Edit: went back and checked.. 45 upvotes, several reddit awards and a bunch of dingi replying "it's just a joke bro! You're so cringe for taking the bait!"

Yeah, we're the ones who are cringe...

  • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    I wish I had saved the notices given, but that is what some of us here call 'bullshit revisionist history'. The notices the admins gave the mods were pretty indicative of the fact that nothing they could do, outside of fundamentally censoring/altering the discourse to such a degree to neuter the whole project, would have saved us from the ban hammer. This is particularly funny because the sub quarantine solved the only real rule we broke, which was 'brigading', even though that technically wasn't what we did, it's just that their definition of 'brigading' is so large as to incorporate the practice of pinging chuds on our subreddit.

    However even after quarantining us, the sub continued to grow, though not as rapidly, so eventually they had to put a stop to that.

    • JuneFall [none/use name]
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      Completely agree. It proves the Stalin/Lenin/Engels joke about German Social Democrats who will pay to demonstrate on railway station stops true.