding?".

kuz you got shit to hide homey

:c

And so the screaming mob of /r/announcements claims another victim.

wpd was one of the only reasons i came to reddit regularly! hope it comes back up soon.

reddit used all the tech-savvy early adopter nerds to get their name on the map, and since theyve become very well known over the last 3-4 years, theyve been slowly taking a shit on the very people who gave it a shot when no one else would

its already unrecognizable from 2008-2009 period, and soon itll just be another advertiser-friendly overly sanitized fagbook

So babies getting run over and hearts ripped out of flayed open chest cavities is chill but a generic suicide is the end all be all of the subreddit? Weird.

Fuck Vice

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