This is a generation that swears that banning shit online has any kind of effect in the real world. They've been playing this game for a decade, and yet, they act surprised to see that the real world isn't really reacting the way they want to.
It's a good way to keep them placid and pacified no? Hand over some irrelevant internet points and power over irrelevant platforms in exchange for them directing all their impotent rage towards those platforms.
If i see something on reddit that I want to share with my friends I direct link the image both to hide my shame, and on the off chance that they reveal themselves as the “ah a fellow redditor”-types 🤢
in my experience it wasn't the academy itself but the student culture. but then again it might be different in fields like sociology or anthropology, let alone the gender studies meme
Actually it was in a way appropriated by blacks of all regions, mostly from southerners and then appropriated by embarassing wiggers on the internet who pretend they're black and spend their day on /r/bpt
can the admins be contacted over the r/Games mods? there's like 25 of those mods and apparently all of them decided to shut the sub down over entirely off-topic bullshit. isn't that grounds for the top mods being removed and replaced by those to better serve the community? there are millions of subscribers there and it's a hotbed for advertisers. i'm sure they're not happy to have the sub shut down for this garbage.
isn't that grounds for the top mods being removed and replaced by those to better serve the community?
Since it's just for one day they'll probably let it slide. If they turned every Tuesday into a social justice blackout of some sorts then yeah the admins would likely step in.
The admins wouldn't step in, knowing that they're safe from most admin scrutiny is what keeps head janitors from going to mod other sites where they get paid to mop.
Actually why are they still here wages are better than neetbux
Actually why are they still here wages are better than neetbux
because they're not even worth paying. you think anyone would pay these turds to moderate something? they're literally pitching a fit right now about having to do it.
knowing that they're safe from most admin scrutiny is what keeps head janitors from going to mod other sites where they get paid to mop.
I'm sure there are hundreds of decent replacements that would quickly volunteer. The admins do step in when mods start really shitting on established communities and /r/games is undoubtedly high-profile enough that this would get their attention.
The admins do step in when mods start really shitting on established communities
what about several of the r/games mods all over SRD and other subs actively shitting on their users right now?
if i didn't know better i'd think these geniuses were actively trying to ruin it. they're going out of their way to make the sub NOT about gaming right now, it's hilarious.
Mods are allowed to hate their users. They're not allowed to use this hatred to actually attack or derail the community. And my point is that blacking out the sub for a day has plausible deniability that it's not part of a larger plan to turn /r/games to /r/esetEra.
I read the mod post that locked the thread linked here, and the mod post on the games subreddit that this is all about. How exactly are either of those mods being self righteous? Do you think making anti bigotry posts is self righteous or are you referring to another post I'm not aware of?
You act like you're so used to this subreddit being a haven for bigots that you're shocked to see someone else here. No wonder you have this reaction to anti bigotry posts.
Lol sure. Seems like you would have a hard time with a job like that with all the time you spend being angry about marginalized groups existing. Or maybe you work there as a janitor or something.
The custodial staff used to just delete threads so nobody could ever find it again. At least locking it doesn't disable viewing the discussion, but people can't argue in silence anymore.
r/games has 1.6 million subscribers. It's inevitable in such a sizable population of people, especially when given the cover of relative anonymity that the internet provides, that there will always be some amount of bad actors, bigots, and trolls. I'm not sure if the mods actually think that their message will reduce the number of comments from those types of users, but it's highly unlikely - in fact, i'd imagine many of them will simply view it as a challenge (as there is a significant demographic overlap between contrary assholes and trolls/bigots on the internet), and all the mods will have ended up doing is drawing the attention of exactly those they wanted out of the subreddit - a variation on the "Streisand effect" as it's called.
The fact is that 99% of such posts get downvoted to oblivion and/or removed, and that is simply the system working the way it is intended. It also suggests that the vast overwhelming majority of the r/games userbase and the gaming sub-culture at large is already on board with regards to tolerance, acceptance, and respect for others, and obviously won't stand for those sorts of things (bigotry, prejudice, and trolling) which is why most comments like the ones in question (specifically, almost all of the ones the mods linked as examples in their sticky post) are all heavily downvoted (as they should be, and as would be expected). Isn't that desirable? If someone posts bigoted or prejudiced nonsense on a sub, and it is heavily downvoted and removed, doesn't that clearly imply that the sub does NOT support those ideas? How could it possibly be interpreted any other way? How does one come to the conclusion that games subreddits have some kind of issue with bigotry and racism, when almost all bigotry and racist comments (again, specifically almost all the comments the mods linked as examples) are immediately downvoted?
So this in turn begs the question - if the tiny percentage of trolls and bigots aren't going to change their views because of some message from the mods that they will likely only view as The SJW Agenda At Work, and if the remaining 99% of the sub downvotes toxic content anyways, then who exactly are the mods talking to? for whose benefit is this message?
It all seems rather pointless, or rather, to be more specific, useless/ineffective as to achieving its alleged goal. it's "virtue signaling", or maybe more precisely, as we used to call it back in the day, "preaching to the choir".
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1 SnapshillBot 2019-04-01
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1 Cole-187 2019-04-01
62% upvoted, new levels of cope?
1 lobstergenocide 2019-04-01
despite making up only 13% of the population
1 gfour 2019-04-01
I’m just glad the mods are there to keep me safe from bad words.
1 SpiceAndEvNice 2019-04-01
This is a generation that swears that banning shit online has any kind of effect in the real world. They've been playing this game for a decade, and yet, they act surprised to see that the real world isn't really reacting the way they want to.
1 Deathcrow 2019-04-01
It's a good way to keep them placid and pacified no? Hand over some irrelevant internet points and power over irrelevant platforms in exchange for them directing all their impotent rage towards those platforms.
1 IDFSHILL 2019-04-01
Internet wokies are the greatest recruitment tool the far right has ever known.
1 fashionjunker 2019-04-01
Imagine talking about reddit irl lmfao
1 IDFSHILL 2019-04-01
Wow, imagine thinking I mean IRL.
1 d-amazo 2019-04-01
yeah, we know you don't ever leave your house.
1 IDFSHILL 2019-04-01
I like the label "digital hermit."
1 d-amazo 2019-04-01
to the rest of us, "NEET"
1 totally_not_ac3 2019-04-01
I always knew Pizza was a NEET
1 Arbys_Official 2019-04-01
Imagine having online friends.
1 HaulOfChina 2019-04-01
If i see something on reddit that I want to share with my friends I direct link the image both to hide my shame, and on the off chance that they reveal themselves as the “ah a fellow redditor”-types 🤢
1 bG9sIG5pY2UgdHJ5Cg 2019-04-01
The narwhal bacons at midnight.
1 Stopwatch064 2019-04-01
1337 meme friendo
1 bG9sIG5pY2UgdHJ5Cg 2019-04-01
AND MY AXE
1 HaulOfChina 2019-04-01
Blocked and reported 🤢
1 FearlessFlash 2019-04-01
Imagine believing such obvious horseshit spoken today of all days
1 fashionjunker 2019-04-01
Imagine being smug about Aprils Fools day
1 wow___justwow 2019-04-01
liberalism is fine, it's the woketards that really activate the almonds.
1 UrMumsMyPassword 2019-04-01
replace /pol/ with /reallife/
1 Wraith_GraveSpell 2019-04-01
If being against racism, misogyny, and transphobia is enough to push you to the alt-right, then you might have been a bigot in the first place.
1 OnePercentOfMonster 2019-04-01
Go off kween
1 Infidel6 2019-04-01
I think it's more that the smug, sardonic, "woke" attitude is so toxic it paradoxically poisons the minds of everyone you expose your ideas to.
In other words, you're so unlikeable that you indirectly cause hate crimes.
1 Wraith_GraveSpell 2019-04-01
"SJW": Hey please don't say the n-word-slur
Not a racist: Ok no problem!
"Totally not a racist": REEEE IM GONNA GO KILL MINORITIES. YOU MADE ME DO THIS
yeah, real solid logic there.
1 eldomtom2 2019-04-01
Academia makes a pretty good argument as well tbh.
1 246011111 2019-04-01
in my experience it wasn't the academy itself but the student culture. but then again it might be different in fields like sociology or anthropology, let alone the gender studies meme
1 246011111 2019-04-01
It's a fairly short slide from "I'm tired of SJW callout culture" to "white ethnostate now"
1 reptilia987 2019-04-01
Other than pedos, is there a lower class of human beings?
1 flingeu 2019-04-01
He does it for free
1 HarryD52 2019-04-01
He receives no monetary compensation
1 shit_poster_2 2019-04-01
he's a moderator
on the internet
on a gaming subreddit
he does it for free
he takes his "job" very seriously
he does it because it is the only amount of power and control he wilI ever have in his pathetic life
he deletes threads he doesn't like because whenever he gets upset he has an asthma attack
he deletes threads he doesn't like because they interfere with the large backlog of little girl chinese cartoons he still has to watch
he will never have a real job
he will never move out of his parent's house
he will never be at a healthy weight
he will never know how to cook anything besides a hot pocket
he will never have a girlfriend
he will never have any friends
1 GandalftheChromatic 2019-04-01
At least pedos have sex
1 brd4eva 2019-04-01
white people
1 error404brain 2019-04-01
Wow, let's not insults pedos. A lot of them produced something worthwhile for mankind.
1 jko831 2019-04-01
KiA mods are both
1 ObsessedAussie 2019-04-01
NO
1 fashionjunker 2019-04-01
Holy fukk theres at least other users on reddit that arent on r draæma see how r slured that games post is. Thank god.
1 A-ZAF_Got_Banned 2019-04-01
The word y'all has been grossly culturally appropriated from Southeners.
1 seenten 2019-04-01
They don't have a culture to appropriate
1 Forgotten_Son 2019-04-01
Grits and lynchings.
1 XirallicBolts 2019-04-01
Carports and living next door to an abandoned house with a collapsed roof.
1 Coonass_alt 2019-04-01
wait are they not a thing outside the south?
1 XirallicBolts 2019-04-01
Not as prevalent. Most people up north have proper garages for snow
1 ThickSantorum 2019-04-01
Only in the South do they forget to put walls on their garages.
1 Coonass_alt 2019-04-01
t. jealous yankee
1 bat_mayn 2019-04-01
Actually it was in a way appropriated by blacks of all regions, mostly from southerners and then appropriated by embarassing wiggers on the internet who pretend they're black and spend their day on /r/bpt
1 d-amazo 2019-04-01
honest question
can the admins be contacted over the r/Games mods? there's like 25 of those mods and apparently all of them decided to shut the sub down over entirely off-topic bullshit. isn't that grounds for the top mods being removed and replaced by those to better serve the community? there are millions of subscribers there and it's a hotbed for advertisers. i'm sure they're not happy to have the sub shut down for this garbage.
1 mtg_liebestod 2019-04-01
Since it's just for one day they'll probably let it slide. If they turned every Tuesday into a social justice blackout of some sorts then yeah the admins would likely step in.
1 EuphoricUtopia 2019-04-01
The admins wouldn't step in, knowing that they're safe from most admin scrutiny is what keeps head janitors from going to mod other sites where they get paid to mop.
Actually why are they still here wages are better than neetbux
1 d-amazo 2019-04-01
because they're not even worth paying. you think anyone would pay these turds to moderate something? they're literally pitching a fit right now about having to do it.
1 mtg_liebestod 2019-04-01
I'm sure there are hundreds of decent replacements that would quickly volunteer. The admins do step in when mods start really shitting on established communities and /r/games is undoubtedly high-profile enough that this would get their attention.
1 d-amazo 2019-04-01
what about several of the r/games mods all over SRD and other subs actively shitting on their users right now?
if i didn't know better i'd think these geniuses were actively trying to ruin it. they're going out of their way to make the sub NOT about gaming right now, it's hilarious.
1 mtg_liebestod 2019-04-01
Mods are allowed to hate their users. They're not allowed to use this hatred to actually attack or derail the community. And my point is that blacking out the sub for a day has plausible deniability that it's not part of a larger plan to turn /r/games to /r/esetEra.
1 emmanuelvr 2019-04-01
Probably the top mods decided it and everyone else followed along.
Also reddit admins are super lefty.
1 ztwizzle 2019-04-01
Allah willing, the admins will ban all g*mers from the site altogether
1 XirallicBolts 2019-04-01
Whut, are you anti-lbgt or something?
1 RollBread 2019-04-01
Sure, you absolutely can, go talk to the Moon Men.
Good luck.
1 GattsuCascade 2019-04-01
lmao, mods really exposing their woke power levels today
1 leparsdon 2019-04-01
Reddit has been so fucked by these self-righteous mods. It's really pathetic.
1 hackslashbackspace 2019-04-01
Sounds to me like you just wanna be a bigoted prick and are now whining because you can't do that everywhere. What a baby bitch.
1 leparsdon 2019-04-01
what the fuck are you talking about
1 hackslashbackspace 2019-04-01
What else could you mean by calling the mods self righteous over this?
1 leparsdon 2019-04-01
what the fuck do you think I mean? Have you read the fucking post?
1 hackslashbackspace 2019-04-01
I read the mod post that locked the thread linked here, and the mod post on the games subreddit that this is all about. How exactly are either of those mods being self righteous? Do you think making anti bigotry posts is self righteous or are you referring to another post I'm not aware of?
1 leparsdon 2019-04-01
just stop typing now please
1 hackslashbackspace 2019-04-01
You act like you're so used to this subreddit being a haven for bigots that you're shocked to see someone else here. No wonder you have this reaction to anti bigotry posts.
1 XirallicBolts 2019-04-01
https://imgur.com/CBwCUbc.jpg
1 SlapItSoSilly 2019-04-01
You’re gonna dig through post history and not even link it? Wtf is even the point?
1 Stopwatch064 2019-04-01
Good work my fellow n-slur. Bigots are a HUGE problem in here! Thanks for bring some sanity!
1 OccasionallyClueless 2019-04-01
Yes
1 hackslashbackspace 2019-04-01
You're a pretty fucked up human being then. Good thing you probably never leave your room and interact with the outside world.
1 OccasionallyClueless 2019-04-01
No I just came back from work. I research and develop medical devices.
1 hackslashbackspace 2019-04-01
Lol sure. Seems like you would have a hard time with a job like that with all the time you spend being angry about marginalized groups existing. Or maybe you work there as a janitor or something.
1 OccasionallyClueless 2019-04-01
Not really, a lot of industry science is desk work and god knows it's boring.
1 wsbking 2019-04-01
>b*tch
Yikes sweetie no need for such a hateful gendered slur. r/drama is a tolerant sub and we are against bigotry in every form.
1 wow___justwow 2019-04-01
way to put that ㅋaggot in his place
1 error404brain 2019-04-01
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1 TheHeroReditDeserves 2019-04-01
T H E
1 error404brain 2019-04-01
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1 CrosswordBot 2019-04-01
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1 UBIisLazy 2019-04-01
Whoa, tone down the bigotry there please...
1 Watermark03s_Daddy 2019-04-01
Right what a bunch of right wing TRIGGERED SNOWFLAKES lmao OWNED RIGHTOIDS EPIC STYLE
1 Kellere31 2019-04-01
☝️DO NOT DOWNVOTE THE LOLCOW👆
they need to be milked
1 FearlessFlash 2019-04-01
Garbage in garbage out. When the alternative is voat. We'll take these awful mods any day of the week
1 Throwawaypoliticacc 2019-04-01
yea... as someone who comes here, voat and /pol/
I want somewhere in between here and /pol/.... voat is even further than /pol/...
1 seenten 2019-04-01
Sounds like they did the right thing closing it
1 donquixote4200 2019-04-01
what the fuck is the rationale behind locking threads? i genuinely cant see the point
1 SithisTheDreadFather 2019-04-01
The custodial staff used to just delete threads so nobody could ever find it again. At least locking it doesn't disable viewing the discussion, but people can't argue in silence anymore.
1 UmmahSultan 2019-04-01
Civility is only possible for g*mers if they are physically prevented from speaking.
1 autistitron 2019-04-01
Deleting threads isn't as effective anymore for narrative stuff with removeeddit and ceddit exposing any sub that does.
1 Spysix 2019-04-01
And I thought that sub was safe from the r-slur mod menace.
1 shitposts_constantly 2019-04-01
yikes
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1 nmx179 2019-04-01
Moderators are invariably the worst part of every online community
1 Wraith_GraveSpell 2019-04-01
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1 RollBread 2019-04-01
"Seems like those comments were actually denounced entirely actuall-"
"Y'all can't behave."