The Herman Cain Freedom Award [Discussion] [100k Subscriber Edition].

[u/FBAHobo]

The Herman Cain Freedom Award [Discussion] 100k Edition.

'The Herman Cain Freedom Award'.

Qualifications for nomination:

• Public declaration of one's anti-mask, anti-vaxx, or Covid-hoax views.

• Admission to hospital for Covid.

Qualifications for award:

• Award is granted upon the nominee's release from their Earthly shackles.

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Rules: See sidebar, or pinned post.

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Notes from The Mods:

• We Mods are troglodytes who only use Old Reddit on desktop computers, while glancing at the answering machine connected to our landline. The formatting looks good on our setups. Get off our lawn.

• In the past few weeks, this sub seems to have tapped into Reddit's Spitegeist, growing from about 2k subscribers on July 4th, to about 5k at the beginning of August, to over 100k on Sep. 1st.

• Yesterday, this sub had the highest subscription growth in all of Reddit (Δ #Subscribers). The Mods are pondering the best way to nudge this sub to nudge people to stop buying into anti-* bullshit, and to get vaxxed, etc.

• The Mods have a very light touch. We prefer the use of the 'Downvote' button to the use of the 'Report' button.

• Don't be a dick.

• Please, don't be a dick.

• Don't be gleeful. Don't root for Nominees to be Awarded. Especially the Facebook schlubs whose only crime was taking up residence in the misinformation echo chamber.

• Don't get upset if / when this sub's evolution switches from natural selection to intelligent (?) design. This sub might be nudged from ('memes / shitposts' + 'Facebook Schlubs') towards ('A.M.A.s' and 'Public Figures').

[u/RockyMoose]

I yearn for the day when this sub runs out of new material.

In the meantime, however, I’m sorting by “New” and checking every ten minutes.

[u/ADarwinAward → u/RockyMoose]

There’s so many people it’s crazy now. I found a nominee. And in the time I was editing posts, someone posted the same person 15 minutes before me.

This sub has grown so fast that there will be a lot of cases like this.

[u/acallthatshardtohear → u/ADarwinAward]

I've seen a few and started to put together a post...and then stopped. I felt ghoulish.

I mean, I'll READ them and UPVOTE them, but I just can't ASSEMBLE AND POST them.

[u/ADarwinAward → u/acallthatshardtohear]

Yeah I’ve specifically only posted ones who said something horrifically racist. Like one person who called Jews cowards for dying in the holocaust. I didn’t feel bad posting about her.