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Or, you know, SRS is a small and largely defunct subreddit who's basically operating as a boogeyman for the rest of reddit to use as an example?
KiA has a lot of incredibly bitter and angry users who are just as self-righteous as SRS in their behavior, but they're a considerably larger and more active sub.
Comment by [deleted] at 06/07/2015 at 19:34 UTC
15 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Even if we take what you say for granted about the nature of the different subs, you don't have to look back very far to see that *size* of a shitty sub is clearly not relevant to the decision to ban it. On the day that FPH was banned, several others were banned as well, and IIRC they were all extremely small. Being small is not a defense against being banned in the Pao era of Reddit.
Comment by jubbergun at 07/07/2015 at 07:02 UTC*
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Or, you know, SRS is a small and largely defunct subreddit who's basically operating as a boogeyman for the rest of reddit to use as an example?
Let's not pretend that just because those who frequented SRS said stupid things with regularity that they are/were actually entirely stupid. When it started to be widely noticed that SRS was brigading and otherwise stirring up shit, it did become a "defunct" subreddit, but only because the users migrated to other like-minded subs, like SRD and the various "cringe" subs. Aside from allowing folks like yourself to say "SRS is a small and largely defunct subreddit" under oath without having to perjure yourself, it made it harder to pin down where all the shenanigans were originating. I've even heard that much of the actual bad behavior is organized off Reddit in IRC and other chats. When people say SRS, they aren't talking about SRS as a subreddit, they're using it as a catch-all for the community that used to frequent that sub but has moved on to other places...and I think you know that, just like everyone else (or at least the 27 people who gave you a blue arrow) does.