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Is there more to this story? Was this a shift in GoDaddy policy or did AR15.com post content calling for violence or otherwise inflaming the situation? My gut

Is there more to this story? Was this a shift in GoDaddy policy or did AR15.com post content calling for violence or otherwise inflaming the situation? My gut instinct as an owner of firearms is that they had some kind of "revolution" promotion or something equally stupid, but I admit the possibility it is GoDaddy jumping on a bandwagon.

arfposting 6y ago
You never had to look very far on AR15.com's General Discussion board to find people posting what they'd like to do to Pelosi/Schumer/AOC, or more recently, saying that if the election result isn't overturned legally "it's up to us to do something about it". I distinctly remember after SCOTUS refused to hear the Texas v. PA case, posters saying they wouldn't mind if some justices were assassinated. The site's code of conduct prohibited making threats, but very thinly veiled ones went mostly unmoderated. Including the practice of simply using CoC (code of conduct) as a euphemism, such as "Somebody needs to CoC that bitch (angry red grrrrr emote)". The site cracked down MUCH harder on that stuff right after Twitter banned Trump and Parler went down. They moved politics to a separate, paid-members-only board and closed most of the political threads in GD. But apparently it wasn't enough and GoDaddy doesn't want to be associated with it. I don't believe AR15.com ever made any official posts that advocated for violence in any way. It was all user content.
- swirepe 6y ago
  Users - a blessing and a curse
jki275 6y ago
The site itself has never done that. There are certainly subcultures. They do mod them somewhat, though not as well as they should perhaps. GoDaddy has refused to tell the site what the alleged violation is or allow them to appeal.
technologist2 6y ago
Back through 2008 til I guess 2016, you couldn't go more than 2 threads without some diseased brain talking about wanting to murder the president or all the people who approved of him. People selling and making targets with the presidents head in the center were all over. I saw enough fanfics with people hoping that there was a civil war and all the cities full of "those people" are obliterated and we can get on with our happy lives. And that was some of the tamer crap that they admins of the site allowed. It got really bad right around when I got interested in firearms but right around the same time that Obama signed the bill to allow firearms in national parks when threads about what type of optics to get or about some site having a sale on magazines would devolve 5 posts later into someone wanting to plink the skull a libtard. After a few weeks of trying to filter out that crud, I just realized I couldn't stand the people and that there was nothing of value to me on that site.

arfposting 6y ago

You never had to look very far on AR15.com's General Discussion board to find people posting what they'd like to do to Pelosi/Schumer/AOC, or more recently, saying that if the election result isn't overturned legally "it's up to us to do something about it". I distinctly remember after SCOTUS refused to hear the Texas v. PA case, posters saying they wouldn't mind if some justices were assassinated. The site's code of conduct prohibited making threats, but very thinly veiled ones went mostly unmoderated. Including the practice of simply using CoC (code of conduct) as a euphemism, such as "Somebody needs to CoC that bitch (angry red grrrrr emote)". The site cracked down MUCH harder on that stuff right after Twitter banned Trump and Parler went down. They moved politics to a separate, paid-members-only board and closed most of the political threads in GD. But apparently it wasn't enough and GoDaddy doesn't want to be associated with it. I don't believe AR15.com ever made any official posts that advocated for violence in any way. It was all user content.

swirepe 6y ago
Users - a blessing and a curse

jki275 6y ago

The site itself has never done that. There are certainly subcultures. They do mod them somewhat, though not as well as they should perhaps. GoDaddy has refused to tell the site what the alleged violation is or allow them to appeal.

technologist2 6y ago

Back through 2008 til I guess 2016, you couldn't go more than 2 threads without some diseased brain talking about wanting to murder the president or all the people who approved of him. People selling and making targets with the presidents head in the center were all over. I saw enough fanfics with people hoping that there was a civil war and all the cities full of "those people" are obliterated and we can get on with our happy lives. And that was some of the tamer crap that they admins of the site allowed. It got really bad right around when I got interested in firearms but right around the same time that Obama signed the bill to allow firearms in national parks when threads about what type of optics to get or about some site having a sale on magazines would devolve 5 posts later into someone wanting to plink the skull a libtard. After a few weeks of trying to filter out that crud, I just realized I couldn't stand the people and that there was nothing of value to me on that site.