全 182 件のコメント

[–]AntiLukePargon Pargon Pargon Pargon Pargon Pargon Pargon 67ポイント68ポイント  (18子コメント)

Is there anything more tragic than a meta sub that has lost its meta?

Truth

[–]klapaucius 41ポイント42ポイント  (16子コメント)

That's another benefit of sticking to the periphery of the metareddit underbelly here in SRD.

"People arguing on the internet" is a commodity with a more reliable floor than gold or silver could dream of.

[–]ArchangelleDovakinsubsistence popcorn farmer 13ポイント14ポイント  (12子コメント)

How are we in the periphery here? This is one of the largest metahubs.

[–]klapaucius 20ポイント21ポイント  (11子コメント)

I mean in terms of quality, not quantity.

Usually SRD is sort of in a middle ground where it's definitely part of the metareddit underbelly but, at least ostensibly, tries to laugh at the rest of metareddit from a distance rather than diving into the battles the way that the "Xsubsucks"/"enoughXspam"/reddit[terminaldisease]/etc subs do.

[–]ArchangelleDovakinsubsistence popcorn farmer 6ポイント7ポイント  (10子コメント)

But the metareddit is the people and events that make up reddit, and SRD and OOTL are the two main subs where people go to follow what is going on on reddit itself. Regardless of whether or not the intent is to "dive into the battles", it is still one of the main subs where users go to talk about what is happening on reddit.

[–]klapaucius 4ポイント5ポイント  (9子コメント)

Yeah, I understand that. I'm not talking about a subreddit's size or prominence here, I'm talking in more subjective terms, in the sense of... severity, I guess.

Like, if you wanted to look at reddit's racist taint area, you might start off with /r/worldnews to see how that part of the userbase acts in more general subs, then head into /r/European and other places where they're more concentrated, then into the dark pits like CT and whatever CT-like subs still exist under the quarantine.

I realize that it's more a personal judgment than any objective description, but I've always seen SRD as sort of a "gateway subreddit" where people watch and comment on the fighting that goes down in subs like SRS/antiSRS/anti-anti-SRS/however far it goes, but most don't actually participate.

EDIT: to clarify, by "metareddit", I mean the part of reddit that is solely about reddit and its posters rather than aggregating content from elsewhere.

[–]DangerAwarCabal so hard SRCers wanna ban me 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I think you're right on that. I only really use SRD out of all the metareddit subs.

[–]ArchangelleDovakinsubsistence popcorn farmer -3ポイント-2ポイント  (7子コメント)

I think I'm just not understanding why you're arbitrarily excluding SRD from considering as one of the biggest metasubs using an odd "severity" metric.

[–]klapaucius 4ポイント5ポイント  (6子コメント)

Well, take... for example, bestof and subredditcancer.

The average bestof post is something like "A bunch of users decide to make the exact same joke in a comments section together" or "A celebrity randomly posts in a thread to talk about himself".

The average subredditcancer post is something like "The mods of X sub have begun censoring Y because they're SJWs" or "X user, who mods Y, did Z in W subreddit yet does V in Y because he's hypocritical filth."

They're both metareddit subs, essentially, but I think the one that tracks individual users, dissects mod teams, and generally focuses in on Reddit as an entity rather than on something that happened on Reddit, is significantly more meta. It's deeper into the meta rabbit hole. Bestof is way more popular, but that doesn't make it a deeper part of metareddit. It's barely on the fringes.

To use an analogy, they're both drugs, but bestof is like alcohol and SRC is closer to meth. Then SRD is sort of... pot. It's also very popular, and considered a more serious drug than alcohol, if only because it's illegal, but I would definitely not consider it a "hard drug" like the crack you get from some other metasubs.

[–]ArchangelleDovakinsubsistence popcorn farmer -2ポイント-1ポイント  (5子コメント)

But how does any of that make us the "periphery"? We're still very central when it comes to the metasphere; good, bad, or indifferent.

[–]Bank_Gothichttp://i.imgur.com/91U141E.jpg 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

We're looking at the meta arguments rather than participating in them. Like, we're off to the side, spectating. On the "periphery."

[–]klapaucius [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

This has been a pretty frustrating conversation.

I think of SRD as "peripheral" to the rest of metareddit.

But SRD is very big.

Size isn't what I'm going from here, it's because it tries not to participate directly in the personal and ideological scuffles that make up what I consider "metareddit".

How can you say that? It's definitely a large subreddit.

[–]grandhighwonko 5ポイント6ポイント  (2子コメント)

This is my general sub, but I drop into more specialized ones as times require. EnoughPaulSpam 4 years ago, SRS just after, bluepill two years ago and ghazi last year. The problem is that generally the more specialized subs are great at first, but then they start to win and get far less funny and far more strident. So I lose interest and come back here. Snark is life, and I'm not a funny person, so I live vicariously.

EDIT: forgot buttcoin, there was snark that I thought would never die

[–]klapaucius 4ポイント5ポイント  (1子コメント)

That's why I've always avoiding getting involved in subs like that. Even when I agree with their general ideas, they end up seriously outraged enough to forget what they were going for in the first place.

SRD has the highest amount of taking Reddit seriously that I consider safe for me to interact with.

[–]grandhighwonko 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

They normally don't start out like that or even be dominated by too much seriousness. Also some of the funniest people I've ever met on reddit tend to adopt left wingish circlejerks early.

[–]The_Silver_Avenger 26ポイント27ポイント  (15子コメント)

The more badx subs I read and know about, the more I realise that everything said on reddit is wrong.

It's funniest when people try to argue against academics in these subs. They lose every single time.

[–]OllyTwistIt has been [0] days since /r/conspiracy has blamed the Joos[S] 23ポイント24ポイント  (10子コメント)

/r/badeconomics may be second favorite to /r/badhistory. They like to argue with the riff raff.

[–]caustic_enthusiast 14ポイント15ポイント  (5子コメント)

badpolitics is pretty choice as well, if only for the endless supply of hilarious charts that the political fringe/mentally ill are great at producing.

[–]somegurk 7ポイント8ポイント  (3子コメント)

Thats /r/badeconomics great tragedy we still don't have our chart. Like there are plenty of bad charts but nothing quite as beautiful and moronic as /r/badhistory

[–]Llan79 6ポイント7ポイント  (1子コメント)

I thought it was this example where the WSJ decided that the Laffer Curve must be preserved at all costs

[–]arnet95 [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Ah yes, the great statistical method Norwegian Least Squares. That's a classic.

[–]WearyTunes 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Take our charts, we have too many.

[–]eongeTHE BUTTER MUST FLOW. 7ポイント8ポイント  (0子コメント)

Badlinguistics is pretty great.

[–]grevemoeskr 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

Hey, when people says humans are horses or that inflation is an increase in the money supply, you gotta tell them why they are wrong, right?

[–]KUmitch 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

i love /r/badlinguistics but i studied linguistics in college so i'm biased

[–]delta_baryonAccidentally creates drama 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

I feel like most bad linguistics is people being snobs about dialects though. There wasn't much variety on that sub when I subscribed.

[–]KUmitch [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

when lots of reddit is woefully undereducated about dialects and prescriptivism, that'll constitute a lot of the content. there's also a lot of material from random blogs that claim that sanskrit (or tamil, or whatever language) is the ancestor of all languages and is so complex it's basically a programming language

[–]dumnezero🌿 vegan sjw 💀 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

The more badx subs I read and know about, the more I realise that everything said on reddit is wrong.

This is why I made /r/badbad

(haven't really started it, but it's mine!)

[–]The_Silver_Avenger 9ポイント10ポイント  (0子コメント)

There's also a /r/badeverything "for the worst interdisciplinary failures".

[–]BuffyCreepireSlayerWe're in the dankest timeline. (pbuf) [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

/r/badphilosophy is a pile o'facepalms.

But maybe philosophers in general are just insufferable? IDK, sample size too small.

[–]The_Silver_Avenger [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

/r/badphilosophy is the /r/subredditdrama of the badx subs. Their job is less to correct mistakes and more to laugh at them.

Who can really blame them? Most of the people in the other badx subs agree that reddit as a whole is considerably worse at philosophy than nearly any other subject.

[–]CANOODLING_SOCIOPATHSRS SHILL 30ポイント31ポイント  (0子コメント)

This really just has everything. Austrian Economics, transphobia, objectification, libertarianism being confused with economics, and anti religion.

[–]ucstructDon't gild me under any circumstances 6ポイント7ポイント  (3子コメント)

That trans-bashing drama from that ELS thread was posted here a few days ago I think.

[–]TheBellJarCurve 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

Can't find it, and I was involved in it. Here is the thread where the transphobia occurs.

[–]ucstructDon't gild me under any circumstances 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

Ha, yeah that's it. I don't usually go in for the mod hate, but this was something else.

don't start trying to pick a fight with me. You'll lose. Every time.

and

Sure looks like it from where I'm sitting. /me checks his Mod seat. Yup. Looks like it on multiple fronts.

Wow, what a peach.

[–]TheBellJarCurve 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

don't start fights.

no worries. He isn't arguing with me.

HELP! I'M BEING FOUGHT

[–]Riderz_of_Brohan 14ポイント15ポイント  (21子コメント)

R/Badeconomics is one of the best subs because it shows how just how many of these stupid conversations on reddit are bullshit

[–]quimsonquimsonquims 0ポイント1ポイント  (20子コメント)

yea but they're also extreme, like they don't want maternity leave and mandatory vacations, which may seem weird esp. to western europeans

[–]grevemoeskr 13ポイント14ポイント  (2子コメント)

Ehh... Huh? I frequent /r/badeconomics, and I've never seen that. Do you have a link?

[–]quimsonquimsonquims 14ポイント15ポイント  (1子コメント)

I don't have anything against them, they usually do a good job when any default subs goes full econ101 to explain minimum wage or whatever, I'm just saying they're very economically liberal for western european standards.

Here's a thread about maternity leave and vacation

https://np.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/2zrb8m/twox_discusses_mandatory_family_medical_leave/

One guy even has to start with "Before you call us fascists..."...

Here's a thread about a known guy rambling how terrible Switzerland is despite us being off very well, this got bad reactions in SAS and /r/switzerland

https://np.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/3e59lp/7_ways_i_made_up_a_bunch_of_data_about_switzerland/ctbnez5

e.g

Having a law preventing businesses from being open on Sunday's is not a good thing, particularly for low-income workers who staff retail.

everybody working in retail here has decent wages and usually votes against unregulated opening hours themselves. Retail workers have great union contracts here.

Including that americans don't want vacation because it would mean low wages, like all of us poor swiss people have?!?

Another thread about paid vacation, where apparently paid vacations are meaningless and would lead to massive unemployment like in Germany or once again, Switzerland...

It's not a bad sub, but to people from Scandinavia, Germany, Switzerland etc. they may seem extreme.

[–]grevemoeskr 13ポイント14ポイント  (0子コメント)

Here's a thread about maternity leave and vacation

https://np.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/2zrb8m/twox_discusses_mandatory_family_medical_leave/

One guy even has to start with "Before you call us fascists..."...

Which has 4 points, while the first reply is

The comparisons in this section make clear that paid parental leave has regressive redistribution properties.

In other words, paid paternal leave will take money from the poor and give it to the middle class and the rich.

This means paid maternity leave could increase income inequality and be wholly unfair in a country like the United States.

That stands at 6 points. Not saying that points is everything, but it helps to show the opinion of a sub

Here's a thread about a known guy rambling how terrible Switzerland is despite us being off very well, this got bad reactions in SAS and /r/switzerland

https://np.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/3e59lp/7_ways_i_made_up_a_bunch_of_data_about_switzerland/ctbnez5

e.g

Having a law preventing businesses from being open on Sunday's is not a good thing, particularly for low-income workers who staff retail.

everybody working in retail here has decent wages and usually votes against unregulated opening hours themselves. Retail workers have great union contracts here.

Including that americans don't want vacation because it would mean low wages, like all of us poor swiss people have?!?

To be fair, HE3 has some outthere views. He once said the state should help people over 75 with health care, at all, but the link in the thread was quite bad, and basically said "Export Swiss conditions to the US and everything is better!!!" I'm not saying it wouldn't, but studies has shown that Americans prefer higher wages to vacation. That's pretty much the crux of that post

Another thread about paid vacation, where apparently paid vacations are meaningless and would lead to massive unemployment like in Germany or once again, Switzerland...

I don't see the words "Germany", "Switzerland", "Vacation" or "unemployment" anywhere in there. Could you point it where it's said?

It's not a bad sub, but to people from Scandinavia, Germany, Switzerland etc. they may seem extreme.

Hi, I'm from Denmark. I vote left of center. I don't think they are extreme

[–]BidenChooChooTrainon iron horse he flies 11ポイント12ポイント  (3子コメント)

they don't? can you point me to them saying that?

I mean, presumably it's a sub with a high concentration of people who have studied economics; it comes off as a dodge to dismiss the sub offhand as "extreme."

[–]Lambchops_Legion 9ポイント10ポイント  (2子コメント)

I mean, presumably it's a sub with a high concentration of people who have studied economics; it comes off as a dodge to dismiss the sub offhand as "extreme."

a few of the biggest posters on the sub are Econ professors themselves and there's several PhD students working on their thesis there.

It's probably the only (or biggest) sub where you can discuss actual economics beyond an intermediate level without someone having to track back to explain a basic concept someone is missing.

[–]reconrose -2ポイント-1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Economists can be like that sometimes

[–]besttrousers 12ポイント13ポイント  (7子コメント)

yea but they're also extreme, like they don't want maternity leave and mandatory vacations, which may seem weird esp. to western Europeans

Is this that extreme? I vaguely recall this conversation - the reason we're skeptical is that such policies will reduce the incomes people receive.

This is basedon Jon Gruber research (http://economics.mit.edu/files/6484) (ie, the guy behind Obamacare)

[–]PlayMp1 1ポイント2ポイント  (5子コメント)

Is it bad to reduce wages in favor of helping the overall happiness and comfort of society?

[–]delta_baryonAccidentally creates drama [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

Depends, if said wages were to lead to an underclass of starving poor people, then yes.

[–]PlayMp1 [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Isn't that what a minimum wage, negative income tax, or basic income is for?

[–]_Muzak_ [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Well is a person happier if they have maternity leave yet are poorer overall? I don't think that's obviously true.

Which isn't to say that I oppose maternity leave, i do support it, if it is structured properly. If done poorly it can be a wealth transfer from lower income families to higher income families which is something very few people would want.

[–]besttrousers [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

The idea is that people can negotiate this with their employers on their own.

[–]PlayMp1 [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

I think we all know how negotiating with employers on an individual level can go. Is /r/badeconomics anti-union? I'm not very familiar with them. Every time I go on there, the jargon levels are way higher than I'm used to, with lots of math and terminology being thrown around.

I don't pretend to know shit about economics, because honestly, I don't. I have an idea of how a few organs of economic intervention work, and that's it.

[–]jorio -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

Thanks for the heads up, I just about to post my analysis explaining the difference between SJWs and Grubers. I thought it would wrap up my Miss Congeniality award. That was a close one.....

[–]Riderz_of_Brohan 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

They're really not extreme at all and id be surprised if they say that honestly

[–]_Rory_ 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah, this isn't true.

[–]socialjusticeorc 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I always got the impression that it's a sub full of people who tend to view things purely and specifically in terms of economic utility and they get together on that sub to discuss that, specifically.

There's good reasons for doing things like maternity leave, but that's not really their thing.

[–]wumbotarian 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

So maybe Western Europeans don't like what /r/badeconomics has to say.

What does that mean? Let's also say that Western Europeans thought /r/badgeology was "too extreme" in how the geologists there treated igneous rock policy.

It doesn't matter if they think they're "extreme". If someone's wrong, they're wrong. Political priors and opinions don't matter when you're up against the experts.

The Western Europeans could tell geologists all day, every day, that igneous rocks are fucking bullshit, but that doesn't matter.

[–]_Rory_ [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

A dude on reddit =/= Western Europe.

Political priors and opinions don't matter when you're up against the experts.

If they ever pilot an action crime tv show where an economist has to solve crimes, I think you should be a writer.

[–]caustic_enthusiast 45ポイント46ポイント  (107子コメント)

Its depressing as hell to see how far downhill ELS has gone. I mean, its a sub dedicated to making fun of libertarians, the people with the world's lowest self awareness, they basically do your job for you. It stopped actually being about calling libertarians out for spamming their beliefs everywhere a long time ago, but whatever, the community still found some hilarious and/or despicable posts. But unfortunately, the mod team is absolute garbage. They're petty, they take things personally, they love to power trip, they have a vastly different ideological perspective than most of the subscribers and are continually butthurt about it, and they generally refuse to listen to any form of criticism or suggestion.

The sexism and anti-intellectualism aren't new, but the last straw was when they decided to straight up ban anyone who gave a hint they are a communist. There were definitely some recurring capitalism/anti-capitalism fights occurring, but instead of calming everyone down the mod team pounced in to take sides (and the much less popular side at that). This is hugely problematic for a couple reasons; most importantly of course is that the policy didn't ban people for spamming about communism or being off topic or even for mentioning communism at all. Just being a communist. Even if you never discussed it on ELS. This would be shitty by itself, but unfortunately their definition of 'communist' means basically anything further left than the American democratic party.

Nothing good came out of this, its too depressing to even be popcorn. Just another example of how bad mods can do a lot to ruin a good sub.

[–]TheBellJarCurve 24ポイント25ポイント  (9子コメント)

But unfortunately, the mod team is absolute garbage. They're petty, they take things personally, they love to power trip, they have a vastly different ideological perspective than most of the subscribers and are continually butthurt about it, and they generally refuse to listen to any form of criticism or suggestion.

Can confirm. In the thread that /r/badeconomics linked to, I called out the OP on his transphobia and one of the ELS mods banned me for "name calling" and "starting petty personal arguments". I asked to be unbanned in the modmail and he said I was "pushing a personal agenda" and "starting flame wars". The ban was eventually undone. Full modmail conversation.

That mod punished me for calling out bigotry on his sub, and referred to my calling out transphobia as "an agenda". The other mods enable his behavior. I still post there because I do tend to find many users on /r/Anarcho_Capitalism saying racist and sexist things, and ELS is the audience for that sort of thing.

Ban message.

Snaphots of thread: 1, 2. Snapshot of thread containing OP's 2 bigoted comments.

[–]FurterNFrank [スコア非表示]  (4子コメント)

The worst of it is, SixBiscuit (who is well above IAJBOH in the mod list and so has literally nothing to fear from intervening) told BenzJuan to "grow up" but then did nothing to intervene in your kerfluffle. What the actual fuck?

[–]agrueeatedu#JUSTICE4PLANETMANS [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Probably because he assumed he was either Left wing or an Ancap. Meanwhile BenzJuan is pretty solid in the moderate-right camp, which fits the views of the average ELS reader after they kicked out 2/3rds of their readers/posters.

[–]agrueeatedu#JUSTICE4PLANETMANS 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

Lucky you, I never got a response when they banned me for bullshit reasons and called them out on it.

[–]khanfusionJust a stupid diversionist tactic to diminish feminism 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yup, that's a shitty mod.

[–]papabattaglia 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

Shitty mods for a sub that no longer has any real purpose makes for a sad spectacle. I get that mods can do what they want, but it's sad to see them turn their own sub into an unpleasant place to be.

[–]I_want_hard_work [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

I unsubscribed a bit ago. Glad to know I made the right call.

[–]RedCanadaLITERALLY AN SRS SHILL 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I think it's acceptable to ban someone for trying to raise their own personal army from another subreddit by crossposting something people in the crossposted subreddit disagrees with and gives pushback to.

I haven't visited ELS for years, all I remember about that place was making fun of the Redditors who worshipped Ron Paul, especially when it turned out that Ron Paul's presidential runs were a way to bilk suckers for money. The only thing I'm going on here is what's in these threads.

[–]FerengiStudent 1ポイント2ポイント  (4子コメント)

The Marxist manchildren were more annoying than the libertarian ones, and they get banned too.

[–]caustic_enthusiast 16ポイント17ポイント  (1子コメント)

Which would be cool if the sub was called enoughmarxistspam. Or if they only banned people who were trying to proselytize for communism or start fights. Or if they banned actual communists. Or if any of the people that were annoyed had any idea what Marxism actually is

[–]boehner_alert -3ポイント-2ポイント  (0子コメント)

You can always make another subreddit.

Your comments here are essentially the same as the comments at r/subredditcancer : coming up with a million reasons why mods having the last word about their own sub is somehow unjustified and wrong (or here, problematic).

It's not. It might be nice (for you, for them, for anyone) if other people did what you want, but not doing so doesn't make them "absolute garbage" as you kindly put it.

[–]AngryVegetableI'm not racist for asking racist questions! 5ポイント6ポイント  (1子コメント)

As a marxist manchild, I am offended.

[–]BaconOfTroyUnemployed shill for hire 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Are you my ex-boyfriend?

[–]TotesMessengerMessenger for Totes [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

I'm a bot, bleep, bloop. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:

If you follow any of the above links, please respect the rules of reddit and don't vote in the other threads. (Info / Contact)

[–]Prometherion13 -4ポイント-3ポイント  (15子コメント)

ELS went downhill when it became flooded with fucking communists. 3-4 years ago it was just making fun of all the Paulbots. Then all the socialists and identity warriors had to come in and nearly ruin the sub. Them banning tankies and the rest of the scum was the best thing that sub has done in a long while.

[–]RedCanadaLITERALLY AN SRS SHILL 9ポイント10ポイント  (0子コメント)

It was fun making fun of the Paulbots and Randroids back in the day.

[–]TheBellJarCurve 3ポイント4ポイント  (3子コメント)

identity warriors

What are those?

[–]rocktheprovince [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

Usually anti-racists, anti-homophobes, and anti-sexists. Occasionally you'll see some other stuff but those are the pillars people refer to when they start complaining about 'identity warriors' 'identity politics' and 'social justice warriors'.

[–]celocanth13I'M TELLING ON YOU! 0ポイント1ポイント  (4子コメント)

ELS went downhill when it became flooded with fucking communists.

Is it the Red Scare all over again?

[–]a57782 7ポイント8ポイント  (0子コメント)

Eh, I can kind of see the point. Look at some of the socialism/communism threads that get posted in SRD. It's not that unusual for it to result in communists/socialists putting up walls of text like SRD was Berlin in 1961.

[–]Prometherion13 -1ポイント0ポイント  (2子コメント)

Are you going to seriously deny that ELS became infested with communists? Because if you are, then you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. It is a known fact that this occurred.

[–]ShipofTools 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

As a communist who was banned from ELS for too much communist'ing, I can attest that you're wrong. I'll even swear on the Beard of Engels.

[–]agrueeatedu#JUSTICE4PLANETMANS [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Most of the "communists" that got banned weren't even communists so much as further left of center. Now all that's left is center-right neolibs and neocons.

[–]TheBellJarCurve [スコア非表示]  (2子コメント)

identity warriors

Hey there, anti-transphobe here who calls out such things in ELS. Glad you left.

[–]Prometherion13 [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

Congrats loser. Glad you're so proud of yourself for being a true righteous internet warrior.

[–]TheBellJarCurve [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

I hope that one day you will cross paths with a transgendered person and can develop empathy from the experience.

[–]agrueeatedu#JUSTICE4PLANETMANS [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

No, it went overboard when the mods decided to purge all the "communist" posters, most of whom were the subs best posters. There was definitely a rise in butthurt left wing posters immediately before the mods went Stalin on the sub, but that could easily have been taken care of another way if the mods weren't also butthurt idiots.

[–]Prometherion13 [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

No, banning the moron leftists en masse was definitely the best move that sub has made in years. Nobody wants to visit a sub inhabited by a bunch of college freshmen who are fucking Stalinists on the internet. Keep that shit in r/shitliberalssay.

[–]GhostFaceShillerProgressive LOLbertarian 13ポイント14ポイント  (5子コメント)

ELS was one of "those" subs founded by refugees from the Digg Libertarian vs. Neoconservative wars (i.e. it's metadrama that's been transposed from elsewhere). Both sides should have found something better to do after it became obvious that Ron Paul was never going to be president.

[–]caustic_enthusiast 18ポイント19ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm pretty sure the mod team and a couple other relics are the only remaining digg conservatives. Everyone else is a lefty of some stripe who usually doesn't even differentiate that well between libertarians and neoconservatives.

[–]a-dead-guy-irldo not send help 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's amazing that this is nearly a decade old now.

[–]agrueeatedu#JUSTICE4PLANETMANS 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

I've heard that a lot in the past but had never really seen any evidence of it actually being true.

[–]wharpudding 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Quite a few of us from Digg wound up there. A lot of the early bickering was a continuation of the "Digg Patriots" battle.

[–]NurglingsWould Jesus support US taxes on Bitcoin earnings? 3ポイント4ポイント  (6子コメント)

And what exactly is the SPAM here?

ELS hasn't been about actual spam for a while. Now it is pretty much just a place to make fun of anything libertarian/right wing.

[–]TheBellJarCurve 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

And when you mention this to the mods they don't care. Apparently simply linking to a libertarian economist who dared to exist is a quality post there.

[–]NurglingsWould Jesus support US taxes on Bitcoin earnings? 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

The mod team at ELS makes a lot of questionable decisions.

[–]ttumblrbots 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

doooooogs: 1, 2 (seizure warning); 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; if i miss a post please PM me

[–]agrueeatedu#JUSTICE4PLANETMANS -3ポイント-2ポイント  (1子コメント)

ELS is a pretty shit sub. They basically banned me because I happened to post in both in an ELS thread that got posted to SRD, and in the SRD thread I found linked. Tried to call me a brigader when I had been fairly active in the sub. It was great until it got invaded by a bunch of butthurt socialists who couldn't accept other opinions, and then the liberal and conservatives on the modlist decided to fight fire with fire and just ban all the actual left wing posters from ELS.

[–]veriunga 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Don't you find it slightly ironic that you're complaining about "butthurt socialists who couldn't accept other opinions", when it was the mod team who couldn't bare to be criticized, the whole melt down occured when the Mod team got called out for repeatedly and continually agreeing with libertarian positions on issues like Uber.

There was just a real disconect between the Digg neo-cons that run that sub, and their mostly left wing base who want to criticize RW (libertarian) economic policies, and the mods weren't about to tolerate any viewpoint but a RW one