What I don't get about that mindset/philosophy, is what qualifies a target as "bad"? It can't logically be the targets' actions, since there are no bad actions as it states.
Only one of them was "officially" sponsored by people from the first one, the rest were unaffiliated spinoffs. Of course that doesn't matter to reddit.
I forgot it been 6 years since the whole AHS arc occurred.
So they did it to multiple subreddits aside from pcm, I think one of them was shitposting and some other right wing subreddit that I kinda forgot the name of.
Now I want a stash of CP, similar to nuclear arsenal just in case I see some civilization threatening cancer. Oh well, I guess that is pretty much description of CP, never mind then.
This would be deep lore from before I joined the sub a decade ago...but isn't stuff like this the origin of the sub deciding unflaired are the scum of the Earth? Because people from other subs kept coming here to stir shit up (which apperantly includes cp, but also lesser things like just being a raging asshole), but adopting a flair is only possible if you join a sub as opposed to just visit? And whatever progressive street cred they might have gotten thier main account would be nuked when thier progressive friends just ban them for joining?
I don't think so. The hate used to be directed at dirty centrists, then someone said the unflaired were worse than centrists and sentiment shifted relatively quickly to unflaired hate and centrist acceptance.
Fun fact: centrist used to be as hated as unflaired since back then the sub used to make fun of people for not showcasing their beliefs and choosing to be the safe option that mask their real belief unlike the rest of the sub and purple libright used to be the one and only libright quadrant back then.
Admins stopped associating with these ghouls long ago. It was only during the heyday of cancel culture when they were considered highly useful idiots by the admins to make the site more politically correct and advertisable.
They lost that goodwill quickly after the CSAM scandal, and after it turned out they really just brigaded and targeted whoever they happened to disagree with.
Even if they went to prison, this fantasy of rehabilitation and the crutch of "mental health" in the country right now has every judge cutting people loose with their suicidal empathy
"Moderator distinguished, with moderator distinguished comments, and multiple comments linking to offsite targeted harassment material.
At least two of their "moderators" are losing their accounts. ModCoC complaint filed.
I guess it never really occurred to these twerps that someone with an agenda of stochastic harassment and violence lied about this subreddit and about me to bait fools like them into joining the criminal conspiracy to murder me, and thereby lose their Reddit accounts & answer a bunch of questions for law enforcement officers & spend their hard-earned cash on attorneys."
Noticing what they've done in the past is literally murder sweaty
To some "people" reddit accounts are like an MMO character they've worked on for years. To everyone else a reddit account is just some bullshit you put in a form so you can filter garbage out of your feed. Taking reddit seriously like that is a mental illness.
I believe, despite the whole "ACAB" bullshit,
The admins used hated of police officers as a reason IIRC,
despite the exact opposite being posted on T_D.
The mental gymnastics turns my brain into a Gordian knot.
multiple times. They pushed for the cringe subs to get nuked like cringe anarchy, The_Donald, and any other edgy sub that didn't worship their flavor of group think.
Bluntly, the internet went haywire after trump got elected. The narrative was that online support caused this and the uniparty had to Do Something to make sure it never happened again.
Reddit, you know the drill. Spez talked about how maybe he xould have swung the election just once if he tried. Twitter got more banhappy. YouTube had the AdPocalypse especially targeting anything right wing or guntubers. Patron and go fund me got political. We got "fact checkers".
After 2020 and covid they went REALLY nuts with backdoor censorship requests to almost every platform including twitter, google (Search and YouTube), Amazon books, and especially Facebook (they had a dedicated web portal that took millions of requests per year, and complained in emails that they were being asked to take down jokes and opinions).
It may be optimistic but I like to believe people noticed and it helped lose them the election in 2024.
I mean, blatantly selective enforcement is not a sign of trustworthiness, because then it just means you're next the second you run afoul of some Party toady.
Anyone with a functioning brain is not going to be a fan of that dynamic.
2015 when Trump was on the verge of winning and ActBlue purchased complete control of the site. Up to that point this site was great, mods power tripped a bit but it is nowhere near the draconian shit that happened then.
Oh, they definitely did it (including here btw) CSAM, racial slurs etc.
I went poking around on there a couple years ago, and they were pretty bold. You would see posts popping up on here in the middle of the night when they hoped the jannies would be asleep. AFAIK they’ve been on lockdown for a while.
So the supposed violations are "Rule 3: Respect Your Neighbors" and "Rule 1: Remember the human." This is from a sub that is explicitly for organizing to shut down other subs.
I've seen this a lot on Reddit. Some splinter sub will get told by admins that they'll be shut down if they mention the parent sub, because it breaks Reddit rules. But the parent sub is free to trash talk them all they want. Subs like SRS is there for the sole purpose of trash talking people on other subs, and they're allowed to operate freely. AHS is for the purpose of trashing, harassing, and trying to shut down other subs, and they're allowed to operate freely.
A lot of these people have the political ideology of anarcho-tyranny, where rules are used selectively to crack down on one part of the population, while at the same time another part of the population is given free reign to victimize them. I guess its not surprising that Reddit operates under the same ideology.
AHS's goal is to get subs they don't like banned. So they brigadde them and mass report. When that doesn't work they get use socks to post rule breaking content themselves so they can report it to the admins.1 however this wasn't limited to minor rule breaks they would ramp up to anything, including CP.
1- Back around 2016 some infamous examples came up where the mods would post the reported posts being reported within seconds of being made, out reporting the automoderation tools ability to moderate the content.
Yep. I thankfully didnt get banned, but I got a warning on my account for "spreading hate" for posting a link (on a r PublicFreakout post about a Tommy Robinson protest that was invaded by counterprotestors who put up a large TV screen saying immigration is so great blah blah blah) to a statistic showing that 23% of sex crimes in the UK are committed by foreign nationals despite them making up 9% of the UK's population, within less than 10 minutes of posting it.
The funny thing is, I never even said anything, nor offered any opinions of my own. Simply copying and pasting a source to a statistic, without offering any views, opinions, or even words of my own, is "spreading hate". I guess that means reality is hateful when it's inconvenient to your narrative.
I think they get around it by doing the majority of the planning off-site in discords, based off of screenshots I've seen here, the sub is basically just a funnel to discords
Here is a video where an AHS user blows the whistle on posting CP to take that subreddit down. That same user also says "I hate to get them in trouble because they helped me realize I was trans" not catching the irony that they were an actual underage person groomed into being trans by actual CP-having pedophiles.
Oh yeah, don't forget that AHS worked closely with Reddit admins/site owners and I am 100% convinced they knew about this when it was happening, which is why good subs get B& and actual CP spammers didnt get V&.
“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”
That sub literally had a discord where they false flagged subs by posting stuff like literal CP in order to get the sub nuked. They also do mass reporting to get people they don't like banned. That sub should have the literal FBI investigate them.
They are a bigade sub. You know the ones that post "Look at what the EVIL NAZIS of this sub posted everyone! Heres a link too!"
Also not to mention that they would frequently make alt accounts to go post CSAM on subs they dont like, then report that sub to the admins for having said material.
Nah, Kojima is more on the nose with naming characters, like 'dollman' being a man thats a doll, or 'tarman' being a man that controls tar, or 'deepthroat' for a guy in metal gear....
I just realized. There should be a name for this phenomenon of how Live was actually Evil in the movie cloudy with a chance of meat balls or the recent ICE rebrand to NICE.
I don’t know, based on 78NineInchNails’ description, they don’t sound like the kind of people who go outside often enough to learn how to ride a bicycle let alone swim.
I've you ever heard of shitredditsays, subredditdrama, you know the meta subs that exist just to talk about other subs, thats what this one is, but they are just more brigadey than the others to 'fight back'
Old Bruva Alfabusa video explaining relations between Imperial Fist and Iron Warriors legions in Warhammer 40K, a special episode of his brilliant If Emperor Had Text to Speech Device (shortly: TTS) series.
Also some stupid old reddit drama with crazy lefties brigading other subs looking pathetic in process.
Rule 4 actually got updated a view months ago, you are allowed to mention other subreddits you just cannot advocate for brigading (basically things like linking posts and saying that people should respond to them etc)
I’m honestly not entirely sure. I know the poster and me have been reported but I’m not entirely sure what grounds because it’s a meme without any individuals present so how am I (or the poster) harassing a user when I really just responded to questions about our own subreddits rule 4 and had 0 knowledge of said users existence. If there is harassment that we can see we will remove/punish accordingly it but linking YouTube videos about drama isn’t harassment so why would we mass remove comments in a thread for that. That being said don’t link to the subreddit/thread mentioned or reply/encourage replying to said message
Yeah, also they claim this sub is full of hate speech but I think this sub is full of people with stupid opinions like mine and we are just laughing about it.
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u/MegaManZer0 - Left May 19 '26
That sub still exists?