Comment by BlankVerse on 24/10/2011 at 10:01 UTC

2 upvotes, 2 direct replies (showing 2)

View submission: Requesting r/stormfront - seems to have been auto-banned a long time ago, would like to build a nice userbase of storm/weather geeks.

Why would you want a name associated with the Stormfront.org white nationalist and supremacist neo-Nazi Internet forum (wikipedia article[1]), when you could just name your reddit /r/WeatherGeeks?

1: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Stormfront_%28website%29

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Comment by NotCOINTELPROAgent at 24/10/2011 at 15:49 UTC

9 upvotes, 1 direct replies

I like the term "storm front" better than "weather geeks", it's more clever. Think "militant weather geeks". But if you want to make that subreddit feel free.

Comment by ENKC at 25/10/2011 at 06:09 UTC

3 upvotes, 1 direct replies

I believe that's exactly the point. He intends to gain a moral victory over Stormfront.org, however petty it may be.