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[–]tuckels 274 ポイント275 ポイント

Truly a victory for comic subreddits squatted by racists everywhere! Did soccer forget to moderate for 3 months or something?

Edit: 9 of the 12 top threads on /r/redditrequest at the moment are requests for subs soccer is squatting. Looks like he's slipped up on his 60 day activity schedule & people are jumping at it.
Confirmed here. Thanks throwawaytiffany!

Edit 2: Soccer has been booted from /r/vietnam, /r/egalitarian, /r/algeria, /r/libya, /r/apod, /r/syria, & /r/iraq too.

[–]throwawaytiffany 78 ポイント79 ポイント

Admins confirmed his inactivity: http://np.reddit.com/r/redditrequest/comments/2cpm2o/has_it_been_long_enough_yet_please_remove_defunct/cjkbozm

[–]mach-2 44 ポイント45 ポイント

Here goes. Time for me to go jump at /r/Nigeria. Can't believe that twat was top mod.

[–]AlGamaty 34 ポイント35 ポイント

Go for it. I just got him removed from /r/Libya today.

[–]MilitantNegroReturns 8 ポイント9 ポイント

/r/Nigeria already has other mods. One of them seems to be inactive as well as /u/soccer, but I messaged the other to have him removed.

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    [–]YungSnuggie 189 ポイント190 ポイント

    this must be what all those civil rights activists felt like

    [–]tuckels 107 ポイント108 ポイント

    Getting the vote is pretty much exactly like being able to resubscribe to /r/xkcd, right?

    [–]mach-2 110 ポイント111 ポイント

    MLK died for this shit.

    [–]Meno_Self 22 ポイント23 ポイント

    Like Jesus, except even blacker.

    [–]chewy_pewp_bar 3 ポイント4 ポイント

    Largely unrelated (so mods, delete this If you want) but did any of you see the new adult swim show "black Jesus" last night? It's pretty darn funny.

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      [–]_Kata_ 74 ポイント75 ポイント

      I usually mock most things meta-related but this really is fanfuckingtastic for reddit.

      The less squatters on reddit the better. Especially when they're neo-nazis.

      [–]DblackRabbit 8 ポイント9 ポイント

      Its over!

      [–]YungSnuggie 11 ポイント12 ポイント

      ease on down, ease on down, da roooadddd

      [–]WatchEachOtherSleep 6 ポイント7 ポイント

      I expected this.

      [–]Sporkicide 11 ポイント12 ポイント

      Get out of here with that special edition shit

      [–]WatchEachOtherSleep 11 ポイント12 ポイント

      I'm afraid I can't do that. I'm shilling for George Lucas today.

      [–]beermit 7 ポイント8 ポイント

      Well at least you're honest about it.

      [–]WatchEachOtherSleep 10 ポイント11 ポイント

      Honesty is important because it makes people more receptive.

      Want to buy some Star Wars merch?

      [–]MeltedSnowCone 1 ポイント2 ポイント

      Saving up for when it's all Disney made

      [–]davidreiss666 3 ポイント4 ポイント

      No Hayden Christensen's should be allowed in Jedi.

      [–]DblackRabbit 3 ポイント4 ポイント

      If you rewatch The Wiz..../u/soccer is much more like the Wicked Witch of the West vs The Empire.

      edit: wrong cardinal direction

      [–]WatchEachOtherSleep 4 ポイント5 ポイント

      You must be mistaken. Elphaba is a good girl. She would never squat a sub for the purposes of spreading racist tripe.

      (Never seen The Wiz :( )

      [–]DblackRabbit 3 ポイント4 ポイント

      You should see The Wiz, Micheal Jackson plays a scarecrow stuff with fortune cookie slips.

      [–]tommex 3 ポイント4 ポイント

      Elphaba is the wicked witch of the WEST.

      [–]WatchEachOtherSleep 2 ポイント3 ポイント

      Oh, didn't see that. Is The Wiz about her sister, then?

      [–]tommex 3 ポイント4 ポイント

      I dunno, but I think Wicked is pretty legit.

      [–]DblackRabbit 1 ポイント2 ポイント

      Nah, I fucked up too, but WWOTW is not a nice person in The Wiz she runs a sweatshop

      [–]WatchEachOtherSleep 3 ポイント4 ポイント

      TIL working in a sweatshop looks like lots of fun.

      [–]TheCheshireCody 1 ポイント2 ポイント

      I actually expected this.

      [–]Biffingston 2 ポイント3 ポイント

      The fuk did I just watch?

      [–]DblackRabbit 6 ポイント7 ポイント

      The Wiz, an adaptation of a play, which is an ethnic/urban adaptation of the Wizard of Oz, stars Diana Ross, Micheal Jackson, Lena Horne and many more, and has some boss ass music.

      [–]Biffingston 2 ポイント3 ポイント

      I may have to check it out. It seems gloriously goofy.

      [–]DblackRabbit 1 ポイント2 ポイント

      I'm told the play is better but I haven't seen the play since like 5th grade.

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        [–]CoproFish 3 ポイント4 ポイント

        I love me some ass music.

        [–]DblackRabbit 3 ポイント4 ポイント

        Sir Mix O' Lot was the voice of the peoples.

        [–]Andr3wsky 10 ポイント11 ポイント

        I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the Reddit dream.

        I have a dream that one day this website will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We don't give a fuck if you're racist and squat on subreddits to further your racist ideologies, as long as you occasionally post."

        I have a dream that one day on the red hills of /r/xkcd the sons of former cartoonists and the sons of former Holocaust deniers will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

        I have a dream that one day even the state of /r/iran, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

        I have a dream that my four little children will one day visit a website where they will not be judged by the color of their racist opinions but by the content of their posts.

        I have a dream today.

        --Marty King Jr, August, 2014

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          [–]Froghurt 29 ポイント30 ポイント

          Man the last 2 weeks have been amazing in terms of racists getting removed. First /u/kamensghost got chucked, and now /u/soccer forgot to log on. It's like christmas came early.

          [–]DiscreteMath 15 ポイント16 ポイント

          I like to think he forgot his password and wept as he saw his subreddits fall apart one by one.

          [–]larrylemur 1 ポイント2 ポイント

          "No! People who don't actively hate all minorities as well as women! Noooooo!"

          [–]TheReasonableCamel 3 ポイント4 ポイント

          Ya kamen had what, 3 or 4 accounts on the modlist?

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            [–]selfabortion 52 ポイント53 ポイント

            He's a squatter; forgetting to moderate is what they do.

            [–]_Kata_ 51 ポイント52 ポイント

            On the other hand, they do have some toned glutes.

            [–]winterd 2 ポイント3 ポイント

            It's all those bent-knee-rump-wreckers.

            [–]Andr3wsky 6 ポイント7 ポイント

            U havin urself a giggle, m8?

            [–]bumingbai 0 ポイント1 ポイント

            hehehe

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                [–]Burial4TetThomYorke 12 ポイント13 ポイント

                What's a squatter?

                [–]boom_shoes 68 ポイント69 ポイント

                When subreddita first became a thing, a long, long time ago, a couple users created a ton of subs with really obvious names; funny, xkcd, videos etc etc. It was a very wild we're type thing, similar to people who used to register domain names (sex.com, Pepsi.com etc).

                As the site grew the subs themselves grew too "oh, I like xkcd, I'll sub to that!" But people like /u/soccer never actively nodded the subs. As time went by, it became pretty obvious some of these power mods (/u/soccer and violentacrez (I think)) were actually pretty terrible human beings. The author of xkcd even publicly said he was not affiliated with the subreddit, and genuinely didn't like /u/soccer or condone anything he did.

                But because he used his account once every 60 days he retained his top mod spot, much to the dismay of the wider community. Looks like he finally slipped.

                [–]demeteloaf 62 ポイント63 ポイント

                /u/soccer wasn't the one who created any of those subreddits.

                He squatted redditrequest until active subreddits became "abandoned" by their owners, then took them over, then used them to promote MRA and holocaust denial stuff.

                [–]macinneb 16 ポイント17 ポイント

                Funny, because I have OP tagged for white rights rants and he's also a major MRA poster. Seems like OP isn't much different.

                [–]xvampireweekend 6 ポイント7 ポイント

                Which OP?

                [–]macinneb 6 ポイント7 ポイント

                OP of this post.

                [–]The_YoungWolf 2 ポイント3 ポイント

                Wyboth. He admittedly went off the deep end one time with a SRS-style rant about checking privelege (which soccer and Kamen promptly exploited to "justify" their dismissal of him as a mod, though no one with two brain cells bought it) but for the love of God, he's not a fucking neo-Nazi, at least.

                [–]BarryOgg 10 ポイント11 ポイント

                Edit: I'm talking about violantacrez.

                He was outed soon after I started redditing, so my memory may be hazy, but from what I remember, he moderated bunch of a weird fetish subs (/r/ButtSharpies anyone?) pretty decently. And yes, I suppose it includes that one sub - keeping the stuff that was actually illegal away from it.

                [–]MimesAreShite 3 ポイント4 ポイント

                /u/illuminatedwax is another squatter, albeit not of the "terrible human being" variety.

                [–]ButterflyAttack 2 ポイント3 ポイント

                I like to think (s)he will be crying it's bigoted self to sleep tonight. . .

                [–]Biffingston 1 ポイント2 ポイント

                It's directly analogous and might even be a form of "cybersquating" Isn't it?

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                  [–]mistled_LP 10 ポイント11 ポイント

                  Someone who holds a mod position simply to have it, even though they don't have a real interest in actually moderating the subreddit. According to reddit's rules, if they are active at least once every 60 (?) days, they can't be removed as moderator for inactivity.

                  edit /u/gizzardgullet linked to this excellent post that details some reasons people might squat.

                  [–]callumgg 2 ポイント3 ポイント

                  Is that active moderating or active anywhere on reddit?

                  [–]Nillix 5 ポイント6 ポイント

                  Anywhere on reddit.

                  [–]SPESSMEHREN 1 ポイント2 ポイント

                  Another important reason is just the prestige of moderating so many subreddits. People who are losers in real life and want to feel important on the Internet turn to moderation, and on a high-profile site like reddit moderating a large subreddit can turn you into a household name. There are subreddits that only invite people who moderate over a certain number of users.

                  Just look at /u/qgyh2, who, despite health problems preventing him from using a computer, still holds on to his moderation positions because he mods over millions of users, and only shows up to stonewall other mods from making policy changes that could save their subreddit.

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                    [–]EightRoundsRapid 2 ポイント3 ポイント

                    Hey, I'm in a squat right now, and I'm moderating.

                    [–]dardargnan 23 ポイント24 ポイント

                    Yay, /r/spiders is free!

                    [–]_Kata_ 11 ポイント12 ポイント

                    spiders is free

                    I...I'm not sure that's a good thing

                    [–]froibo 8 ポイント9 ポイント

                    Whoa, he was a mod there? I never knew that. Luckily he didn't seem to cause any problems there.

                    [–]Wyboth 31 ポイント32 ポイント

                    Yeah, he went inactive for two months, so he could be legally removed.

                    [–]lobotomobility 42 ポイント43 ポイント

                    Great! After so long he finally forgot, this will be hilarious when he finds out.

                    [–]potverdorie 54 ポイント55 ポイント

                    delicious racist tears

                    [–]Verwin133 21 ポイント22 ポイント

                    Salty and filled with resentment?

                    [–]DblackRabbit 33 ポイント34 ポイント

                    With a hint of repressed interracial cuckold fantasies.

                    [–]DblackRabbit 5 ポイント6 ポイント

                    It keeps you young....

                    [–]grammar_is_optional 11 ポイント12 ポイント

                    I'm wondering, if he suddenly commented now, would any reddit requests that haven't gone through be rejected? As in, can he "save" his remaining subreddits by suddenly being active again?

                    [–]DblackRabbit 13 ポイント14 ポイント

                    Yes, there is also a three day grace period that /u/soccer can object

                    [–]Wyboth 24 ポイント25 ポイント

                    I think that's only for before they process the request.

                    [–]Aurailious 23 ポイント24 ポイント

                    Yes, once the change has happened its permanent.

                    Congratulations btw.

                    [–]Wyboth 14 ポイント15 ポイント

                    Thank you.

                    [–]DeprestedDevelopment 4 ポイント5 ポイント

                    Usually I don't get people with internet crusades but I feel like you've done a good thing here

                    [–]Turnshroud 8 ポイント9 ポイント

                    Three day grace period. In the past, every time someone tried to take over /u/soccer's subsm, he'd suddenly turn up despite a lack of reddit activity. Does he have email alerts or something?

                    [–]Biffingston 9 ポイント10 ポイント

                    Legit actual question here, is it wrong of me to hope that he's dead?

                    Honestly, I do feel a bit guilty about that. But he is a scumball.

                    [–]mangomandrill 15 ポイント16 ポイント

                    Yeah, it's kinda wrong. I mean, he was a shitbag of a human being, but he's still a person.

                    However, if you were wishing he were dead of natural causes, passing with his family at his side and his last words were: "Oh god, I was an awful person and I want everyone to know I'm sorry"...

                    [–]Biffingston 4 ポイント5 ポイント

                    It's more of "I'm glad he's gone." than "I wish he was dead." to be honest.

                    Of course, a "OH my god I'm a shithead" revelation would be ideal...

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                      [–]Biffingston 14 ポイント15 ポイント

                      Point, the "legally" in the preceding only means "by the rules of reddit." If the owners had balls they'd be perfectly within their rights to remove him for any reason.

                      Just saying.

                      [–]Wyboth 2 ポイント3 ポイント

                      That's true.

                      [–]Gilgamesh- 13 ポイント14 ポイント

                      Incidentally, it's been exactly six months since your kerfuffle post was made.

                      [–]Wyboth 10 ポイント11 ポイント

                      Wow, that's awesome.

                      [–]dirtyrogue 13 ポイント14 ポイント

                      Pretty sure the law wasn't involved in this one

                      [–]Wyboth 16 ポイント17 ポイント

                      By the rules of /r/redditrequest, I meant.

                      [–]Veggie 5 ポイント6 ポイント

                      REDDIT LAW

                      [–]kickit 3 ポイント4 ポイント

                      Maybe he died

                      [–]jet_heller 8 ポイント9 ポイント

                      More likely he ended up in jail.

                      [–]kickit 2 ポイント3 ポイント

                      Or captured by pirates

                      [–]lesser_panjandrum 15 ポイント16 ポイント

                      Or a shadowy cabal of Jews and lizard people got him.

                      [–]DeprestedDevelopment 7 ポイント8 ポイント

                      Wasn't he more of a "niggers" kind of racist or am I thinking of someone else?

                      [–]lesser_panjandrum 9 ポイント10 ポイント

                      I think he had his fingers in lots of racist pies, but I'm not 100% sure either. He was definitely big on Holocaust denial though.

                      [–]Dagda45 5 ポイント6 ポイント

                      (At this posting) he is still the top moderator of /r/holocaust , a subreddit dedicated to proving that the holocaust never happened. I'd say a little of both.

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                        [–]abuttfarting 47 ポイント48 ポイント

                        ding dong, the witch is dead

                        edit: goddamnit somebody already made this joke. Oh well this is reddit so I'll probably get some karma regardless

                        [–]Froghurt 26 ポイント27 ポイント

                        Oh well this is reddit so I'll probably get some karma regardless

                        UPVOTED

                        [–]potverdorie 12 ポイント13 ポイント

                        BUT IT'S A REPOST!

                        DOWNVOTED

                        [–]pc43893 18 ポイント19 ポイント

                        I don't care, hadn't seen it yet. abuttfarting provided a valuable service.

                        UPVOTED

                        [–]jippiejee 6 ポイント7 ポイント

                        On this glorious day, shouldn't we all just celebrate with upvotes? Let's not ruin the mood.

                        [–]potverdorie 7 ポイント8 ポイント

                        y'all a bunch of hippies

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                          [–]rsynnott 16 ポイント17 ポイント

                          9 of the 12 top threads on /r/redditrequest at the moment are requests for subs soccer is squatting.

                          It's the Reddit SpringLate Summer!

                          [–]gizzardgullet 7 ポイント8 ポイント

                          What is the point of squatting? Is it kind of like a child who tries to hoard all the toys for himself because he doesn't want the other kids to play with them?

                          EDIT Never mind - I found this informative source.

                          [–]I_AM_A_IDIOT_AMA 5 ポイント6 ポイント

                          Get your subreddits while they're hot! Ditch your top mod! To the /r/redditrequest we goooo!

                          [–]Legolas-the-elf 2 ポイント3 ポイント

                          Edit: 9 of the 12 top threads on /r/redditrequest at the moment are requests for subs soccer is squatting.

                          I'd been meaning to get the two moderators above me removed from /r/egalitarian for a while (total inactivity), but I did it today because somebody sent me a PM pointing out he was inactive. I suspect other people received similar PMs, which is why there are so many requests for his subreddits.

                          [–]MimesAreShite 2 ポイント3 ポイント

                          Aw, someone beat me to requesting /r/Kyrgyzstan. I am HURT.

                          [–]The_YoungWolf 1 ポイント2 ポイント

                          Unfortunate that /r/holocaust can't also be liberated. I've been keeping an eye on it since I noticed soccer was inactive to see if it was grabbable, but the other neo-nazis are too active.

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                            [–]throwawaytiffany 85 ポイント86 ポイント

                            /u/Wyboth posting /u/soccer's Automoderator config: http://np.reddit.com/r/xkcdcomic/comments/2cz0dc/rxkcd_is_free/cjkfmcf

                            [–]rsynnott 119 ポイント120 ポイント

                            This seems rather like the victorious rebels breaking into the secret police headquarters archives.

                            [–]Bittervirus 62 ポイント63 ポイント

                            Only the archives are nothing but an enemies list and a bunch of barely readable chicken scratch saying not to believe their lies

                            [–]rsynnott 22 ポイント23 ポイント

                            I mean, that's what a lot of dictators' secret files are. Dictators are not usually the most well-balanced :)

                            See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/6840405/Josef-Stalin-defaced-drawings-with-rude-comments.html

                            [–]DblackRabbit 6 ポイント7 ポイント

                            ....Those sketches a just missing a bath tub full of human fat and "All The Wild Horses" playing.

                            [–]Erra0 5 ポイント6 ポイント

                            Quick, loot the place before he gets back!

                            [–]_Kata_ 3 ポイント4 ポイント

                            To me it's more like Black Friday: Reddit version.

                            [–]RamblingHobbes 2 ポイント3 ポイント

                            Clearance subreddits! Everything must go! Limited time offer, buy one get one free!

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                              [–]Wyboth 39 ポイント40 ポイント

                              Want some more?

                              [–]Erikster 23 ポイント24 ポイント

                              Oh shit, it's all coming out now.

                              [–]Wyboth 39 ポイント40 ポイント

                              I'm uploading all of the modmail since I was booted. There's some real gold in there.

                              Edit: Here you go! /u/TheTinGuy's performance is flawless. Also, you get to see /u/KamensGhost admit who his alts were, and a lot of their eeeeeevil plans.

                              [–]StrictScrutiny 8 ポイント9 ポイント

                              I enjoy the admin intervention when they had misleading sidebar links.

                              [–]Wyboth 4 ポイント5 ポイント

                              Yeah, that was great. If only they would have intervened at other times...

                              [–]Froghurt 14 ポイント15 ポイント

                              I like how all moderation was done by kamen and his alts.

                              [–]MimesAreShite 3 ポイント4 ポイント

                              lol @ Flytape trying to set up a subreddit swap between /r/xkcd and /r/stormfront

                              [–]The_YoungWolf 2 ポイント3 ポイント

                              Was TheTinGuy really a sleeper agent?

                              [–]Wyboth 4 ポイント5 ポイント

                              Yes, he was. He did a damn good job, too.

                              [–]Cardboard_Boxer 2 ポイント3 ポイント

                              It's interesting that they only stopped mislabelling links in the sidebar because an admin called them out on it.

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                                [–]IAMA_dragon-AMA 6 ポイント7 ポイント

                                removed link "xkcd 1400: D.B. Cooper"

                                /u/waldo1412 confirmed as D.B. Cooper

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                                  [–]Brostradamus_ 55 ポイント56 ポイント

                                  its fucking hilarious that /u/xkcd , randall himself, had his posts automatically removed from /r/xkcd.

                                  [–]immafiremylaser 26 ポイント27 ポイント

                                  It probably had something to do with this comment.

                                  [–]Aurailious 4 ポイント5 ポイント

                                  Hopefully word gets to him that this happened.

                                  [–]Wyboth 5 ポイント6 ポイント

                                  I'm trying to get through to him in IRC.

                                  [–]KEM10 5 ポイント6 ポイント

                                  Is he deleting all MRA and Redpill mentions because he was trying to mitigate people's accusations?

                                  [–]A_Crazy_Canadian 45 ポイント46 ポイント

                                  I find it funny that the author of XKCD was banned from a subreddit for xkcd.

                                  [–]DiscreteMath 13 ポイント14 ポイント

                                  You have been banned from /r/xkcd

                                  checks post title

                                  /u/soccer is gone? Nvm.

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                                    [–]NoveltyAccountFraud 74 ポイント75 ポイント

                                    Meanwhile, /u/xkcd has not moderated /r/soccer in months and no one bats an eyelash.

                                    [–]chrisinfinitym[S] 7 ポイント8 ポイント

                                    I don't think he ever joined... but lol :p

                                    [–]Matthew94 11 ポイント12 ポイント

                                    it's a joke

                                    [–]SirNeon 28 ポイント29 ポイント

                                    We did it Reddit! This is fantastic news. May /r/xkcd and /r/xkcdcomic reunite at last.

                                    [–]Hasaan5 24 ポイント25 ポイント

                                    We have brought down the berlin wall!! soccers reign!

                                    [–]lesser_panjandrum 2 ポイント3 ポイント

                                    So is /u/soccer Erich Honecker or the Soviet Union in this analogy?

                                    [–]is_this_working 12 ポイント13 ポイント

                                    More importantly: Where's David Hasselhoff?

                                    [–]lesser_panjandrum 9 ポイント10 ポイント

                                    Don't you see? The Hasselhoff was within you all along.

                                    [–]is_this_working 2 ポイント3 ポイント

                                    So, that's where those tire tracks came from?!

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                                      [–]Agent78787 1 ポイント2 ポイント

                                      The USSR, as an /r/xkcd moderator (East Germany's dissident politicians) was oppressed by /u/soccer (representing the USSR).

                                      [–]A_macaroni_pro 25 ポイント26 ポイント

                                      Relevant XKCDs:

                                      http://xkcd.com/258/

                                      http://xkcd.com/513/

                                      http://xkcd.com/966/

                                      http://www.xkcd.com/1357/

                                      [–]sarahbotts 4 ポイント5 ポイント

                                      Always appropriate. Fuck you /u/soccer.

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                                        [–]NameIdeas 24 ポイント25 ポイント

                                        I just looked at his history and noticed he was on /r/holocaust as a mod.

                                        Then I read some of their posts...really /r/holocaust is full of deniers?

                                        What the heck? Dangit reddit.

                                        Anyway...this is good news then

                                        [–]HadraboFernicus 24 ポイント25 ポイント

                                        Denying the holocaust is literally illegal in most European countries. Fuck these people.

                                        [–]NameIdeas 4 ポイント5 ポイント

                                        It should be illegal everywhere. Seriously?!? people....denying it is just ridiculous.

                                        Oh well, there isn't any understanding some folks

                                        [–]ottererfacts 57 ポイント58 ポイント

                                        Don't start that shit here, dude. Just leave it at the fact that Europeans and Americans have very different views on free speech. Almost all Americans strongly believe that someone has the right to publicly deny the holocaust, and most Europeans do not. You aren't going to change anyone's opinion of free speech by arguing it here, as it's an integral part of both respective cultures that is ingrained into us since day one.

                                        Edit: I just realized that this is my novelty account where I post fake facts about otters, not my real one. Pretend you didn't see this comment.

                                        [–]Homomorphism 20 ポイント21 ポイント

                                        Otters have very strong feelings on Holocaust denial laws.

                                        [–]Pyro_With_A_Lighter 5 ポイント6 ポイント

                                        Just re-phrase it to North American and European otters having differing opinions on free speech.

                                        [–]NameIdeas 17 ポイント18 ポイント

                                        Whoa...didn't mean to incite any anger...dang.

                                        I'm not a fan of people going against all scholarship, research, and history just because they feel like.

                                        As an American, I believe in the right to free speech, but I'm opposed to hate speech. Denying the holocaust, could be classified as hate speech.

                                        But I digress. I'm always open to seeing both sides of an issue. I had a student who was a holocaust denier my second year teaching. I had him do a research paper defending that position. He had to find ten reputable sources (professors, well-known names in the field, journalists, documents from the time, etc) to prove the holocaust didn't happen. He also had to present the opposite side and find ten reputable sources claiming the Holocaust did occur. All in all, it was a great lesson in research and finding reputable sources for the student.

                                        He told me at the time he still believed the Holocaust was made up, but a few years later he mentioned he was thinking about it more deeply.

                                        [–]kupiakos 10 ポイント11 ポイント

                                        I think the difference is that in America, it's not illegal to deny it, but not everybody has to put up with your crap. In fact, relevant xkcd!

                                        [–]GoldenGoat 3 ポイント4 ポイント

                                        As an American, I believe in the right to free speech, but I'm opposed to hate speech.

                                        You can't just support the right of free speech as it applies to speech you agree with. That undermines the entire concept.

                                        I for one think odious points of view are better left uncensored not only because of the principle of it but because it shines a light of scrutiny on those views. Leave those things alone so the rest of us can look at them and laugh!

                                        [–]theprinceoftrajan 1 ポイント2 ポイント

                                        Hearing an opposition argument, no matter how weak, strengthens your own argument. That's why I believe that even holocaust deniers should be allowed to speak. By silencing an opinion by force you are in a way admitting that your argument is not strong enough to hold up. Just my opinion.

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                                            [–]smooshie 11 ポイント12 ポイント

                                            Yup :(

                                            /r/hashoah seems to be the main alternative

                                            [–]NameIdeas 2 ポイント3 ポイント

                                            Cool, much better alternative

                                            [–]DuapDuap 24 ポイント25 ポイント

                                            Do you hear the people sing?

                                            Singing the songs of angry men

                                            It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again

                                            When the beating of your heart

                                            Echoes the beating of the drums

                                            There is a life about to start when tomorrow comes!

                                            [–]magdalenian 9 ポイント10 ポイント

                                            Do you hear the users sing?

                                            Singing the song of squatting mods

                                            It is the music of a people who don't accept /u/soccer's frauds!

                                            When the clicking of your mouse

                                            Upvotes the request thread by one

                                            There is a sub to be set free when tomorrow comes!

                                            [–]magdalenian 3 ポイント4 ポイント

                                            Will you join in our crusade?

                                            Who will be strong and stand with me?

                                            Beyond the vote brigade?

                                            Is there a sub you long to see?

                                            Then join in the fight that will give you the right to be free!

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                                                [–]aroes 43 ポイント44 ポイント

                                                Well, that was unexpected. I wonder what caused them all to leave so suddenly. Now it looks like /u/thetinguy and /u/Wyboth are in charge. Hopefully now /r/xkcd and /r/xkcdcomic can reunite and consolidate the fanbase!

                                                Edit: bonus slapfight in this thread!

                                                [–]Froghurt 15 ポイント16 ポイント

                                                Kamen and his alts got chucked about 10 days ago, leaving only /u/soccer and /u/flytape to squat the subs.

                                                [–]Ivoirians 18 ポイント19 ポイント

                                                Right now /u/soccer is still the mod of 62 subs; at the rate things are going in /r/redditrequest, we might see all of them go by the end of the day! Exciting!

                                                [–]WatchEachOtherSleep 23 ポイント24 ポイント

                                                That said, I want to remind everyone that requesting a subreddit counts under brigading-ish by the admins. If you saw this thread (&, well, you did unless you're creeping my post history), DON'T REQUEST ANYTHING. We got in trouble when this happened with /u/mayonesa.

                                                [–]malaiser 14 ポイント15 ポイント

                                                They think everything is brigading. Geez.

                                                [–]chrisinfinitym[S] 5 ポイント6 ポイント

                                                What about /r/holocaust? A bunch of people still are active on it.

                                                [–]Ivoirians 6 ポイント7 ポイント

                                                I guess I was overexcited, he's bottom mod for some random subs too. Still looking forward to seeing if the 20+ requests right now for his subs are going to go through.

                                                [–]magdalenian 3 ポイント4 ポイント

                                                I think r/holocaust is a lost cause, someone from circlebroke requested it 6 months ago and a bunch of mods ended up coming back and objecting, and then modding like 10 new people to make sure they had control.

                                                [–]cramin2 19 ポイント20 ポイント

                                                I imagine /u/soccer thought the sub would be safe if he left KamensGhost and his alts to remain active as mods. Then they got shadowbanned, which probably left everybody inactive long enough for the sub to be redditrequested.

                                                Also, I feel bad for expecting and being excited about stupid SRS drama surrounding Wyboth.

                                                EDIT: IT'S HAPPENING

                                                [–]butyourenice 2 ポイント3 ポイント

                                                Who is chrisinfinitym and why is that user so familiar to me? Is he an SRD regular?

                                                Edit: ahahaha he's the OP. IAmA dolt, AMA. To my credit I can't help but feel I've encountered him before though.

                                                [–]QuelqueChoseRose 27 ポイント28 ポイント

                                                To quote John Oliver, free at last, free at last, thank God for technicalities, we're free at last.

                                                [–]RawbHaze 14 ポイント15 ポイント

                                                Hell yes! Fuck /u/soccer's Stormfront ass.

                                                [–]ttumblrbots 14 ポイント15 ポイント

                                                SnapShots: 1, 2, 3 [?]

                                                Anyone know an alternative to Readability? Send me a PM!

                                                [–]lobotomobility 4 ポイント5 ポイント

                                                Poor bot got downvoted, who would do such a terrible thing?!

                                                [–]BEZthePEZ 7 ポイント8 ポイント

                                                WELL IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME

                                                [–]cramin2 7 ポイント8 ポイント

                                                WE DID IT REDDIT!

                                                [–]Drew-Pickles 6 ポイント7 ポイント

                                                Could someone explain to the guy who's completely out of the loop who /u/soccer is and why this is such a big deal?

                                                [–]chrisinfinitym[S] 12 ポイント13 ポイント

                                                http://np.reddit.com/r/self/comments/1xdwba/the_history_of_the_rxkcd_kerfuffle/

                                                [–]mrboombastic123 4 ポイント5 ポイント

                                                That is one of the most well referenced posts I have seen.

                                                [–]Turnshroud 7 ポイント8 ポイント

                                                /u/soccer is also losing power, and /r/redditrequest is looking beautiful today. REJOICE! REJOICE!

                                                Also I went back and dug up some lold lists of squatzi-run subreddits

                                                [–]CosmicKeys 5 ポイント6 ポイント

                                                Wow! Perhaps this had something to do with /r/egalitarian and /r/vietnam:

                                                http://np.reddit.com/r/redditrequest/comments/2cyqza/requesting_regalitarian_already_a_moderator_those/

                                                http://np.reddit.com/r/redditrequest/comments/2cyrfw/request_the_removal_of_usoccer_from_rvietnam/

                                                Either way we are one squatter down!

                                                [–]insertfunnyusername 5 ポイント6 ポイント

                                                I'm a mod at /r/VietNam

                                                I got a mod mail from a brand new account saying that /u/soccer was inactive and another user had got him removed. I checked it was accurate and jumped on the wagon straight away. It all went through pretty quickly after that.

                                                [–]is_this_working 2 ポイント3 ポイント

                                                Apparently you're not the only one who got a PM about his inactivity.

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                                                  [–]Implacable_Porifera 4 ポイント5 ポイント

                                                  When you play the game of squats, you login or you die.

                                                  [–]bpwnz 9 ポイント10 ポイント

                                                  I secretly hope the subreddit somehow falls into the hand of a bigger bigot. Just for the drama, and because /r/xkcdcomic is already offering the community what it needs.

                                                  [–]chrisinfinitym[S] 4 ポイント5 ポイント

                                                  I would suggest /r/xkcd, because of the brand name and it has more subscribers.

                                                  [–]DF44 3 ポイント4 ポイント

                                                  Seems like they're merging - It happens a fair bit (I've done it to redirect a certain website's empty subreddit to a relevant sub, and it happenned when /r/AceAttorney and /r/PhoenixWright were merged).

                                                  It's good news though, I'm surprised that soccer let it lapse. :)

                                                  [–]niamhish 4 ポイント5 ポイント

                                                  Fantastic news!

                                                  [–]everyotherredditor 3 ポイント4 ポイント

                                                  Not really drama, but great news.

                                                  [–]IAMA_dragon-AMA 3 ポイント4 ポイント

                                                  So... is /r/xkcd or /r/xkcdcomic going to be the primary xkcd sub now?

                                                  [–]Cardboard_Boxer 3 ポイント4 ポイント

                                                  XKCD. XKCDComic is going to be a redirect.

                                                  [–]Orinix 3 ポイント4 ポイント

                                                  Can anyone explain the whole /u/soccer fiasco?

                                                  [–]Wyboth 3 ポイント4 ポイント

                                                  http://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/1xdwba/the_history_of_the_rxkcd_kerfuffle/

                                                  [–]cam94509 3 ポイント4 ポイント

                                                  Get fucked, /u/soccer!

                                                  Ha, it's really good to see something good happen here on reddit.

                                                  [–]imnotlegolas 3 ポイント4 ポイント

                                                  Wow, this is some first class /r/justiceporn shit.

                                                  I imagine he just missed the date to post once every three months and will log in soon to do these things, only to find out he's been booted from most his subs! What i'd give for his reaction when he finds out....

                                                  [–]allthefoxes 1 ポイント2 ポイント

                                                  DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD

                                                  [–]The_YoungWolf 2 ポイント3 ポイント

                                                  Also, the modmail is absolutely fascinating. It confirms almost everything I suspected about the place, including most every single added mod being a KamensGhost sockpuppet and Flytape attempting to negotiate a trade for r/stormfront

                                                  [–]Coworker_as_Fuck 0 ポイント1 ポイント

                                                  Reddit Drama of the year nominee right here folks!

                                                  [–]MasterSaturday 1 ポイント2 ポイント

                                                  Gee, I would think the mod of /r/xkcd would be /u/xkcd.

                                                  [–]anonymau5 2 ポイント3 ポイント

                                                  Finally. Fuck that sad-ass, third grader bullshit.

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