• mangrai [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    shutting down your entire community as a joke and laughing at people who are upset definitely shows that you're a serious about leftism and don't treat politics like a game and that you can be trusted with power no matter how trivial

    • a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
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      4 years ago

      I think trying to make /r/cth and it's adjacent website synonymous with broader leftism is a bit silly. One can and should take these websites very lightly and leftism very seriously.

    • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Since you're not familiar with the context (which is great, btw, it means we're growing organically now), I'll explain:

      Back in like November 2018 when the subreddit reached 69,420 subscribers, the mods decided it would be funny to shut down the subreddit temporarily (to preserve the 69,420 subscriber count). I myself was brand-new to the sub, and was rather bemused to find it shut down.

      After it was brought back, a user made a post entitled "Closing the sub for a joke wasn't OK," which was upvoted fairly heavily but was also instantly converted into a copypasta, and it's been a popular in-joke ever since.

        • cosecantphi [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Nah, John McCain died when we reached 42,069. The mods shut down the sub for all of an hour or two, then decided to reopen and delay the shutdown to 69,420 so we could celebrate.