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This post is OC by me, (Russia is not my reddit username though) and explains how /r/OneY came to be under close editorial control by "Social Justice Warriors." In other words, this post presents evidence that /r/OneY has contracted MetaRedditCancer

TiTrC has been the top-most active mod in OneY for around a year. TiTrC was also once, if not a more moderate feminist who still gave more than lip service to valuing mens issues, at the least trying harder to maintain an image of being moderate. That all changed within the last few months.

1. He brought on Radical feminist woman Jess_Than_Three as the third out of the three relatively active mods on OneY.

2. He, CosmicKeys and relatively inactive mod RobotShoelaces explicitly ban any posts that make reference to feminism in one Y. After a wave of backlash, he changes this explicit ban to a de facto ban, automatically triggering 'review' of these posts and suggesting that if mods aren't given editorial control over the posts they will be deleted.

3. Oh, also immediately after that post they began banning people who were critical of the new content restrictions. Surprise, right?

Just looking at TiTRC's recent history, you can see how deep down the rabbit hole he's gotten. 9/10 posts are about how feminism is great and men need to get on board with it, some highlights of his recent contributions to OneY:

• Promoting the 'Good Men' project that suggests that any man that wouldn't feel comfortable self-flagellating to Jessica Valenti columns is a bad man.
• Another article suggesting modern men are characteristically horrible fucked up monsters: 'Gentlemen, what the Hell has Become of Us'
• One of many 'masculinity is obsolete and its probably good for it to go' articles
• An article whose content is basically "I know there's a history of White women falsely accusing black men of rape, as well as women trying to extort athletes for money, but we should still assume that any black athlete who has a rape accusation against him is guilty on a probability basis" seriously what the fuck.

To be perfectly fair, TiTrC still has, now and then, the ability to have a different opinion than the most extremist and reviled feminist viewpoints

But his ideologue position really shine through when you see a post like this, where he repeatedly pimps himself as being able to 'step back from culture warrior feminism and see the bigger picture' to give himself more credibility, then spends dozen of consecutive comments defending feminism's petty culture warrior fights, moving goalposts for feminism, and handwaving away problems with feminism the movement.

It's the context of things like that, it's hard not to wonder if those rare moments of asserting any room for discussion or plurality at all are just about keeping up the supposed credibility. Just yesterday right before starting a debate in this subreddit, TiTrC posted a first self post in a long time that wasn't just a parroting of feminist newspeak.

Does it make that post somehow less good if he was doing it to shore up his credibility? No. His motives for writing it don't matter at all. But it's still an ounce of moderation in tone compared to his comment and post history which, with only a couple exceptions, has been all about highlighting the worst of male redditors, MRAs, and Gamer-Gaters (Videogamers fighting against a similar cancer but specific to a subset of professionals in their industry).

Sure he has a few pet issues (e.g. feminist cultural strictures on dating) where he splits from the ideology, and then regularly pushes that to disguise himself as dispassionate non-ideologue and a good listener. But he's not dispassionate. Like most of his comments which aren't mod-related are on some gender war stuff dicking around whatever side of the issue the men are on.

Let's take a moment to consider how fucked up it is that while, reasonably, the mods of TwoX are women and discussion of feminism is allowed as a regular conversation topic; OneY is controlled by three or four active mods, at least two of which are obsessed with promoting feminism and attacking the mens rights movement, and have seen fit to advance that by limiting as much as possible mens ability to even /talk/ about feminism or the mens rights movement.

In summary: this is why I'm adding OneY to the sidebar.

TL;DR: Why do mods that maybe start off not too bad sometimes, sometimes go completely and utterly crazy, threatening with doxxing and death, just a few weeks/months after becoming a reddit mod, in threads such as the Great /r/lgbt Implosion Event of 2012 (TM)??

Ranty Detail: After ghosting reddit and the issues it has had for some time, which IMHO starting small about 2 to 3 years ago in various ambitious subreddits, I've decided to pose a little discussion/answer thread about, well, the title. For the new here, you can get more info of the wider problem on this subverse. Basically the problem endlessly grew and basically if you imagine the spark = the ambitious threads I was talking about, the house made of straw = reddit, and the person who knows absolutely...nothing... about fire = the mods; the problem has acted just like what that system entails: a small spark = a small fire = mods start blowing on it = gets a little worse = mods try to blow-out fire more = gets A LOT worse = mods start to move the straw around to do "something" = REALLY makes it worse. Then we imagine now as the fire covering a whole room, /r/LGBT being one of if not the best example of one of those rooms.

What I would want from this thread is to hear from the more reddit-verbose here, mainly about what you think drives these people to go (maybe from only slightly flawed by there power-lust) to complete and utter madman/woman driven red-eyed with power (as evident by half the subreddits started these days -.-). After witnessing (not as much as most users here) the epic implosion of numerous threads began to help people, and the vile crud that came out of the reddit mods documented in great detail here and on reddit itself.

I like to think I know quite a bit about power and the phycology of it, but subreddits like lgtbt, and LOTS of others has just seemed to have breeded the most vile mod actions I've ever seen. I mean deleting everything [footnote 1] from everyone who disagrees with them, can't they see those actions mirror the mindsets and ideologies of the likes of Hitler, Stalin, Etc., that OH SO ironically represents what they think is the complete antithesis of theirs?

[footnote 1] ...and doxxing... and even threatening with death. There is empirical evidence for this here on voat.co and on reddit, from archives and imgurs of admin PM's to the literal thousands they've banned.

Thanks for reading and I look forward to hearing some interesting stuff!

Zucchini

Just wondering because I never got a chance to read that sub.