Is SRS worse than coontown? SRSers and SRSSers debate in /r/askreddit.

anubgek · 11時間前

I thought this post was disingenuous, almost like they were fishing for SRS call outs. Everyone knows the most toxic sub is /r/opieandanthony.

Has_No_Gimmick · 10時間前

I don't really know much about SRS but they're really bad at being a spooky vote brigade if they can't even get their own comments past -30.

IT_WAS_ME_JAMES · 9時間前

SRS actually comparing themselves to MLK

Gold medal in missing the white where the entire quote is talking about people who let racism stand. The guy didn't engage with the quote at all, but because its by MLK, "SRS is tryina be MLK".

davidreiss666 · 10時間前

Yeah actually. /r/coontown, for all it's racist idiocy, still followed the rules.

What?

Sort of like saying that Slavery was perfectly fine cause it wasn't illegal in any Southern State in 1860.

That's a stupid and racist viewpoint. There is no doubt about that.

/r/Coontown was so bad even the Admins figured out that they had to change the rules and ban them. Where as SRS has not done anything much in several yeas. Oy vey these are dumb people.

magic_is_might · 13時間前

The easiest way to tell if a poster has never actually visited SRS or has seen what SRS is, are the people who cite SRS as the worst sub on this site. It's a nice buzzword to let me know that OP doesn't know what they're talking about. They're just repeating shit they've read elsewhere, without ever actually witnessing it themselves.

Sleevepup · 11時間前

I wonder if they realize that 90% of modern SRS traffic is from colon crucified former CT and FPH users parroting that it is literally the worst sub ever wherever they can.

khanfusion · 9時間前

I had no problem with CoonTown because nothing I say or do would make them not racist, so if they kept to their own little corner to be racist amongst themselves, where's the harm? You'd have to be actively looking for racism to be offended by in order to find it, at which point you have nobody but yourself to blame.

Lol wat. Seriously? You have to actively look for racism on a giant ass message board that has/had a huge active racist community in order to find it? Fucker just, what, completely ignored pretty much all the defaults for the past 3 years? TIL alone had at least 3 daily race bating front pagers. For at least 3 years.

beanfiddler · 13時間前

I see the good ol' "well, it isn't literally true, so they're full of shit" thing is still being toted as "logic" and upvoted. Like that guy pointing out that SRS literally comparing themselves to MLK would be ridiculous when the person above him does no such thing, just quotes MLK about people who are more interested in order (which they say coontown followed, which is why it's supposedly better than SRS) than justice.

Also, the WHAT ABOUT SRS?!? boogeyman is still going strong.

Also, when the fuck are the mods at /r/askreddit going to ban the same questions that are asked over and over again? I feel like we just had some "what about SRS" drama from an /r/askreddit question almost precisely like this less than a month or two ago.

agrueeatedu · 11時間前

SRS is just one big circlejerk of shitty jokes that only they understand at this point, and its been like that for a while. I don't understand what the fascination with them is.

supferrets · 12時間前

At any rate, you can open up any SRS thread about race and it's full of racist comments targeted towards white people such as this

They really don't get it, do they?

Leprecon · 5時間前

I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.”

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

This is a really cool quote. I will use this from now on.

garbagefiredotcom · 7時間前

fuckin love when people confuses the rules of reddit with actual moral imperatives.

DonQuixoteReference · 3時間前

Yeah actually. /r/coontown, for all it's racist idiocy, still followed the rules. The mods, not just the users, blatantly disregard the rules on SRS.

Funny, as the only people who can actually tell what rules are being broken banned one and not the other for breaking the rules. But oh, no, don't believe that, it's logical and makes good sense; instead, believe that it's some vast sjw conspiracy to undermine... extremely racist people.

Nekryyd · 1時間前

Uh, say whatever you guys will about SRS but I have my own horror story and you really can't convince me that they are anything but the terminal cancer of Reddit.

I was outright doxxed by the SRS mods.

This happened after they pulled one of their typical brigades in a sub that they just need to keep their feminoid hands off of. They highlighted a comment I made where I said "as a male", which they thought was enough of privileged sin to call me out on because I should have said "as a straight cis male of white privilege". I'm not kidding.

After getting downvote bombarded into something like -4000 karma and receiving many creepy PMs about how the cultural Marxist overlords of tomorrow would use the thought crimes I've made today as retroactive evidence to punish me and have my testicles removed, I sent several mod messages to their team - in a completely civil tone - absolutely begging them to remove the post.

The only reply I got was a line from a Bachman Turner Overdrive song.

"B-b-b-baby you ain't seen n-n-nothin' yet!"

I was immediately chilled to the bone because Bachman Turner Overdrive is actually my favorite band of all time, but I've NEVER posted about it on Reddit. I knew then that I had been doxxed.

What happened next over the course of months has been a complete and total nightmare for me.

The first thing that happened was that I received an anonymous letter in my mail. Inside the unmarked envelope there were a few blue feathers and a note that simply said:

"THE BRD IS WATCHING YOU."

I tried not to let this bother me and shrugged it off, going into full alpha mode. I know I could thrash any of these noodle-armed cowards if they got in my face, but what I didn't know is that cowards play by cowardly rules.

A few days after that incident, I was crossing the street and that's when the first assassination attempt was made. An obese hipster on a Vespa attempted to run me over. I'm not joking you. In a squeaky, almost bird-like voice, he shrilly shouted, "DIE CIS SCUM!!!" as he made his attempt. Luckily for me, he couldn't handle the Vespa properly and the vehicle wobbled and narrowly missed running over my kicks.

I was pretty shaken by that incident. I won't lie. I decided I needed help and I joined the SRSS support group to look for others that have dealt with SRS harassment. SRS dox survivors have to be very careful about what they say in even their own sub. We basically have to speak in code there to avoid being attacked. That's why everything in SRSS reads like a shitpost, it's actually code-speak and not shitposting at all. After I proved my legitimacy, the mods gave me the key to decode the messages.

What I learned shocked and horrified me. First off, we all had several things in common. We all were independent thinkers that didn't buy into the nanny state. We all appreciated 70s rock bands. Most important: We were ALL straight, white men.

I began to attend SRSS meetings, held in secret, in places where the BRD dare not go (Mostly Twin Peaks and Hooters). We identified each other with our secret passphrase, "The Narwhal Bacons at Midnight". After I sat down with some wings and a Coors lite, I began to learn the history of SRS victims. All straight white males. Many of whom died or disappeared under "mysterious" circumstances.

I tried contacting the admins. After repeated attempts I was told to stop contacting them, that there was "nothing that could be done about the cabal", and that I would be shadowbanned for their safety if I did not drop the issue.

SRSS was the only place I could turn to, but there was only so much they could do for me with their limited resources. They had their own lives to worry about.

Finally I received one last letter in the mail. In giant, Comic Sans font it simply read:

KILL ALL MEN

That was it. I moved into another apartment and changed my Reddit username. But I know it's only a matter of time before they find me again. This is the new normal for us. The victims of an impending straight while male genocide.

All because Reddit can't get its shit together and ban SRS.

pissbum-emeritus · 10時間前

It's usually chuds who've had their shitty behavior called out and mocked that howl the loudest. Also their shitpants followers.

Everybody else? I suppose I could make a pie chart but I'd rather just eat the pie.

n0ggy · 6時間前

Yeahhh, my first mention in SRD.

My fault to be honest, I should have never responded to them in the first place... These slap-fights always end up making everyone looking like an idiot, myself included.

Well, at least it entertained some people!

ttumblrbots · 13時間前

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DeepStuffRicky · 58分前

The anti-SRS jerk was literally the first thing I saw all over the front page back when I first started using reddit. There's always been this sort of desperate push to make them into this hugely powerful boogeyman that's just lying in wait to ruin everybody's good time. I'm used to misogynist forums - misogyny absolutely permeates the internet and always has - but I'd never seen such a level of paranoia about angry women that appeared to have been pulled completely from someone's ass. There has never been any real evidence to support the ridiculous idea that SRS secretly runs things around here, but people will keep the panic stoked, frantically whipping it back to life whenever it appears to be flagging, with a ridiculous level of emotional investment.

Now it's just a part of reddit lore, something you will have to deal with sooner or later if you use reddit at all. Which I guess is okay, it's just a form of the weird tribalism that tends to spring up on any internet forum with more than a few users. People like to have an "us vs them". But at the end of the day it appears to me that all of these endless histrionics and all this demonizing of this easy-to-avoid, not-terribly-influential group of troll subs boils down to the fact that reddit on the whole lionizes and will go out of its way to defend misogyny, racism, trans bigotry, (male) pedophilia, and real-time bullying of actual redditors (fph), to the point that it wishes to censor mere criticism of these things. They will pretend it's about free speech but there's plenty of speech these people would be more than happy to censor, so that's just a disingenuous excuse. The reddit majority is a socially conservative propertarian nightmare.

AmbroseMalachai · 4時間前

To be fair, I think the guy citing MLK was right in that instance. Everything else on that that is just ridiculous garbage of "I'm better than you" spiel. I can't believe that people could accept coontown because "it's racist and it'll never change so I know what I'm getting". That's fucking bullshit if I've ever heard it.

FixinThePlanet · 8時間前

I should just stop reading these threads.

Mewtwo20010911 · 9時間前

Does the entire Reddit userbase think SRS today is the same as SRS from 2011, when it really was a legitimate downvote brigade?

Fucking Obama.

Not_A_Doctor__ · 3時間前

SRS has to be some sort of shorthand, because they are ancient and, if you never visit the sub, invisible. They are as fresh as Phaedra. SRS are the Protocols of the Elders of Reddit.

myRDramaAcct · 11時間前

Let's just be honest for a second.

On reddit dot com.

SRS is probably one of the only redeeming features of this site.

VeteranKamikaze · 10時間前

SRS is largely ignorant loudmouths who's hearts are in the right place. Coontown is ignorant loudmouths, full stop. The latter is definitely far worse.

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