Hi folks,

I noticed you locked that AMA thread. I just wanted to take a moment to thank /u/Minn-ee-sottaa for being so level-headed and keeping things at least somewhat productive. We appreciate it. A couple of comments I'd like to deal with:

Not only did you say okay, but then you're all over this thread reprimanding your subscribers for being uncivil to these reactionaries, and licking the boots of said reactionaries by apologizing to them for your subscribers' oh so uncivil conduct. Disgusting.

There is no difference between this post and the SubredditOfTheDay post on TRP that talked about the ""perception"" of TRP being misogynistic. The faux-journalistic tone of that post was so absurd that I had assumed it was part of why this sub was created. But now you have this post talking about TiA's "occasional negative portrayal of some social justice movements"! With this sub's mods all over the thread openly tone policing their own subscribers. Unreal.

This is exactly the kind of attitude that makes your userbase look like a hateful joke. I think it demonstrates very well the issues I raised over how these guys don't want to engage and are more interested in hurling abuse. "This interview didn't support the narrative I wanted it to, and you shouldn't want us to be nice to these guests" seems to miss the point of something like that. Hell, I'd even call that the sort of behaviour you'd expect from a hate sub.

And from your head mod:

Yeah, this thread went to shit, and is a pretty good example of the type of post that convinced me to make this subreddit in the first place. I had no intention of this being a 'neutral' AMA type post, I said they needed to be aggressive in their interview and call out all their bullshit. Apparently, the TiA mods said they'd only do the interview this way, and the submitter naively assumed that getting the interview was more important than the format.

To clear this up: we were asked to do an AMA by one of your users. I've made it very clear that if your users want a discussion they're welcome to it, but that if it were merely shit-throwing it'd be a waste of everyone's time. Your problem here isn't that the "interview" wasn't aggressive, it's that you didn't get the kind of "gotcha" responses to the bait questions we were sent. It doesn't support your political agenda and so you've dismissed it as a mistake. It's this kind of ridiculous, intellectually dishonest bullshit that's typical of /r/AgainstHateSubreddits. Can't consider for a minute that maybe, just maybe, TiA isn't a "hate subreddit" at all. So what you really mean is "the interview didn't give me the results I wanted", and hopefully someday you might realise that this is a flaw in your own ideology, not ours.

So again, thanks to Minn-ee-sottaa, but it seems the community here just can't step outside their echo chamber enough to actually make progress in the world.