I think a little clarification is needed. No. I don’t actually think everyone there is insane. I don’t care about the bans so stop trying to use that. HB enthusiasts coming here and trying to call me out achieves nothing besides proving my point

Edit: Feel free to keep trying to brigade me. It’s not going to scare me to take this down

  • TheOubliette
    283·
    4 months ago

    They were banned while saying John Brown did nothing wrong and that slaveowners deserve to die.

    Sounds pretty cool to me.

    • Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works
      313·
      4 months ago

      While true there was a lot more behind the decision than that final post. They had been fighting with the admins for a long time.

      • TheOubliette
        173·
        4 months ago

        There actually isn’t any such logic presented for the decision. Mostly just allusions to celebrating violence, the only examples of which were the anti-slavery posts I referenced.

        • Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works
          17·
          4 months ago

          Maybe because you didn’t observe it happening. Reddit admins were busy as hell cleaning the place up. All kinds of rightwing subs like some of the incel gathering spots. Some for straight up Nazis like frenworld or whatever it was where they were using honk honk as code for heil Hitler. When the admins made site changes due to complaints about right wing subs, Chapo made the list because they engaged in similar activities with the main complaint being brigading other subs. Their mods refused to change to meet the new rules. The admins eventually removed some of the mods. They still refused to change afterward. Which eventually got them shut down.

          • TheOubliette
            83·
            4 months ago

            Maybe because you didn’t observe it happening.

            I did, actually. I made some of the John Brown posts lol.

            Reddit admins were busy as hell cleaning the place up. All kinds of rightwing subs like some of the incel gathering spots. Some for straight up Nazis like frenworld or whatever it was where they were using honk honk as code for heil Hitler. When the admins made site changes due to complaints about right wing subs, Chapo made the list because they engaged in similar activities with the main complaint being brigading other subs.

            Brigading is not an activity similar to supporting incels or Nazis.

            I remember the subreddit mods sharing their attempts to communicate with admins on this, offering to make whatever changes would be needed, and getting stonewalled. The subreddit itself adopted a no-brigading policy and included it with an pinned automod comment on every post.

            But this is neither here nor there because the ban announcement said nothing about brigading. Instead, they said it was about content violating their new anti-hate policy and a vague statement about mods not “reining” in users. Prior communications and the timeline suggested the only content violations were anti-slavery posts.

            Their mods refused to change to meet the new rules.

            How so?

            The admins eventually removed some of the mods.

            Which ones and why?

            They still refused to change afterward

            Such as?

            The reality is that most of this was actually opaque.