What I was about to type was did you completely forget what the old sub was like. As a group, dunking on vaguely left-aligned losers is kinda in our rear-view mirror already. I don't know much about this Vaush character, but everything I've seen puts him pretty firmly on the "vaguely left" side far more than the "left-aligned" side. Frankly he looks like a willful saboteur to me. Anybody who says Lenin and Mao would have been Bernie staffers can fuck right off.
I remember the sub being more about dunking on chuds and neoliberal ghouls, but that could easily be biased by me ignoring things I find tiresome.
edit: And this new site started with a few days of weird purity testing and people looking for excuses to start infighting, so I'm skittish about anything that might head back in that direction.
A better solution would be to implement user level filtering. If someone doesn't wanna see Vaush posts they can put that in their filter. This solution has the added benefit of being immediately usable if any future situation like this arises. I 100% get that the arguments are annoying for the mods to deal with but we can't just say no Vaush posting. It has to be all or nothing. If he's getting moved then every other dunk should too. There is just too much potential abuse with a rule specifically for 1 person.
Basically if someone doesn't want to see vaush posts they should be able to opt out of that.... I think thats better than having to opt into seeing them... because you may have no idea they are even there.
You could randomly delete 80% of vaush posts or something. Or lock a post at random if more than two about vaush are in the first page of top 24 hours.
I've only seen this sort of policy applied to forums that are trying to allow memes without allowing too many memes, though.
What I was about to type was did you completely forget what the old sub was like. As a group, dunking on vaguely left-aligned losers is kinda in our rear-view mirror already. I don't know much about this Vaush character, but everything I've seen puts him pretty firmly on the "vaguely left" side far more than the "left-aligned" side. Frankly he looks like a willful saboteur to me. Anybody who says Lenin and Mao would have been Bernie staffers can fuck right off.
I remember the sub being more about dunking on chuds and neoliberal ghouls, but that could easily be biased by me ignoring things I find tiresome.
edit: And this new site started with a few days of weird purity testing and people looking for excuses to start infighting, so I'm skittish about anything that might head back in that direction.
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A better solution would be to implement user level filtering. If someone doesn't wanna see Vaush posts they can put that in their filter. This solution has the added benefit of being immediately usable if any future situation like this arises. I 100% get that the arguments are annoying for the mods to deal with but we can't just say no Vaush posting. It has to be all or nothing. If he's getting moved then every other dunk should too. There is just too much potential abuse with a rule specifically for 1 person.
Basically if someone doesn't want to see vaush posts they should be able to opt out of that.... I think thats better than having to opt into seeing them... because you may have no idea they are even there.
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You could randomly delete 80% of vaush posts or something. Or lock a post at random if more than two about vaush are in the first page of top 24 hours.
I've only seen this sort of policy applied to forums that are trying to allow memes without allowing too many memes, though.