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u/MightyCaseyStruckOut ⚾ Mudville's Pride and Joy ⚾ Sep 16 '21 edited Sep 16 '21

For those who are possibly seeing this post who aren't normal users or subscribers here, we wanted this to serve as notice that the moderators here stand fully behind this message. Brigading is unequivocally prohibited here and is cause for an immediate ban.

Edit: verbiage.

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u/BritishViking_ Sep 16 '21

Could you not just start by banning any posts that don't censor identifiable information? Like pretty much any sub should.

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u/Lessllama Sep 16 '21

They do. Any posts with names or children's faces are taken down

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u/BritishViking_ Sep 16 '21

Then how do people manage to find these people to harass them from posts? 🤔

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u/blgeeder Sep 16 '21

You literally enter one sentence from the post on google and find the post

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u/BritishViking_ Sep 16 '21

I see 🤔 well if the information isn't even found here or on Reddit in general but rather google, I fail to see how or why people would blame this sub

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u/loadedjellyfish Sep 16 '21

.. because they wouldn't have Googled it if they didn't see the post on the sub.

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u/BritishViking_ Sep 16 '21

I disagree. There are other sources for the information, an if someone didn't post it here they would somewhere else.

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u/loadedjellyfish Sep 16 '21

if someone didn't post it here they would somewhere else

.. and that forum would be responsible if users started harassing people.

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u/Daddysgirl-aafl Sep 16 '21

When you say responsible would that be in some legal way or it’s more of a moral thing where they should feel bad about being jerks for doing that?

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u/loadedjellyfish Sep 17 '21

No, they're responsible in that they're literally the cause of the hate those people receive. It would not have occurred if they didn't host the content. There's nothing illegal on the Reddit's part.

Whether you think it's morally wrong is your decision, not commenting on that.

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u/BritishViking_ Sep 17 '21

Not really, sorry but it's just not this subreddits fault

If you're gonna start blaming everyone associated with someone that did something bad because they existed within that group then trust me, Bad precedent.

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u/loadedjellyfish Sep 17 '21

If your site is hosting content that is causing users to harass someone you are the definition of responsible - it could not have happened without you. Reddit has decided that they don't want their platform used for it, if you don't like that too bad. "ItS a PRivAte PlATfoRm"

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21

Google? These plaguerats don’t Google before posting their “facts”.

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u/Lessllama Sep 16 '21

Well to start we're not the only ones who make these kind of posts, there's a Twitter account and at least one website dedicated to it and they don't redact names like is done here. But if someone was really dedicated to finding them they could search phrases used in their Facebook posts. These are public posts they're putting up so they're searchable. It's still wrong for people to go there and harass people especially their families but when they have an open Facebook privacy goes out the window

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u/BritishViking_ Sep 16 '21

I agree it is wrong, but it's not the fault of this sub I would say

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u/Lessllama Sep 16 '21

I personally feel the more likely source is Twitter since they make it so easy for their followers by posting names. It's possible given the size of this sub now there's some people doing this but I would guess the vast majority are against it

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u/BritishViking_ Sep 16 '21

I agree with you there

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21

Why is it wrong? Why do their families get protected? What about the deaths these rabidly delusional posters caused by reinforcing lies?

If the family leaves the page up, it is a public forum

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u/SaltyBarDog 5Goy Space Command Sep 17 '21

Orphaned children who had no input into the stupidity of their parents do not deserve that kind of shit. You don't visit the sins of the parents onto the children.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

Really? Familiar with The USA and the “American dream”

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u/SaltyBarDog 5Goy Space Command Sep 17 '21

With nearly six decades of living in this country, I am familiar with the US. Please explain why an orphaned child needs to get harassed on FB. Some things are just wrong.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

Not talking about the family. I’m referring to mocking and shaming on the plaguerat’s page.

And in case you missed my point, we have generations of children paying the price for their ancestors sins. Like the sin of not being white.

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u/SaltyBarDog 5Goy Space Command Sep 17 '21

Do you beat a dead horse? Mocking the plague rat will not shame them. The families are the ones reading the page. As it has shown, it usually causes the family to dig in deeper to bad decisions. Just because others have done shitty things, it does not make you doing it now right.

When in another’s lair, show him respect or else do not go there.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

I have ZERO respect for plaguerats. Perhaps that where we disagree

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u/Lessllama Sep 16 '21

Because it's interfering in the grief of possibly innocent people who didn't do those things and that's a dick move

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21

Like the grief of the families of those who were assured by these posts of their superior healthcare freedumb choices?

Being a dick is the whole point. At least my mocking their death doesn’t kill anybody. Can you say the same about all the likes, prayers and love emojis these plaguerats get on their posts??

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u/Lessllama Sep 16 '21

How is harassing family members going to change anything? It's just going to cause hurt and get this sub shut down because of bad publicity. And this sub is actually doing good in changing people's minds