Addressing "TiA has changed" posts

Mouon · 10時間前

The whining is pretty annoying. There are loads of left progressives here, its not as if they are a minority and the subs been taken over by conservatives.

TanTanTanuki · 9時間前

I think the problem is that there's no changing it. It's pointless whinging.

Let me give context to that: TiA is certainly not what it was when it started. It was a small community and slow. It was a lot more focused on laughing at the crazy on Tumblr than it was on the outrage to be generated by these crazies. It was a lot more intimate and a lot more of a community than it is now.

But the change in those things is a consequence of numbers. TiA isn't a small, intimate sub anymore. It is not populated by the type of person that found out about SJWs because they had a run in with one in their (liberal) circles anymore. The new face of political correctness has gotten a lot of face time in the news and SJWs have drawn a lot of attention to themselves via much more mainstream parts of society.

Back to my opener: Complaining that TiA has changed is complaining about a facet of internet culture that has existed since before the internet was a home-use utility. That is, as a community's growth increases, the community loses its ability to police the new members to get them to conform to the established culture. (See: Eternal September)

We're not like a chan that naturally self-selects individuals that are amenable to conforming to the culture (or forces people to conform. See "op is a faggot" and other such common terms of chan culture.) TiA is like a traditional discussion board. Huge influxes of people change the board forever. Very little short of heavy policing by a very dedicated mod team can cause it to conform to old standards, and doing so without diplomacy ends with the death of the community. (Haha, remember anti-srs?)

Teal Deer: "TiA has changed" threads are stating the obvious. They're not of any use to anyone save for room to complain about stuff. While OP is being a bit heavy handed, they're right. These threads about TiA need to have meat to them or they're of no use to anyone. TiA will never go back to what it was. What you can do is attempt to foster the kind of community you like. even if only in pockets.

Reverend_Twitch · 6時間前

I'm just sick of people saying

TRIGGERED

and acting like it's hilarious. It's dumb. Stop it.

MissInkFTW · 7時間前

Can anyone point out to me how to find posts from like a year-ish ago when I joined? I'd love to source, but can't figure out how to find them. Tried the timestamp search, coming up with nothing.

yep45 · 7時間前

As a conservative, I'm triggered by all the threads of people who are scared of me being in their safe space :(

omcagk · 11時間前

TIA has arguably changed a lot over the years and sorry I don't want to catalogue years of posts just to discuss it. Fuck your censorship, the only reason you would make this a rule is if you felt threatened by it. Banning simple discussion is so fucking sjwy, the horseshoe is real.

Yo-Yo_Roomie · 10時間前

So we're not allowed to discuss some aspect of TiA on /r/TiADiscussion because of your feels? How about you provide proof that this is a problem?

Lulu_and_Tia · 7時間前

If you have legitimate criticism, you can make a submission, but make sure it's backed up with sources.

I'd like to site your post, shitlord.

This thread isn't the place for TiA complaints.

m'education

Listen up, you all know about the weekly "remember when TiA was good?" threads?

Sigh, you know TiA, I love that we have a bunch of laughs at SJWs with borderline no self-awareness, but TiA isn't exactly a faultless god in that aspect. Then again, the circlejerk is tacit admission of that.

"Remember when TiA was good?"

Where do I even begin dissecting this one. The biased simplification of dissenting commentary?

You know, the ones that complain about how TiA used to be a bastion of [insert cause] but has fallen to [insert opposite cause].

While I don't agree with that either, to play the demographics and then pretend there is NO political commentary, which is in and of itself an issue, regardless of the political demography of the sub because of the destructive nature of conflating SJW noise with political positioning ensuring a swift political circlejerk, is disingenuous.

The ones that produce no evidence to support their claims? We sure do. Here at the Patriarchy (TM) we like to oppress people with sources and evidence, so from now on they are mandatory in threads discussing TiA's recent behavior or changes in its behavior.

Given the TiA's head mod's reaction to these claims by basically playing politics and answering only what he wants to hear, i'm not exactly sure why I or anyone else should waste their time. It seems the modderinos have already made up their mind.

I'll refrain from acting on assumption, some other day when i'm feeling up to it i'll provide some "sources".

Before I wrap this up, one last thing. So far, we here at the Patriarchy (TM) have been laissez faire (like our heterocapitalism) with regards to proving things since as privileged white scum we don't have to lie. Is there going to be any onus on posters of other unproven information to source their claims?

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