[Humour] r/Watchpeopledie mod: It still kind of disturbs me that we're lumped in with the same sorts as CringeAnarchy and KiA, and it'd be nice if we could mend our reputation.

IAmSupernova · 2017-05-01T23:37:37+00:00

I found one. Username: /u/TakeitTOrCirclejerk

IAmSupernova · 2017-04-17T15:30:07+00:00

Seems fairly normal.

IAmSupernova · 2017-01-26T01:19:29+00:00

No probs.

In the future if you ever don't get a response (at least within a day) shoot me a PM and I'll see what's up.

IAmSupernova · 2017-01-26T01:16:19+00:00

Fair enough.

IAmSupernova · 2017-01-26T01:11:13+00:00

When did you send it? I looked through the last week or so and didn't see anything from you.

Edit: NM I see that pinkerbelle responded.

IAmSupernova · 2017-01-26T01:03:55+00:00

Why do you waste time arguing with someone like this? He's the type that argues only for the sake of it and will never be happy no matter what.

Or another way to put it, the rules are there so that any reasonable person can follow them and enjoy the subreddit without much difficulty. These people, the same few that have done this whining for years now, are simply unreasonable. Ignore the griping.

IAmSupernova · 2017-01-10T23:40:40+00:00

I had forgotten about the 4 pillars.

No moderation was kind of a response to the opposite of what seems to be happening now. Back then the loudest and most active users bitched any time we removed anything. Censorship was one of the hotter topics and the kia mods were not immune to backlash when we tried to remove off topic stuff or tinker with the rules.

Most of us (me mainly) were getting annoyed with daily "fuck the mods" posts. It was the week fallout 4 was coming out so I told everyone to take a break from post removals. We still managed the mod queue but didn't remove content.

It didn't go too awful bad but could probably be pointed at as the beginning of the shift away from a more nerd culture centric tone of this place to an sjw callout sub.

Our most popular content has always been that stuff anyway. And as gg has settled down this post and posts like it is what you see more often.

So it's a catch 22 from a mod perspective. The solution (if you consider this a problem) is tighter rules about content and active moderation of those rules. The other side of the coin are users who call it censorship and get angry about mod abuse.

IAmSupernova · 2017-01-05T18:35:20+00:00

What he means is that a lot of times when people are referencing /r/KotakuInAction they say "kia" or "/r/kia".

IAmSupernova · 2017-01-05T06:45:23+00:00

There's like 900 posts at ets screaming about how they don't condone violence.

First of all, nobody gives a shit about your subreddit except the people that visit it. You don't have to make posts saying your shitty ass website officially condemns violence. Nobody cares.

Secondly, your subreddit clearly condones violence and you should be ashamed.

IAmSupernova · 2016-12-29T01:22:15+00:00

Mods aren't really notified. You can set up automoderator to modify you via modmail and the comments will go into the mod queue and any mod that checks that will see it. Mods can also see the comment if they're looking through the comment section. It will be highlighted with a salmon colored border around it so you know the poster has been shadowbanned. It's a slightly different shade of red from when a comment gets auto removed by reddit's spam filter, that's the only way to tell the difference.

Shadow banning began as a way for the admins to ban spammers without them knowing their account was banned. They would spam and spam away and never know it wasn't showing up. Then shadow banning became the default way that the admins banned anyone that broke reddit's rules. Now they suspend rule breakers while still using the shadow ban feature on spammers.

IAmSupernova · 2016-12-27T20:22:45+00:00

Here's the /r/Glitch_In_The_Matrix post about that story.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/comments/30t9kd/repost_a_parallel_life_awoken_by_a_lamp/

IAmSupernova · 2016-12-17T02:34:10+00:00

Raising awareness to who? Each other?

If we've learned anything from the rise of Donald fucking Trump it's that most people do not give a shit about the "shitty things" he/his cabinet believe. Wait until he actually fucks up and then take your pitchforks to the streets. Until then it comes off as a bunch of whining by a bunch of sore losers.

IAmSupernova · 2016-12-17T02:24:56+00:00

Can anyone explain to me what protesting Donald Trump hopes to accomplish? Does it just make you feel better for having gotten out there to do it or is there some real goal?

These fucking whippers snappers need to just get a job and get over it already. People despise protests because they're retarded and annoying.

IAmSupernova · 2016-12-14T20:15:19+00:00

It wasn't just her hypocrisy that made her so legendarily stupid.

Most people on this site will argue relentlessly no matter how right or wrong they are on any particular topic. silvertongue took that to new heights though. Sometimes the position she'd take would be so incomprehensible that her opponent would just be saying "I don't understand what that has to do with anything so I'm going to stop engaging you now." and she'd still keep digging in. It wasn't being wrong that bothered her and she wasn't the type that was seeking to have the last word. I don't really know how to explain it beyond that. It was a sight to behold really. Watching her go. I always enjoyed it.

IAmSupernova · 2016-12-10T07:09:49+00:00

She's a true believer in the same vein as her counterpart Anita Sarkeesian is a true believer.

Yes, they fundamentally believe in their positions. But they know that amping it up to 11 and pandering to the morons who are true believers will make a pretty good living.

That being said, Lauren Southern is a goddess sent from heaven to shed angelic light on the darkness and evil of liberalism so I appreciate her work.

IAmSupernova · 2016-12-07T22:55:33+00:00

I got pinged in here and it took me a minute to figure out what was going on but I looked through the conversation and then checked the mod logs to see what actions had been taken in this thread.

This is a topic that clearly has a lot of people willing and ready to heavily argue. These arguments aren't ever going to go anywhere though. You're never going to convince each other of your position, and so these arguments go round and round, get heated, and the arguments change so you can find something the other person is wrong about. "moving the goalposts" as you put it.

You both did it here. Several times. "rising sea levels!" "CO2!!" "if you believe that you're an idiot!!!!" All kinds of shifts in topic and tone.

And here's the thing... I don't really care if you want to have this argument. Have it. Fight it out for days and weeks and months if you want. You're welcome to have these discussions on KiA. You're welcome to do it to your heart's content.

But don't whine about rules being broken when it's just an argument that has no end. At that point you're trying to find some way to one up your opponent because you're mad that they don't see things your way. Reporting posts because you think you can get after your opponent on a forum board's rules technicality has to be about the lamest thing in the world. Either stop arguing and move on with your day or keep arguing with the understanding that you're never going to change the other person's mind. It's your time do with it whatever you want. Just don't waste my (or other mods') time because you're stuck in an endless debate and won't give up til you get the last word.

As for the accusation that Brim was being a dickwolf or exhibiting a pattern of behavior that defines it as dickwolfery, that's just all bullshit. As for how he behaved as a mod, Brim took several mod actions in this thread but never did anything wrong or abused his mod tools. He didn't distinguish his posts to speak in a "mod official" capacity but rather expressed his opinions and positions, which all moderators have the right to do here just like any regular user. He didn't remove posts by other users arguing against him but still approved posts and removed reports on other comments regardless of what position the poster was arguing from. Meaning he kept his personal opinion out of his mod decisions.

Please stop using the report button as a way to pull mods into your endless debate. That's the end of this situation.

IAmSupernova · 2016-12-02T23:26:15+00:00

I think this guy just drops his super low effort bait into every thread here. No sense engaging.

IAmSupernova · 2016-12-02T18:33:13+00:00

There are a lot of sad places on reddit. /r/ForeverAlone, /r/DeadBedrooms, /r/TrueIncels, /r/circlebroke... but I think ESS might be the saddest of all.

Well, maybe not sadder than /r/circlebroke but it's close.

IAmSupernova · 2016-11-30T22:11:15+00:00

Ya know I hate to be all "Well what about SRS?" and I don't know if anyone brought it up in that thread but it is kind of interesting to me that there are other communities that have been here way longer that exist only to antagonize reddit as a whole.

All in all I don't really care. Let SRS be and let TD be. It's not that hard (as a normal every day redditor) to ignore the shit you don't like. But there have been people fucking with this site for way longer than TD they've just been clever enough to make it appear like they are the good guys.

IAmSupernova · 2016-11-30T22:05:05+00:00

Despite the fact that his posts are coming off as incredibly smug the guy is not wrong.

What he means is that people these days need constant distractions and more often than not those distractions are dumb or inane games/apps on a handheld device. Whether it's Words With Friends, reddit is fun, Facebook or what have you, people these days are non stop plugged into these devices and it is severely dumbing people down. He's 34 years old so he's seen how people's attitudes and behavior have shifted as a result of this. I agree with him even though I use all these same distractions often too. And even though he's decrying gamergate the reason I'm interested in it is because of the way online "journalists" and internet culture has shifted towards harvesting moral outrage for more clicks. Nobody is interested in reporting on the truth. There's more money in making you mad and getting you to share it on your Facebook or your favorite subreddit.

If you've paid attention to more than the last 2 presidential elections you're aware of the point he's making. People are way stupider these days. During this election cycle and continuing now I am watching the smartest people I know say some of the stupidest shit and share some of the stupidest articles.

So yeah, the normalization of handheld devices in public has greatly contributed to less maturity (via things like lower work ethic, texting instead of calling in controversial or difficult situations, etc) and lowering of intellect via the success of clickbait and the belief that likes/upvotes on your opinions makes you right.

IAmSupernova · 2016-11-24T18:52:55+00:00

Well it would have to qualify as an actual thought in order for my cliche to eliminate it. That word vomit is nothing but profound stupidity and gets the treatment it deserves.

IAmSupernova · 2016-11-23T23:02:36+00:00

It's code language. Derision of "identity politics" is a coded way of saying "all lives matter".

Bernie confirmed for alt right Nazi trump supporting fucking white male.

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