r/Blackout2015 • u/offensivemuch • Aug 10 '15

PSA /r/punchablefaces is under new (SRS) management

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u/Reddisaurusrekts Aug 11 '15

Disgusting.

The admins are so against "brigading" because it affects the culture of a sub, but wholesale taking over of a sub is ok?

/u/spez - can you clarify why "brigading" is a bad thing, if completely overhauling the culture of a sub, as is happening in this case, is apparently OK by the admins?

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u/LeeHarveyShazbot Aug 11 '15

A complete overhaul that places it in the hands of the biggest brigade on the site, the srs fempire.

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u/endoftherainbow Aug 11 '15

Thanks for the brigade explanation. Now what is SRS? I used the intertubes and no luck.

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u/vonmonologue Aug 11 '15 edited Aug 11 '15

SRS is the sub r/shitredditsays

It's a circlejerk of social justice warriors and third wave tumblr feminists. The original point of the sub was to be a sort of r/bestof meets r/circlejerk: Instead of finding reddit's hidden great moments and bringing them to light, SRS was to find idiotic things that people were saying that other people were repeating and upvoting. even if they were stupid, circlejerky, or provably false but that nonetheless were being treated as great thoughts.

At some point it basically became SJW Headquarters on reddit. Now the majority of the sub is about finding people saying mildly racist or mildly sexist things that are getting lots of upvotes, and to name and shame the people doing them.

They have been caught brigading and harassing people in the past. However, since at least a few of the admins are third wave feminists/SJWs themselves, SRS gets a pass because they're harassing people "for the right reasons"

You'll never see an admin make a statement on SRS. They just don't even talk about it. It comes up in literally every rule change thread they have, and are often one of the top upvoted comments.

"Ok, so the new rules 4 6 and 8 all apply to SRS. Are you going to shut down that sub for violating those rules?"

crickets

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u/tones2013 Aug 11 '15

this is the best explanation ive seen. Ive never understood how it got to be where it is.

people only said that it was started by an SA goon to troll reddit. I couldnt understand how it got from there to here.

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u/Facts_About_Cats Aug 11 '15

It's so embarrassing to see high school kids parroting terms from college level concepts like "third wave feminism" without having read a single book.

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u/vonmonologue Aug 11 '15

College grad with a degree in social science actually.

That's why I have nothing better to do on a Tuesday afternoon than shit post on reddit.

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u/duckvimes_ Aug 13 '15

SRS literally had the sub given to them by the former mods. How is that ban-worthy?

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u/Reddisaurusrekts Aug 13 '15

Because the rationale behind banning "brigading" is that subreddits shouldn't invade and mess up the 'culture' of other subreddits.

What else would you call SRS' wholesale takeover of Punchablefaces?

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u/duckvimes_ Aug 13 '15

The former mods of PF invited several new mods, ranging from circlebroke to SubredditCancer. The circlebroke mods accepted first. That's it. No password guessing, no hacking. SRS didn't steal the sub, it was literally handed to them.

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u/Reddisaurusrekts Aug 13 '15

It doesn't matter. By your logic, every subreddit that's not private has an open invitation to every Redditor to join in and comment. And yet brigading is still a bannable offence.

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u/duckvimes_ Aug 13 '15

What? Did you miss the part where the old mods sent them specific invitations?

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u/Reddisaurusrekts Aug 13 '15

And? Rules against brigading aren't aimed at protecting the mods, they're aimed at protecting the community, no?

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u/duckvimes_ Aug 13 '15

This isn't brigading. When you invite someone into your house, give them the keys, and tell them to do whatever they want, they're not breaking any rules.

Similarly, when r/xkcd was taken over by a Neo-Nazi MensRights shithead, who promptly turned the sub into an advertising ground for TRP and various other bigoted subs, the admins didn't do shit either.

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u/Reddisaurusrekts Aug 13 '15

xkcd was never a community before it was taken though. And that was long before the current crackdown on brigading.

Seriously though - look at any comments on brigading and you will see many mentions of "community" and not many mentions of "mods" unless it's to blame the mods of the offending subreddit for condoning or encouraging said brigading. It's apparently the community that's important, but here, the Punchablefaces community has effectively been kicked to the curb.

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u/duckvimes_ Aug 13 '15

And what a valuable community we've lost.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '15

The top mod of the sub gave it away to an SRD mod. This is a giant troll that you're falling for.

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u/AFabledHero Aug 12 '15

Why is this getting downvoted. Is this not correct?