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Yeah, the ban of T_D is only symbolic; it has been dead for months. I think the real news here is the ban of /r/ChapoTrapHouse, (arguably) the most active lefti

Yeah, the ban of T_D is only symbolic; it has been dead for months. I think the real news here is the ban of /r/ChapoTrapHouse, (arguably) the most active leftist subreddit there was.

shakezula 6y ago
ChapoTrapHouse has been laughing for months about their incoming ban, though. They knew it was coming and they've been preparing for it by migrating to other subs, moving to Discord, etc... T_D users are probably doing the exact same.
- fernandotakai 6y ago
  the donald users are already on a another site (which i won't link because i do not remember the url lol) and have been for a while now.
  - ComputerGuru 6y ago
    For posterity’s sake, I believe the commenter is referring to thedonald.win, which I’m purposely leaving un-linkified.
- SauciestGNU 6y ago
  I posted on cth periodically and while I think it was banned largely so the admins could claim "balance" I don't care at all. Nothing serious happened there, the daily chat threads were fun, but it was clearly eventually going to be banned and I knew that and didn't get invested.
  - pmiller2 6y ago
    +1 to this. Chapo wasn't bad at all, in terms of breaking actual rules. I saw people on the announcement thread claiming it was full of tankies, and that was reason enough to ban it, but it really wasn't. You wouldn't get very far on Chapo by unironically talking about what a great man Stalin or Mao was -- though, guillotine jokes, including applying them to the necks of landlords, would certainly get you upvotes. I never saw any actual brigading on the sub itself. Others talk about "organizing brigades through Twitter," and I think it's kind of BS to punish people for that. Reddit doesn't get to police Twitter, and vice versa. Never saw any actual advocacy of violence against any specific person, either. Sure, there were "kill the landlords" type jokes and memes, but the closest I think I ever saw it get to actual incitement of violence was stuff like "Kissinger needs to fucking die already," or "I would prefer that Trump exit the White House feet first, in a box." You can call that whatever you like, but it's certainly not advocating violence against anyone. Meanwhile, there's literally a Stalin meme on the front page of r/fullcommunism that says "death to capitalism." Then, there's r/latestagecapitalism, which is a toxic shithole of a sub where you literally can't say "that idea is crazy and will never work because $REASONS," because they have a blacklist of words that are "slurs" of one sort of another that they don't publish, and which will get your post removed if you try and use them.
    - SauciestGNU 6y ago
      /r/fullcommunism is also quarantined though. I'm honestly a little surprised it didn't get banned in this wave. And late stage capitalism has had a bunch of mod coups and stuff over the years that have negatively affected the quality of the sub.
- SmokeyHamster 6y ago
  Oh yeah. They began advertising thedonald.win last year.
fernandotakai 6y ago
also banned gendercritical, which was an extreme left, radical feminist (as in, Valerie Solanas radical feminism) board.
- Miner49er 6y ago
  Gendercritical was not "extreme left". It was an anti-trans (TERF) subreddit hated by actual leftist subs.
  - u320 6y ago
    Just because something is hated by most of the left doesn't make it "not left".
    - abellerose 6y ago
      As a trans person myself. All that subreddit did was target hate towards trans people. Anyone care to elaborate on what else they did with actual proof?
      - nullc 6y ago
        Asking for actual proof now is a bit of a tall bar since the subreddit is no longer accessible!
        abellerose 6y ago
        Oh I'm sorry that you don't know of https://archive.org/web https://archive.org/web
      - 0BADAC1D 6y ago
        is it hateful to be skeptical of gender?
        duskwuff 6y ago
        "Skeptical of gender" is a cover phrase for "denying the existence of trans people". So, yes.
three_seagrass 6y ago
The current mods killed the_donald. The mods, not the admins, made it so that only a shortlist of approved users could post content in the subreddit. It was likely a move to push the community somewhere else.
- tick_tock_tick 6y ago
  The current mods were appointed by the admins....
  - three_seagrass 6y ago
    No they weren't. The admins kept the original mods and were trying to work with them. The admins even said as much when explaining the ban.
- SmokeyHamster 6y ago
  >The mods, not the admins, made it so that only a shortlist of approved users could post content in the subreddit. Admins banned virtually all the mods, without warning or explanation, so the remaining mod(s) had no choice but to lock the sub. One of the tricks leftist groups like to do is they'll brigade right-leaning subs, post a ton of "offensive" content, then before the mods can remove it, they'll screenshot it, post it up on a blog, and then alert the admins to trick them into banning the sub. That's how they got the sub quarantined. With only one or two mods left, they couldn't properly police the sub anymore, which had close to a million subscribers and tens of thousands of active posters at any given hour. Put yourself in their shoes. If it was the choice between accept random unknown (but admin approved) users as moderators, or lock the sub, what would you do? Of course you'd lock the sub. It was just an attempt at a soft-takeover. Better it be outright banned than lobotomized by replacing its mods with Reddit users who likely hate Trump.

Yeah, the ban of T_D is only symbolic; it has been dead for months. I think the real news here is the ban of /r/ChapoTrapHouse, (arguably) the most active leftist subreddit there was.

shakezula 6y ago

ChapoTrapHouse has been laughing for months about their incoming ban, though. They knew it was coming and they've been preparing for it by migrating to other subs, moving to Discord, etc... T_D users are probably doing the exact same.

fernandotakai 6y ago
the donald users are already on a another site (which i won't link because i do not remember the url lol) and have been for a while now.
- ComputerGuru 6y ago
  For posterity’s sake, I believe the commenter is referring to thedonald.win, which I’m purposely leaving un-linkified.
SauciestGNU 6y ago
I posted on cth periodically and while I think it was banned largely so the admins could claim "balance" I don't care at all. Nothing serious happened there, the daily chat threads were fun, but it was clearly eventually going to be banned and I knew that and didn't get invested.
- pmiller2 6y ago
  +1 to this. Chapo wasn't bad at all, in terms of breaking actual rules. I saw people on the announcement thread claiming it was full of tankies, and that was reason enough to ban it, but it really wasn't. You wouldn't get very far on Chapo by unironically talking about what a great man Stalin or Mao was -- though, guillotine jokes, including applying them to the necks of landlords, would certainly get you upvotes. I never saw any actual brigading on the sub itself. Others talk about "organizing brigades through Twitter," and I think it's kind of BS to punish people for that. Reddit doesn't get to police Twitter, and vice versa. Never saw any actual advocacy of violence against any specific person, either. Sure, there were "kill the landlords" type jokes and memes, but the closest I think I ever saw it get to actual incitement of violence was stuff like "Kissinger needs to fucking die already," or "I would prefer that Trump exit the White House feet first, in a box." You can call that whatever you like, but it's certainly not advocating violence against anyone. Meanwhile, there's literally a Stalin meme on the front page of r/fullcommunism that says "death to capitalism." Then, there's r/latestagecapitalism, which is a toxic shithole of a sub where you literally can't say "that idea is crazy and will never work because $REASONS," because they have a blacklist of words that are "slurs" of one sort of another that they don't publish, and which will get your post removed if you try and use them.
  - SauciestGNU 6y ago
    /r/fullcommunism is also quarantined though. I'm honestly a little surprised it didn't get banned in this wave. And late stage capitalism has had a bunch of mod coups and stuff over the years that have negatively affected the quality of the sub.
SmokeyHamster 6y ago
Oh yeah. They began advertising thedonald.win last year.

fernandotakai 6y ago

also banned gendercritical, which was an extreme left, radical feminist (as in, Valerie Solanas radical feminism) board.

Miner49er 6y ago
Gendercritical was not "extreme left". It was an anti-trans (TERF) subreddit hated by actual leftist subs.
- u320 6y ago
  Just because something is hated by most of the left doesn't make it "not left".
  - abellerose 6y ago
    As a trans person myself. All that subreddit did was target hate towards trans people. Anyone care to elaborate on what else they did with actual proof?
    - nullc 6y ago
      Asking for actual proof now is a bit of a tall bar since the subreddit is no longer accessible!
      - abellerose 6y ago
        Oh I'm sorry that you don't know of https://archive.org/web https://archive.org/web
    - 0BADAC1D 6y ago
      is it hateful to be skeptical of gender?
      - duskwuff 6y ago
        "Skeptical of gender" is a cover phrase for "denying the existence of trans people". So, yes.

three_seagrass 6y ago

The current mods killed the_donald. The mods, not the admins, made it so that only a shortlist of approved users could post content in the subreddit. It was likely a move to push the community somewhere else.

tick_tock_tick 6y ago
The current mods were appointed by the admins....
- three_seagrass 6y ago
  No they weren't. The admins kept the original mods and were trying to work with them. The admins even said as much when explaining the ban.
SmokeyHamster 6y ago
>The mods, not the admins, made it so that only a shortlist of approved users could post content in the subreddit. Admins banned virtually all the mods, without warning or explanation, so the remaining mod(s) had no choice but to lock the sub. One of the tricks leftist groups like to do is they'll brigade right-leaning subs, post a ton of "offensive" content, then before the mods can remove it, they'll screenshot it, post it up on a blog, and then alert the admins to trick them into banning the sub. That's how they got the sub quarantined. With only one or two mods left, they couldn't properly police the sub anymore, which had close to a million subscribers and tens of thousands of active posters at any given hour. Put yourself in their shoes. If it was the choice between accept random unknown (but admin approved) users as moderators, or lock the sub, what would you do? Of course you'd lock the sub. It was just an attempt at a soft-takeover. Better it be outright banned than lobotomized by replacing its mods with Reddit users who likely hate Trump.