If you're gonna make the argument that bans are inconsequential because it's just a name, then I would say the same argument applies to getting downvoted, but apparently that's serious enough to cause a full on shitstorm on here
I want to be clear, bans for transphobia and seriously shitty, continously hostile posters are definitely a Cool and Good Thing, but like, there's a fucking line here that I think is getting real close to being crossed.
Seeing people like Bread in Baltimore catching a ban, or Gkailatsomething a while back just seems wrong to me, and pretty far away from the ethos of the old sub. For the record, I even vehemently disagreed with those guys on occasion, being an anarchist at heart, but I always found the things they'd post to be informative and something that could give me a different perspective on things. They were definitely not "wreckers" imo.
Maybe that's been the plan all along for this site, to foster a totally different culture, but if so that wasn't really communicated well when this site was launched I don't think.
I dunno, I just feel like something is changing here, and not necessarily entirely for the better. Maybe that change will drive me away, maybe I'll just go back to pretty much never saying anything. It's entirely possible my surface level distaste for all this shit is just my knee jerk dislike of authority, I know that attitude is borderline instinctual for me, and perhaps I need to self reflect on that and just shut up for a while.
Sorry to drop a fuckin essay on you lol, this has just been kinda bubbling around in my head and i guess now is when i decided to vent, i still love all you fuckers :af-heart: :heart-sickle: :trans-heart:
I'm not sure if it's just a temp ban, so it might not be a super big deal, but I suppose it all depends on if he decides to come back after it expires or if that was enough to make him just say fuck it and bail
I hope not, I liked his posts even though he loved to call out anarkiddies like me lol
Personally my biggest hope for this site is that it can be a place where leftists who don't feel safe on places like reddit can chill and be themselves. If the userbase is small or people who aren't necessarily trying to stir shit get pushed out because they prevent that from happening then so be it. That's the only true value I think this site can have.
And if that's the intended direction, then that's totally fine! I just can't help but think of what the old sub was so good at, which was being an effective lib-to-leftist pipeline. Hell, it always amazes me to hear of how many people came to the sub at first as some flavor of reactionary chud, but wound up becoming a better person in that environment.
Becoming an ever more exclusive club of people who only ever agree with each other is not a great way to keep doing that imo. Again, straight up shitty people should get the metaphorical (and not so metaphorical) Wall. Bans on sight for terfs is great. But the whole "debatebro" rule business, and to a lesser extent the downvote banwave (which had a bunch of false positives, rip in pepperoni AStonedApe) is not a great way forward I don't think.
But if that's the direction we're going, then so be it I guess.
The reason why the sub was able to be a pipeline was because it was on reddit, being one degree of separation from millions of people can't be replicated on an independent platform imo. And I really just have no sympathy for people who got caught up in a ban wave mistakenly and had a reaction other than mild annoyance. like what? your good name (which is hopefully completely untraceable to you irl) has been tarnished?
I mean, I thought we were doing recruitment drives for here? I know I've been DMing people on reddit who I've seen posting good takes, and a few have messaged me back saying they liked it here and signed up, even. Also wasn't there a thing with the watermarking memes to post on other sites that I'm remembering, or did that fizzle out? Not to mention the potential recruitment when federation comes.
And yeah, the whole "tarnishing of their name" is literally what AStonedApe said they felt had happened to them, they explicitly said that after they were publicly named & shamed in the transphobe downvote banwave that their friendships with specific other posters on here was harmed by that. And so what if people get attached to a username? I feel like it's kinda dismissive to sneer at that idea given that it's been recently decided that downvotes are problematic.
Getting banned and losing a username that maybe you've used for years across different sites (leaving aside the fact that that may be dumb from an opsec standpoint) is a much bigger deal than internet points that literally don't even do anything on this site, hell your personal total isn't even displayed anywhere for a basic user to see!
But anyway, I don't want to keep banging on about this with you, I'll just disengage and say that you do have some good points about the importance of fostering a welcoming space for marginalized people on here, I am totally for that. It's possible I'm just being a bit reactionary about all this and need to self crit. My own personal anxiety issues are already yelling at me in my head to just stfu and go back to lurking anyway, so I suppose that's what I'll do. Hope you don't have any hard feelings, and have a good night.
It's fine dude, I appreciate the conversation! I don't think you have said anything reactionary I think there is just a divide in what we think this website is for.
If you're gonna make the argument that bans are inconsequential because it's just a name, then I would say the same argument applies to getting downvoted, but apparently that's serious enough to cause a full on shitstorm on here
I want to be clear, bans for transphobia and seriously shitty, continously hostile posters are definitely a Cool and Good Thing, but like, there's a fucking line here that I think is getting real close to being crossed.
Seeing people like Bread in Baltimore catching a ban, or Gkailatsomething a while back just seems wrong to me, and pretty far away from the ethos of the old sub. For the record, I even vehemently disagreed with those guys on occasion, being an anarchist at heart, but I always found the things they'd post to be informative and something that could give me a different perspective on things. They were definitely not "wreckers" imo.
Maybe that's been the plan all along for this site, to foster a totally different culture, but if so that wasn't really communicated well when this site was launched I don't think.
I dunno, I just feel like something is changing here, and not necessarily entirely for the better. Maybe that change will drive me away, maybe I'll just go back to pretty much never saying anything. It's entirely possible my surface level distaste for all this shit is just my knee jerk dislike of authority, I know that attitude is borderline instinctual for me, and perhaps I need to self reflect on that and just shut up for a while.
Sorry to drop a fuckin essay on you lol, this has just been kinda bubbling around in my head and i guess now is when i decided to vent, i still love all you fuckers :af-heart: :heart-sickle: :trans-heart:
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I'm not sure if it's just a temp ban, so it might not be a super big deal, but I suppose it all depends on if he decides to come back after it expires or if that was enough to make him just say fuck it and bail
I hope not, I liked his posts even though he loved to call out anarkiddies like me lol
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Personally my biggest hope for this site is that it can be a place where leftists who don't feel safe on places like reddit can chill and be themselves. If the userbase is small or people who aren't necessarily trying to stir shit get pushed out because they prevent that from happening then so be it. That's the only true value I think this site can have.
And if that's the intended direction, then that's totally fine! I just can't help but think of what the old sub was so good at, which was being an effective lib-to-leftist pipeline. Hell, it always amazes me to hear of how many people came to the sub at first as some flavor of reactionary chud, but wound up becoming a better person in that environment.
Becoming an ever more exclusive club of people who only ever agree with each other is not a great way to keep doing that imo. Again, straight up shitty people should get the metaphorical (and not so metaphorical) Wall. Bans on sight for terfs is great. But the whole "debatebro" rule business, and to a lesser extent the downvote banwave (which had a bunch of false positives, rip in pepperoni AStonedApe) is not a great way forward I don't think.
But if that's the direction we're going, then so be it I guess.
The reason why the sub was able to be a pipeline was because it was on reddit, being one degree of separation from millions of people can't be replicated on an independent platform imo. And I really just have no sympathy for people who got caught up in a ban wave mistakenly and had a reaction other than mild annoyance. like what? your good name (which is hopefully completely untraceable to you irl) has been tarnished?
I mean, I thought we were doing recruitment drives for here? I know I've been DMing people on reddit who I've seen posting good takes, and a few have messaged me back saying they liked it here and signed up, even. Also wasn't there a thing with the watermarking memes to post on other sites that I'm remembering, or did that fizzle out? Not to mention the potential recruitment when federation comes.
And yeah, the whole "tarnishing of their name" is literally what AStonedApe said they felt had happened to them, they explicitly said that after they were publicly named & shamed in the transphobe downvote banwave that their friendships with specific other posters on here was harmed by that. And so what if people get attached to a username? I feel like it's kinda dismissive to sneer at that idea given that it's been recently decided that downvotes are problematic.
Getting banned and losing a username that maybe you've used for years across different sites (leaving aside the fact that that may be dumb from an opsec standpoint) is a much bigger deal than internet points that literally don't even do anything on this site, hell your personal total isn't even displayed anywhere for a basic user to see!
But anyway, I don't want to keep banging on about this with you, I'll just disengage and say that you do have some good points about the importance of fostering a welcoming space for marginalized people on here, I am totally for that. It's possible I'm just being a bit reactionary about all this and need to self crit. My own personal anxiety issues are already yelling at me in my head to just stfu and go back to lurking anyway, so I suppose that's what I'll do. Hope you don't have any hard feelings, and have a good night.
It's fine dude, I appreciate the conversation! I don't think you have said anything reactionary I think there is just a divide in what we think this website is for.