Daily Bard Digest 2024-10-10

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Here's todays official post from the BARDCHIVE:

05/16/19 00:22:55 with a score of -22: https://old.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/bp7w6p/whats_going_on_with_the_reddit_admins_banning_or/enpz8a8/?context=8

Answer:

The admins are not "targetting" /r/ChapoTrapHouse.

Despite having a group of people in the position of Moderator, the culture that has been cultivated in the subreddit for an extended period of time has been that the appropriate social contract is no social contract -- and no respect for the boundaries of others, dignity or personhood of others, or the contracts that they severally and collectively agreed to in the form of the Reddit User Agreement.

Their apparent political theory is to be ungovernable and to aid, abet, command, counsel, induce or procure violence.

Two of the three individual user accounts that were removed from the /r/ChapoTraphouse team, were removed due to refusing, to Reddit administration, to uphold their end of the Reddit User Agreement as regards Subreddit moderation; Reddit removed them from moderating /r/ChapoTrapHouse for that. One of the accounts has been permanently suspended from Reddit for violations of the Content Policy that prohibits content that aids, abets, commands, counsels, induces or procures (i.e. glorifies) violence.

/r/ChapoTrapHouse has been the staging and launching point of numerous harassment campaigns against various subreddits on Reddit that have "opposite" political alignment from the politics expressed by the ChapoTrapHouse podcasters and their audience -- and harassment campaigns against other subreddits that the in-crowd of the subreddit could be aimed at -- including progressive and leftist subreddits that their in-crowd did not control.

Because of the culture of ungovernability and advocacy of violence that was cultivated in that subreddit, the mob that was fostered could be aimed at any arbitrary target that anyone wished them to be aimed at, on the barest, easily-falsified pretext -- such as staged modmail leaks from /r/frickthealtright that depicted one of the moderators of that subreddit stating that a banbot should be used to blanket ban all the users of /r/chapotraphouse from /r/frickthealtright.

On seeing this "modmail leak", the users of /r/chapotraphouse proceeded to be aimed at harassing the moderators and users of other subreddits that the individual moderates for, over a long holiday weekend, when the co-ordinators of the harassment brigade knew that the Reddit admins would be out of the office and therefore unable to intervene. This was accomplished via a flat-out lie: That the subreddit in question was already banning all users of /r/chapotraphouse.

This was not an isolated incident on the part of the /r/chaptraphouse "moderators", who even now are telling their users directly that there are things that they shouldn't do, that the Reddit administration has told the mods to disallow, but that the "moderator team" will not take action if those users do those things.

TL;DR: /r/ChapoTrapHouse is effectively unmoderated, and because of that, developed into the Reddit Harassment Brigade Edition of the Low Orbit Ion Cannon, out to hire to whoever had the slightest quantum of shrewdness, and could wave a red flag in front of them.

i.e. They allowed themselves to be fascist stooges, doing the dirty work of harassing people on the Left.

So, to sum up:

They brought this on themselves.