Moderator of /r/xkcd kicks other mod out. Petition thread ensues. (self.SubredditDrama)
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407 ups - 105 downs = 302 votes
/u/soccer is now the sole moderator of /r/xkcd.
Oh, did I mention they submit to /r/TheRedPill, /r/AmericanJewishPower, /r/conspiracy and holocaust-denial subreddit /r/holocaust?
/r/xkcd thread
Petition thread
EDIT1: Response from kicked mod in comments below:
> Hey, there. I was the mod that was kicked off. My offense? I removed the sidebar links to /r/conspiracy, /r/mensrights, and /r/theredpill. Now, there's a petition to have me re-modded and soccer removed. I'm very grateful to all of the people who are supporting me. I hope the admins can do something.
EDIT2: Past drama regarding /u/soccer:
Thanks to /u/fazaden for these links!
EDIT3: Good expanation on why we see people like this in charge of completely unrelated subreddits.
333 comments submitted at 00:21:00 on Jan 27, 2014 by Myrandall
I wonder if Randall Munroe knows about it. He probably wouldn't be happy.
Yes, he does. No, he's not. He commented on the petition here saying: >I agree. I can confirm that I absolutely would not want the kind of person who would link to /r/mensrights, /r/conspiracy, or /r/theredpill in charge of any xkcd-related community. Ugh.
>Thank you so much for trying to straighten this out; I hope you're successful in contacting the admins.
What does he have against /r/mensrights? Is he against equality?
Oh fuck off. Let's not start this bullshit drama up.
You realize you are in /r/SRD and this literally part of the drama, right?
No, the details over why MRAs are disliked and if they are or are not for equality is not part of the drama. It is an obnoxious derail that will do nothing but spoil some delicious popcorn.
MRA ideological discussion is the rancid popcorn butter of SRD, and I hope you choke on it for even trying to pour it on this wonderful popcorn.
What an apt username.
What a mature response.
I agree, aloudmouthbaby telling someone to choke is pretty uncalled for.
All my lolz bby.
Yeah, well, that's like, just your opinion man.
It is unrelated to xkcd. Simple as that.
He also skewers PUA tactics pretty thoroughly in this comic.
Yes he does, satirically to illustrate the absurdity of negging in general and for comedic value in the irony of a woman using it against a PUA for her enjoyment. Was that not clear in the comic?
People really need to differentiate between moderates MRAs (as is the majority of the population at /r/mensrights, who focus on ongoing news and legalisation concerning marriage, divorce, and circumcision, etc.) and the more objectionable crowd of pick-up artists (who congregate on the likes of /r/theredpill, who paint this picture where females are inferior to men, and relationships are a "game", etc.)
We wouldn't conflate legitimate feminism with Tumblr's Social Justice Warriors or SRSers either, so why should we lump the whole MRA spectrum under one umbrella judgement? Doing so does nothing but discourage attention to legitimate concerns.
Fuck that shit. Its not our responsibility to sort through the bullshit. Because:
>We wouldn't conflate legitimate feminism
Yes you do. And its a constant topic of discussion there. Basic feminist ideals are "going too far." My problem with mensright's is that people like me will have no problem with discussing the general idea of fatherhood,etc. but then we walk in there and people are going full-misogyny. And then people like you go "but that's not us!"
And then, just like fucking predictable, fucktards give us easy ammo with the #1 upvoted topic dismissing a legitimate feminism issue.
http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1w74a2/therepresentationsofthefemalebodyin_video/
Fuck that shit. I mean that. I am tired of /r/MR people being fucktarded propagandists trying to make the rest of us seem like crazy ideologues when all it takes is a single peep in your bullshit community yet you try to make the rest of us seem crazy. At least there are comments calling it out but its clear that the subreddit still does not have its head on straight. You're either deluding yourself or fruitlessly trying to delude the rest of us and it ain't working.
It could just be he is not really a fan of the sub and people on it, and not nessecarily the idea of mens rights
No, he's against entitled assholes claiming a subreddit in the name of his comic and using it to promote other, similarly entitled assholes who whine about feminism trampling all over their rights as if it actually had any institutions backing it up.
Because the feminist groups have been very successful at creating the impression that anyone who critiques feminism must automatically be a misogynist who seeks the subjugation of women.
Maybe the men's rights movement should be more about increasing the rights of men rather than criticizing feminism.
But feminism needs to be criticized. :p Many things about it are...to borrow their word..."problematic".
All that does is discredit the MR movement. Blaming feminism for everything is just stupid. And very counterproductive.
Probably because of MRA habit of assuming everything is a feminist conspiracy against them. Like /r/conspiracy's realtionship with Jews.
oh, so now MRA's are also anti-semitic. Any other reasoned and rational accusations you want to throw in there?
/r/conspiracy thinks there's a Jewish conspiracy against them
/r/mensrights thinks there's a feminist conspiracy against them
The comment pretty clearly doesn't say /r/mensrights is anti-Semitic. It says feminists are to /r/mensrights as the Jews are to /r/conspiracy.
Wouldn't be surprised if there is some overlap between the two communities
You forgot:
Do you not understand what a simile is?
ALMOST obnoxious enough to be un Tumblr! Keep at it, you'll get there.
Dropping tumblr for no reason? That's 2 for 2.
Um... what?
Or it could be that /r/mensrights is the asshole of reddit, and does a disservice to the equality movement.
Remember how they joined 4chan in spamming a university hotline with hundreds of false rape accusations?
Or how one user pretended to be the sister of a redditor who committed suicide, /u/black_visions, and lied about him on MR to advance their agenda?
Yeah, that place is a dump.
I wouldn't call MR the asshole of reddit - rather, one of the many assholes. I mean, it's definitely up there as one of the prime assholes.