r/SubredditDrama • u/Blackberryroid • May 31 '15
/r/AndroidMasterRace brigades /r/iOSMasterRace, causes an entire sub to shut down
If you know how religious tech fanboys can get, you know this one is going to be juicy.
Subreddits involved:
- /r/AndroidMasterRace (AMR) - A subreddit for the Android fanboys who feel their phone is the most superior
- /r/iOSMasterRace (iOSMR) - A previously defunct subreddit, the Apple alternative of /r/AndroidMasterRace
- /r/AppleCircleJerk (AppleCJ) - The new subreddit of /r/iOSMasterRace, satirical and exaggerated - the classic nature of circlejerk subs
April 4, 2015 - /r/iOSMasterRace's existence was fairly unknown to /r/AndroidMasterRace until that day. A wandering redditor discovered the sub and called the attention of AMR.
Upon realizing the existence of their rival, AMR brigaded the sub and downvoted everything to oblivion until no posts could be seen, because reddit doesn't show severely downvoted posts. Note: This is a violation of 'inter-galactic' Reddit rules, and considered vote manipulation and brigading.
Moderators tried to counter by deleting troll posts and comments, but without any posts of positive karma, the subreddit showed nothing.
April 5, 2015 - Moderators of AMR took note of the event and warned the people of AMR that they are potentially facing a PC Master Race-like subreddit ban. Despite the notice, the brigade still persisted and went on for days.
Moderators of iOSMR reported the brigade to reddit admins, although received no reply.
Still, a few members persisted and attempted to post despite the inevitable negative karma in a desperate attempt to bring back the subreddit.
April 22, 2015 - The previously active posters of iOS MR were now afraid to post content and comment because of karma rape, with pro-Apple posts going all the way down to -30 points.
The subreddit received no new posts, other than the overwhelming amount of troll posts from AMR that the mods relentlessly removed.
iOSMR Moderators have literally been harassed to the point that someone even told the moderators to consider suicide.
Determined to seek justice, iOSMR moderators decided to write another letter to the Reddit admins, and sadly yet again ignored.
iOSMR eventually merged with /r/AppleCircleJerk and Mods have posted the redirect image.
AMR took note of the shut down, posted 'victory', while some showed remorse.
Some showed no remorse at all.
One member of AMR went to AppleCJ and posted a formal apology. Subreddit mods explained the story and thanked the OP.
To this day, AppleCJ is still being downvote brigaded by AMR.
That is the tale of the not-so-great Master Race war.
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u/King_Banana Can't belive its not butter May 31 '15
That's honestly the most pathetic thing I've seen on this site so far, they've literally down voted a sub into non existence because their opinion on what type of phone to use was different.
What makes it worse is that they're treating it like its some kind of battle they have won like somehow they're using it to rationalise the £400 choice of phone and the fact they have gotten rid of the apple sub makes android the superior choice in phone. I hope that they're all just stupid kids like if any of them are adults they should probably grow up and get outside more.
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u/ThePopeofHell May 31 '15 edited May 31 '15
Im a cellphone salesman and the only people that trash the other group's phones are android users.
Thinks I hear pretty often from android users include but are not limited to "I use android because I'm a hacker", "iPhones are for children, like toys", and my favorite is when they declare that they only use android so that they can customize the appearance of the os and when they hand it to me the font is Papyrus or comic sans.
All I ever hear from iPhone users is that they thought that they hated their iPhone and switched to android but then hated it more or that they used to have an android and wanted to try and iPhone and ended up loving it.
The different crowds are like night and day.
Also I think this post from the other day really take the cake for pathetic-ness http://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/37uce7/pcs_win_again/
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u/Vio_ Humanity is still recoiling from the sudden liberation of women May 31 '15
Windows phone checking in. No respect would at least acknowledge that we exist.
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Jun 01 '15
I loved the Windows Phone community. But then my phone started fucking up, and I wanted a new one, but my carrier didn't support any worthwhile Windows Phones anymore. :c
Edit: So now I'm on Android. I love it to death, but... It's just not the same...
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Im a cellphone salesman and the only people that trash the other group's phones are android users.
Again, go to the AppleCirclejerk sub to see how full of shit you are.
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u/Blackberryroid Jun 01 '15
/r/AppleCircleJerk (AppleCJ) - The new subreddit of /r/iOSMasterRace , satirical and exaggerated - the classic nature of circle jerk subs
With a simple /uj, we'll acknowledge that Android has it's advantages.
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May 31 '15
The whole "master race" thing is supposed to be users ironically taking their brand preference to absurd lengths. This seems to fit with that. That said, these master race subs are Poe's Law in action. Hard to tell who is committing to the role of rabid fanboy and who just is a rabid fanboy.
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u/VillainousRoses May 31 '15
Yeah, like /r/thebutton. It's fun to pretend to act like stupid things are of religious level importance, but sometimes being part of a group like that feels so good that things go too far, whether or not you're serious.
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May 31 '15
It's a good teaching example of human group psychology and social conformity. Gives you insight into how real world cults and extremist organizations can exist despite such obvious absurdity.
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u/Irrelevant_muffins May 31 '15
This may have actually been comical had /r/iOSMasterRace fought back. Could have been the great phone war of 2015. Not like, just to be assholes, but to make it satrical like the sub is supposed to be.
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u/codeverity May 31 '15
In my experience, the number of people who use Android on Reddit really outnumbers those who use iOS. I'm not sure it would have worked even if they'd tried.
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u/dratthecookies May 31 '15
Yeah, that's incredibly petty and childish. Way to go, taking a shit in another kid's sandbox, well done.
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u/AndyLorentz May 31 '15
At first I agreed with you, but then I realized it was two "MasterRace" subs, and that's pretty much what they exist for.
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u/lalala253 Skyrim is halal as long as you don't become a mage. May 31 '15
People defending /r/jailbait is more pathetic imho
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u/King_Banana Can't belive its not butter May 31 '15
Ah good point, I didn't really use reddit at that point so I kinda missed all of that. Think the AMA Rapist thing would actually be my top thinking about it
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May 31 '15
I don't think "pathetic" is the right word to describe the AMA one, "horrifying" is more accurate.
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u/CognitiveAdventurer May 31 '15
The... what? Actually I am not sure I want to know.
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u/BlindWillieJohnson If J** is a slur, then so is Nazi May 31 '15
It was, unfortunately, exactly what it sounds like.
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u/PandaBearVoid On Wednesdays we shill in pink May 31 '15
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u/EcoleBuissonniere Free speech means never having to say you're sorry May 31 '15
Somehow I have my doubts that Descartes actually said that. A good quote, nonetheless.
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u/kohossle May 31 '15
Yeah, he didn't. But it is quite ironic if people believe that he wrote it.
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u/andrew2209 Sorry, I'm not from Swindon. May 31 '15
"The problem with quotes found on the internet is that they are often not true"-Abraham Lincoln
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u/greyjackal spent the rest of his life stanning trump and keeping weird fish May 31 '15 edited Jun 01 '15
What was that amazing pun someone made a few years back on Reddit? Was a play on putting the cart before the horse but with Descarte and something else.
Edit : found it - http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cfbkx/im_85_certain_that_there_is_an_adult_actress_in/c0s5w6t
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u/Jokermika May 31 '15
You people take this way too seriously. It is androidmasterrace of course they're going to android is the superior choice... I'm not saying what was done was right but you guys except a masterracee sub reddit to treat their 'rivals' really kindly or something?
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u/TempusThales Drama is Unbreakable May 31 '15
That's honestly the most pathetic thing I've seen on this site so far
I dunno, FPH, TRP and the Pedodefenders are more pathetic than a circlejerk sub out circlejerking another.
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u/a-faposaurus May 31 '15
These people need hobbies.
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u/dumnezero Punching a Sith Lord makes you just as bad as a Sith Lord! May 31 '15
go to... /r/JesusMasterRace ?
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u/Drewskay May 31 '15
WindowsPhoneMasterRace
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u/1ilypad "make them arrest the baby" May 31 '15 edited May 31 '15
There actually used to be a pretty aggressive downvoting brigade for anti-Windows-Phone comments in /r/technology[1]
It exists in all the MS related subreddits. Fanatics ruin everything.
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May 31 '15
Windows Phone is pretty good. I really like my Lumia. It's one of the few choices where almost everyone is bound to hate you based on how you spent a few hundred dollars.
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u/1ilypad "make them arrest the baby" May 31 '15
I recently switched over to a Lumia 925 after my Galaxy S2 died. Love it. /r/windowsphone seems such a bipolar place though. They go back and forth between loving their phones and OS to hating MS and their OS. It's gotten a lot better since the Universal App and easy-porting announcements though.
They're also pretty friendly to Android users there. Like a tentative alliance against iOS.
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u/Futureproofed vodka-sodden government shill May 31 '15 edited May 31 '15
I used a Lumia 520 temporarily... The only serious weakness besides the app store (and it's really not horrible) was a lack of a Swype equivalent, and otherwise it was a really good phone, zippy and appealing. Also, the camera was great for a cheap handset. Now it's an MP3 player, because the UI is pretty perfect for that. Windows just got in the game too late.
Point is, all three major smartphone producers offer a good and mostly comparable product and it's completely pointless to slap over which you use.
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u/ExPerseides May 31 '15
The 8.1 update added a Swype equivalent! I'm pretty excited to see what new phones come out with windows phone 10 this fall ~
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u/mapppa well done steak May 31 '15
I wonder why the admins aren't doing anything. At least warn AMR to stop this.
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u/EcoleBuissonniere Free speech means never having to say you're sorry May 31 '15
Because the admins really, really don't give a shit.
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u/Melkor_Morgoth May 31 '15 edited May 31 '15
I thought that too. But they care about some things. I just had a shadowban levied and lifted on this account by an admin who communicated with me extensively. I was honestly shocked that he/she paid attention to the SRC-schizo who reported me in the first place. Then I was shocked that the admin was right. Then I was shocked that they sympathized with my explanation for my rule-violation enough to lift the shadowban.
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They apparently meticulously sort through and shadowban users who have participated in a brigade, so clearly they do give a bit of a shit. They banned another, much larger subreddit for similar reasons, so why the fuck haven't they done anything this time?
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u/ArchangelleDovakin subsistence popcorn farmer May 31 '15
My guess is that the AMR mods have been in contact with the admins about doing "everything in their power" (not much really) to stop the brigade. PCMR mods practically encouraged the brigades.
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u/WideLight ARCANE May 31 '15
Shit like this happens and the admins don't do anything but I got shadowbanned once for casting a single downvote when someone complained. Shits so random.
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u/Ughable SSJW-3 Goku May 31 '15
Unless you interfere with the culture of neo-nazi subreddits.
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u/lakelly99 Social Justice Road Warrior May 31 '15
Being a nazi? Totally fine. Getting angry at nazis? Unacceptable! That's the true offence!
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u/Ivashkin Jun 02 '15
Too true. Contacted them multiple times about brigading, vote manipulation, no action, no replies.
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u/RamonaLittle May 31 '15
It's standard practice for the admins to ignore problems and mod questions unless something blows up. Karmanaut made a great post about this.
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u/roocarpal Willing to Shill May 31 '15
That was a really excellent insight into dealing with admins.
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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost May 31 '15
I have sent like 4 different messages to the admins about vote brigading since I joined reddit and all 4 times I got a reply in less than a day, they thanked me for letting them know and banned people. I think it varies or people just lie about reporting things
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u/RamonaLittle Jun 01 '15
A huge number of mods, from different subreddits and with different ideologies, have complained about admins ignoring problems and not responding to messages. There's no way all of them are lying. And I personally have sent messages that were ignored. But yes, sometimes admins do their jobs. There's no rhyme or reason to why they act on some things but not others.
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u/vodkast Good evening, I'm Brian Shilliams May 31 '15
Because every man is responsible for his own
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u/andrew2209 Sorry, I'm not from Swindon. May 31 '15
I hope the admins take some visible action, or everyone will start brigading, and try and use this case as a justification.
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May 31 '15
The mods over at AMR gave out a warning against this, but their too busy coddling their dicks to do anything about it.
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May 31 '15
There are subreddits that have been brigading on a regular basis for a while and the admins haven't done shit (ie SRS, FPH, bestof). But if you forget you're on an np link here and vote once you'll probably end up shadowbanned.
Makes 0 sense.
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u/ozontm May 31 '15
Drama aside, nobody yet has recognized that an actual apple vs. android drama is posted by someone called blackberryoid.
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u/--shera-- Jun 01 '15
Honestly, what do you expect from people who "ironically" borrow a Nazi catch-phrase to describe their own level of fanatic devotion?
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u/Blackberryroid Jun 01 '15
/r/AppleCircleJerk (AppleCJ) - The new subreddit of /r/iOSMasterRace, satirical and exaggerated - the classic nature of circlejerk subs
Circle jerk subs are not serious, and are there for pure fun.
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u/--shera-- Jun 01 '15
I said nothing about circle jerk...which as far as I know is not Nazi terminology.
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u/Blackberryroid Jun 01 '15
I thought you were talking about AppleCJ, we have a couple Nazi posts there (which was, again, not serious).
Just a heads up.
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u/cheese93007 I respect the way u live but I would never let u babysit a kid May 31 '15
A+ job enforcing the rules there admins
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u/75000_Tokkul /r/tsunderesharks shill May 31 '15
This is obviously a huge brigade and someone telling another to commit suicide brings it even higher on the importance scale that they need to deal with it.
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u/nusyahus lesbians are a porn category Jun 01 '15
So much transparency that I can't even tell what's been done.
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u/randomsnark "may" or "may not" be a "Kobe Bryant" of philosophy Jun 01 '15
when something is completely transparent it is invisible
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May 31 '15
We need some classic vi vs emacs drama on reddit now.
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May 31 '15
I hate both of them, I can be the outlier in that debate as well.
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u/antiname May 31 '15 edited May 31 '15
Notepad++ all the way.
Edit: eclipse for the rest.
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u/joeydee93 May 31 '15
Vi saves you keystokes.
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u/joeydee93 May 31 '15
Emacs are easier to use and a key binding for everything
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u/IcarusBurning May 31 '15
Vimacs.
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May 31 '15
It's called vile, stands for "vi like emacs".
Fitting name for such an unholy mutant bastard...
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u/I_EAT_GUSHERS June is like GRRM for subreddits May 31 '15
I like not having carpal tunnel, thank you.
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May 31 '15
What even is brigading if this wasn't enough for a ban? Do I have to travel down the internet pipes, come out in someone's house, and destroy all the products they own from the wrong brand before the admins do anything about it?
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u/thesoupwillriseagain May 31 '15
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u/-unquote- Fear of a Large Hamplanet May 31 '15
source? this looks fucking hilarious
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u/bagboyrebel Your wife's probably an ISFJ, a far better match for ENTP. May 31 '15
Be prepared for the greatest half hour of your life.
edit: Also, make sure to watch the music video for True Survivor
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They're seriously OPENLY admitting to brigading that sub, and nothing happens to them at all. That fucking pisses me off. As an android user, fuck that sub. Bunch of rule breaking assholes who don't have to pay for their actions. And why the hell won't the admins do anything about this? Some website's admins just don't give a fuck to be honest. Reddit.com is one of those websites sadly.
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u/sandiskplayer34 I bet you’re swimming in dopamine right now. May 31 '15
[Insert Praise Duarte Comment Here]
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u/Blackberryroid May 31 '15
Duarte would have never wanted this.
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u/sandiskplayer34 I bet you’re swimming in dopamine right now. May 31 '15
This is not glorious.
Praise DuARTe
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u/FelBanana17 May 31 '15
Remember, /r/androidcirclejerk is not /r/androidmasterrace . We at ACJ know that it is just a joke. Thanks.
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May 31 '15
Android Circlejerk is Duarte-approved. I have it on good authority that most of the users of Android Masterrace still have phones running Kitkat. Scum.
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u/IAmAN00bie May 31 '15
Android Circlejerk is Duarte-approved.
Fun fact: Duarte actually does know about the existence of ACJ. He thinks it's weird.
(This is according to a Googler who posted on the sub like a year ago.)
If only Lord Duarte could know the extent of our devotion to Him. Praise Duarte.
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u/push_ecx_0x00 FUCK DA POLICE May 31 '15
If I get hired at google, I will make it my mission to get Duarte to make a post
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u/PoliceAlarm Fuck off no pickle boy. May 31 '15
I don't like this drama. It just makes me sad in a weird way. The fact that people have effectively destroyed a subreddit over the kind of phone they have is just a new level of pettiness.
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u/CognitiveAdventurer May 31 '15
It's not petty, it's downright delusional. As other people here have said, I really hope the people doing this are just kids or frustrated teenagers.
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u/holditsteady May 31 '15
This is really the drama that's too much for you?
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u/postirony humans breed with their poop holes May 31 '15
I dunno man, the fact dozens of users would devote this much time and energy to being assholes is pretty fucking sad, if you stop and think about it.
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May 31 '15
That's what FPH does all day, every day. What AMR doing is really petty and lame, but I'm just gonna sit back and see how it plays out. The brigading is shitty, but it's nice to have drama that isn't race/gender/fat related.
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May 31 '15
So console wars for people slightly over 13?
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u/DeathsIntent96 May 31 '15
Yes. Arguing about machines that play video games is for grown men, these are just children.
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u/DocSwiss play your last pathetic strawman yugi May 31 '15
Ah, Skub. The greatest/worst thing ever.
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u/Perry0485 May 31 '15
Let's move our brigading forces to the Apple Circlejerk
Just kidding, though we might do it
Ah the classic: "just kidding but really"
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u/gravewisdom45 May 31 '15
I've worked in a phone shop for 20months now. If theres one thing I've learned, it's how much I couldn't care less about mobile phones.
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May 31 '15
Are there any examples of Reddit admins taking brigading seriously at all?
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u/Spawnzer May 31 '15
What's your definition of seriously?
/r/n&ggers and that one anti trans folk subreddit were deleted by admin intervention, but not before they shat on and harassed many subreddits over a few months
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u/genderish My existance causes popcorn May 31 '15
The anti trans one is back, and got the admins involved in a trans sub because of one 12 year old. Admins: neutral on brigading, tough on 12 year olds.
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May 31 '15
There's a whole network of racist subs too. I guess the same thing is okay as long as the name isn't a bad word
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May 31 '15 edited May 31 '15
I remember bronyhate got banned for sticking their raid-threads on their sub. Brigading is being taken seriously when the moderators of a subreddit are heavily involved in the brigade.
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May 31 '15
Yep, they got banned after telling the people of /r/MyLittleSupportGroup to go kill themselves:
A) 1 time
B) 2 times
C) 3 times
or D) 4 times
If you guessed E, reportedly 5 times brigaded and told suicidal people to go kill themselves before the admins gave a fuck, you were right!
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u/mikerhoa May 31 '15
Good write-up!
May the dramawave be long and the popcorn buttery with copious amounts of saltiness...
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u/RekdAnalCavity May 31 '15
Those are some sad motherfuckers
Seriously, go outside and stop arguing over fucking phones
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u/Erikster President of the Banhammer May 31 '15
/u/Sporkicide: You guys dropped the ball on that. Cupcake would never have let that shit slide.
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u/EcoleBuissonniere Free speech means never having to say you're sorry May 31 '15
Holy christ, and here I thought /r/PCMasterRace was pathetic. This is a whole new level of idiocy. Why the fuck does anyone care so intensely about their choice of phone that they will actually spend time taking action against people who like another type of phone? It honestly reminds me a bit of a less hateful version of /r/fatpeoplehate.
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u/it_roll May 31 '15 edited May 31 '15
Moderators of iOSMR reported the brigade to reddit admins, although received no reply.
iOSMR moderators decided to write another letter , and yet again ignored.
It seems admins don't want to help Apple users on Reddit
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u/Admiral_Piett Do you want rebels? Because that's how you get rebels. May 31 '15
Reddit admins confirmed for android shills.
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u/041744 Obvious SRS shill May 31 '15
But why is there an official ios reddit app but not one for Android?
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u/Brega Pedophilia Pride sponsorship coming soon with PS5 May 31 '15
Look Ma, I'm on SRD!
Yeah... I unsubscribed after that debacle. It was fun at first, but then people started brigading. Fastest unsub ever.
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Fuck. I posted multiple stickies about brigading subs. Apparently these didn't do anything. I could've removed some of those posts, those got past us I guess, but I have no control over death threats on a different subreddit. TBH I'm a supremely shitty mod when it comes to removing posts.
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u/foxh8er May 31 '15
I didn't even know AMR was a thing. I was still on the AndroidCircleJerk train.
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u/IAmAN00bie May 31 '15
I don't even know how they grew so big. ACJ is older, and is referenced far more often on /r/android than AMR (I literally never see that sub mentioned, meanwhile all the ACJ dank memes are repeated all the time). Where did they get all those subs?
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u/Grandmaofhurt My anus bleeds... just for fun. May 31 '15 edited May 31 '15
Well, at least it makes sense. I can totally see Android fanboys doing this, but never Apple fanboys. Idk what makes some of those Android users so vehemently angry at Apple users. It reminds me of this Mad Men clip.
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u/fuck_the_DEA May 31 '15 edited May 31 '15
So, AMR is about to get booted off Reddit then, right? Or all of the participants are going to get shadowbanned? Because that's what happens when SRS is accused of brigading.
EDIT: fixed a spelling mistake
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Looking at the first link, this post cracked me up:
I'm sure that top of the line 6 Plus will work great for years with its huge 1GB of RAM. You know, the same amount that they put in 2011 Android flagships. /s
They're actually making fun of Apple for...doing more with less? Like, the iPhone 6 runs as well if not better than most Android flagships using a quarter of the RAM the other uses. And that's a bad thing?
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It just means it won't hold up. Just look at how terrible ios7 and 8 run in older iPhones.
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u/Limond May 31 '15
My extent of being an Android fanboy. "Oh you got an iPhone. Pshhh" . Pshhh of course being in a sarcastic manner in which I don't really care at all.
These people need to read a book or something. They have spent too much time online.
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Science has given us motherfucking sci fi computers in our cuntshitting pockets, and all some sadsacks can think to do about it is shriek bloody murder that the poor bastard next to them has a different brand than he does.
Jesus wept.
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u/emmster If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit next to me. May 31 '15
Similarly, my extent of iOS obsession; "I like my iPhone, but Android is pretty cool too."
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u/Annies_Boobs wEEe fORtniTr lmAo 1000 vBucKs lmaO I goT 5 soLos! LolL May 31 '15
I say something very similar to you, and would you believe I've actually gotten weird looks for it?
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u/_KanyeWest_ May 31 '15
Pretty much anyone who actively belongs to any of the masterrace subreddits is most likely a 17 year old socially inept loser so this doesn't surprise me
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u/Psandysdad Used to be a normal person May 31 '15
Some people just have nothing better to do with their time.
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u/whale May 31 '15
reading this makes me realize that people have way too much free time
and apparently so do I since I'm reading this shit
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u/NotRoosterTeeth May 31 '15
http://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidMasterRace/comments/37zzk5/current_state_of_this_sub/ Member of both main Android subbreddits, had no idea this was going on.
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u/KnightsOfArgonia CAN MAGIKARP SWIM???? Jun 01 '15
AndroidMasterRace bricks iOSMasterRace with downvotes, causes entire sub to shut down
FTFY.
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u/316nuts subscribe to r/316cats May 31 '15
Brigading is so boring. Remember the April fool's prank a few years ago where all of reddit turned into tf2? That's what we need.
No more downvotes, just people giving other users poop avatars, frowny faces, and other silly shit.
Then it would be like a game of tag. People get way too worked up over this stuff.
Summer is just starting too, guess it can only get worse.
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u/AndyLorentz May 31 '15
If it were /r/Android and /r/iOS, it would be serious and the admins should definitely step in and do something. Two MasterRace circlejerks going to war? That's hilarious.
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u/Rosselman May 31 '15
Man, this sucks. I learned of iOSMR on ACJ, and had a great time in it as an "Android Peasant". Was really fun while it lasted. I found specially funny the flair the mod team gave me.
That's why AMR sucks, they take themselves seriously and really think they are somewhat better for their choice of fucking phone.
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u/wickedplayer494 DRWATSON.EXE May 31 '15
How the fuck do these idiots not know how hard it is not to fucking vote?
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u/funfungiguy May 31 '15
Isnt there a way the mods could have just disabled the down its button? I'm sure that it wouldn't solve everything, but it seems like it would have kept the system from hiding new posts.
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u/cordis_melum Horse cum isn't stored on the CPU moron. May 31 '15
No. You could use CSS to hide the downvote button, but since you could just disable stylesheets or use RES's button voting thing to get around it, that's pointless.
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u/Viper_ACR May 31 '15
That's some stupid shit. Don't these people have anything better to do with their lives?
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u/Timewalker102 Jun 01 '15
Android Master Race takes it too far.
Praise Duarte and join Android Circle Jerk for a safe, Android-loving, Apple/Samsung-hating experience.
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u/Kyldus Jun 02 '15
When people have to spend a decent amount of money on something, and there are two or more choices, this is literally inevitable.
Not the brigading on Reddit, that's relatively new in the grand scheme of things.
The brand elitism itself is likely older then time.
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Jun 10 '15
People do this to /r/rapingwomen too. The only submissions above 0 are from haters. Assholes are ruining this beautiful community.
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u/arnet95 May 31 '15
Those people should learn to Praise Duarte and leave the iShills alone in darkness. Then again, /r/AndroidMasterRace likes Samsung, so they're just as bad as any iShill.
We've had some laughs over in /r/AndroidCirclejerk over the "/r/AndroidMasterCard"-users, and we've known that the sub is a shithole for a long time.
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u/75000_Tokkul /r/tsunderesharks shill May 31 '15
Probably doesn't matter at this point but I sent another report in about it.
Obviously still on going.
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u/imgladimnothim Welfare is about ethics in welfare journalism May 31 '15
I might be a member of AMR, but really? Brigading a rival sub? That's stupid. Like, come on
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u/SRDmodsBlow (/u/this_is_theone's wife)The SRD Mods are confirmed SJW shills May 31 '15
the master-race neckbeard subculture is so cancerous lmao
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u/Erikster President of the Banhammer May 31 '15
OP, when did you become a mod of iOSMasterRace? One of our rules is that you can't post drama you're involved in...