God damn, just go on a ban spree.
Just purge every single one of the people posting about it. The consequences are GOOD for the subreddit. The most likely outcome of doing so is that the reactionaries create their own subreddit specifically dedicated to their desire to say slurs. Do you know what kind of hellhole a place founded on that principle will be? Terrible. It will be so bad reddit will be forced to act on it, it will be quarantined and ultimately removed. They will not make a space under these circumstances filled with hate, vitriol and the worst people of that community that does not get removed by reddit admins.
The end result is that you've fixed the problem in the community, binned off the reactionaries, and made a strong step forwards. And the reactionaries? Left homeless for their posting.
The outcomes are GOOD. They should be encouraging a split in the community. Make them leave. Stop trying to be pleasant and accomodate them -- just bin them off. I do not understand why these mods are so hesitant about using the powers available to them. Live in the drama, it's good, this should be what you want. Encourage their split by feeding their reaction. And enjoy it while you do it.
EDIT: If any animemes mods want a body that will sit in /new/ and absolutely relish the backlash from clicking ban on every single poster for several hours to cause an even bigger shitstorm I'm available.
It will be so bad reddit will be forced to act on it, it will be quarantined and ultimately removed.
You mean the same reddit that purged and reopened KiA under full reactionary leadership when its head mod tried to clean it up and get rid of the reactionaries? I wouldn't be surprised if the admins seized animemes and installed whatever users screamed the most slurs as the new mods, just like they did for KiA. Always remember that the reddit admins are vile reactionaries who'll never do anything to meaningfully disrupt reddit's place as a white supremacist website for distributing astroturfed far-right propaganda.
One mod can't purge a subreddit, reddit takes action against topmods that purge existing teams because in the grand scheme of reddit most top mods do almost nothing anymore, they're people that started a place and then abandoned it leaving the place to whoever the latest person with motivation near the bottom of the hierarchy is.
A top mod can't just come out of inactivity and purge a team that created an existing community. Understanding admin logic is important here in this scenario, they wouldn't be doing that to animemes because the team is actually all behind this decision.
As for their splinter subreddit -- Yeah it'll definitely be quarantined. These people are obsessed with enjoying the worst elements of anime. It'll be filled with racism, bigotry and underage sketchy loli content in no time at all. When admins come in to try and tell them to clean up their act their reaction will be EXACTLY the same as their reaction to the animemes mod team trying to clean up their act, except that kind of combativeness with the admins is a fast-track to ban town for these communities.
LET ME SHOUT SLURS AT TRANS FOLK THAT ACCUSES THEM OF TRICKING CIS PEOPLE AND SUBJECTS THEM TO VIOLENCE
I THOUGHT THIS WAS AMERICA, NOT CHYYYYYYNA
/s before someone screenshots this as proof of the mod cabal agenda
THIS IS TYRANNY, FIRST THEY COME FOR THE LOLI ARTISTS, AND I DID NOT SPEAK OUT
Just an aside but I never liked how there was the automod on the old CTH that got after you whenever you used a /s. The /s is useful for a lot of people, that automod thing was bad.
I agree, many times where I would have done a bit but without the /s was worried it'd be taken the wrong way and so didn't post it :C
"The mods are CIA transphobes, look here's proof"
The assholes imitating us with sockpuppet accounts on other websites
/s before someone screenshots this
Oh they'll just crop this part out
After lurking that sub for 3 minutes, you cannot convince me that 99% of western anime fans aren't gross pieces of shit.
I work in an anime shop.
Do you know how many people wearing porn hoodies I have had to serve???
Nerd culture in general is toxic not just anime fandoms. Word to the kid who played a young Anakin Skywalker.
Every single post is "ACKSHUALLY by YOUR logic..." (+12k). Just really gross.
I love the comments like "This will be the hill i'll die on!" like, Damn dude, this is pretty extra for some memes about horny drawings
People keep on shouting about "muh freedoms" and "this is 1984!!1!!!!!" like sir, this is an anime meme forum.
While anime does, as the saying goes, belong in the trash, this is some top shelf insanity that it has given us.
Finding nerds who will so desperately cling to a slur shouldn't be surprising, but somehow is.
In future posts like this, please post a screenshot, unless it's an actual ban. Prevents that we get hate speech linked from the lemmy.
8.1: Lewd loli/shota content will not be tolerated. Please abide by Reddit policies.
reminder that this is the same subreddit that had to put an extra "no child porn" rule in the sidebar and weebs were whining about it as much as they do right now
I guess I need to be educated on this, but I've only ever seen the t word used for a male-identifying crossdresser. Is there anywhere I can read about its history as a transphobic slur?
Ok, that makes sense And while I'd prefer the term be used solely for male-identifying crossdressers, I can see how that's hard to actually enforce so it should just be avoided.
I literally don't understand how someone could conceptualize this as not offensive, maybe you could help me. Even referring to male-identifying crossdressers, how is the word "trap" have any positive connotations? You're never trapped in a good situation. Why not just call them crossdressers?
people are crying from emotions in the les mis meme thread. please, get laid i am begging you
