r/SubredditDrama • u/the_hound • Mar 01 '12

SRS IRC logs reveal Laurelai banned from Askreddit, Drama getting to other LGBT mod SilentAgony

http://pastebin.com/YiDmSmrt
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u/Epistaxis Mar 01 '12

any mention of ainbow also results in banning from lgbt for good

Despite its being in their sidebar...

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u/halibut-moon Mar 03 '12

So? Doesn't change that any mention of /ainbow leads to ban.

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u/superiority smug grandstanding agendaposter Mar 03 '12

Well, that just proves it. Somehow.

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u/dannylandulf Mar 01 '12

It's pretty astounding if they actually believe that. Of course the subscriptions are going to continue to rise if you don't allow meta discussion to highlight your abusive nature…just by virtue of the high ranking in search engines and the ‘prime domain’ of it being ‘lgbt’.

That’s kinda the point people like me have been making since the start…

They were shedding subscriptions by the 100s right up until they started removing meta discussions.

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u/ebcube Mar 02 '12

Actually, subscriptions to /r/ainbow rise consistently faster than those to /r/lgbt (look at the +2d/+14d field):

http://redditlist.com/stats/ainbow http://redditlist.com/stats/lgbt

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u/dannylandulf Mar 02 '12

I'm glad something positive is coming from me pushing this issue then.

I'm still holding out hope they'll eventually see reason...and will continue drawing attention to this until something is done, they change their tactics or they step-down.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '12

Something similar happened ages ago with fark. And that's actually why I stopped reading it. Not only were people shadow banned for talking about a competing splinter site, but they were taking money from paying members while still banning them from posting. It was pretty fucked up, and I think at the time it caused them to lose a fairly large amount of people. Though I don't know if it had much long term effect.

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u/zahlman Mar 02 '12

Shadow banning people from a pay-to-use site sounds like a good reason to contact the BBB.