wreckers have this cute pattern, especially at the beginning of the site, where they’d cycle through topics trying to melt everyone down
this worked a couple times, the most successful being over veganism. they made alts of both vegans and nonvegans, got normal users to bite on :both-sides:, and posted racist shit “as a vegan” from new accounts named shit like “AnCap” or “JustAskingQuestions”
this was comboed with the last attempt this site made to bring over another large reddit sub. every time the mods tried to do this, a struggle session would miraculously appear. Our long-suffering jannies finally realized this was a bad idea and stopped doing lifeboat comms after this.
This vegan strug sesh caused a whole meltdown to the point were obvious trolls were doing digital blackface as POC, which then stressed out and understandably pissed off actual POC comrades. Many of these POC comrades were vegan, many were not. The fact that wreckers managed to get the struggle session to “are you vegan or are you against racism” was fucked up and also impressive.
Most of the mod and dev team apparently reached their “fuck it” point and left. Mods turned off new account registration for two weeks and mostly disappeared. This sucked because I got banned for being a shithead and had to lurk for at least a week lol
subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/vegancirclejerk was invited here because they feared they would get banned, position of some users that came from vcj was that non vegan leftism is not leftism at all and they were loud about it, also some other users, due to the uncompromising position on veganism of those from vcj, accused them of racism against indigenous cultures, and so the struggle sessions went, i avoided reading them because i dont like drama so i dont know more details
Preachy weirdos were ignoring all historical and material reality to post about how "hypocritical" it is for Westerners to not think eating dogs is the same as eating cows.
They made /c/food unusable for about a week by just posting pictures of dogs and titling it "yum" and when people got sick of it they called people rapists and the whole site went on meltdown. They also got accused of orientalism and being ignorant of indigenous practices.
Basically liberal idealist wreckers tbh.
Outcome: Several users were banned or otherwise left the site, /c/food was wiped and compromise was that meat-posts are tagged as such and get NSFW filter.
I think its when mods blocked the registration of new accounts due to wreckers
Yeah, it was because of the VCJ shit iirc
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wreckers have this cute pattern, especially at the beginning of the site, where they’d cycle through topics trying to melt everyone down
this worked a couple times, the most successful being over veganism. they made alts of both vegans and nonvegans, got normal users to bite on :both-sides:, and posted racist shit “as a vegan” from new accounts named shit like “AnCap” or “JustAskingQuestions”
this was comboed with the last attempt this site made to bring over another large reddit sub. every time the mods tried to do this, a struggle session would miraculously appear. Our long-suffering jannies finally realized this was a bad idea and stopped doing lifeboat comms after this.
This vegan strug sesh caused a whole meltdown to the point were obvious trolls were doing digital blackface as POC, which then stressed out and understandably pissed off actual POC comrades. Many of these POC comrades were vegan, many were not. The fact that wreckers managed to get the struggle session to “are you vegan or are you against racism” was fucked up and also impressive.
Most of the mod and dev team apparently reached their “fuck it” point and left. Mods turned off new account registration for two weeks and mostly disappeared. This sucked because I got banned for being a shithead and had to lurk for at least a week lol
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People didnt like getting bad news about their consumption habits
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subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/vegancirclejerk was invited here because they feared they would get banned, position of some users that came from vcj was that non vegan leftism is not leftism at all and they were loud about it, also some other users, due to the uncompromising position on veganism of those from vcj, accused them of racism against indigenous cultures, and so the struggle sessions went, i avoided reading them because i dont like drama so i dont know more details
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It was the last big struggle session because after that the mods took the policy of quarantining every struggle session
correct move for the site, but also more boring
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Preachy weirdos were ignoring all historical and material reality to post about how "hypocritical" it is for Westerners to not think eating dogs is the same as eating cows.
They made /c/food unusable for about a week by just posting pictures of dogs and titling it "yum" and when people got sick of it they called people rapists and the whole site went on meltdown. They also got accused of orientalism and being ignorant of indigenous practices.
Basically liberal idealist wreckers tbh.
Outcome: Several users were banned or otherwise left the site, /c/food was wiped and compromise was that meat-posts are tagged as such and get NSFW filter.