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Ah, SRS, everyones favorite boogieman even though it has less subscribes that MensRights and some of the other subreddits that constantly complain about it. I mean, no one stopped /r/Baltimore from getting brigaded by racists during the riots and people are enraged that /r/fatpeoplehate got a ton of flack *just* for spamming imgur and the reddit admins with hatemail. But yeah, sure, I bet a subreddit that calls people out on awful comments is far worse for the community than open bigotry. I mean, how can they be so mean to people just because they spew bigotry all day? Don't bigots deserve not to have mean things said about them? Where is the justice in this world???
Seriously, though. If people feel it's censorship that they can't post non-anonymous picture of fat people to shame them on reddit, why not move to another site? Why not register your own domain, non-anonymously, and post your pictures there? It just seems to me to be extremely hypocritical to cry "censorship" because people want to be able to *anonymously* shame others (who's photos get posted online for all to see....) for free in a public forum.
When you post pictures of the CEO and others all over reddit in "protest," calling them fatties, shaming people for being 'ugly' or fat, it doesn't seem like you're making a brilliant point about free spech to normal people. It seems like a bunch of stupid kids are throwing a temper tantrum because they got told to play nice. Writing fancy messages to the CEO about censorship and calling them "vacant" just sounds even more petty. They don't owe you trust. They don't owe you support. Go surf another website.
Comment by CaptnRonn at 07/07/2015 at 00:45 UTC
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I like that you just assume that this all boils down to me wanting to call fat people names. Have you never heard of the phrase "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."
I named SRS because its the most widely known and criticized. I could have referenced SRD, againstMensRights, gamerGhazi, bestof, conspiratard, or any other subreddit whose entire purpose is to brigade (and that the admins do nothing toward), while kotakuinaction users (for example) have to archive every reddit link or else be banned/shadowbanned.
When you post pictures of the CEO and others all over reddit in "protest," calling them fatties, shaming people for being 'ugly' or fat, it doesn't seem like you're making a brilliant point about free spech to normal people.
Strawmanning aside, lets try this a different way:
When you make public statements as a CEO about "discrimination," even though you lost your discrimination court case, or you try to gloss over your upset users by calling them a vocal minority in the face of a petition for your resignation gaining hundreds of thousands of signatures, it doesn't seem like you're making a brilliant point about your competency and trustworthiness as a CEO.
Comment by CaptnRonn at 07/07/2015 at 00:50 UTC
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They don't owe you trust. They don't owe you support. Go surf another website.
Also, it would seem that even the admins think they owe me trust/support. I mean they are here, making a public apology to their userbase and asking for their support while they make changes to reddit... my response was a polite way of telling them "good start, but you haven't addressed these issues which compromise my faith in your business"