You're right. Having beatnik be the one who made this site will mean its slow slide into being not chapo, he was never the mod there that actually made it good and understood the purpose of the community.
This move is dumb and alienating to users who simply don't want to be forced into having some pronoun tag. Thinking that combats transphobia is idiocy.
I really miss the old subreddit right now. Chapo was bursting at the seams with leftist energy. In particular, what always kept me coming back was how funny it was. God there were so many amazing posts. Italian AOC, making fun of libs, bullying chuds. Chapo assumed good faith and that's what made the dirtbag aesthetic work. We gather here to make fun of libs and say that it's ok to kill slaveowners. The posting level on this site was starting to resemble the old subreddit, and then the pronoun debate happened. I came to Chapo because I was tired of walking on eggshells all of the time. On r/chapotraphouse, if I had a shit take, people made fun of me until I got better. Here, I'm worried that if I have a shit take, I'll get banned. That's the difference.
You're not going to get banned for a "shit take" and this tiny insignificant struggle sesh is not going to stop us from growing and being as active and funny as we were, for fuck's sake. The site like month's old and it's just had its first big user spike. Do you know how long it took for chapo to reach the insane level of activity it had before the ban, and how many similar issues/drama it had to go through?
The good thing about this place is that we can actually get rid of the shit we couldn't on reddit because it was reddit, and that includes being a space that's just a tiny bit nicer for trans & enby peeps, and being tougher on specifically transphobic and exclusionary shit related to that. How in any way that's incompatible with "leftist energy" or being funny is beyond me.
This is like "muh freeze peach"/"we can't say anything or we get cancelled" or stupidpol bullshit, shit take =/= transphobic/stupidly exclusionary stuff that nobody wants to fucking see, jfc.
It's very weird and depressing to see people complain about the addition of such a basic site feature...because..something something... those damn radical witchcraft transes!!
Really sucks to be reminded how much even in "leftism", people just fucking hate trans people, or don't care to analyze how it costs $0.00 to just.. ignore the new feature.
Wow this comment is modern art, and is probably one of the worst comments in this entire thread:
What always kept me coming back was how funny [the old sub] was..
We gather here to make fun of libs and say that it's okay to kill slaveowners.
and then the pronoun debate happened.
You're a "Well there's your problem" podcast fan, complaining about pronouns making his memes less funny.
You think you're walking on eggshells.. on meme sites? Reddit is way more strict, as you literally admit, they censor all kinds of leftist stuff and even current news articles that make certain entities look bad.
But because here, we are discussing pronouns, it's as bad as Reddit. Lmao.
I don't usually agree with your takes and IDK if Beatnik is the entire problem, but I do agree with this take. Definitely do not like the nu-nu-mods compared to the old-nu-mods.
I will give fair credit for the site existing at all, if thats the case. I obviosuly don't really like their moderation style, but I will 100% give them credit for the site existing. Even if it evolves into something I personally do not like, and something that's not very much like the old straight from the go chapo, it's still good that this place exists.
He isn't the entire problem, but he's making the choices when it comes to other moderators, especially the ones that seem to revel in antagonizing users and starting shit among the people here.
That's the origin of bad choices that lead to this sort of vibe. With all of the needless immaturity and drama on the Discord, it almost perfectly filtered for the shittiest moderators who enjoyed that sort of thing, while others were bullied off of the team or kicked as the problem moderators sought to cancel them for anything slightly controversial, like they did to @storyofrachel.
Those moderators carried over here and are now going to be grandfathered in for the foreseeable future. Abuse of power is always an issue with free internet moderation, but this is somehow an enhanced version of that.
This move is not dumb, what the hell, it's literally just default "none" pronouns, you dont even have to do anything. No one is claiming that this will singlehandedly destroy transphobia. I am a living trans person. I know there is real, more important shit out there. But the fact that you take the time to complain about an overall positive feature is so gross.
I'm sorry the memes aren't as good as they used to be, please don't use that as an excuse to shit on trans people and/or stuff you perceive as related to us, wtf. Grow the fuck up.
If you have a problem with a specific mod, talk about that.
You're right. Having beatnik be the one who made this site will mean its slow slide into being not chapo, he was never the mod there that actually made it good and understood the purpose of the community.
This move is dumb and alienating to users who simply don't want to be forced into having some pronoun tag. Thinking that combats transphobia is idiocy.
I really miss the old subreddit right now. Chapo was bursting at the seams with leftist energy. In particular, what always kept me coming back was how funny it was. God there were so many amazing posts. Italian AOC, making fun of libs, bullying chuds. Chapo assumed good faith and that's what made the dirtbag aesthetic work. We gather here to make fun of libs and say that it's ok to kill slaveowners. The posting level on this site was starting to resemble the old subreddit, and then the pronoun debate happened. I came to Chapo because I was tired of walking on eggshells all of the time. On r/chapotraphouse, if I had a shit take, people made fun of me until I got better. Here, I'm worried that if I have a shit take, I'll get banned. That's the difference.
You're not going to get banned for a "shit take" and this tiny insignificant struggle sesh is not going to stop us from growing and being as active and funny as we were, for fuck's sake. The site like month's old and it's just had its first big user spike. Do you know how long it took for chapo to reach the insane level of activity it had before the ban, and how many similar issues/drama it had to go through?
The good thing about this place is that we can actually get rid of the shit we couldn't on reddit because it was reddit, and that includes being a space that's just a tiny bit nicer for trans & enby peeps, and being tougher on specifically transphobic and exclusionary shit related to that. How in any way that's incompatible with "leftist energy" or being funny is beyond me.
This is like "muh freeze peach"/"we can't say anything or we get cancelled" or stupidpol bullshit, shit take =/= transphobic/stupidly exclusionary stuff that nobody wants to fucking see, jfc.
It's very weird and depressing to see people complain about the addition of such a basic site feature...because..something something... those damn radical witchcraft transes!!
Really sucks to be reminded how much even in "leftism", people just fucking hate trans people, or don't care to analyze how it costs $0.00 to just.. ignore the new feature.
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Wow this comment is modern art, and is probably one of the worst comments in this entire thread:
You're a "Well there's your problem" podcast fan, complaining about pronouns making his memes less funny.
You think you're walking on eggshells.. on meme sites? Reddit is way more strict, as you literally admit, they censor all kinds of leftist stuff and even current news articles that make certain entities look bad.
But because here, we are discussing pronouns, it's as bad as Reddit. Lmao.
I don't usually agree with your takes and IDK if Beatnik is the entire problem, but I do agree with this take. Definitely do not like the nu-nu-mods compared to the old-nu-mods.
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I will give fair credit for the site existing at all, if thats the case. I obviosuly don't really like their moderation style, but I will 100% give them credit for the site existing. Even if it evolves into something I personally do not like, and something that's not very much like the old
straight from the gochapo, it's still good that this place exists.He isn't the entire problem, but he's making the choices when it comes to other moderators, especially the ones that seem to revel in antagonizing users and starting shit among the people here.
That's the origin of bad choices that lead to this sort of vibe. With all of the needless immaturity and drama on the Discord, it almost perfectly filtered for the shittiest moderators who enjoyed that sort of thing, while others were bullied off of the team or kicked as the problem moderators sought to cancel them for anything slightly controversial, like they did to @storyofrachel.
Those moderators carried over here and are now going to be grandfathered in for the foreseeable future. Abuse of power is always an issue with free internet moderation, but this is somehow an enhanced version of that.
This move is not dumb, what the hell, it's literally just default "none" pronouns, you dont even have to do anything. No one is claiming that this will singlehandedly destroy transphobia. I am a living trans person. I know there is real, more important shit out there. But the fact that you take the time to complain about an overall positive feature is so gross.
I'm sorry the memes aren't as good as they used to be, please don't use that as an excuse to shit on trans people and/or stuff you perceive as related to us, wtf. Grow the fuck up.
If you have a problem with a specific mod, talk about that.