/u/Flytape discusses the possibility of /u/soccer giving up /r/xkcd--for a price. USD, bitcoins, /r/stormfront swap all mentioned.

created by [deleted] on 07/02/2014 at 18:49 UTC

96 upvotes, 17 top-level comments (showing 17)

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Comment by [deleted] at 07/02/2014 at 19:27 UTC*

61 upvotes, 2 direct replies

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Comment by czone2 at 07/02/2014 at 22:57 UTC

23 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Randall needs to make sure the users in that sub know who it's controlled by. He could redirect all the comic links to a public denouncement of the sub. It should be possible to match /r/xkcd in the HTTP referrer header.

Comment by [deleted] at 07/02/2014 at 19:12 UTC

18 upvotes, 2 direct replies

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Comment by FMecha at 07/02/2014 at 18:58 UTC

14 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Is that even legal? Buying de-modship?

Comment by [deleted] at 07/02/2014 at 20:54 UTC

10 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Anyone care to explain what is actually going on here to someone completely in the dark?

I know Stormfront is a racist website. I am guessing that the subreddit is a parody of it or something? Sorry...just pretty confused and clueless.

Comment by Nechaev at 08/02/2014 at 00:58 UTC*

8 upvotes, 0 direct replies

While I'm a big fan of /u/robotevil and the /r/EnoughLibertarianSpam team, *appearing to* offer /u/flytape money was a clumsy move. I realize they think he's an idiot (with legitimate reasons of course), but there's a danger in overestimating his stupidity. Of course the NLW tards will **NEVER** shut up about this now.

I wouldn't give them anything. Aside from a link or two in the sidebar how much damage are they able to do with /r/xkcd?

P.S. I love how the biased title rule is being enforced so selectively now.

Comment by KRosen333 at 07/02/2014 at 22:05 UTC

4 upvotes, 1 direct replies

WOT. WOT.

Are they really holding xkcd for fucking ransom?

Jesus fucking christ!

Comment by lurker411_k9 at 07/02/2014 at 22:12 UTC

6 upvotes, 0 direct replies

I'll report this to the admins!!

looooooooool

Comment by fail_early_fail_soft at 07/02/2014 at 19:14 UTC

9 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Look how desperate you guys are to get me to say something about money.

I never mentioned money.

Comment by gradstudent4ever at 08/02/2014 at 01:45 UTC

5 upvotes, 0 direct replies

/u/flytape:

The metadrama subs however do need 72 hours to make imaginary popcorn and jerk each other off over how cool they are that they can destroy a subreddit they don't agree with.

This would actually really bother me, if it were true. I don't post in linked subs. I don't vote, either, unless it's a sub I'm already sub'd to and which I would have participated in anyway, had I not happened to have seen it linked here first. And I don't usually see posts from my regular subs in here.

Anyway, it would really bug me if SRD actually tried to "destroy" subs or whatever. For one thing, popcorn won't grow on a tree that has been cut down. More importantly, though, it's just not fair. We shouldn't be going into other subs for any other reason than to observe them, like we'd observe a family of rabid meercats for a NatGeo documentary. Leave no trace...

Comment by [deleted] at 08/02/2014 at 03:21 UTC

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Lol I don't think any of those would interest soccer.

Keep in mind that I don't have control over xkcd. Soccer does

I will never not be convinced that /u/Flytape and /u/soccer aren't the same person.

Comment by EvilSpaceJesus at 08/02/2014 at 13:07 UTC

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Nobody has figured it out?

/u/Soccer is an old, mostly inactive account that used to mod /r/conspiracy and who seems to agree with /u/Flytape on just about everything.

/u/Flytape is a newer account that now mods /r/conspiracy and was modded by /u/Soccer when the mod activity level needed to increase a lot in /r/Xkcd.

So, lets go to the logical conclusion. Soccer and Flytape are the same person, using two accounts. He modded his newer account to Xkcd in the hope of being around more to end the revolutionary activity there. It's not stopping, so now it's "Soccer might want to sell it somebody for the right price" that /u/Flytape is trying to set up.

In conclusion, Flytape is Soccer, Soccer is Flytape. There is only one idiot involved.

Comment by madmax_410 at 07/02/2014 at 20:08 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Man, people need to stop giving him attention. It's painfully clear from his comments in that thread he's loving being the center of attention, no matter how negative it is.

Comment by larrylemur at 07/02/2014 at 22:36 UTC

2 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Crap i really need to start writing part one of the recap, don't I

Comment by [deleted] at 07/02/2014 at 23:01 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

equips tin foil hat*

Fly tape wants /r/storefront to have a base of easily recognizable operations on Reddit for a stormfront invasion.