Archived /r/ShitRedditSays moderator /u/Dworkinator admits to the Voat takedown (web.archive.org)
submitted ago by ey-b0ss
Posted by: ey-b0ss
Posting time: 5.5 years ago on
Last edit time: never edited.
Archived on: 2/12/2017 1:51:00 AM
Views: 3822
SCP: 137
140 upvotes, 3 downvotes (98% upvoted it)
Archived /r/ShitRedditSays moderator /u/Dworkinator admits to the Voat takedown (web.archive.org)
submitted ago by ey-b0ss
view the rest of the comments →
[–] randyfox 0 points 40 points 40 points (+40|-0) ago (edited ago)
Am I crazy for being a little bit skeptical of the claim? It feels a bit like when someone like Al Qaeda claims responsibility for all acts of terrorism regardless if they actually carried it out.
And what's their end game? I really don't get what difference it makes to anyone on Reddit that people left to go to Voat. You'd think these miserable fucks would be happy the "troublemakers and shitlords" are gone. What a sad existence.
[–] BoiseNTheHood 0 points 15 points 15 points (+15|-0) ago (edited ago)
It's simple: they feel that either everyone has to play by their rules on their turf, or we have to shut up and never express our opinions anywhere. They can't stand the thought of a competing website where they can't control the narrative, a website that neutral readers might stumble upon and see opinions that differ from SJW orthodoxy.
[–] mustard_tiger 0 points 10 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago
They're professional umbrage takers. Well, I guess most don't make money off of it, so most of them are casual or amateur umbrage takers. How else are they supposed to validate their ideas and existence if they need to create something instead of blubbering about what they hate?
[–] randyfox 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
It's just such foreign concept to me, to actually care so much that a group would leave one site and go to another, regardless of the reasons why. Literally cannot make sense of it. I suppose any rational person wouldn't though.
[–] SwimmingInAFishbowl 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Have an upgoat for using the word umbrage. Also. Insightful.
[–] something_went_wrong 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago (edited ago)
The post was made by user /r/Dworkinator. This user is a mod of the main SRS subreddit. That's proof enough that SRS et al is actively involved in violating reddit's stated rules against vote brigaiding and harassment. If Reddit admins don't ban all SRS afeliated subs at this point, then that means they are complicit in whatever actions that subset of users take.
edit: formatting
[–] ey-b0ss [S] 0 points 10 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago
That isn't obvious enough already?
[–] cointelpro_shill 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
yeah i think they're just stirring up shit. the mods of r/oppression were trolling voat, too.