I never called you an outside agitator and I'm not sure what this post has to do with my reply to you. If it wasn't clear I am not saying the people complaining were spilling over from other places, but the people doing the weird sexist shit. I've talked with some people who were saying that, including someone who was apparently sent some really weird super racist shit. The thing is, in most of those cases it was primarily people spilling over from other subs, lurkers, short lived accounts, etc and not so much regular users creating the issue. Which comes with being a much larger sub with interaction with the rest of the Internet and fast growth. So agreed that this place is better as a safe space, but I don't think it is because the old sub had a significantly worse culture, but rather because it was much bigger and open.
About rebro I definitely agree, I really didn't like that era of the sub. It's just that most and my best memories of the sub were before that, because the rebro era was very weird and definitely not the best, combined with the quarantine. And again, I want to clarify that I don't think that there wasn't sexist stuff, but that it wasn't much worse than this site is. I did notice a lot of sexist jokes etc but I've noticed stuff like that here too, and frequently it is a bit too subtle to moderate. One thing that may complicate things is that I never sorted by new. Perhaps if I did I'd see more of it. That there were lots of super weird people around I know, I literally can't forget it because one of these people for some reason is still occasionally sending me angry shit years later for something I don't even remember any more. But I guess that comes with reddit.
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I never called you an outside agitator and I'm not sure what this post has to do with my reply to you. If it wasn't clear I am not saying the people complaining were spilling over from other places, but the people doing the weird sexist shit. I've talked with some people who were saying that, including someone who was apparently sent some really weird super racist shit. The thing is, in most of those cases it was primarily people spilling over from other subs, lurkers, short lived accounts, etc and not so much regular users creating the issue. Which comes with being a much larger sub with interaction with the rest of the Internet and fast growth. So agreed that this place is better as a safe space, but I don't think it is because the old sub had a significantly worse culture, but rather because it was much bigger and open.
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What a good fucking comment, thank you
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About rebro I definitely agree, I really didn't like that era of the sub. It's just that most and my best memories of the sub were before that, because the rebro era was very weird and definitely not the best, combined with the quarantine. And again, I want to clarify that I don't think that there wasn't sexist stuff, but that it wasn't much worse than this site is. I did notice a lot of sexist jokes etc but I've noticed stuff like that here too, and frequently it is a bit too subtle to moderate. One thing that may complicate things is that I never sorted by new. Perhaps if I did I'd see more of it. That there were lots of super weird people around I know, I literally can't forget it because one of these people for some reason is still occasionally sending me angry shit years later for something I don't even remember any more. But I guess that comes with reddit.
It's impossible to go back to that anyways.