"The admins of chapo.chat are going on a banning spree for all TERFs and "transphobes" based on if users downvote posts that have anything to do with being trans. I downvoted a comment that said the admins should absolutely ban people based on their voting record lol. And since I didnt have a comment/post history, I'm apparently a Nazi TERF plant sent there to make LGBTs uncomfortable with using the website in an attempt to rid them from the "leftist movement".
It's amusing that everyone there is nostalgic for Stalin and Mao, and cartoonishly voice their full support for them every fucking day, I'm sure they would have fully supported the LGBT movement. I'm never leaving stupidpol again, I love all of you nazi [r-slur]s."
Bonus: "I was unbanned. I apparently only have one downvote left that Im allowed to use. Thank you benevolent moderators of Chapo.Chat. I promise to never downvote again."
This was very much unexpected and not predictable at all.
Edit: the op deleted it :party-sicko:
Edit 2 : It seems the above is fake news and the supidpol mods deleted it for damage control or something idk.
oh, I remember them, I just meant that the two subs had significant overlap for a while. but the influx of reactionary users into stupidpol split the two apart. yeah, it was always shit but CTH was frequently willing to tolerate defenses of the takes in that sub until it became very clear that it was just cover for being a reactionary.
Yeah, it was nice when they finally started the tradition of regular purges of stupidpol posters.
it's time to finish the job :stalin-shining:
It'll never be finished. Thing's will quiet down for a few months, it'll become a problem again, and then it'll be time for another large scale purge.
Fuck, I was just thinking "what if there's a way to socialize people better to break the cycle of needing regular purges" but there's not really a way to do that on social media, since people can just filter in and we can't exactly sit them down and mandate an ethics and political education class or something where they'd at least ostensibly learn better.
I've gone through so many cycles of educating people on trans stuff - I'm very aware. it's neverending.
some of this stuff is cultural, though, and it is getting better slowly. like notice how we have more people talking about how they feel and how their day is going - there's a noticeable decrease in the overwhelming (toxic) masculinity of the space since the days of the sub. pronoun tags have worked, banning sealioning and concern trolling has helped, and the supportive posture of the mod team helps as well.
unfortunately, the thing that would help the most - actual political education - isn't really something this space can enforce, so we have to get a little more clever about what kinds of policies we try.