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Every person who contributes to /r/KotakuInAction has been pre-emptively banned from /r/OffMyChest for 'participating in a hate group'.[META] (i.imgur.com)

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[–]jubbergun 195 points196 points  (46 children)

Until science develops a scale to measure fucks given and a device that can measure fucks in the negative I won't be able to objectively convey how little I care about /r/offmychest or the cancer that is that sub's mods.

[–]paulfromatlanta 86 points87 points  (13 children)

I won't be able to objectively convey how little I care

You don't need to care about these individual subReddits - but if the admins let this form of mod-run brigading/harassment stand then it will say something about the future of Reddit.

[–]Hysterics7787 27 points28 points  (2 children)

You mean like srs or BestOf?

[–]down_vote_city__ 5 points6 points  (1 child)

You misspelled SubRedditDrama.

[–]UlyssesSKrunk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

wat

[–]thetompain 3 points4 points  (0 children)

but if the admins let this form of mod-run brigading/harassment stand then it will say something about the future of Reddit.

I don't think we need any more hints from the admins, reddit is run by shitheads and they don't really care what we think anymore.

[–]jubbergun 9 points10 points  (2 children)

I think you and some others misunderstand. I agree with you that this kind of shit is an abuse of mod privileges. These guys are cancer. That's why I could give less than a fuck about them. They don't get the privelege of taking up any space in my mental real estate. They're like some gross, slimy critter you step on out of habit. They're vile and repugnant and once you're done squishing them you move on and forget about them.

You want to excise the cancer? Then quit frequenting their subs. He who cares the least wins, and nobody cares more than the wanna-be-cool-kid try-hards like this guy. He can have his shitty little subreddit. I wouldn't even bother to piss on it if it were on fire.

[–]dothraki_horde 1 point2 points  (1 child)

The problem is not that they have their own subs its that they go to existing subs and get mod positions and steal it away from the users, while perverting the original function of those subs.

[–]nyc4ever 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In other words, the cancer is spreading.

[–]UlyssesSKrunk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They obviously will let it stand, it's what the admins themselves have been doing.

[–]InternetWeakGuy 1 point2 points  (4 children)

How is stopping someone from posting in a sub 'brigading", which in the context of Reddit means organised non-member groups going into a sub and voting/commenting en masse.

I can see how you consider this harassment, but I'm curious why you think this constitutes brigading when it's confined to their own sub.

[–]paulfromatlanta 28 points29 points  (3 children)

why you think this constitutes brigading when it's confined to their own sub.

Because its not confined to their own sub - they are (apparently) using a bot to monitor other subReddits and sweeping to collect those other members.

[–]badwig 23 points24 points  (27 children)

Well the fuckers took over punchablefaces and destroyed it, so it seems like a case of 'First they came for the communists and I did nothing...'. Puchablefaces mostly posted pictures of white men looking stupid, and because one person posted a BLM face the sub got hijacked.

[–]InternetWeakGuy 5 points6 points  (11 children)

one person posted a BLM face

That's not true. The picture was posted hundreds of times. At one point all but two of the top 25 posts on /r/all were posts of that picture of /r/punchablefaces.

Also it wasn't hijacked, the mod of the sub gave it up voluntarily. If /u/flytape had got the PM before /u/agentlame you wouldn't be calling it a hijack.

[–]cjackc 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They didn't take it over and continue running it. They intentionally changed what the sub was about. That is hijacking.

[–]badwig 9 points10 points  (3 children)

They were reposted because they were repeatedly removed. Lame is psychopathic, I had to report it for harrassment. Once they take over a chunk of reddit, ban dissenters, they are all going to be left sitting looking at each other wondering what the point of it all was. After all, without new oppressors, how can one be a continual victim?

[–]agentlame -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Lame is psychopathic, I had to report it for harrassment.

Define how you were 'harassed', skippy. By replying back to me over and over and over?

[–]Flytape 4 points5 points  (5 children)

No, a whole different group of people would be calling it a hijack.

Fortunately for them I don't give a shit about punchablefaces. I think its kind of stupid to want to do physical violence to someone because you don't like their politics or the TV show character they play. Its a sign of emotional immaturity.

Civilized people should be able to be offended without needing to water a mob with blood. Inversely, taking over a subreddit as harmless as punchablefaces because it offended your feminist ideology is... playground justice. What you're seeing here is the mean girls club on reddit.

So honestly who gives a fuck? I get like 12 username mentions a day because of this punchablefaces drama and honestly all I would have done with it was hand it over to someone with a history of giving a shit about the sub, and then quit.

[–]captmarx 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Playground Justice Warriors lol

[–]DerberAuner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

isnt that what all SJWs essentially are?

[–]ClintHammer 2 points3 points  (14 children)

They didn't "take it over" the top mod there got sick of the place and sent an invite to the grossest legbeards and neckbeards of reddit modding for the purpose of causing chaos and SRD got there first

[–]badwig 0 points1 point  (13 children)

If you want chaos you give it to the neckbeard who believes in free speech and loves a flame war, you don't give it to a power crazed man hater who doesn't tolerate dissent, even if you don't even belong to their sub and have never posted there as happened to me today. It is like a cancer. Time and time again SJWs are doing wonderful work for the corporations. It is incredible how sophisticated the manipulation is. One element from the polar opposite side of the debate have social crusaders doing their bidding. SRS are 'cleaning up' reddit, pro immigrationists are flooding the corporate labour market with cheap workers, white privilegers are trying to put the last nail in the coffin of racial harmony etcetc

[–]ClintHammer -1 points0 points  (12 children)

No, they made it a jump ball which is hilarious and absolutely created some waves, see also this thread

[–]badwig 0 points1 point  (11 children)

They were forcing existing subscribers who posted to say precise words under threat of ban. That is not even funny, it is just disturbing in its inadequacy. I think the modding should have been opened to a team of regular contributors, voted by users, democratic. I have zero interest in modding anything but if I knew what was in store I would have grudgingly done it.

I realise it was a trivial sub in the great scheme of things, but this sort of cancerous creep is causing an enormous amount of resentment which is going to have real world implications - and that is why it is being cultivated, just like all the other examples I suggested.

The ridiculous thing though is why? The sub did not focus on any particular gender/race etc, it mostly featured white men.

[–]ClintHammer 0 points1 point  (10 children)

All that happened is the mod got sick of modding and put the modship up for grabs to SRD and Conspiracy and SRD was faster. That made people mad, and making people mad over dumb reddit shit is hilarious

[–]badwig 0 points1 point  (9 children)

Making people mad unnecessarily is not hilarious, it is dysfunctional.

[–]ClintHammer 0 points1 point  (8 children)

No, getting mad over something trivial is dysfunctional, doing something silly to laugh at the dysfunctional people getting mad is funny

[–]badwig 1 point2 points  (7 children)

Just sounds like bullying to a normal person. If something causes amusement in this joyless world, and someone destroys it for reasons unexplained, it may not be illegal but they are a fucking twat.

[–]GoodAtExplaining 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At Cornell University they have an incredible piece of scientific equipment known as the Tunneling Electron Microscope. Now, this microscope is so powerful that by firing electrons you can actually see images of the atom, the infinitesimally minute building blocks of our universe. If I were using that microscope right now, I still wouldn't be able to locate any fucks to give you.

Adapted from a monologue by Kelsey Grammer in Frasier

[–]itsaride 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, we've heard from jubbergun, better lock this shit up.

[–]Freqd-with-a-silentQ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't even know what that is except that it's shitty.

[–]DerberAuner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i think thats -50 megafucks right there.

[–]CuilRunnings 66 points67 points  (4 children)

/u/spez, /u/kn0thing, /u/lordvinyl why do you guys allow default mods to harass users like this?

[–]itisnotatumah 31 points32 points  (3 children)

I feel less safe knowing that there are mods who will autoban me just fo posting in a subreddit without any context at all.

[–]DerberAuner 15 points16 points  (0 children)

oh nonono, dont you see? KiA is a "hate group" therefore its justified to preemptively ban you :D

its all totally legit.

but yeah, those are reddit mods for you. and good luck getting the admins to step in on your behalf. they actually like it that way.

[–]atb77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Basically a form of violence is what they would say if it was done to them. Reddit is really pathetic now.

[–]Lucretius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Remember this when there are calls for "better moderation tools". Personally I want absolutely NO moderation tools... I want the mods to have to personally delete/ban every single time BY HAND with no automation whatsoever. I want it to be HARD for them to do their "job". In the long run, the only moderation reddit really needs is the down vote.

[–]godamnsam 61 points62 points  (25 children)

BRB, going to subscribe to /r/KotakuInAction to get honorably banned from /r/offmychest. I unsubed after being hit with a wall of SJW bullshit.

[–]cuckthangs1 22 points23 points  (17 children)

i doubt they can read the member list to the sub. more than likely there's a bot that crawls to see who posts there, and if you post there it bans you./

[–]Cthulhu_the_White 5 points6 points  (6 children)

this is my kia account (i only post comments there), iv gotten no messages regarding being banned from offmychest even though its on the user tagg list

[–]DerberAuner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

im on that tag list too, and i havent been banned yet.

also: "SpiritualSuccessors" is one of the most avid posters, and i recall him participating in the sub more than a year ago. i think he even posted the original nuked TB thread (the one with like 30k deleted comments)

edit: i just tried to subscribe, and it doesnt seem to work. is that an expression of a ban?

[–]Bazrum 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I posted to KiA once awhile ago and it just banned me. Its definitely a crawlbot checking post history

[–]DerberAuner 0 points1 point  (3 children)

theres this RES-tag list that has some people who once posted in KiA. they are apparently autobanned, cause i never even posted to "offmychest", and yet i can subscribe.

if i hit subscribe, then refresh the page, im still unsubscribed, indicating i was banned without ever posting in the sub.

[–]Bazrum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good point. I'm on that list as well but I've posted in KiA so I got s message after commenting over in offmychest.

[–]MoreWhiskeyPls 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Cool I'm banned without ever posting. Where do I see this user list?

Edit: Spel Gud, engrish grate

[–]DerberAuner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it was posted in KiA a while back.

heres the list

(just search for your name; i couldnt find it though)

and heres the KiA post i took it from

just so were clear, this tag wasnt made by KiA. it was posted there cause KiA users were affected. and because of the ethics involved.

[–]The14thNoah 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There is. It came to light awhile ago. I know I have the creator tagged around here somewhere.

[–]Lots42 3 points4 points  (5 children)

That is the case. The bot takes about sixty seconds. It is creepily efficicent.

[–]cuckthangs1 13 points14 points  (4 children)

i really like (sarcastically) that people are now being pre-emptively banned purely for participating in another community.

way to balkanize and polarize culture even more. way to shut down discussion and debate. way to ignore the gray areas and nuances where we all don't fit into cookie cutter molds.

[–]NoopLocke 5 points6 points  (0 children)

But what about my feelings!? They can be hurt by people on the internet!!!!!!!!!

[–]DerberAuner 0 points1 point  (2 children)

thats what they want. "cause they are right, and everyone else is a shitlord".

you know how people like that think, right? shouldnt surprise you that its come to this now.

[–]cuckthangs1 2 points3 points  (1 child)

the sad thing is they're compartmentalizing moderates and even idealogical allies who aren't in complete lockstep along with hardcore racists, bigots, mysognists and homphobes. it's the sjw way or no way at all.

[–]DerberAuner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yupp. extremists usually think like that. not much more to say about it.

[–]robeph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I posted the original post about this on kia, after putting together what everyone is saying with a not get scinecy bit of checking on lost histories and post times, it seems that any posts beginning around 20hrs ago made in kia or tia result in a ban from offmychest. It isn't retroactive and does not seem to care if its the only post in kia with many other posts in other subs (tested with an alt I never posted to kia with had a ban sometime within 20m) the one interesting thing is that another test post made with a new alt I made was not banned and the only post is the testing... Post made in the thread in kia.

[–]stizzleomnibus1 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I wonder what the timeline is. I submitted an actual post to KiA within the last few weeks, and I've commented on posts there more recently. I have not received any ban from this or any other sub.

I'm curious to know what actual incidents or evidence of harassment they're working off of, or if this is just sort of poststructurally-inspired guilt-by-association.

[–]origamibutterfly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember reading somewhere that there is a set time. A 2 year account was banned, but a day old account wasn't. I think they check for posts within a certain timeframe.

[–]Lots42 9 points10 points  (0 children)

/r/trueoffmychest has not been infested with SJW bullshit. I double checked.

[–]DerberAuner 0 points1 point  (5 children)

sorry mate, doesnt work that way.

you have to be in the reddit tag they created for all the SJWs. :)

hell, im tagged by the system, and i didnt even get banned.

edit: spoke too soon. i cant subscribe to the sub. i think i might be banned. boy, this is exciting. the first time i was banned from a sub, and its for a no-good reason :D

[–]godamnsam 0 points1 point  (4 children)

saw that a while ago, Im in there too.

[–]DerberAuner 1 point2 points  (3 children)

maybe we have to comment in the omc sub in order to get banned?

maybe a bot has to read a comment of yours in that sub before banning you?

[–]Bazrum 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Afaik it's counting submissions and if it finds one it bans your account from commenting and submitting.

Being on the tag list is probably part of it, as a checklist maybe, but I think it goes after posts and not comments. So far at least

[–]DerberAuner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i never posted in the sub "offmychest", and i cant subscribe to it, indicating i was banned. i also havent recieved a ban message.

i AM however on the RES tag-list for "undesirables".

id say its pretty certain that i was banned cause im on that list.

[–]ThePopesFace 11 points12 points  (3 children)

Yeah, same thing for anyone commenting in /r/SRSsucks /r/TumblrInAction and a dozen other subs the mods don't personally agree with. It's the only sub I've ever been banned in.

[–]Bazrum 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Go to /r/Pyongyang and post something, anything, that hints at NK not being such a great place.

Now you've been banned from two places!

Seriously though, take it as an honor. Someone was afraid of what you might say and tried to rip out your tongue. They didn't like your opinion so they silenced it, proving they're the smaller person with limited horizons.

[–]kandel_n_handel 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Wait, is r/Pyongyang a satire sub?

[–]Bazrum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes? I think so at least.

[–]fortified_concept 29 points30 points  (15 children)

Why am I not banned yet? I'm disappointed in myself, I need to post on kotakuinaction more.

edit: I've finally been banned! The bot probably checks your post history of the last few weeks and since I hadn't posted in kotakuinaction for a while I wasn't banned yet. Thank fuck, I was starting to worry that I wasn't good enough (or was?) for the SJW imbeciles and their asylum.

[–]Eustace_Savage 13 points14 points  (14 children)

Can you comment on a thread over there? Go try.

[–]fortified_concept 11 points12 points  (13 children)

I did. I feel a little left out to be honest. Why me? What am I doing wrong? Am I too insignificant for the authoritarian nutjobs to ban me? It's preposterous and I demand satisfaction.

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    [–]SketchBoard 0 points1 point  (3 children)

    But I've got nothing constructive to contribute to that thread...

    [–]Eustace_Savage 11 points12 points  (2 children)

    Well, it's the thread I was going to comment on and I was going to add something like "if sexual orientation and gender is fluid and a social construct, then how are homosexuals born gay?". That should be sufficient to get the party started!

    [–]NoopLocke 2 points3 points  (1 child)

    YOU'RE OPPRESSING ME!

    [–]Eustace_Savage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Pls gib patreon bux.

    [–]SpiritualSuccessors[S] 0 points1 point  (7 children)

    Encouraging brigading can lead to the banning of your account.

    [–]Eustace_Savage 1 point2 points  (6 children)

    Commenting is not brigading, but voting is.

    [–]SpiritualSuccessors[S] 1 point2 points  (5 children)

    Encouraging people to go to another subreddit specifically to start shit / comment in other threads in a negative context is probably worse than just voting.

    [–]Eustace_Savage 5 points6 points  (4 children)

    You know what's worse? Blanket banning people from subs they've never participated in based on the subs they dare to participate in.

    Also, holding an opinion that is contrary to theirs is not starting shit and not in a "negative context", especially in the context of a thread where the op doesn't 'get' trannies.

    But hey, if you're going to go dob on me to the admins let me know now so I can delete the comment.

    [–]SpiritualSuccessors[S] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

    I'm not, I'm just saying because someone is inevitably going to.

    [–]Eustace_Savage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    I deleted the comment. Thanks for the heads up. It's still a stupid rule and I'm far less tolerant of the rules with what SRS has got away with lately.

    [–]Teeklin -3 points-2 points  (1 child)

    You know what's worse? Blanket banning people from subs they've never participated in based on the subs they dare to participate in.

    Is it? I mean, if you owned a business would you just let any old guy wearing a white pointy hood come in and frequent your establishment? Or would you say, "Sorry, we don't serve KKK members here" to keep your business from being shitted up by those people?

    The problem is the system is too broad to be useful. If it bans everyone who posts there, then it bans people who speak out against those subreddits too. I posted in FPH and TRP and KIA, but only to call them out on their bullshit (before getting banned).

    It's the nature of the reddit echo chamber, but as long as those subs are too afraid to let people speak their mind and ban everyone who speaks against their stupid fucking ideologies, then the rest of the decent subs on the site have to find a way to insulate themselves.

    [–]SpiritualSuccessors[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    I posted in FPH and TRP and KIA, but only to call them out on their bullshit (before getting banned).

    Can you link to your post that got you banned from KIA? As far as I know people only get banned for extremely obviously posting in bad faith / trolling.

    [–]ytayj 12 points13 points  (1 child)

    Reddit needs to crack down on these chucklefucks before they bring the entire site down.

    [–]atb77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Likely too late. The cancer has spread all over and is consuming its host.

    [–]Zallarion 45 points46 points  (8 children)

    I actually posted something to /r/offmychest once. How I had to quit the honours programme due to personal circumstances, even though that was something very important to me.

    As you can imagine, and I couldn't at the time, men pursuing success aren't appreciated there and I was downvoted to oblivion.

    Shitty fucking subreddit.

    [–]10yearsagotoday 26 points27 points  (7 children)

    For the Lazy:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/39utvl/why_i_quit_the_honours_programme/

    [–]thevoiceless 27 points28 points  (6 children)

    No comments and a positive score doesn't look like "downvoted to oblivion"

    [–]C0DASOON 27 points28 points  (1 child)

    63% upvoted is not super-low, but it implies that the post was controversial.

    [–]thevoiceless 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Ah, I'm on mobile so I didn't see that

    [–]sawmyoldgirlfriend -1 points0 points  (0 children)

    I'll help.

    [–]Eustace_Savage 9 points10 points  (9 children)

    I never got a ban notice, but I just tried to comment there while on bacon reader and got a 403 forbidden notice. Why did I never get a message telling me I'm banned?

    [–]zahlman 48 points49 points  (8 children)

    A few years ago, Reddit made a tweak to the system so that you only get ban messages from subreddits that you've previously posted in. The story goes that this was implemented because /r/ShitRedditSays was handing out so many bans, and propagating them across the "Fempire" with scripts, that it was actually bogging down the servers to send all the notifications.

    [–]Eustace_Savage 52 points53 points  (6 children)

    That's fucking retarded. So as usual SRS are abusing reddit's tools and instead of punishing them they placate them by implementing a new feature to aid their efforts.

    [–]Lithovore 16 points17 points  (4 children)

    Aren't the admins big SRS fans?

    [–]Vermality 11 points12 points  (3 children)

    Yup

    [–]Lithovore 1 point2 points  (2 children)

    Is this disclosed somewhere? has there ever been an effort to index admin bias?

    I honestly couldn't care less about any disclosed bias; I know when I'm watching certain outlets they come with a certain bias, I kind of thought that was the entire trick to following the news.

    [–]Vermality 2 points3 points  (1 child)

    You could probably find it in KiA but from what I remember reading there are specific admins that support any SRS shit. Like them commenting in srs threads showing support and stuff like that

    [–]Lithovore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Understood. Thanks for your time, Reddit has always been a centre-left website, but it seems the bias of the admins veers more towards far-left idealism.

    [–]human_machine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    That's not a bug, that's a feature.

    The first and most important rule is that reddit is a business and we (the user base) are the thing they are trying to sell (to advertisers). They built the user base with a open forum system with light moderation and that worked great. They have millions of engaged users making and curating content for each other. The problem is that an open, anonymous forum will also attract noisy people with frequently unpopular opinions and that's a problem for advertisers who don't want those negative things associated with them.

    Now, reddit could make their moderation more aggressive to make us more palatable to advertisers and they have done that but it comes at a cost to them both in terms of staffing and a risk of revolt. That's where srs comes into play. They can police reddit for the admins and they can be the villain when there is an overreach. Reddit becomes easier to sell to advertisers and investors and the admins keep their hands relatively clean.

    [–]SamSlate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    It kind of makes sense. Why would expect to get banned from a sub you've never posted in...?

    [–]nikomo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

    I reckon getting banned from racist and sexist subs is a badge of honor.

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    [–]GilTheARM 6 points7 points  (0 children)

    I had that happen to me once, years ago. Just forgot which one. It is fucking retarded and I used a second account anyway because: fuck them.

    [–]rickytickytappy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    It's gotten so fucking silly as of late.

    [–]cuckthangs1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    i suspect my posts somehow get "autodeleted" purely b/c i post in /r/tumblrinaction

    [–]Evilmeevilyou 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Wow! That's fucking stupid. I do not visit either , but that seems so counter intuitive to what a discussion board is all about.

    Hate towards "bads" is still hate. So the mods of Offmechest are now a hate group as well. Hmm.

    [–]VLDT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    I'm pretty sure my ban was because I forgot to read the sidebar and gave someone advice. Explained. Apologized. Nothing. I honestly forgot it existed, TIFU is waaaaay better.

    The mods at OMC seem like the type that get really obsessed with swinging their weight around at every possible turn.

    [–]Octro 7 points8 points  (13 children)

    WTF is that subreddit even about?

    [–]Ricwulf 27 points28 points  (1 child)

    Well, someone answered what KiA is for, so I'll answer for offmychest.

    It's basically a sub where people can bitch about things that may be weighing them down. Not my personal taste of a sub, but it's not a bad idea.

    However, because it is SRS controlled, it has to line up with the thought police. If you exhibit badthink, like participating in KiA, you are bad and your post is blocked/removed along with the ban.

    [–]literallyallah 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    While I don't mind the intent of that subreddit for the most part, I think it's stupid how they now have a 'no advice wanted' flair, where the mods enforce an echo chamber so everyone has to agree with OP (I don't see what was wrong with posters just choosing to not read comments instead)

    [–]graffiti81 15 points16 points  (10 children)

    What? KIA? Basically it's calling out the bullshit that goes on in gaming journalism. Buying reviews, giving special access, etc.

    [–]professorbooty25 6 points7 points  (5 children)

    Well it all comes down to how you view gamer gate. Woman hating man children, or people that want ethics in gaming journalism. I often wonder why they chose gaming journalism and not the abyss that is the main stream media.

    [–]Lithovore 6 points7 points  (4 children)

    Because they don't care about that; it's inconsequential what people on an outdated media say about things they've read days if not weeks ago on the internet.

    I wish there was a like minded movement going for the mainstream media, but every outlet that has attempted it has been branded far right extremists, kind of how the KotakuInAction people are treated as well.

    [–]professorbooty25 1 point2 points  (3 children)

    There are literally tens of millions of people that still get their news from the television.

    [–]Lithovore 4 points5 points  (2 children)

    I'm sorry if this comes across as dumb; but are you making a joke or are you implying that "tens of millions" is a large number on the world scale?

    [–]professorbooty25 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    No, I was talking about the United States only.

    [–]Lithovore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    That's still a small number when compared to 300 million.

    The not so Young Turk from the Young Turks said that CNN had around 500.000 viewers daily, that's an abysmal amount for a worldwide news station.

    [–]mollyhooper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    I posted there a couple times but got banned when I was caught up discussing Deaf culture on TiA.

    I was just discussing it, not even complaining about it, I know ASL, ah well. There is /r/TrueOffMyChest if you need a place to rant.

    [–]austin101123 4 points5 points  (10 children)

    What the fuck is /r/KotakuInAction?

    [–]Okichah 8 points9 points  (0 children)

    Half of it wants to be watchdog for enthusiast gaming press the other half wants to shine a light on "social justice" extremism (kinda like TumblrInAction). And a mix and match of different perspectives.

    [–]iiipm 3 points4 points  (5 children)

    don't you love the way liberals and feminists scream for free speech and tell every one it is their right to say what they want until it is something they don't like then boom they ban it and silence any one who questions their authority

    [–]Ultravisitor1 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    Do you know the difference between authoritarians and libertarians?

    [–]cycophuk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Doubtful he does. It seems like he is just spouting buzzwords in an effort to troll others.

    [–]BuildYourComputer -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

    Don't you love how people generalize an entire political party and judging it by the craziest people in it?

    [–]iiipm 2 points3 points  (1 child)

    when the craziest people in it are running it, the generalizations are generally true

    [–]gogodiatom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    TIL the mods of /r/offmychest are running the liberal party

    [–]m-p-3 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    It's not like I ever posted there anyway. If they want to slim down their userbase, so be it. I dared posting a comment maybe once or twice here, and I frankly don't see anything offensive in them.

    Nice to see their rules to extend to subreddits they don't have control. If they want to judge me on the surface, it's not even worth my time to ask to be unbanned.

    [–]Lots42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Supposedly that's a rule across the entirety of Reddit; i.e. that you cannot complain in one sub-reddit about being banned from another sub-reddit.

    I tried to confirm this rule and I failed.

    [–]fuzzo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Gamers. ftw

    [–]MrNagasaki 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Why am I not banned from /r/offmychest? I'm subscribed to KiA and I'm sure I have made some comments there.

    Edit: I am, didn't get a message, though.

    [–]Hongxiquan 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    I don't get it, how can they justify their behaviour?

    [–]Bazrum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    They can't justify it. That's why there's only one side of a discussion going on about it, the side from the perspective of the people who've been banned and those watching.

    Not once have I seen one of those mods or a regular at offmychest defend the bannings with more than a "because hate sub"/"because we said so" or silence.

    [–]Abraxhas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    This is what the admins answer when you question anything the mods does:

    Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately, mods are allowed to run their subreddits as they see fit. If you don't like the way it's being run, you should look into better managed communities, or feel free to create one and run it how you think it should be run

    [–]BostonBruinsSD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    How do they do this? Just auto ban anyone who posts a thread?

    [–]radonthetyrant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Reddit's gone to shit anyways. Who cares anymore at this point.

    [–]Internet-justice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I await my ban

    [–]ChooseWisely72 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Bahahaha. Those mods are insane. /r/OffMyChest bans people just for the sake of banning them. They are irrelevant. Sorry mods, you already banned me for just visiting another sub but I'm sure if there is a way to double ban someone you will find it.

    [–]cycophuk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I don't contribute in /r/KiA, but I do agree with what they stand for. I don't contribute to /r/omc and it wouldn't hurt my feelings at all to be banned from there.

    [–]DeafDumbBlindBoy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Thought Police.

    [–]kochevnikov 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    The actual problem with this sort of blanket type thing is that it doesn't discriminate the why. I have posted in kia to troll the dumb fuck children who post there, which actually would probably enamour me to the offmychest people, but I would be banned there as well since they're using a bot.

    So really both of these subs are terrible and you shouldn't bother with either.

    [–]BlackBoxGamers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Same goes for anyone who commented or posted in FatPeoplehate.. Just saying..

    [–]irumeru 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    Man, am I banned? Do I get to be banned? That would be awesome.

    [–]Lots42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Go comment. You will be banned in about a minute by a bot if you are not.

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