The community in both subreddits used to be cool when one of the founders actually used to participate in it. Some posts they made had pretty significant effects on people and are still getting referenced, I still refer people to this post on “cringe” for example.
The modteam and org really dropped the ball letting their communities get like this. They have progressed well beyond being spaces that turn people into leftists and have turned into sectarian shitholes full of the same fake anarchists that populate other sections of sectarian reddit who aren’t in any orgs and do absolutely nothing except sectarian infighting all the time. It actively harms the org because serious people see that shit and see the org as completely unserious.
This is really fucking easy to solve. It’s been solved in dozens of other subreddits since it reared its head. Just ban sectarianism, purge vaushites and drop bait every now and then to identify the people that need to be purged.
In my experience, it was the sectarianism of gun worship that exactly mimics NRA talking points. These people aren’t socialists, they’re anarchist gun nuts.
That’s a really good thread on the problem on the sub, it’s almost like they foresaw it and just gave up on addressing it. Still a good reference point though, thank you.
They chose mass-growth of the subreddit as a tool for advertising SRA over ideology and that worked for a good while but it became detrimental and they did nothing.
In their defence I suspect they don’t really have anyone on board the knows how to conduct a proper purge either. Ideally it would occur over several months and be conducted as silently as possible so as to not attract the neoliberal wrecker crowds who will pose as socialists and attempt to cause exoduses and drama in the community. The org membership touches grass whereas keeping this shit out requires people that completely immerse themselves in very-online reddit rubbish.
The community in both subreddits used to be cool when one of the founders actually used to participate in it. Some posts they made had pretty significant effects on people and are still getting referenced, I still refer people to this post on “cringe” for example.
The modteam and org really dropped the ball letting their communities get like this. They have progressed well beyond being spaces that turn people into leftists and have turned into sectarian shitholes full of the same fake anarchists that populate other sections of sectarian reddit who aren’t in any orgs and do absolutely nothing except sectarian infighting all the time. It actively harms the org because serious people see that shit and see the org as completely unserious.
This is really fucking easy to solve. It’s been solved in dozens of other subreddits since it reared its head. Just ban sectarianism, purge vaushites and drop bait every now and then to identify the people that need to be purged.
What does sectarianism mean in this context? Like, no arguments about what is a Leftist ideology and what isn’t?
In my experience, it was the sectarianism of gun worship that exactly mimics NRA talking points. These people aren’t socialists, they’re anarchist gun nuts.
That’s a really good thread on the problem on the sub, it’s almost like they foresaw it and just gave up on addressing it. Still a good reference point though, thank you.
They chose mass-growth of the subreddit as a tool for advertising SRA over ideology and that worked for a good while but it became detrimental and they did nothing.
In their defence I suspect they don’t really have anyone on board the knows how to conduct a proper purge either. Ideally it would occur over several months and be conducted as silently as possible so as to not attract the neoliberal wrecker crowds who will pose as socialists and attempt to cause exoduses and drama in the community. The org membership touches grass whereas keeping this shit out requires people that completely immerse themselves in very-online reddit rubbish.