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In all fairness, from following this whole drama (on subredditdrama) the people that did have an axe to grind with you *are* complete lunatics but you guys handled the situation really poorly, so many times you'd resort to derogatory phrases like "paultards" when you were trying to justify your position. Instead of staying above the fray, moderating, you guys couldn't resist the opportunity to flame the crazies, which only adds legitimacy to their whining. You could've ignored the yelling and keep communication only with the other mods and it would've probably died down (only like 5 accounts were raising complaints)
It's no suprise you were removed after that. But in the long run, r/ows has been shitty subreddit for occupy related communication for a long, long time, favoring cries of "omg police state!" over actual news on the events, so no loss for you guys:P
Comment by [deleted] at 13/03/2012 at 17:18 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Maybe instead of Paultards we should have used "Cultists" or "assholes" more. :P