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[–]PureSmoulder[S] 3494 points3495 points3496 points  (787 children)
Don't worry, I'll tank it out with you.
/r/ShitRedditSays says reddit's shit, but they're still on it.
Edit: My inbox is so stuffed it took me scrolling down here and reading my own comment to realise I had gold. Well, thanks.
[–]Kerscatch 2450 points2451 points2452 points  (786 children)
SRS is just sjws trying to make reddit conform to their stupid cult beliefs
[–]BlindfoldedNinja 1248 points1249 points1250 points  (785 children)
Oh... its says cult
[–]metaredditcancer 2290 points2291 points2292 points x3 (784 children)
SRS is actually an internet cult and they meet most of the criteria needed for being a cult. The way in which they effectively serve as an internet cult is that it is possible for anyone to easily join the cult so long as they have an internet connection and a reddit account and are willing to do exactly what they are told by the SRS moderator hierarchy and the people who control and run the subreddit. The worst thing about Shitredditsays, however, isn't that they have their own shitty subreddit that makes zero sense to the outside world and to those who are sane and don't believe in the views of social justice warriors and radical feminists. The worst thing about SRS is that they and their friends from other like-minded subreddits on reddit - with the cooperation and unspoken support of a few reddit administrators - have managed to turn reddit into Digg 2.0 where a clique of users who are chummy and friendly with each other have managed to take over a very large portion of this website. The users who have turned reddit into Digg 2.0 and who threaten to ruin the site are what I and some others who understand the situation have come to know as and refer to as "metareddit cancer." I have taken it upon myself to go ahead and create the subreddit /r/metaredditcancer to act as a watchdog that chronicles everything that this cabal of reddit users are doing to turn reddit into Digg 2.0 and - in particular - to turn the site into a place run by social justice warrior and feminist moderators who tolerate no deviation from their beliefs in the numerous subreddits that they have come to control as moderators.
My hope is that after reading this comment of mine that you will subscribe to /r/metaredditcancer so that you can stay well-informed about a very serious situation that has arisen - largely unknown to most users - on this website so that we can all gain a greater understanding of what a powerful cabal of agenda-driven users are doing to and have done to this site that we all love. I am a long-time user on reddit who has intimate and in-depth knowledge of this cabal and who has modded multiple subreddits both large and small, who has been intimately involved in discussion with this cabal of users regarding their control of reddit, who knows what their agenda is and what they want to do with their power and control, who has sat in their private discussions in internet chat rooms, who has seen leaks from their private subreddits, and who has absolutely had enough of what they have done to reddit and of what they will continue to do to this site unless the rest of this site is exposed to who and what they are and what their endgame is. What happened to Digg and what has happened to 4chan very recently is undeniably and positively what is happening to reddit now and what has been happening here since 2012.
The cabal of users and moderators who I refer to as "metareddit cancer" hail from the subreddits Shitredditsays, circlebroke, Braveryjerk, circlejerk, TheBluePill, SubredditDrama, SRDbroke, and Drama. This cabal of users are - for the most part - the moderators of these subreddits and these users also control many other subreddits with thousands and even hundreds of thousands of subscribers. They mod subreddits like /r/news, /r/politics, /r/worldnews, /r/Subredditdrama, /r/creepyPMs, /r/offmychest, /r/TIFU, /r/explainlikeimfive, /r/changemyview, /r/LGBT, and numerous other subreddits where they have managed to worm their way into moderator positions over the years and then go on to have total control over the type of discussion that goes on in their subreddits. They make sure that any discussion that goes against their social justice and feminist beliefs is censored and controlled and/or they mod their subreddits like ban-happy dictators who get rid of anyone who breaks the circlejerk that goes on in their subreddits every week. This is absolutely the case with offmychest, creepyPMs, and Subredditdrama. Maybe the worst example of their way of worming into moderator positions and destroying subreddits is that of /r/LGBT and how 2 transsexual radfem SRS trolls - one of which has become infamous on reddit and other chan websites - managed to take control of the subreddit in 2012 and then acted like dictators and abused their power so badly that reddit's administrators had to be called into the drama. The admins refused to remove the two SRS moderators, the LGBT subreddit went into meltdown because of them, and this led to the subreddit being ruined and people having to flock to the newly created /r/ainbow subreddit because one of the biggest forums for discussing LGBT issues on the internet was taken over by members of Shitredditsays. This is the first notable time that SRS and other metareddit cancer have taken control of subreddits and they've gone on to manipulate reddit's subreddit request system to bring even more subreddits under their control. They organize subreddit request attempts in private subreddits where they plan out their agenda and they do the same in their internet relay chat rooms as well. I can say with total confidence that there is no other reddit clique and group operating on this website that looks to take over and control as many subreddits as they can in a clear and indisputable attempt to control the flow of conversation so that conversations in any given subreddit always lean and kowtow to radical feminism and a perverted form of social justice. NO OTHER GROUP EXISTS that is looking to take over as much of this site as possible.
One of the more troubling things that I have come to understand having been an intimately involved user of reddit for years, is that some of reddit's current and past administrators support and belong to this cabal of metareddit cancer. An administrator who was fired from reddit two years ago immediately was added as a mod of Shitredditsays as soon as he left his admin role and made clear what some users had already known: he was literally a member of Shitredditsays and as an admin he used his power to carry out SRS's agenda. He routinely ostracized and terminated the accounts of (shadowbanned) people who posted in subreddits that SRS want destroyed and now he sits as a moderator of SRS. This is one of the biggest yet unknown bits of corruption in reddit's history yet you wouldn't know it because the subreddit created as a watchdog for this sort of thing - /r/Subredditdrama - was taken over by SRS and reddit metacancer in 2013 and they censor discussion about themselves so that people aren't aware of what is going on. The takeover of SubredditDrama is one of the worst things that has ever happened on this website because of its 150K subscriber size and because the very people who are the problem that I am discussing happen to be in control of SubredditDrama. This is clearly a monumental conflict of interest given that anything nefarious that this group of users do cannot be openly discussed in SubredditDrama without their consent.
What caused this cabal to come to be and what is it that unites them in their desire to control the site through moderator power and through cliques?
  • A need for friendship that's lacking in real life. A # of users involved in this cabal are depressed, aren't "cool", are LGBT (more difficult to be included socially if you are a member of this group in real life), are social outcasts, or just want to have some internet friends because they spend a lot of time on this site. This last reason differs a bit from the other reasons and is different in that some users - a smaller number - belonging to this cabal get drawn into it without knowing what the agenda is and they simply just want some internet friends. However, they always cave to the agenda when it is brought up (perverted feminism and social justice and tightly-controlled, censorship-happy moderation in the cabal's subreddits) and so it doesn't matter that their intentions for joining the cabal were innocent. In the end, they always come around and you can already see how this is cult-like behavior. Anyone who doesn't toe-the-line and go along with the agenda is shunned or cast out. I've spent time talking to one of them who was cast out of one of the cabal's private subreddits after realizing that the nature of the cabal and "group of friends" wasn't innocent and that everything revolved around feminism, social justice, and the ego-driven desire to control as many subs as possible. The scary thing about my interaction with this cast-out former member is that the cabal looks to get your name and personal information. They do this through their everyday IRC chats and in Facebook groups where some choose to take friend requests with their real names. Others use new Facebook profiles with their reddit names. This cast-out user used his real account and he knows now that a reason why they send friend invites is so that you think twice about going against them because then they have your personal info and can come after you with threats at home, work, and anywhere else.
  • What the users in the cabal do to gain entrance is act smug and superior (social justice, feminism, morality policing) to redditors. The cabal acts as their cool kids club that they weren't good enough for in real life. THAT IS HOW AND WHY THEY ARE FRIENDS AND WHAT BINDS THEM TOGETHER BECAUSE ANYONE CAN ACT THIS WAY.
A cabal on Digg is what led to the deterioration of the site and is what led to the migration that saw users flood to reddit. I'll be damned if I watch the same type of behavior from a group of a few dozen users continue to move reddit towards becoming Digg 2.0. 4chan has been thrown into a serious mess like this after Moot gave mod positions to authoritarian mods in the last year who now control the site given his recent abdication as site admin. Let's not let this develop further on reddit because there's a point of no return.
TL;DR: The SRS cabal controls too much of and is ruining reddit
[–]Jace_the_mind 1706 points1707 points1708 points  (85 children)
Holy shit
[–]EZ_Smith 92 points93 points94 points  (8 children)
What the guy before me said
[–]Jonny_Segment 151 points152 points153 points  (7 children)
What the guy after me says.
Edit: Why I oughta!
[–]cyclicamp 373 points374 points375 points  (6 children)
I'm a stupid moron with an ugly face and a big butt and my butt smells, and I like to kiss my own butt.
[–]LlamaKing01 94 points95 points96 points  (3 children)
What the guy before me said
[–]Windows_97 26 points27 points28 points  (1 child)
What the guy after you said.
[–]BigglesNZ 12 points13 points14 points  (0 children)
That's what she said
[–]tlingitsoldier 6 points7 points8 points  (0 children)
Ugh, wait a minute...
[–]MadlockFreak 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
Hey, you said it. Not me.
[–]czarchastic 7 points8 points9 points  (0 children)
I literally said this out loud as I was fast swiping through it on my phone.
[–]El_Muchacho999 7 points8 points9 points  (0 children)
what the fuck
[–]Ron-Swanson 11 points12 points13 points  (1 child)
An administrator who was fired from reddit two years ago immediately was added as a mod of Shitredditsays as soon as he left his admin role and made clear what some users had already known: he was literally a member of Shitredditsays and as an admin he used his power to carry out SRS's agenda.
wow.
[–]stln00b 6 points7 points8 points  (0 children)
/u/intortus is a scumbag.
[–]idwthis 31 points32 points33 points  (50 children)
I know, like I want to read that, because it seemed to start off interesting, but fuck! I have shit to do, I ain't got time for that.
I need a TL;DR or an ELI5 here for /u/metaredditcancer's novel.
[–]GhostRider22 60 points61 points62 points  (41 children)
Femenist social just warriors are in the process of taking over reddit, they are pushing their agenda and banning anyone or any posts that disagree with them. They are supported by at least two reddit admins
[–]qzapmlwxonskjdhdnejj 15 points16 points17 points  (1 child)
That cupcake woman is gone tho so you can cross her off the list thank god. When she joined the team my IP got softbanned. Meaning I can not create another account. It happened after I had a fight with the /r/creepypms mods.
[–]stln00b -3 points-2 points-1 points  (0 children)
Bullshit. /u/cupcake1713 was pretty anti-sjw. Many times she took the banhammer to SRS brigades that I reported. She and sporkicide are the good guys.
[–]GhostRider22 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Funny how that's a closed sub for the rest of us
[–]GhostRider22 -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
Funny how that's a closed sub for the rest of us
[–]Zorkamork 4 points5 points6 points  (33 children)
Just to be clear where exactly is this takeover happening?
[–]GhostRider22 11 points12 points13 points  (27 children)
Read the parent comment...
[–]Zorkamork 58 points59 points60 points  (26 children)
No I'm not reading a massive conspiracy article about how feminists killed digg and shit, point me to exactly where in Reddit the evil feminists are taking over? Is it in justiceporn where basically any image of a woman being injured is met with 'lol EQUAL RIGHTS EQUAL LEFTS RIGHT BITCH'? Is it in videos where if a woman is present and makes noise they flip out about what an annoying bitch she is? Is it in literally any sub with pictures where if a woman includes herself in a picture showing something the same tired old 'lol attention whore' images are posted to shame her for having a face?
Maybe it's in the defaults where if you literally post a picture of any woman, including your own mother or sister or whatever, you have tons of strangers telling you they want to fuck them?
Boy this feminist coup is really ineffective.
[–]peckahinspectah 1 point2 points3 points  (2 children)
Social justice slacktivists inject themselves into mod positions of popular subreddits
[–]Pulchy -5 points-4 points-3 points  (0 children)
[–]ProtoDong 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
You can always hideout in /r/technology... not a woman near there for years... and SJWs can't computar.
[–]ryan_goslings_smile -7 points-6 points-5 points  (0 children)
We all wish, bb. Trust.
[–][deleted]  (3 children)
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    [–]TAKEitTOrCIRCLEJERK -31 points-30 points-29 points  (1 child)
    this is a user who has a real, real hate-on for... basically everyone and everything. but us, specifically.
    [–]KrustyKoonKrackers 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
    Us as in SRS? We know TITS, we know.....
    [–]GhastlyGrim -16 points-15 points-14 points  (1 child)
    Basically he forgot his medication and thinks anyone who disagrees with him is a radical feminist and that its not possible other people could just have different views than his without some grand conspiracy.
    [–]bobbycans 5 points6 points7 points  (0 children)
    Its not about having different opinions. Different opinions are great, but its when your opinions, or anyone elses opinion, is forced on the majority. SRS tells people how to think.
    [–]chrisman01 16 points17 points18 points  (2 children)
    Wellll. Fuck. Good thing I don't visit many of those subs.
    On the other hand, first the came for the defaults, and I said nothing. Then they involved the Admins, and I still said nothing...
    [–]Bobboy5 11 points12 points13 points  (1 child)
    And then they came for my niche community and there was no one left to speak out.
    [–]sharks9022 7 points8 points9 points  (0 children)
    Um
    [–][deleted]  (6 children)
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      [–]Jace_the_mind 8 points9 points10 points  (0 children)
      Uncommon?
      Jace is typically a Mythic. :)
      [–]DonQuixoteReference 1 point2 points3 points  (2 children)
      Sculptor
      I couldn't not say it
      [–]Jace_the_mind 0 points1 point2 points  (1 child)
      Character limit screwed me.
      [–]jacobetes 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      I feel like the BR list screwed you more. I believe in a modern format with Jace.
      [–]the_yeasty_cunt 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      I didn't read any of it
      [–]sprinklesofbullshit 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
      More like lol.
      These are real people.
      [–]rjoseba 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      The invasion of the neck beards
      [–]Obamathellamafarma 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      _sculptor ftfy
      [–]marcdreezy -2 points-1 points0 points  (0 children)
      How long did u read before scrolling Down to see how long in the actual fuck that bullshit was? I made it to 1/4 way Down before my brain started interpreting it as shjt djrjdndneke jn r d. &》_£ £¡;》&#,# #&-;
      [–]MovkeyB -2 points-1 points0 points  (0 children)
      Holy shit.
      He got shadowbanned.
      He deserved it.
      [–]monk3ytheboy 111 points112 points113 points  (22 children)
      Ok I'll subscribe to your subreddit. But in return you have to subscribe to mine, /r/bugfights
      All bug fights, all the time! There's no social justice but there's survival of the fittest?
      [–]WhapXI 44 points45 points46 points  (0 children)
      survival of the fittest
      So ableist! Shadowbanned!
      [–]VT-Sensational 14 points15 points16 points  (4 children)
      Well if we're going down this route: /r/avocadofighting
      [–]SenorSpicyBeans[🍰] 5 points6 points7 points  (1 child)
      I had to see if this was really a thing.
      [–]VT-Sensational 7 points8 points9 points  (0 children)
      One can dream.
      Meanwhile, to make sure I'm an OP that delivers, /r/TAKBIR has actual content.
      [–]bannana 1 point2 points3 points  (1 child)
      there are zero fighting avocados in your sub, fuck you.
      [–]VT-Sensational 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      Ain't my fault, this site is supposed to have user generated content.
      [–]mrspoon344 6 points7 points8 points  (0 children)
      Haha holy shit that's great, I'm eating so I won't watch now but that's a cool sub
      [–]taco_town 4 points5 points6 points  (0 children)
      Not conspiracy man but I just subbed to his and yours
      [–]newly_registered_guy 4 points5 points6 points  (0 children)
      That subreddit is amazing.
      [–]insertkarma2theleft 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
      Hey I'll subscribe to yours if you visit my sub. /r/whatsthatgif basicly I thought it could be a fun way to find gifs on reddit considering the search engine sucks
      [–]bannana 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
      finally something worthwhile in this subthread. I'm totally in for /r/bugfights.
      [–]7thst 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      fuck that sub gave me goosebumps me out more than I thought it would.
      Funny, seeing two MMA fighters beat shit out of each other has little to no effect,
      [–]Ucantalas 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      Bug fights?!?!
      You have a new subscriber!
      [–]MohammedFromNorway8 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      /r/EmpireTV for the show, guys.
      [–]Kancer86 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      Subbed!
      [–]kenman 1 point2 points3 points  (1 child)
      How's that different from /r/bugwars?
      [–]monk3ytheboy 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      Holy crap!!! It's literally the exact same sub!!!! Lmao! I can't believe I basically recreated the exact same thing. I don't even know how to fix this! This is embarrassing...
      [–]wtfiswrongwithit 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      That's a pretty cool sub, i subscribed
      [–]Vulcam 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
      I was a little unsure at first, but I think I have found my new favorite Subreddit.
      [–]ChesterHiggenbothum -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
      I subscribed. Now can I shamelessly advertise my subreddit? It's /r/satchel. Everything you ever wanted to know about satchels. All satchels, all the time.
      [–]paincoats 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      holy shit this is a brilliant idea for a subreddit
      [–]that_nagger_guy 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      I thought I was a longtime subscriber there but it turns out I wasn't. I wonder why the bugs are so mad at each other.
      [–]sxeblue 55 points56 points57 points  (55 children)
      Don't forget /r/gaming
      [–]Andrewticus04 110 points111 points112 points  (54 children)
      Yeah, funny how a scandal about corruption in the media turned into "you hate women if you disagree with conflicts of interest in the media."
      [–]Sirinon 8 points9 points10 points  (0 children)
      Also suspicious mass shadowbannings.
      [–]Hemingwavy -2 points-1 points0 points  (0 children)
      After they chased two women out their houses and ignored the journalists that supposedly had conflicts of interest.
      [–]bigfinnrider -8 points-7 points-6 points  (1 child)
      It's funny that some gamers just figured out that consumer product media is tightly linked to the industries that produce the products. Everyone who has ever read a car, motorcycle, bicycle, gun, photography, etc... magazine already knew.
      Also it's funny how the gamerghazi shitshow started with some asshole insulting his ex girlfriend because she might have cheated on him and was obviously a lot happier without him.
      [–]Derpsti 8 points9 points10 points  (0 children)
      Sorry bro, but corruption alone would probably not have started all this. Come back again when all of these consumer product medias shit all over said consumers and look like this: http://imgur.com/a/VUHxA and when they finally had enough and complain with concrete examples of wrongdoing to top it off they try to shut it down all across the Internet.
      [–]Zorkamork -30 points-29 points-28 points  (28 children)
      It just so happens the most pressing issue of corruption in the media is almost entirely 'sjws' and women right?
      [–]fia_bui 12 points13 points14 points  (3 children)
      Most of them are straight white men actually, although they do almost uniformly support SJW politics. That's not important though, they could be hardline conservatives, it would still be corrupt.
      [–]LvLupXD comment score below threshold-8 points-7 points-6 points  (2 children)
      But the problem with the GG conversation was that the focus never properly fixated on that.
      [–]Andrewticus04 27 points28 points29 points  (21 children)
      No, who said that?
      Honestly, if that's your first thought, then you're pretty sexist. Media corruption is gender agnostic.
      [–]Zorkamork comment score below threshold-19 points-18 points-17 points  (20 children)
      Right it's just GG just happens to view their biggest enemies as 'sjw' types and assorted minorities who don't agree with them.
      [–]Tumblr_PrivilegeMAN 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
      You meant Jews right.
      [–][deleted]  (19 children)
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        [–]usually_buoyant 20 points21 points22 points  (7 children)
        Cabal
        [–]phil_my_osophy 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
        Fucking Comcast!!
        [–]tvc_15 3 points4 points5 points  (4 children)
        actually, we prefer coven.
        [–][deleted]  (2 children)
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          [–]BeachHouseKey -3 points-2 points-1 points  (0 children)
          You can prefer whatever you want; despite your best efforts, your not one of them.
          [–]Harb1ng3r 51 points52 points53 points  (15 children)
          I know they run /r/offmychest , that was one of my favorite subreddits until /u/TimPowerGamer, the original mod, or one of the last original mods left. You can read the whole thing here. https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1oya54/developing_mod_drama_over_in_roffmychest_one_mod/
          [–]TimPowerGamer 108 points109 points110 points  (9 children)
          Yeah. Sorry guys. I couldn't stop the take over.
          SRS had the subreddit from the beginning. The afk original moderator was a backup account of one of the many SRS activists. After another mod and I made that subreddit into a damn good place, they popped back in. We couldn't do anything about it, so the other mod left.
          I stuck it out for a while (I wasn't belligerent enough to get rid of, but my dissatisfaction was showing), but those recruitment posts were actually happening before I left, and that's one of the reasons WHY I left. I tried butting heads, but they wouldn't have it, so I left on my own terms instead of on theirs.
          [–]Harb1ng3r 23 points24 points25 points  (1 child)
          Nothing you could do man, that subreddit was awesome while you were in charge.
          [–]JosephAverage -5 points-4 points-3 points  (0 children)
          How exactly has it changed since he hasn't been in charge? Seems to be the same as always
          [–]BeachHouseKey 5 points6 points7 points  (2 children)
          Let me just ask, do you believe the original post?
          [–]TimPowerGamer 5 points6 points7 points  (1 child)
          Is offmychest toxic? The administration is. The community, I'm admittedly not certain on.
          [–]lWarChicken 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
          No, the one by /u/metaredditcancer
          [–]myalias1 3 points4 points5 points  (1 child)
          Bit out of the loop...around what time did this happen?
          [–]TimPowerGamer 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
          It's been something like two years now.
          [–]19bfriendzonest 1 point2 points3 points  (1 child)
          What happened to it after you left?
          [–]TimPowerGamer 7 points8 points9 points  (0 children)
          Well, they went full SRS, banning people for making posts that they didn't agree with and taking a radical spin on the moderation of the subreddit. We frequently get individuals in /r/trueoffmychest (I didn't name it, name kind of sucks) about people angry for getting banned from offmychest for no good reason.
          [–]ProcrastinHater 13 points14 points15 points  (1 child)
          For what it's worth /r/TrueOffMyChest is a smaller, more sincere alternative that doesn't censor or have radfem/SJW dictators for mods. Check it out.
          [–]SecondHarleqwin 7 points8 points9 points  (0 children)
          For now. :(
          [–]The14thNoah 4 points5 points6 points  (0 children)
          Coming from SRD, that first comment is ironic in this situation.
          [–]The_Schwarzenigger 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
          Wow. I went to the sidebar on offmychest and all the way at the bottom under "resources" is "A visit from the political correctness police" and "Six rules for allies". Wtf does that have to do with getting things off your chest?
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            [–]armrha 122 points123 points124 points  (5 children)
            Wordpress doesn't have a default password. It generates a random one for you at the end of its config...
            [–]peckahinspectah 19 points20 points21 points  (2 children)
            So... does this make tomnomnom an inside job false flag distraction?
            [–]paincoats 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
            or just a hardcore renegade hacker who can type admin:admin into a user/pass form. bet he even runs kali linux and defaces hardcore sites like grandmasflowers.com
            [–]armrha 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
            I have no idea... is there really any way to tell?
            [–]Pyxnotix 20 points21 points22 points  (0 children)
            That was my first thought also.
            [–]TigerHall 28 points29 points30 points  (3 children)
            Are you sure Wordpress even has a default password these days?
            [–]Benthetraveler 8 points9 points10 points  (2 children)
            stchatterbox Member Posted 9 years ago #
            wordpress create a special password for you during installation and you may change the password to your own preference after logging in.
            kekkekkek
            [–]TigerHall 12 points13 points14 points  (1 child)
            Pretty sure that password is different for each account - a random alphanumeric string.
            [–]Benthetraveler 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
            I think that's what stchatterbox meant by "special password for you"...9 years ago.
            [–]ceejayoz 20 points21 points22 points  (1 child)
            WordPress doesn't have a default password. A random one is generated each time you install the software.
            [–]ProtoDong 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
            With all the vulnerabilities you might as well use a default password.
            [–]jagex_blocks_ur_pass 19 points20 points21 points  (0 children)
            God damn bro dat adderall
            [–]muhbatt 54 points55 points56 points  (0 children)
            You just got everyone in this thread banned from reddit
            [–]TrynnaFindaBalance 16 points17 points18 points  (8 children)
            Honest question: what are these hateful and radical views?
            [–]ncbstp 7 points8 points9 points  (0 children)
            I think he's referring to the radical feminist and SJW agenda.
            If you're unaware of what a SJW (Social Justice Warrior) is, here's a reference from Urban Dictionary:
            Social Justice Warrior. A pejorative term for an individual who repeatedly and vehemently engages in arguments on social justice on the Internet, often in a shallow or not well-thought-out way, for the purpose of raising their own personal reputation. A social justice warrior, or SJW, does not necessarily strongly believe all that they say, or even care about the groups they are fighting on behalf of. They typically repeat points from whoever is the most popular blogger or commenter of the moment, hoping that they will "get SJ points" and become popular in return. They are very sure to adopt stances that are "correct" in their social circle.
            The SJW's favorite activity of all is to dogpile. Their favorite websites to frequent are Livejournal and Tumblr. They do not have relevant favorite real-world places, because SJWs are primarily civil rights activists only online.

            1:

            A social justice warrior reads an essay about a form of internal misogyny where women and girls insult stereotypical feminine activities and characteristics in order to boost themselves over other women.
            The SJW absorbs this and later complains in response to a Huffington Post article about a 10-year-old feminist's letter, because the 10-year-old called the color pink "prissy".

            2:

            Commnter: "I don't like getting manicures. It's too prissy."
            SJW: "Oh my god, how fucking dare you use that word, you disgusting sexist piece of shit!"
            There's recently been a backlash online with lots of SJW influence in huge social networks most notably Tumblr and recently 4chan.
            These blogs have been lead by prominent figures involved with the feminist movement and have been attributed to the
            gain [of] policies that advantage women, often disadvantaging men in the process. (Though they still claim to be about equality) They have lobbied for and won many pieces of legislation that advantage women.
            Just a few examples:
            They got women included in affirmative action encouraging employers to give some favoritism to female applicants.
            The Women's Educational Equity Act helped feminism favor girls in K-12 education, which is a large part of why fewer boys go onto college these days.
            The Violence Against Women Act, as the name suggests is about women's interest, in contrast to most laws which treat men and women equally.
            They have gotten most colleges to lower the standard for finding men guilty of sexual assault, thus creating more false "convictions".
            [–]Benthetraveler -6 points-5 points-4 points  (5 children)
            They don't exist much like the blogs. He made it up.
            [–]Zenith77 1 point2 points3 points  (4 children)
            These people are literally creating their own fantasy land where they are being attacked. They have an entire narrative that they believe is true without anything to back it up.
            But holy shit they're angry about it. Like legit taint troubled over nothing except the things they think are happening.
            Please, someone explain to me, how this is not crazy.
            His story about Digg is entirely funny given that the reason for Digg's downfall was widely popularized. I am not even sure how it got past so many people.
            This is some war on christmas bullshit.
            Great copy pasta though.
            [–]SalamiRocketFuel 0 points1 point2 points  (3 children)
            You are a sad human being, one day you will realize it. But for now, sorry for laughing at you.
            [–]rainbow_llama_dragon 40 points41 points42 points  (14 children)
            I am too stoned for this
            [–]TheDoctorEngineer 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
            Bro I feel you. Looking at this makes me wish I was stoned. Reading it all is making me sick.
            [–]becomethesea 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
            high five
            [–]autism_expert -48 points-47 points-46 points  (11 children)
            Oh dude, you're so stoned, you're so cool.
            [–]Gawd_Awful 41 points42 points43 points  (0 children)
            Oh dude, you mock other people, you're so cool.
            [–]LazyOrCollege 13 points14 points15 points  (0 children)
            lmao you got him good dude
            [–]jayboyevo 6 points7 points8 points  (8 children)
            Inferiority complex much?
            [–]autism_expert comment score below threshold-8 points-7 points-6 points  (6 children)
            wut
            [–]-blank comment score below threshold-6 points-5 points-4 points  (0 children)
            Tell you what, inferiority complex isn't real. It was only used as an excuse when you were bullied in school as to make yourself feel better.
            [–]Alacritous 11 points12 points13 points  (0 children)
            They're honeypots. They'll use connection and IP data to gather information on you should they ever need leverage.
            [–]shahadien 129 points130 points131 points  (24 children)
            They probably did it on purpose, just so that when they get hacked, they can come back and blame "the patriarchy" for "trying to silence their message".
            [–]t0mn0mn0m 92 points93 points94 points  (13 children)
            No I think it was just sheer ignorance.
            [–]-blank 25 points26 points27 points  (7 children)
            You remember how Quinn claimed someone had hacked her blog account?
            [–]dark_salad 21 points22 points23 points  (2 children)
            Remember how you couldn't even type her name without getting shadowbanned?
            [–]ZangWhoop -13 points-12 points-11 points  (3 children)
            I remember those nudes... lol, so fucking nasty.
            What a whore! xD
            [–]shahadien 32 points33 points34 points  (3 children)
            Possibly, but I seriously doubt it. You yourself said these people moderate several large subreddits. I'm pretty certain that they understand passwords, and they understand that they are targets for backlash. Getting their blog "hacked" would be exactly the media shitstorm that turds like them thrive on.
            [–]LS6 102 points103 points104 points  (1 child)
            GAMERGATE TRIED TO KILL ME WITH WORDPRESS PLEASE SUPPORT MY PATREON.
            [–]ladygnome 6 points7 points8 points  (0 children)
            I actually laughed at that. Kudos. :)
            [–]t0mn0mn0m 8 points9 points10 points  (0 children)
            Well I'm glad now they have absolutely no excuse to pull that kind of PR stunt.
            [–]Zenith77 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
            You realize he made that up, right? And you people are still going along with it.
            Like, a 3 second google search would have cleared that up. And yet it got upvoted. And then someone built up a conspiracy theory about something that totally didn't happen and that got upvoted.
            And the OP's comments about Digg are completely just, way out of left field and have no basis in what actually happened... yet it's being upvoted.
            Y'all some stupid niggas.
            EDIT: Wait you're the guy making shit up. Hahahaha, dude. That's pretty funny and yet totally pathetic.
            [–]Abedeus 28 points29 points30 points  (6 children)
            Never attribute to malice (or in this case, wit) that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
            [–]Forever_Awkward 22 points23 points24 points  (3 children)
            Every situation in life can be easily explained by a popular generic cliche.
            [–]nikegod 16 points17 points18 points  (2 children)
            Yes - armed with enough quotes, a man can indulge in platitudes for almost his entire life!
            [–]SuperBicycleTony 4 points5 points6 points  (1 child)
            But if you TEACH a man to create platitudes...
            [–]N4N4KI 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
            If I were a malicious person I'd make sure that particular platitude was spread far and wide for my own protection.
            [–]sayleanenlarge 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
            Hanlon's Razor, which is funny, because Hanlons agree with SJWs, so I have no idea why you said that.
            [–]MaxGiao 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
            "hacked"
            [–]kawaiigardiner 0 points1 point2 points  (1 child)
            "the patriarchy"
            When ever I hear that thrown around it sounds like how David Icke will always blame 'the lizard people' for all the shit that happens in the world or Alex Jones and his 'global elite'/'one world government' conspiracy theories.
            [–]Pikeman212 4 points5 points6 points  (2 children)
            I'm not going to burn down the building I'm just saying there is a pile of oily rags and a few bricks of thermite in the basement.
            [–][deleted] -3 points-2 points-1 points  (1 child)
            Reddit management needs to be sorted out. That includes the global moderators.
            [–]marvin 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
            I don't think death threats are the best way to get things done in a civilized society.
            [–]yesithinkitsnice 5 points6 points7 points  (0 children)
            That's surprising because there's no default password on wordpress.
            [–]Foreskin_Jizz_Bomb 1 point2 points3 points  (2 children)
            Why are you warning them of their loopholes?
            [–]Benthetraveler 4 points5 points6 points  (1 child)
            Because they don't exist, much like the blogs, so he can't warn them anyways. Or do you think they are going to change the passwords of blogs that don't exist?
            [–]Foreskin_Jizz_Bomb 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
            Are you saying that this cabal doesn't exist?
            [–]nguyen_ 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
            THEY ALL USE THE FUCKING DEFUALT PASSWORD ON THEIR WORDPRESS BLOGS
            There is no 'defualt' password you liar. When you create a WP account you need to choose a password.
            [–]NathanielFisherSr 4 points5 points6 points  (0 children)
            Reddit - where a post completely made up of shit gets more than a thousand upvotes just because it's against feminists
            [–]Snickerdoodlelee 3 points4 points5 points  (4 children)
            This is some illuminati shit right here.
            [–]-blank -1 points0 points1 point  (3 children)
            It's real tho. Visit 8chan's gamergate board sometime. And wonder why that's not talked about in r/gaming
            [–]paincoats 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
            yes lovely little place that, every time i've had a peep it's had their enemies home addresses and phone numbers everywhere
            [–][deleted]  (1 child)
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              [–]TunicSongForKaren 2 points3 points4 points  (2 children)
              what kind of subs do they mod?
              [–]Rountree1 2 points3 points4 points  (1 child)
              [–]TunicSongForKaren 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
              gud meme
              wanted to know what sad ideas this dudebro had about the supposed existence of a bravery cabal kek
              [–]Cloud-The-Wolf 7 points8 points9 points  (1 child)
              "page not found" OP was banned from this sub by SRS.
              [–]Beepbeep847 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
              No, he got shadowbanned
              [–]waltons91 20 points21 points22 points  (1 child)
              Did I just read a manifesto?
              [–]manifes7o -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
              Almost. Usually a stronger call to action in these sorts of things.
              [–]ButtGardener 12 points13 points14 points  (2 children)
              Surprisingly this guy has been shadow banned? Really reddit??
              That's like assassinating someone criticizing you, you only legitimize them.
              [–]non_consensual -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
              That's proof of nothing.
              [–]gww490 12 points13 points14 points  (0 children)
              i take it you really like the word "cabal"
              [–]Hannibal_Montana 9 points10 points11 points  (0 children)
              My thumb has carpal tunnel from scrolling through this.
              [–]GandalfTheBalrog 8 points9 points10 points  (2 children)
              I've gotten A's on papers shorter than this comment.
              [–]BlackLabel2021 [score hidden]  (1 child)
              I feel like this is one of those moments where the teacher would've given him a B for being too "wordy"
              [–]GandalfTheBalrog [score hidden]  (0 children)
              I think a large portion if teachers would get bored halfway, and settle on an A-/B+
              [–]Not-a_hobbit 8 points9 points10 points  (0 children)
              with the length of this comment, my understanding was that it was supposed to end with something like "The best thing is, the only cost of being in this cult is THREE FIDDY!" imagine my disappointment.
              [–]cynoclast 20 points21 points22 points  (39 children)
              This made me curious so I went and looked at their moderator list:
              ArchangelleMichaelle (281) 3 years ago full permissions
              ArchangelleGabrielle (27307) 3 years ago full permissions
              ArchangelleRaguelle (55) 3 years ago full permissions
              ArchangelleUrielle (63) 3 years ago full permissions
              ArchangelleZadkielle (58) 3 years ago full permissions
              ArchangelleJophielle (1675) 3 years ago full permissions
              ArchangelleHanielle (617) 3 years ago full permissions
              ArchangelleSamaelle (803) 3 years ago full permissions
              ArchangelleDworkin [-1] (22098) 3 years ago full permissions
              ArchangelleFalafelle (2355) 3 years ago no permissions
              ArchangelleWeezyelle (5) 3 years ago no permissions
              FempireGynquisitor (1) 2 years ago full permissions
              ArchangelleJor-El (5108) 2 years ago full permissions
              ArchangelleTenuelle (193) 2 years ago full permissions
              ArchangelleStrudelle [+1] (17047) 2 years ago full permissions
              ArchangelleCaramelle (348) 2 years ago full permissions
              ArchangelleCastiel (992) 2 years ago full permissions
              ArchangelleCatselle (5047) 2 years ago full permissions
              ArchangelleZurielle (48) 1 year ago full permissions
              ArchangelleFarrah (879) 1 year ago full permissions
              ArchangelleLegibelle (1) 1 year ago full permissions
              ArchangelleHuckelle (16) 1 year ago full permissions
              ArchangelleMarvelle (340) 1 year ago full permissions
              AutoModerator (311) 1 year ago access, posts, wiki ArchangelleLiraelle (104) 1 year ago full permissions
              ArchangelleJazeera (238) 11 months ago full permissions
              intortus (5380) 10 months ago full permissions
              It's like they don't want people to know their main accounts because they don't want to be held responsible for their shitty actions.
              [–]fia_bui 7 points8 points9 points  (4 children)
              That's not at all unreasonable, if anything it's smart. I'd respect their decision except that they seem to have no problem with doxxing and threatening the jobs of other users.
              Also, intortus is a main account. He's a former reddit admin who got canned. People were calling him out for years for being biased towards SRS but he wouldn't admit anything. Shortly after getting the shove from the reddit admin team he's made an SRS mod.
              [–]cynoclast 0 points1 point2 points  (3 children)
              That's not at all unreasonable, if anything it's smart.
              It's smart of cancer to resist excisement too.
              [–]fia_bui 1 point2 points3 points  (2 children)
              I'm not saying all mods are good and uncancerous, I'm just saying that they're high profile targets and it's intelligent for them to take precautions.
              [–]Beepbeep847 1 point2 points3 points  (1 child)
              Yeah, I've heard some horror stories about what angry users have done with mods they dislike, both here and on many other forums
              [–]CFRProflcopter 25 points26 points27 points  (29 children)
              I'm a mod and I use alt accounts (this is my mod account, obviously). 75% of the mods I work with do the same thing. We do this work for free for fucks sake. I think we deserve our privacy. This trend isn't something specific to SRS.
              EDIT: Apparently this wasn't clear. I'm not an SRS mod. I mod community subreddits, not meta subs.
              [–]Hyperdrunk[🍰] 5 points6 points7 points  (3 children)
              We do this work for free for fucks sake.
              There have been plenty of "scandals" in the past where Mods have either sold their services to companies looking to advertise or pushed their own websites to ensure they get hits, thus getting themselves some web traffic.
              Not saying you do it. Not saying most Mods do it. Just saying it happens. And when a Mod is an anonymous person it makes it easier for them to be corrupt and thus harder to have faith in.
              [–]CFRProflcopter 1 point2 points3 points  (2 children)
              And when a Mod is an anonymous person it makes it easier for them to be corrupt and thus harder to have faith in.
              Isn't this what the admins are for? The admins can see all. The site is completely transparent to them. When someone abuses the system, anyone can message the admins and complain about it.
              [–]Beepbeep847 0 points1 point2 points  (1 child)
              Yeah, but you have to explicitly break the site rules to get hit by the admins
              [–]non_consensual 1 point2 points3 points  (2 children)
              So you guys deserve privacy and not having your comment history stalked through for dirt, but the people your sub targets don't?
              Holy hypocritical bullshit. You guys really are a cancer.
              [–]CFRProflcopter 1 point2 points3 points  (1 child)
              My subs don't target anyone. We're community subs. /r/PurplePillDebate is the most active sub I moderate with this account.
              Edit: I moderate larger soccer subs with another accout, but they're much less demanding.
              [–]non_consensual 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
              Fair enough. I assumed you meant you mod SRS.
              Cyberstalking has been a serious issue that reddit has known about for years and has done fuck-all addressing it.
              [–]Safety_Dancer -3 points-2 points-1 points  (11 children)
              Simply put, you don't deserve privacy. You should have to choose between privacy or power and accountablity. If you want to be an asshole you've only yourself to blame when called out for abusing your power.
              [–]Zenith77 4 points5 points6 points  (4 children)
              We're on a god damn news aggregator site, these people aren't running for public office.
              [–]Safety_Dancer -1 points0 points1 point  (3 children)
              Scale doesn't mean anything. And this isn't a news aggregator site if it is party to a group that selectively removes stories it finds offensive or unfit for the story that they want. Ripping pages out of an encyclopedia doesn't make you a scholar.
              [–]fia_bui -2 points-1 points0 points  (5 children)
              Nope, admins mods get targetted and shadowbanned all the time on reddit. It makes perfect sense for them to have a backup account.
              Also, there's a huge push at the moment to end anonymity on the internet to enhance "accountability." The people pushing for it are the ones who call up businesses trying to get people fired for saying stuff they don't like on forums.
              [–]Safety_Dancer 1 point2 points3 points  (4 children)
              Admins don't get shadowbanned, they do the banning. What you're thinking of is harassment. Which ending anonymity will increase. The cognitive dissonance that SRS displays in wanting to end harassment by removing the anonymity they use to such an amazing degree is staggering.
              [–]Sgt_peppers -7 points-6 points-5 points  (3 children)
              We do this work for free
              We do this work
              this work
              work
              get the fuck out of here, srs is a freaking cancer.
              [–]sje46 4 points5 points6 points  (0 children)
              He was talking about being a moderator in general, not being a moderator of srs.
              redditors are prone to witch-hunt moderators who do nothing wrong. I can't blame mods for using alts.
              [–]CFRProflcopter 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
              I'm not defending SRS. I defending the responsable use of alts by mods from any subreddit.
              Also, I'm pretty open about my political views with my mod account. I try to be as transparent as possible. I also post on SRD with my mod account because I don't want to hide that I post there (aparently some people don't like SRD). It's nice watching drama unfold without having to deal with it myself.
              [–]Zenith77 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
              I like how you idiots are angry. He was talking about moderating in general.
              Source: I have alt accounts for moderating.
              [–]RagingIce -8 points-7 points-6 points  (5 children)
              lol, stop acting as if you're doing anyone any favours. No one asked you to do shit.
              [–]CFRProflcopter 0 points1 point2 points  (4 children)
              Yeah, I volunteer my time. If you strip mods of privacy, no one would volunteer.
              [–]cynoclast 0 points1 point2 points  (1 child)
              no one would volunteer.
              Bullshit. I moderate /r/EVE. People do volunteer. Someone volunteered to moderate /r/EVE just yesterday.
              [–]RagingIce comment score below threshold-7 points-6 points-5 points  (1 child)
              I didn't advocate that, I just said lose the attitude.
              [–]KrustyKoonKrackers 10 points11 points12 points  (0 children)
              All of them except for intortus who joined SRS as soon as reddit fired him as an admin- despite his claiming to not be in with SRS while he worked for reddit.
              [–]MimesAreShite 7 points8 points9 points  (1 child)
              I think they did it more out of fear of being doxxed. If you hadn't noticed, reddit really hates SRS, so it's hardly an unrealistic fear.
              [–]cynoclast 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
              Hmm. A fair point. But how about this one: They view themselves as avenging archangels. Whose primary abilities are to whine and downvote brigade things. They should have chosen names of harpies.
              [–]Zenith77 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
              You do realize that it is fairly common to have alt accounts for subs you moderate?
              [–]FlyingPotatoChickens 10 points11 points12 points  (0 children)
              oh
              [–]T-72Throwaway 18 points19 points20 points  (0 children)
              Reddit is SERIOUS BUSINESS.
              [–]Rawrcasm 5 points6 points7 points  (0 children)
              Jesus.
              [–]darkstar1031 4 points5 points6 points  (0 children)
              TL;DR: subreddit drama
              [–]double-happiness 27 points28 points29 points  (0 children)
              /r/Subredditdrama - was taken over by SRS
              Here is a user who trolled SRD by taking a bunch of comments from SRS and pasting them verbatim into threads in SRD. They went for it and upvoted all but one of the copied comments.
              [–]-Arkennon 45 points46 points47 points  (4 children)
              You guys care about this shit too much.
              [–]Echelon64 8 points9 points10 points  (0 children)
              It sounds inane, and I agree to a point, however, as reddit has blown up in popularity effects taken here do affect the mainstream. It sort of how say Wikipedia was nothing but a dull encyclopedia but now has the power to influence whole social movements and governments battle it out for denying or publishing their knowledge there.
              [–]that_nagger_guy 4 points5 points6 points  (0 children)
              There are actually people on Reddit who wants to do other things than post pictures of their pets and memes they made. It is an important forum for people.
              [–]Jamator01 -2 points-1 points0 points  (1 child)
              I upvoted you. Then I nearly posted "This!", but I stopped and scolded myself. Now I'm typing this message out as a long form way of saying"I totally agree with what you just said".
              [–]xvvhiteboy 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
              Jamator knows
              [–]pyrowolf8 11 points12 points13 points  (0 children)
              What fucking crack are you smoking
              [–]oreosinmybelly 28 points29 points30 points  (19 children)
              Can you explain why feminism and social justice are negative things to promote? I've never been to the sub, so I don't deny that they might regulate conversation and try to assert control in detrimental ways, but what about those core principles is so off-putting?
              [–]3498734978 14 points15 points16 points  (1 child)
              Reddit use to be very left wing 4-5 years ago. Stormfront brigaded a lot during the Trayvon Martin controversy, which I think led to a lot of redditors from before that leave. All the while, reddit was getting more popular and regressing to the lowest common denominator. Now, those dummies see non-bigots and assume that they're trying to take over because they don't know what the site was like early on.
              [–]Maslo59 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
              Can you explain why feminism and social justice are negative things to promote?
              Animal welfare is not a bad thing. PETA is. Feminism or social justice is not a bad thing. SRS is. Its not so much about what they promote, but how they do it (authoritarianism, censorship, taking over subreddits).
              [–]xthorgoldx 4 points5 points6 points  (2 children)
              When feminism and social justice get brought up on reddit in a negative light, it's almost universally (and accurately) talking about third-wave feminism.
              Unlike first wave (which focused on legal right and suffrage, ~1900s-1930s) and second wave (which focused on job rights and gender equality, ~1940s-1990s), third wave feminism takes a much more aggressive approach to, well, everything.
              Whereas in the past feminism could be said to be for the promotion of womens' rights through the proliferation of equal rights, 3WF (which, unfortunately, has all but entirely co-opted the term "feminist" nowadays) eschews the concept of "earn equal rights" and focuses more on "reduce mens' rights." The role of the patriarchy and a men-oriented society is seen as a bar that needs to be lowered rather than overcome - rather than adapt and meet the norms of modern society, feminism seeks to force modern society to adapt to their norms.
              But how does this tie into SJWs? Well, it's almost synonymous, though "SJW" generally applies to a broader picture that includes women, LGBTs, and (for lack of a better term?) the mentally deviant (other-kin, transethnic, etc). SJWs and modern feminists, rather than striving to achieve equal rights for the groups they represent by proliferating them into society healthily, seek to do so by forcing others to repress any criticism or disagreement.
              The application of this can be seen pretty easily, especially on the net. Take /r/tumblrinaction, for example - while those are usually the very extreme manifestation of the SJW mindset, it's still accurate to a large degree. You can't question a person's self-defined identity, regardless of how nonsensical it is ("No, you are not a goddamn half-wolf half-elf spirit trapped in a human body"). You can't use certain words, because they're "triggering." You can't imply that men are anything other than suppressive, corrupt, sex-crazed pigs, because who else would be the source of our victimization complex? If you agree with them, good, if you don't, you're obviously a patriarchy-propagating misogynist (it gets even more hilarious if you're a woman who disagrees).
              On reddit, this manifests as very harsh controls on a lot of subreddits - on /r/games and /r/gaming, good luck if you try to bring up Gamergate, since even though it's about media corruption it's labelled as "misogynistic" and discussion of it is banned. On /r/offmychest, "bitch" is a banned word. Comments, posts, off-subreddit discussions - more and more subs show evidence of mods following a Zeroth Rule of "We reserve the right to remove whatever content doesn't mesh with our political ideology."
              Feminism (and its logical extension, "Don't treat people like a dick because they're different") is, itself, a good thing. I don't think you'll find anyone who disagrees that women/all people should have the basic right to equal opportunity and freedom from hateful discrimination.
              However, third-wave feminism and the modern SJW movement take things too far - rather than opt for a gradual, healthy proliferation of feminist ideas by setting a social example and through due process, they take the goddamn nuclear option. By analogy, a healthy feminist movement would look something like Gandhi's liberation protests; the modern feminist movement looks something more like ISIS.
              [–]BlackLabel2021 [score hidden]  (1 child)
              I learned way more than I thought I would from this post.
              [–]xthorgoldx [score hidden]  (0 children)
              I aim to edumacate.
              [–]PiiSPii 18 points19 points20 points  (1 child)
              On a lot of subreddits (including many of the defaults) social justice is seen as some sort of corrupting conspiracy driven by extremely angry feminists who want to see all men burn, or something similar. This post is a pretty good example of how people are misinterpreting Reddit's changing social norms (more general acceptance that feminism isn't out to get you) as the realization of this evil conspiracy.
              [–]TheEviltane 8 points9 points10 points  (0 children)
              No, the problem is the pushing for control and preaching down to others.
              [–]Raenryong 11 points12 points13 points  (1 child)
              They are strongly pro-censorship and will silence opposition through whatever methods they can utilise. Impossible to hold a discussion with.
              [–]GucciReeves -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
              [–]Suzushiiro 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
              The issue is partially the extremists within those groups who are more interested in "social revenge" than "social justice" (ie the "white men are the root of all evil" mindset,) but the bigger problem is that the SRS crowd considers deleting/banning any ideas they find remotely offensive to be fair game- not just blatant racist/sexist shit, mind you, but anything that goes against their party line. Rule number one of SRS is literally "disagreeing with the circlejerk will get you banned."
              [–]sje46 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
              It isn't about the beliefs themselves, but more the attitude they have. Very, very closed-minded and exclusionary.
              And the beliefs. I mean they do things like choose to raise kids genderless. Really odd things like that.
              [–]TheEviltane 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
              The problem is not in the promotion of the core principals. But in the general way that this mindset tries to control those around it. The general public sees sjws as off putting pushy types. That go out of their way to get people fired for what they say.
              Other communities do this too. Just on smaller scales. For example there are allegations that storm front is actively trying to influence r/pics and r/funny.
              [–]niczar -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
              In a world where millions of little girls are murdered or genitally mutilated, they care about "manspreading".
              [–]gensyms 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
              It's a negative thing to suppress the speech of people you disagree with.
              So it's not about promoting an agenda -- it's about controlling the discussion such that anyone who questions or disagrees with the agenda are never heard.
              [–]EndlessIrony [score hidden]  (1 child)
              Disgusting amounts of smug self righteousness and when it's extreme becomes dangerous. These are the type of people who won't argue with you, they'll just say you're a terrible person and you should kill yourself. Fuck them.
              [–]Konet -4 points-3 points-2 points  (0 children)
              It's the extreme to which some of these people take it. Stuff like telling women that if they regret having sex with a guy, then they were raped, even if they consented at the time, or saying that a black person literally by definition can not be racist. Some say that heterosexual vaginal sex is always rape.But in all honesty the backlash is more against the way they behave than what they believe. Stuff like their semi-legal brigading on reddit, and the way they talk down to everyone not part of their club. Plus the massive shitstorm over /r/LGBT.
              [–]dramathrowaway2015 12 points13 points14 points  (0 children)
              This is hilarious.
              [–]nightpanda893 8 points9 points10 points  (0 children)
              Yeah, it's pretty insane. I would always recommend going to /r/ainbow and just skipping /r/lgbt entirely if you are LGBT and looking for some support or just a relevant sub. /r/LGBT is a truly toxic environment run by some of the most hateful people I have ever encountered on Reddit. And it gives a bad name to people who are actually victims of legit oppression and discrimination. Ironically they have probably done more damage to the trans community online than those who are actually out to get them.
              [–]anonomousrex 22 points23 points24 points  (2 children)
              Someone tried to best of this but a bot removed it. Unfortunate because I'd like this to get some more attention. It's also on depthhub and there's a vote battle happening on it so it also probably wont get more attention there.
              [–]DrugsOnly 5 points6 points7 points  (1 child)
              Well they regularly don't allow default subs to be featured in /r/bestof
              [–]anonomousrex 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
              They stopped that a while back but yeah its a bot so imnot that suspicious
              [–]XDark_XSteel 14 points15 points16 points  (0 children)
              Congrats kamen. Despite numerous shadowbans, you finally got reddit to eat up your /r/conspiracy bullshit.
              [–]diggemigre 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
              What's this Digg migration you speak of?
              [–]patrickowen 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
              That escalated quickly.
              [–]test323453 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
              SRS has actually died down a lot lately.
              [–]kerrrsmack 10 points11 points12 points  (0 children)
              SRS is the Scientology of Reddit.
              [–]BabyNewblet 7 points8 points9 points  (0 children)
              K
              [–]Daeurth 23 points24 points25 points  (18 children)
              Can someone screenshot this or save it to RES in case shit goes down, please?
              Edit: I've got it saved to RES as well.
              Edit2: Will mirror text of above comment if said comment gets removed. As long as someone lets me know.
              [–]ScanianMoose 28 points29 points30 points  (10 children)
              I doubt that it does, but here you go.
              Edit 3: Update 01:01 GMT+1
              They actually deleted all these comments for a short time.
              [–]Kerscatch 14 points15 points16 points  (0 children)
              mirror backup archive
              in case anyone needs to ctrl + f
              [–]SuperConductiveRabbi 2 points3 points4 points  (4 children)
              You're wise to want to archive this. The user was shadowbanned shortly after his post.
              [–]Rabbit_TAO 26 points27 points28 points  (7 children)
              They make sure that any discussion that goes against their social justice and feminist beliefs is censored and controlled and/or they mod their subreddits like ban-happy dictators who get rid of anyone who breaks the circlejerk that goes on in their subreddits every week.
              Thank you.
              [–]Sirinon 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
              notto mention the extremely suspicious shadowbannings that happened late last year.
              [–]T-nawtical 0 points1 point2 points  (4 children)
              You do realize that it IS a circlejerk sub and they constantly tell you if you want a discussion with them, to go to srsdiscussion?
              [–]Pointless_arguments 14 points15 points16 points  (0 children)
              Except if you try to discuss anything in "srsdiscussion" they ban you there too.
              [–]NahDude_Nah 6 points7 points8 points  (0 children)
              I don't like to go to places where people who don't like my views ban me for having them. That is just playing into a bullies hand.
              [–]ThrowUpRainbows 7 points8 points9 points  (38 children)
              Can anyone TL;DR?
              [–]ManWhoKilledHitler 52 points53 points54 points  (35 children)
              SRS use vote brigading and tacit support from Reddit admins to control content within other subs, take them over, and silence views they don't agree with, all while playing the victim card.
              [–]SuperConductiveRabbi 10 points11 points12 points  (1 child)
              And the user who spoke out against them is now shadowbanned, an action that only admins can take.
              [–]bumsestilen 4 points5 points6 points  (0 children)
              TL;DR: wat
              [–]Madmusk 7 points8 points9 points  (0 children)
              So let me get this straight. Are they a cabal?
              [–]tukarjerbs 33 points34 points35 points  (4 children)
              Holy shit dude. Go outside.
              [–]zettl 8 points9 points10 points  (0 children)
              you sound like you wear a cape to school
              [–]maully 12 points13 points14 points  (0 children)
              Jesus fucking Christ, take a breath once in a while
              [–]non_consensual 28 points29 points30 points  (22 children)
              I'm so glad people are finally waking up to this shit. And everything you're saying is true.
              [–]ragemaster_21 7 points8 points9 points  (3 children)
              Question: How do we change this? If they're already admins/mods is there anything else we can do?
              [–]ChesterHiggenbothum 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
              Advertise subreddits that aren't being controlled by SRS. There are usually alternative subreddits for any of the more mainstream subs. Look at the mods of the subreddits you go to and see what other subs they moderate or frequent.
              [–]bigfinnrider 9 points10 points11 points  (5 children)
              They're so powerful that the second highest rated comment on the top post in Askreddit is them getting dissed.
              [–]SuperConductiveRabbi 12 points13 points14 points  (1 child)
              They're so powerful that the second highest rated comment on the top post in Askreddit is them getting dissed. from someone that was just shadowbanned by an admin.
              FTFY
              [–]letthedownvotesflow 5 points6 points7 points  (2 children)
              And yet the poster who got multiple gold for the post gets shadowbanned by the admins for laying out a SRS smackdown. But you are right, they have no sway right?
              [–]bl00dless 5 points6 points7 points  (0 children)
              I was really sad when they took over /r/offmychest. Used to be my favorite subreddit. :'(
              [–]TytleFight 4 points5 points6 points  (1 child)
              I didn't believe you about /r/creepypms but I just got banned for saying "putting a ':D' after every text probably didn't help the situation at all." in this thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/creepyPMs/comments/2uzbex/so_my_friend_got_drunk_recently/
              deleted for 'victim blaming.' LOL.
              [–]VaguerCrusader 4 points5 points6 points  (3 children)
              Yeah I remember once I was on SRS talking the real talk trying to gain some genuine insight into what they believed and users were actually SCARED to answer me in earnest for fear of getting banned. They even warned that I may get banned too if I continued to question their logic which was very obviously flawed.
              [–]NahDude_Nah 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
              It's much easier for them to ban discussion they don't like and brand it sexist.
              [–]nametheoccupation 11 points12 points13 points  (0 children)
              AHAHAHHHAAHAHAHAHA
              [–]douglasmacarthur 9 points10 points11 points  (3 children)
              They mod subreddits like /r/news
              I am the highest-ranked mod at /r/news and you can see that most of my posts are about football, and if you dig back far enough what political ones you'll find arent SJW-like at all. I can assure you we aren't run by some sort of feminist cabal.
              SRS likes to bitch about reddit. People who have been on reddit long enough to moderate big subreddits come to want to bitch about it. This is why you sometimes see people like us who mod big subs and participate in meta-reddit friendly with people who post on SRS. Not because we all agree with them or SRS secretly runs all of reddit or something.
              [–]sje46 6 points7 points8 points  (1 child)
              Pretty sure he just listed subreddits where he saw moderators delete offensive posts, and just assumed that those subreddits were co-opted by the cabal.
              I'm a mod on ELI5. We delete racist stuff, but no one AFAIK is part of the "fempire".
              [–]heywhoopiecat 8 points9 points10 points  (0 children)
              Please go outside
              [–]RemixxMG 13 points14 points15 points  (0 children)
              You care way too much about reddit
              [–]-blank 6 points7 points8 points  (0 children)
              You could probably build a house from this wall of text.
              [–]sje46 5 points6 points7 points  (3 children)
              The two worst communites on the web are SJW communities...and conspiracy communities1. So while I agree with you in some aspects that they are kinda cultish, I am really skeptical that they actually have taken significant amounts of power over reddit. Maybe some. Not really most or much.
              That is ludicrous, because mainstream reddit is so against their mentality. It wouldn't even really work.
              They mod subreddits like /r/news[3] , /r/politics[4] , /r/worldnews[5] , /r/Subredditdrama[6] , /r/creepyPMs[7] , /r/offmychest[8] , /r/TIFU[9] , /r/explainlikeimfive[10] , /r/changemyview[11] , /r/LGBT[12] , and numerous other subreddits where they have managed to worm their way into moderator positions over the years and then go on to have total control over the type of discussion that goes on in their subreddits.
              I'm only a mod of one of those subreddits (eli5) and I really don't see what you're talking about. In what specific way has ELI5 been taken over by aradical feminist agenda? We don't really control the discussion at all and are actually really (hell, too) lenient. And I find it really difficult to believe tehy control /r/worldnews (which is racism central) and /r/changemyview, which is literally people just spouting off racist, sexist, etc shit all day. That is completely counter to that ideology.
              It seems like you chose those subreddits...entirely because thy're popular? Or maybe because you perceive a tone that's different from your political views, so you assume that that is enforced from the mods? I don't know. What is your specific reason for grouping these specific subreddits in?
              Not meant to be aggressive. I just wonder if you actually have any real basis for this.
              1: For maximum pissing-people-offness, I'd say the five worst types of community on the internet are 1. sjw, 2. conspiracy, 3. tea partiers 4. MRA and 5. socialist/communist. But really, there's so many.
              [–]greendaze 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
              I just wonder if you actually have any real basis for this.
              The answer is no.
              The idea of /r/worldnews as SJW central is hilarious. One of the most racist default subs around as SJW central? My fucking sides.
              [–]SpawnQuixote 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
              It's a fucking PR firm, these aren't real people. Well, the employees are real.
              Who can influence the media, evade reddit bans while breaking every rule and be on the web 365 days a year with an endless array of sockpuppets?
              How can anyone be that retarded and productive? How can anyone be around these cancerous people and then think, yeah, they would be great to serioulsy interview on NPR.?
              [–]InsaneClonedPuppies 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
              This is some unfortunate shit right here
              [–]pdrocker1 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
              Quick! Go to /r/tumblrinaction before it gets banned!
              [–]balancespec2 6 points7 points8 points  (0 children)
              So what all is known about the censorship that's going to go down
              [–]bvvl 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
              There was a group on digg known as the bury brigade related to /r/conspiratard who like mocking /r/conspiracy .
              I've seen a couple of users active in both /r/ conspiratard and /r/subredditdrama usually covering antisemitism. One if them run the sub /r/isrconspiracyracist
              [–]BellyFullOfSwans 7 points8 points9 points  (8 children)
              The cabal of users and moderators who I refer to as "metareddit cancer" hail from the subreddits Shitredditsays, circlebroke, Braveryjerk, circlejerk, TheBluePill, SubredditDrama, SRDbroke, and Drama. This cabal of users are - for the most part - the moderators of these subreddits and these users also control many other subreddits with thousands and even hundreds of thousands of subscribers. They mod subreddits like
              And THAT is the reason that most Redditors should be up in arms. Not only is SRS and their tactics allowed on Reddit, but the fact that they are allowed into mod/admin duties is TRULY what is hurting Reddit the most.
              I had my 2 year/40k karma account recently banned by a SJW Admin with roots that go back to SRS. One "misunderstanding" and she shadowbanned me. Asking the admins why, I was given a one-liner explanation by said Admin....and that was the end of that. I had 10 gift exchanges and well over a year of Gold on that account (with 2 months remaining).
              It is one thing to have to deal with SRS as a subreddit.....but when you have to use logic and common sense with one who is acting as Mod or Admin, you will REALLY see the damage that cult and their mindset has done to this site.
              Maybe /r/creeppics wasnt the best subreddit, but at least the mods and members of that crap-tank arent going through your personal history and making value judgements on you based on their own skewed perspectives.
              [–]Lily_May 8 points9 points10 points  (0 children)
              Can't tell if Poe
              Or just batshit crazy
              [–]GhostRider22 11 points12 points13 points  (4 children)
              It scares me man. I've been watching the reddit collapse for some time. There is even a sjw, femenist moderator took control over at /r/foreveralone. She is a bluepiller, giving bans to people for disagreeing with what she says.
              Here a woman with an agenda has taken over a sub of mostly men, and now is banning them for disagreeing with her, or saying about women exactly what she has said about men.
              [–]Femminazi 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
              Those damn bluepillers.
              [–]CaucasianChinese 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
              They even attack other SJW communities that they don't agree with, ie. ones that are run by straight heterosexual white males, like /r/CaucasianChinese.
              [–]billytheskidd 6 points7 points8 points  (1 child)
              Everything you had no idea that you needed to know about, all in one place.
              [–]awrf 8 points9 points10 points  (3 children)
              the subreddit created as a watchdog for this sort of thing - /r/SubredditDrama
              Lol what? Man you're a crazy person. SRD is for highlighting arguments and drama on reddit and madly circlejerking about it. Always has been. SRD has never had any stated goal beyond "lol look at these guys taking stupid shit way too seriously."
              [–]7thst 3 points4 points5 points  (1 child)
              The only sub I noticed that has become SRS lite is Subredditdrama.
              It makes sense, the nature of the sub is similar.
              [–]0neDeadGuy 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
              You take reddit too seriously
              [–]Kaique94 4 points5 points6 points  (0 children)
              [–]Foreskin_Jizz_Bomb 2 points3 points4 points  (5 children)
              So who are these usernames? Why would you not say who it is after all of that?
              [–]insertkarma2theleft 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
              All praise EFS for his "gift" to SRD
              [–]that_nagger_guy 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
              I like you. Also you forgot lots of subreddits which they control such as /r/Openbroke and they also seem to have a strong presence in /r/Circlejerk. I also noticed how /r/explainlikeimfive, /r/offmychest and /r/changemyview have gotten much more SRSish by time but /r/creepyPMs is downright SRS controlled.
              [–]ltjboy03 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
              Dude, you take reddit WAYYY too seriously.
              [–]Bpop67 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
              If you read that entire thing.....
              You the real mvp
              [–]ChrisJokeaccount 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
              Bro, I think you're overthinking it.
              [–]Murrabbit -1 points0 points1 point  (10 children)
              My goodness, you're right. . . it's like. . . it's like reddit isn't a safe space for bigots anymore! This is awful.
              Also Digg's demise had nothing to do with power users, it was all about Kevin Rose burning the site down for the insurance money.
              [–]SuperConductiveRabbi 7 points8 points9 points  (3 children)
              I'd rather suffer the occasional, easily ignored bigot than be told what I can and can't think by a bunch of censorious, militant mods that ban anyone they disagree with.
              [–]Raenryong 0 points1 point2 points  (4 children)
              That's the usual false dichotomy. You're either with us, or you're a _____
              [–]TunicSongForKaren 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
              Oh my fucking god you're adorable.
              [–]junkeee999 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
              You need another hobby or something. Or like maybe just go for a walk.
              [–]SenorDing_Dong 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
              /r/braveryjerk? But Snoop is a mod there!!
              [–]calumj 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
              I solemnly swear that they shall never take over /r/tapirs! I swear as a mod!
              [–]Mostlyharmless7 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
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