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View submission: The history of the /r/xkcd kerfuffle.
What does my involvement with SRS have to do with anything? If you're trying to say my involvement with SRS makes me a bad mod, that's the guilt by association fallacy.[2]
Confused I am. Didn't you just spend your post guilting /u/soccer for being an unfit mod of /r/xkcd based on his completely orthogonal interest in holocaust denialism?
It's a bit of a pet-peeve of mine when people trot out the logical fallacies they think they've uncovered. They mis-define the fallacies. For example, guilt-by-association is wrong when it's applied to the family of a murderer (you're not responsible for your brother's crimes) but in the case of SRS, your involvement in that group is a choice and you are a part of what SRS does. I personally don't give a shit about SRS but anyone involved in it can rightly be associated with it. You're the one exhibiting the logical fallacy there.
EDIT: I was wrong. /u/soccer's interest in holocaust denialism isn't separate from his modding of /r/xkcd if he's putting a link to /r/holocaust in the sidebar.
Comment by Wyboth at 09/02/2014 at 00:22 UTC
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Didn't you just spend your post guilting /u/soccer for being an unfit mod of /r/xkcd based on his completely orthogonal interest in holocaust denialism?
No, I spent my post guilting /u/soccer and friends for censoring links to /r/xkcdcomic and removing comments which point this out, and for linking to irrelevant subs for a long time. The general consensus of /r/xkcd users while I was there was that they were fine with /u/soccer as head mod as long as he didn't use the subreddit to promote his personal views, and as long as I remained a mod. I was booted and the links went back up, so that's why everyone got mad.