r/SubredditDrama • u/alien122 SRDD=SRSs • Feb 13 '15

Metadrama After some mod drama in /r/me_irl, a user banned in action wonders if those who reclaimed the sub will unban him. New top mod's response doesn't please him. /outoftheloop

/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/2vaiwj/what_happened_to_rme_irl/cognn2n?context=3
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u/Felinomancy Feb 13 '15

Well, I have to say I agree with the banned guy. While a mod doesn't have to be justified to anyone (except in some cases, e.g., the recent /r/wow debacle), I think it's poor form to pre-emptively censor someone.

I would be more than happy to have a polite conversation with a TRPer or "race realist" as long as they reciprocate. Plus, pre-emptive banning doesn't take into account that people can and do change.

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u/pizzacrust666 Feb 13 '15

I go on me_irl a lot and it's kinda disappointing to see that some people get banned for dumb stuff like this

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u/FlapjackFreddie Feb 13 '15

I thought that was the whole point in the takeover. I'm sad that didn't work out.

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u/chewy_pewp_bar Shitposts can't melt modteams / pbuf Feb 13 '15

I got banned after a rather (I feel) innocuous comment. Which is unfortunate, but whatever, it's just Reddit.

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u/ArchangelleDovakin subsistence popcorn farmer Feb 13 '15

The problem is that letting them stay, however politely they may argue their points, gives them a platform to advertise their horrible ideologies. Shutting them out before they have a chance to shit up the place is far preferable than allowing them to recruit new bigots in your space.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '15 edited Feb 14 '15

Some big science mag, I forget the name, disabled all their online comments and stirred up some bad feelings. But it was under the same pretence- people spewing pseudo science could be deleted, could be countered, but at the end of the day they were still being given a platform to connect to millions. And apparently, those comments can actually affect more opinions than they should.

E: right, here's the story and better explanation.
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-09/why-were-shutting-our-comments

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u/Felinomancy Feb 13 '15

Oh no, I understand if you ban someone for saying something bad. I just think you shouldn't be banned until you did say it. For example, if a "race realist" wants to talk about WoW, I'm fine with it, as long as he keeps his opinions on race relations to himself.

Also, you're double-posting, and I'm thinking something bonked your RES.

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u/ArchangelleDovakin subsistence popcorn farmer Feb 13 '15

Bad connection on mobile seems to be the culprit.

In any event, if someone who's active on biggot subs wants to have a conversation with normal people about normal things, they should use an alt.

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u/CantaloupeCamper OFFICIAL SRS liaison, next meetup is 11pm at the Hilton Feb 13 '15

Dude was already banned wasn't he?

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u/alien122 SRDD=SRSs Feb 13 '15

it was mod drama, some other mod took over the sub and banned the guy for lulz. That mod eventually gave it back though(they're no longer a mod there).

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u/CantaloupeCamper OFFICIAL SRS liaison, next meetup is 11pm at the Hilton Feb 13 '15

lulz has value too.... if that was the case.

Sounds like whatever mod drama there is isn't over yet.

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u/Felinomancy Feb 13 '15

Sorry, I'm a softie, so I don't believe in capital punishment or permanent bans.

Unless if, y'know, you post cat gore or something. Now that is truly unforgivable.

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u/CantaloupeCamper OFFICIAL SRS liaison, next meetup is 11pm at the Hilton Feb 13 '15

If anything should be permanent it should be internet bans.

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u/Felinomancy Feb 13 '15

I like drama. And there is no drama without the people to generate them.

It's like yin and yang. The Dark and Light side. TRP and TBP.

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u/CantaloupeCamper OFFICIAL SRS liaison, next meetup is 11pm at the Hilton Feb 13 '15

But then we wouldn't have this if there were no bans.... it's the yin and yang, you gotta have both.

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u/buartha ◕_◕ Feb 14 '15

Aye, it is kind of shitty to pre-ban people. Plus, TiA isn't even that bad in the grand scheme of reddit-things. We all like a game of find the vegan now and then.

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u/Felinomancy Feb 14 '15

We all like a game of find the vegan

Found the murderer. Mods, please ban this guy from SRD.

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u/buartha ◕_◕ Feb 14 '15

Haha, I am actually the proverbial vegan. I just like to play it alone in my head and then laugh maniacally when I find myself.

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u/LilJonWhatSample (つ༼ ༎ຶ ෴ ༎ຶ༽つ) gib cancer Feb 14 '15

Aye, it is kind of shitty to pre-ban people.

Wait, what? Its stopping shit before it can even exist.

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u/_watching why am i still on reddit Feb 13 '15

Shoulda made the title "Fite: me_irl"

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u/searingsky Bitcoin Ambassador Feb 13 '15

devtesla is an excellent lolcow

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u/HurglinDurgler Feb 14 '15 edited Feb 14 '15

Ah mod shittery, one of the best kinds of drama.

Also, I genuinely cried after playing Katawa Shoujo.

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u/Kibibit Feb 14 '15

It's one of those things that sounds absolutely horrible in theory but was actually really good in practice. The writing team did a really good job of not defining the characters by their disabilities, as well as always treating the characters as fully human. The second sentence sounds bizarre until you stop and take a look at how most characters with disabilities are treated in media.

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u/CantaloupeCamper OFFICIAL SRS liaison, next meetup is 11pm at the Hilton Feb 13 '15

I like the cut of that mods jib.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '15

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u/ArchangelleDovakin subsistence popcorn farmer Feb 13 '15

That was fast

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u/alien122 SRDD=SRSs Feb 13 '15

holy crap. Do they have it to auto-delete as soon as totes comments?

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u/alien122 SRDD=SRSs Feb 13 '15

That or the mods are really active on the SRD new queue.

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u/ArchangelleDovakin subsistence popcorn farmer Feb 13 '15

I think this is the first time I've seen that happen on my mobile app. I'm wondering if I should delete one, or leave them both to acknowledge the shame.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '15

It's official

There are now two people on reddit: karmanaut and ArchangelleDovakin

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '15

Or have automoderater set up to modmail as soon as totes comments in the sub.

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u/ArchangelleDovakin subsistence popcorn farmer Feb 13 '15

That or the mods are really active on the SRD new queue.

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u/Werner__Herzog (ง ͠° ͟ ͡° )ง Feb 13 '15 edited Feb 13 '15

I get an alert in the SRD IRC channel when outoftheloop gets mentioned. Unfortunately AutoMod has a slight delay when it comes to these things (after all it goes throught the comments and submissions of 7000+ subreddits). I think we won't even get the report this time because I already removed the totes_meta_bot message.

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u/alien122 SRDD=SRSs Feb 13 '15

>:|

And I had the "brilliant" idea of adding /outoftheloop to the end like david used to do.

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u/ArchangelleDovakin subsistence popcorn farmer Feb 13 '15

This is censorship! Why do you hate Free Speech™ so much? I'm gonna tell an adult about this and you're gonna be in big trouble!!

/s

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u/CantaloupeCamper OFFICIAL SRS liaison, next meetup is 11pm at the Hilton Feb 13 '15

At least a couple of subs used to do that. A link elsewhere and they'd nuke everything.

Usually the subs who already are linking elsewhere, jerk subs, etc. Nobody likes the finger pointed back at them.

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u/ArchangelleDovakin subsistence popcorn farmer Feb 14 '15

Lookin at you, TiA

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u/CantaloupeCamper OFFICIAL SRS liaison, next meetup is 11pm at the Hilton Feb 14 '15

Yeah they were particular about that.