It's pretty hard to remember details about a shitposting community from 3 years ago. But I suspect at that time that /r/CTH was far more problematic than chapo.chat is now.
If I remember right, it also had comparable amounts of struggle sessions. But it also was able to grow much, much faster, so it's dynamics also changed very rapidly from those of a small community (as is ours right now) to a bigger one
I came to cth around 5 or 6k. I didn’t find the sub to be transphobic at that time, but rather misogynistic. It’s tough to compare because a completely different time frame and dynamic. I think a pronoun struggle session would have been similarly bad.
I’ll also add that while there were a good chunk of trans users, they weren’t as visible perhaps. Idk
Was that after the cumtown and stupidpol people were pushed out? There was still quite a few prominent anti-idpol people on the sub when I joined in early 2017 but I also seem to remember it getting better pretty quickly. Of course there also wasn't a lot of the explicitly pro-trans stuff on the subreddit either. You and the rest of the mod team would have definitely faced a ton of backlash had you required pronoun flairs.
That timeline makes sense. I never followed the drama too closely but there was definitely a change in the culture of the sub around the end of 2017/beginning of 2018 that made it much less welcoming to the anti-idpol people, which I guess inspired stupidpol.
I think it's hard to compare.
The subreddit had people coming from across reddit to stir shit, so there was more of an assumption that reactionary posts were from outside users
The sub was far more active, so you saw more comments in support of trans-positivity and against transphobia, so there was a more reassuring vibe
The amount of activity also meant that raids were less noticeable
Fewer users means names are more recognizable, so it may be easier to apply targeted harassment
Among other differences.
I'm not really in a position to say whether the site is more or less friendly, but the above reasons make it difficult for me to compare the two.
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It's pretty hard to remember details about a shitposting community from 3 years ago. But I suspect at that time that /r/CTH was far more problematic than chapo.chat is now.
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If you have this, don’t you dare keep it from us. That was gun struggle session time right? Also, sushi comped
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SAM KRISS SAM KRISS SAM KRISSS
oh wait that was like late 2017.
LANA DEL RATHEON LANA DEL RATHEON LANA DEL RATHEON
we need a struggle session nostalgia thread
If I remember right, it also had comparable amounts of struggle sessions. But it also was able to grow much, much faster, so it's dynamics also changed very rapidly from those of a small community (as is ours right now) to a bigger one
I came to cth around 5 or 6k. I didn’t find the sub to be transphobic at that time, but rather misogynistic. It’s tough to compare because a completely different time frame and dynamic. I think a pronoun struggle session would have been similarly bad.
I’ll also add that while there were a good chunk of trans users, they weren’t as visible perhaps. Idk
Was that after the cumtown and stupidpol people were pushed out? There was still quite a few prominent anti-idpol people on the sub when I joined in early 2017 but I also seem to remember it getting better pretty quickly. Of course there also wasn't a lot of the explicitly pro-trans stuff on the subreddit either. You and the rest of the mod team would have definitely faced a ton of backlash had you required pronoun flairs.
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That timeline makes sense. I never followed the drama too closely but there was definitely a change in the culture of the sub around the end of 2017/beginning of 2018 that made it much less welcoming to the anti-idpol people, which I guess inspired stupidpol.
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Dang image flairs would be cool here too, but, like, additionally
This is the only accurate answer. The sub wasn't nearly as full of trans related posts at the beginning anyways like this place was.