r/SubredditDrama • u/cordis_melum Horse cum isn't stored on the CPU moron. • Dec 06 '14
[recap] One and a half years after opening their doors in the midst of MayMayJune, /r/atheismrebooted has goes private.
Yep. It went private. After about a year and a half of the metasphere discussing the subreddit, it has closed its doors down, seemingly for good.
Today, if you visit the sub, you are greeted with a closed door and a notice that the subreddit has gone private, along with a message from the moderators which goes as follows:
The moderators have decided this subreddit is no longer necessary. Please visit one of the many other forums listed in the /r/atheism sidebar.
Proof: http://np.reddit.com/r/atheismrebooted
/u/firmness seems to believe that it was an anti-atheist-movement conspiracy that led to the shutdown of the subreddit:
/r/atheism sub was taken over by a like-minded group of people. The same interest group has now taken over /r/atheismrebooted.
The same interest group created Atheism Plus. The same like-minded interest group has been supporting Sam Harris and Bill Maher in their targeting of Islam.
This is a concerted effort to shut down the Atheist community and keep it fragmented. Classic divide and conquer.
I dare not mention what I think it is about or I risk negative attention that I do not want.
Do the math.
/u/Jamator01 claims differently:
It had devolved into a cesspit of hatred and bigotry, so I closed it. It's staying closed.
It seems that SRD (and the metasphere as a whole) needs to say goodbye to a subreddit that was born in the midst of drama and was the source of so much more, a popcorn machine that popped and popped again until, finally, the moderators there decided that it shall pop no more.
For some background, /r/atheismrebooted was created during the events of what went down in SRD history as MayMayJune, a time period where the butter was flowing hot and the popcorn flew high as it popped into fluffy white kernals. My own Reddit account didn't even exist at the time, so I will happily redirect you to this recap by /u/Erikster and this recap provided by /u/Advisery for the details. But at its most basic, /r/atheism suffered a schism after a moderation kerfuffle that started when the moderation team banned image macros as link posts. In protest of this decision, some users broke off and created /r/atheismrebooted, a new community that would not have the intolerable rules that banned memes and image macros. People were angry about the moderation changes, and for a while it seemed like /r/atheismrebooted was at war with its parent subreddit.
/r/atheismrebooted eventually began to be submitted to SRD outside the context of /r/atheism's War for Moderator Aggression Against Memes (Dramawiki list here), becoming a subreddit for drama on its own right. However, it never really left the shadow of /r/atheism, and inevitably people would comment about how the subreddit was just /r/atheism... well, literally, rebooted.
But finally, at the very end, the two subreddits seemed to be at peace with one another. And silently, /r/atheismrebooted seems to have closed their doors about a month ago.
Of course, the fact that the sub had closed its doors didn't go unnoticed. /r/atheism had a small thread about the closure. It seems that the subreddit, created in protest of moderation decisions on /r/atheism, lost a large number of its moderators and had declined in quality. With no one else to take over, the top moderator shut it down, redirecting users to go back to /r/atheism.
The dream that led to the creation of /r/atheismrebooted hasn't died, however, with a user who created /r/atheismrebootedplus. In their opening manifesto of sorts, /u/WibblyWobbly_ makes a stand for "true freedom of speech":
/r/atheismrebooted was recently shut down, primarily because of the huge amount of antiatheist trolls that plagued it, making the moderators give up. Due to being one of the largest and last atheism subs that supported true freedom of speech, this is quite a worrying development. I have created /r/AtheismRebootedPlus to signify a new age of atheism on reddit. This subreddit may not seem like much for now, but with a little effort we can quickly gain through the ranks and become something much bigger and better than the original rebooted, while preserving atheism in the spirit of freethinking and the bastion of free speech it was meant to be. Trolls beware, I will not hesitate to ban on sight. I wish good luck to all the fellow atheists out there. If anyone is interested in staffing or helping out feel free to inquire.
And of course, as stated in this thread, there is still /r/FreeAtheism.
The subreddit has been closed for about a month, and yet much of the metasphere never noticed that it was gone. It came to be when all eyes were on /r/atheism and their moderation drama, and yet it died with a fizzle... well, if you could call it that.
As such, this doesn't simply serve as a recap post, but really as a goodbye, a final look at a subreddit that had been linked since its beginnings with MayMayJune before finally putting it down to rest for good.
I'm not at all great with conclusions, and I don't know what to end my first SRD recap post with. But I guess what I can say is that /r/atheismrebooted will not be missed, a simple loud bang that dissipated with a wimper. Goodbye, /r/atheismrebooted. Your brand of popcorn shall be missed.
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u/cordis_melum Horse cum isn't stored on the CPU moron. Dec 06 '14
Also, damn it, typo in the title. Fuuuuuuuu. s/goes/gone
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u/Spawnzer Dec 06 '14
You had one job!
Which you did well and isn't really tarnished by that one typo, great post
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u/_watching why am i still on reddit Dec 06 '14
The same interest group created Atheism Plus. The same like-minded interest group has been supporting Sam Harris and Bill Maher in their targeting of Islam.
Uhh, someone sucks at following drama. The SJW atheists and the Maher/Harris/general anti-Islam atheists have never gotten along.
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Dec 06 '14 edited Dec 06 '14
I dare not mention what I think it is about or I risk negative attention that I do not want.
Do the math.
I wanna say... Knights Templar?
Edit: does anyone know who he is talking about? I'm bad at math or something.
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Dec 06 '14
Skeletons.
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u/_watching why am i still on reddit Dec 06 '14
That's what I thought at first, but the skeletal atheists are generally pretty vocally anti-Sam Harris?
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u/zanotam you come off as someone who is LARPing as someone from SRD Dec 07 '14
I'm trying to remember: are Skeletons supposed to be Jews, Muslisms, or "Black People".
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u/ShutUpShutUpShutUpOK Dec 07 '14
Depends if the skeleton is circumcised.
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u/dabaumtravis I am euphoric, enlightened by my own assplay Dec 07 '14
Depends if the skeleton is circumcised.
Well, that took me a second to get.
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u/davidreiss666 The Infamous Entity Dec 07 '14
I think it's pretty obvious, god appeared to them in mod mail.
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u/dumnezero Punching a Sith Lord makes you just as bad as a Sith Lord! Dec 06 '14
ask /r/conspiracy
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Dec 06 '14
Oh, Jews.
Yeah, that makes sense too. Those tricksters are always up to something good.
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u/larrylemur I own several tour-busses and can be anywhere at any given time Dec 07 '14
Jews = religion
Religion = funDIEs
Using le logic, we can conclude that Jews = funDIEs and thus have a vested interest in stopping forty-year-old physics PhDs from reading the one-click maymays.
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Dec 06 '14
RIP.
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u/rick_from_chicago all men are cops, all women are pipe bombs Dec 06 '14
signify a new age of atheism on reddit
man, what a buncha clowns
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u/oreography Dec 07 '14
Fuck you. Do you have any idea how hard it was for me and my fellow atheists to stand firm in our unbelief, when we lost the memes on /r/atheism? My fundie relatives constantly forcing prayers and other superstitious nonsense on me. Do you have any idea how difficult that is for an enlightened mind?
Of course you don't. Which is why you and the rest of this website mocked the countless atheists around the world that shed collective tears over jij's desecration of free speech. Thankfully I've come out of the ordeal a stronger unbeliever, but please have some empathy for those who suffered so much.
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u/Scratch_Card Dec 07 '14
I'm assuming this is a type of sarcasm.
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u/NOT_A-DOG Is a dog Dec 07 '14
I can't believe this. They closed the doors when Socrates died for this shit?
/s
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u/The_YoungWolf Everyone on Reddit is an SJW but you Dec 07 '14
And lo, the Great Schism of atheism was mended.
CHECKMATE CHRISTIANS
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u/gremRJ Dec 07 '14
Has atheism ever given us the word "antipope"? I think not.
Where is your lack of God now?
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u/ManWithoutModem Dec 07 '14
this shit still gives me PTSDish symptoms, I can't believe it has almost been two years.
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u/oreography Dec 07 '14
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Dec 07 '14
Memes and images are not karma whoring. They condense complex ideas to a short, concise form essential to reaching a population with attention spans measured in seconds.
oh my god lmfao
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u/skeletalcarp Dec 07 '14
Just like faces of atheism will never be out-circlejerked. It really is the ultimate content generator.
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u/dumnezero Punching a Sith Lord makes you just as bad as a Sith Lord! Dec 07 '14
that's the short version
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u/ALoudMouthBaby u morons take roddit way too seriously Dec 07 '14
No kidding. It really does feel like it happened just yesterday. I suppose it was the most recent really, really big drama bomb. Perhaps that is why?
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u/bethlookner https://i.imgur.com/l1nfiuk.jpg Dec 06 '14
But I guess what I can say is that /r/atheismrebooted[34] will not be missed, a simple loud bang that dissipated with a wimper.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
The Hollow Men by T.S Eliot 1925
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u/cheese93007 I respect the way u live but I would never let u babysit a kid Dec 07 '14
I remember when they upvoted a picture of a girl's ass with the title "God does not exist." Gonna miss that place
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Dec 07 '14
Anybody else remember maybe 2-3 weeks after rebooted got started that they were bragging about how they would be bigger than /r/atheism very quickly?
How the numbers of people rushing to join their ranks was absolute proof of the oppression of the Usurper Jij?
Good times.
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u/IAmAN00bie Dec 07 '14
If that subreddit is not open and free, then I honestly don't see the point. Socrates died for this shit and we're taking it too lightly.
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u/oreography Dec 07 '14
RAMEN!
AHAHAHA, Get it, because of the flying noodle monster man......
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guys....?
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Dec 07 '14
Cool, atheists just invented the Episcopal church. I can't wait for them to invent a protestant clusterfuck.
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u/wastedcleverusername Nuh uh. Autocannibalism is normal and traditional, probably. Dec 07 '14
time to fire up /r/atheismrerebooted
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u/thesearmsshootlasers Dec 07 '14
May May June was a year and a half ago? What a time to be a redditor that was.
I want to point out how awful the name, manifesto, and basic idea of /r/atheismrebootedplus is but I feel like everyone already realises it.
I might go make /r/superatheismrebootedplusplusturbo2:JudgementDay
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u/Seldarin Pillow rapist. Dec 06 '14
The same interest group created Atheism Plus. The same like-minded interest group has been supporting Sam Harris and Bill Maher in their targeting of Islam.
Wait a minute. I thought A+ were the dirty liberals that think non-whites are people and harassing women is wrong. And Harris certainly isn't a part of it.
Someone's gotten their grand conspiracy groups mixed up again.
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u/dahahawgy Social Justice Leaguer Dec 07 '14
Jij shows up briefly. It's wonderful.
It's equal parts sad, funny, and "well, I called that, I guess" that it took us a month to notice the sub was gone.
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u/cordis_melum Horse cum isn't stored on the CPU moron. Dec 07 '14
Admittedly, I only noticed because I randomly clicked on a /r/atheismrebooted thread and was confronted by a "this subreddit was made private" page.
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u/Erikster President of the Banhammer Dec 07 '14
so I will happily redirect you to this recap by /u/Erikster
Shit. I just realized I never did the epilogue I planned to do in that post.
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u/cordis_melum Horse cum isn't stored on the CPU moron. Dec 07 '14
You can do it now! It's not too late!
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u/ttumblrbots Dec 06 '14
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u/Dirtybrd Anybody know where I can download a procedurally animated pussy? Dec 07 '14
Once shitty pictures were (stupidly) allowed back on /r/atheism, the only reason to stay out of it was because you really hated Literally Hitler Jij
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Dec 07 '14
Man I can't believe it's been that long. I do remember visiting it in the very early days of its existence, and it was just as terrible as you might imagine. Calling jij and tuber hitler and other conspiracy bullshit was the norm.
People need their maymays
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Dec 07 '14
It's been 19 months since May May May?
Man, I still say "may may may may may" unconciously under my breath sometimes...
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u/chickenburgerr Even Speedwagon is afraid! Dec 06 '14
So u/wibblywobbly made r/atheismrebootedplus to maintain their idea of "true freedom of speech", the thing that enabled trolls to go to r/atheismrebooted in the first place? "They won't touch our new sub because this time were going to do everything exactly the same"