/r/PCmasterrace banned, this will surly not have any consequential drama at all. (self.SubredditDrama)
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Subreddit /r/PCmasterrace has (among other things) been banned after interfering with other subs.
Mod Cupcake explaining the ban.
There was already some back and forth going on about PC's not being allowed to be posted on /r/gaming because it's not gaming related.
Of course this anti PC vibe din't sit well with /r/PCmasterrace seeing as pictures of consoles where just fine, and thus some drama was born.
Hold on to your TF2 hats guys, it's going to be a bumpy ride!
New subs that are getting made:
r/praisegaben (I just assumed this one would exist)
(I'm going to stop adding links to new subs)
EDIT 1:
KarmaCourt Moderator post about the subject.
More Context about the ban here (thanks to /u/jamiew0w)
290 comments submitted at 22:22:25 on Nov 18, 2013 by Kyderra
Heres my comment. Why do reddit admins hold whole communities responsible for the actions of a few assholes? Why don't they just ban the doxxers and vote brigaders? I mean any troll can go into a community and pretend to be a part of that community and get the whole subreddit banned.
And if the answer is "because we can't find them"...... I don't really get it. I mean the community was a criclejerk in no way focused on vote brigading and doxxing. Seems like sterotyping.
TIL that if I want to get a subreddit banned all I have to do is pretend to be a member and doxx a mod of a default subreddit.
Welp time to go get /r/gaming removed.
It really is on the way downhill. They probably will remove it as a default if they don't get their act together.
I am shocked that the Reddit admins are focusing on /r/pcmasterrace when it is the default subreddit that started this whole mess.
Yeah, the mod getting witchhunted is bad, but it's not like he wasn't doing anything to piss people off.
Right, I think any TRUE /r/pcmasterrace member would agree that our goal is never to witchhunt anyone but to teach them the holy word of GabeN.
Amen brother.
What makes someone a TRUE member? Because I thought it was just clicking a little subscribe button.
People who actually try to improve a community and help it grow.
Like how I was subscribed to /r/gaming but never contributed to anything on there. I was never a true member of that subreddit.
I'm pretty shocked. I was only subscribed to laugh at peasants and worship Gabe
Gabe Who?
GabeN, our Lord and Master
Mind explaining what he was doing? (not being snarky, I'm genuinely curious).
He was very anti PC.
To give an example someone posted a picture of a gaming PC and he deleted it saying it was not gaming related and he could be doing taxes on it. While there are pictures of just a PS4 on the front page. That picture being banned was really what started the chain of events in PCMaster Race.
Assuming it was him, I liked /u/Thorse, mostly because of his idealism of what /r/gaming could be. He stuck to his guns and I appreciate it. We had a few amicable conversations. However, he did sometimes charge innocents with breaking the first rule, which did not endear him to a lot of folks.
And there are a lot of folks over in /r/gaming.
It was. Here is one his comments on one of the Posts that he removed.
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1qmlkd/anyoneelseupgradingthererigsforstar_citizen/cdeaj9k
So, in a big way, can't this all be a lesson to that specific mod that shit like this happens when you let your ego bar you from rationality/fairness/nonbias?
The internet is full of real people. Not AI. Not NPC's. People. Here on Reddit... there are lots of them. You have no idea who they really are. By modding a subreddit, it kind of sounds lame, but in all actuality you have a degree of power.
That mod abused his power in narrow self interest. And now, these are the natural repercussions. They aren't right... but this is what happens.
It sucks all around. But my entire point is that I can totally see that mod as getting through all this with an ego and not accepting any overarching blame. That's not good, and it'll lead to shit like this again.
Right now on the front page of /r/gaming it's a PC gamer article, I am waiting to see if it gets removed.
Yes, it should be the lesson for anyone who thinks they're smug enough to anger others on the internet. I regularly call to their local police forces and pretend to be them, telling them I have a bomb and have committed murder. The police understand that it's just the natural repercussions of being a dick on the internet that they have to go in and possibly kill this person. (If taken unaware, he could have made the mistake of trying to fight or defend himself, which could easily have gotten him shot in that kind of high tension situation.)
It's how the internet should work - and it certainly taught that mod a lesson about not liking PC gamers!
Banning everyone who had something bad to say about the new consoles or something good about PC's
I agree. /r/pcmasterrace is satire just like /r/murica is.
I can think of a more appropriate target...
Reddit admins are console plebs.
While that may be true in some respects, this entire thing is so beyond ridiculous and totally firstworldproblemesque.
To be fair, the "PC MASTER RACE" shit has been getting really out of hand lately. In any sort of thread about consoles, they would come in and make comments like "FILTHY CONSOLE PEASANTS" with loads of upvotes. It stopped being a joke a long time ago and has become one of the biggest circlejerks on Reddit. I think the mods/admins are trying to slow it down, because it's really become a problem in /r/gaming and one of the major reasons it's such a shithole.
It's a common issue on the internet, there are idiots who can't tell where the joke ends. I mean, posting real life data from the mod just because the guy is an asshole? REALLY?
> Why do reddit admins hold whole communities responsible for the actions of a few assholes?
Its easier that way
Yeah.. its stupid to punish us all for something 1-2 retarded fucks did. i just want my fav sub back edit: im just so fucking upset right now i spell everything wrong
You should buy a decent pc that has the capacity to run a spell checker.
http://i.imgur.com/DtgpfGN.png
lol DAE SRS and Violentacrez? One sub with 45k subscribers gets banned because it's not the other 45k subscriber tumblr paradise sub that does nothing but harass redditors, doxx people on tumblr, and interfere with other subreddits.
http://en.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1hbi5x/rniggers_banned/casqk7g?context=3
This was one of the more ridiculous subreddit ban explanations by an admin. The admins really just run and gun when it comes to administering their rules and don't really have any that are written in stone; it's pretty ridiculous in my opinion.
They are the admins, they don't have to follow the rules. They are like the referees, shanaban, and the Commissioner if reddit were a sports league.
Shanaban, never thought I'd hear that one on here.
Violentacrez wasn't doxxed by SRS. He was revealed by Adrian Chen of Gawker.
A 10 second google search could have cleared that up for you.
How did Adrian Chen find out? Violentacrez freely identified himself at reddit meetups.
I'm starting to think SRS has become the bogeyman of reddit. Literally blamed for anything that goes bad.
SRS has been the reddit boogeyman for as long as they have existed in their current form.
It's like our own version of McCarthyism.
There is still a hope for Reddit if we finally decide that no longer can we safely blind our eyes and close our ears to those facts which are shaping up more and more clearly. And that is that we are now engaged in a show-down fight. Not the usual war between subreddits for karma or subscribers, but a war between two diametrically opposed ideologies.
The great difference between our normal, free-speech valuing sane world and the feminazi Tumblrite SRSter world is not political, gentlemen, it is moral. The fempire proposes that to be moral is to agree with their oversensitive interpretation of acceptability. Despite passing themselves off as arbiters of morality, they are the nastiest and most vitriolic people on Reddit, invading the "poop" comments they link and trying to down out dissent.
The Archangelles resolute putting across of their ideas, of course, did much to divide this site. Without their blind followers screaming out and sowing discord, subreddits of all kinds could live in peace.
The real, basic problem of SRS, however, lies in their religion of fake oppression, invented by feminists and the PC police, preached feverishly by Tumblr, and carried to unimaginable extremes by the Archangelles. This religion of fake oppression, if the SRS part of Reddit triumphs- and well it may- this religion of false outrage will more deeply wound and damage discourse and free speech than any conceivable brigade.
Andrea Dworkin dismissed all straight white "cis" men as oppressors, and the Archangelles have added in clear-cut, unmistakable language their resolve that no subreddit, no users who reject their toxic dogma, can exist side by side with them.
The Archangelles, for example, expelled people from the fempire for mentioning such things as rape jokes, racist jokes, and even "ableism." They called this “mangry ravings” and “fucking disgusting neckbeards pooping out through their keyboards."
Can there be anyone who is so blind as to say that the war is not on? Can there by anyone who fails to realize that the SRSters have said the time is now? That this is the time for the show-down between the democratic who care about the right to free speech and the radical, PC dissent-stiflers?
The reason why we find ourselves in a position of impotency is not because our only powerful potential enemy has sent SRSers to brigade on our turf, but rather because of the traitorous actions of those who have been treated so well by this community. They sympathize with SRS and seek to protect it, bowing to their pressures and whims in a pathetic attempt to garner approval.
This is glaringly true in /r/subredditdrama. There the mods who claim so loudly to be neutral have been the most traitorous in supporting SRS's cause.
I have here a list of hundreds of users, list of names that are made known to us as being members of the fempire and who nevertheless are still invading and trying to shape outside subreddits.
As you know, very recently a former mod of SRD /u/DaemonofMail proclaimed his loyalty to the fempire. With this list you can tag secret SRSters like him and find them in the wild, disproving them when they claim not to be part of SRS.
His and other SRD mods pandering to SRS has lit the spark which is resulting in an uprising and will end only when the whole sorry mess of twisted, warped thinkers are swept from the scene so that we may have a new birth of free speech and decency on Reddit.
A guy from the-opposite-of-SRS /r/MensRights got banned outright for linking to a page talking about the doxxing of Femitheist one year ago, because the page mentioned her real name. The massive support SRS had for the doxxing and harassment of Violentacrez certainly should've meant something.
And yes, it's still doxxing. When the article itself calls it "unmasking", it's still doxxing. And even if it wasn't, the intent for people to cause harassment was undeniable anyway.
Isn't she explicitly saying her comment isn't a ban explanation?
Do you need help pulling the SRSsucks stick out of your ass?
because they didn't pay money like srs does
I'm a pretty big SRS critic but I've never heard of them bribing admins. Wanna source that?
pay money??
/r/whataboutSRS
I always thought /r/whysoSRS would be a good sub name for a sub to mock SRS from...
I thought you were going to make a point about how the Admins decide their opinions of subreddits based on how much revenue they generate. Which I'd like to say they admitted to, but I can't find a source anymore.
I was disappointed.
Better question: why do the Admins not make stickied warnings in the subreddits saying "If you keep doing this, you'll get banned"?
Really, the smart approach is to make a sticky thread about it. It's only when people reply with stuff like 'first amendment' or 'don't tell me what to do' that it's not just the work of a few, and actually follow through with the ban.
> "If you keep doing this, you'll get banned"?
Because it goes without saying. Actions like that are beyond the pale and deserve no "warnings".
The Admins have one hammer.
Everything looks like a nail
No other way to explain it except favoritism. What else could be the reason why SRS still exists?
Because the admins are dipshits.
Because mods have responsibilities and communities are made up of individuals.
"any troll can go into a community...and get the whole subreddit banned" is a paranoid overstatement to say the least.
These bans are the result of copious, screamingly obvious evidence.
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/r/pcmasterrace actually did their best to clean the community up.
Anytime another subreddit was linked if it was not a np link it was deleted. You cant possible expect a mod to prevent someone from bypassing the np link and flaming and doing some searching to find personal information. That is like saying 1 guy shot someone in city X, time to throw the mayor in prison.
Now there's subreddit drama in r/subredditdrama.
The best kind, I can't wait to see my inbox tomorrow morning
Yeah, as much as one of my favorite subs being deleted sucks, I really can't wait for this drama to get in full swing. I've got a tub of popcorn and a front row seat! I'm ready!
Hopefully this is the biggest thing since Doxxtober and May-may June. We haven't had a big one in a while, and I've got lots of popcorn.
It's shaping up to be a real crackerjack of a show! We've got mods misbehaving, a circlejerk getting banned (when previously they were thought to be invincible), a multi-part story, doxxing, a lot of little spin-off subs being created, Admins acting in a manner that doesn't make much sense, and just to top if all off /r/gaming still has that unofficial ban on pc content in place!
This looks like it's gonna be a big one.
GabeN bless.
Be more subtle: start spamming /r/gaming with PC related content. We could even ask /v/ and /g/ to put their contempt for reddit on a hiatus (is this a word?) for this.
We've rebuilded at /r/gloriouspcmasterrace , so we just get free drama and a pristine new subreddit!
/r/subredditdramadrama
I'll bring the lube
I always hate that shit. Someone sees something they are involved with is on here and they feel the need to go in and defend themselves here.
"OH NO YOU GUYS!!! WE'RE IN THE RIGHT AND OTHER PEOPLE AREN'T!!!"
Go tell THEM that... and let me watch.
Hey, so do we know if someone actually did call the cops on /u/XXXX, or if he just made it up to take care of /r/pcmasterrace? He hasn't shown himself to be the most mature mod and certainly has a bone to pick...
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Hahaha they already got removed as a default they've felt enough pain.
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Aww, they're like the SRD of stuff that matters! Oh well I can get my shitty pseudonews from facebook I suppose. Apparently there are magic pyramids in Bosnia!
when were they removed?
http://blog.reddit.com/2013/07/new-default-subreddits-omgomgomg.html
I actually don't get why /r/WTF is a default subreddit... It can be pretty messed up o.O
That blog seems to show /r/gaming staying in the list of defaults? Or am I missing something?
Ahh sorry it looks like the post I responded to was deleted. He was suggesting claiming people in /r/politics doxxed him and called the cops on him, NOT /r/gaming.
Shit you just blew my mind. It would be so easy for him to make up that sob story to tell the admins. There's no way they could verify that (short of calling up the police station and there's no way they did that).
The Mod seems to provided Reddit HQ with the name of Police Sergeant and the Department. If the Mod is faking then giving Reddit HQ that information would prove him as a fraud in minutes. I think the Admins would have at least have done the due diligence of following up on that. That is if the police have not already contacted them.
Maybe they should? I mean companies can certainly call about with inquiries about possible fraud, I don't see why Reddit couldn't.
There will be police report from a incident like this, easy enough for The Admins to verify later. I wouldnt be surprised if Police have also contacted Reddit HQ or vice versa. This is the type of shit that may even make the real News.
So either we get a police report and a news mention, or proof that a default mod is a petty liar? This is going to get juicy! (pending the admins actually do verify this.)
"I killed my girlfriend and have a bomb" called into the Police would get a pretty strong police reaction. That's the type of shit they call SWAT Teams and Bomb Squads out to deal with.
Police reports in most United States' jurisdictions are a matter of public record. If this did happen some one is facing jail time.
Oh yeah good point. So this isn't just a case of "well we couldn't find the guy so let's ban the community" because THEY ACTUALLY CAN FIND THE GUY! Ahahah this gets better and better!
Unless it was a payphone or a burner, which anyone with sense would know to do.
Public records == doxxing on reddit.
Also the mod said he was on the phone with the police, so his story is probably bullshit because if they got a call like that they'd be busting down his door or talking to him through a megaphone, not on the telephone.
Ha ha ha.... Jesus. Of all the topics that we see in this sub.... this has a possibility of making the news?
Someone cleverer than me, post some hypothetical headlines!!!
Members of Virtual Community Reddit Involved in Murder and Terrorist Plot
Except "Swatting" Is old news, really. Sad to say that it has happened before, and probably will again..
What's all this about the police?
This is the context of the ban linked at the top
This evil genius. First he is telling someone to call the cops on the poor blizz employees for having a bug in the auction house and now he is already eliminating whole subs. Farewell, cruel world.
I, for one, am skeptical that he'd be on the phone with the police if they believed he was responsible for a murder and possessing a bomb. That's not really a phone call charge.
Well it could've sounded mad suspicious. Like if the guy who called was cracking up the whole time. Do we have any actual cops in here who know what procedure would be?
Not a cop, but I've been on the other side of a false report, and they don't fuck around.
People asking why threads were deleted: the other posts had no context for the ban and needed to be posted as a self post.
Here's the removed thread
Edit: Also, a user contacted us to let us know that the images going around of a modmail conversation between /r/gaming mods and an unidentified user are faked. Remember not to believe everything you see.
Things I learned from Reddit: people do not fuck around when it comes to their personal video game preferences.
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No need to be rude.
ADMIN CUPCAKE TO YOU MOTHERFUCKER.
/unjerk
Really a bomb threat that's crazy. Some people take this gaming thing too seriously
Charles Babbage died for their gaming memes.
Unsubstantiated accusations are also something pretty serious.
I could say someone on reddit was responsible for 9/11. Doesn't make it true, and doesn't mean we should shut down the website over it.
Though, through the transitive property of overreacting, I think we should shut down reddit, because someone on the website went around doxxing, and that's against the rules.
There's a difference between accusing somebody of a crime that took place eleven years ago and has already (for the most part) been solved in the eyes of the nation, and saying that somebody is a dangerous criminal who has killed somebody and intends to kill/harm others... Your analogy is not very good.
Ok, saying that someone on reddit was responsible for Benghazi, then?
Or perhaps we could just say that somewhere, someone is doing something that we don't agree with, so we should just shut the whole website down, because we don't agree with that sort of thing?
> someone is doing something that we don't agree with, so we should just shut the whole website down, because we don't agree with that sort of thing?
Whether banning the subreddit was overkill or not, there is a huge difference between 'not agreeing with something somebody is doing' and actively putting their life and reputation at risk. The cops take those types of threats seriously, and are a dangerous waste of police resources.
This isn't some guy who bought milk from a dairy cow instead of soy milk where people can bitch about him making a choice they don't like--this is serious harassment and a type of conflict that Reddit doesn't stand for. Not to dox is one of their very few rules, and it was broken along with the heavily implied 'don't use that information to convince the police to break down their door'.
My post from last thread:
This is stupid. PCMasterRace is a circlejerk subreddit dedicated to PC gaming. Anyone with half a brain can tell that it's about as serious as /r/onetruegod. Why the fuck would it get banned?
EDIT: After the initial report to /r/redditrequest was sent in it was deleted a few minutes later. What. The. Actual. Fuck.
SECOND EDIT: Admins from Reddit have gotten back from me. Apparently it's [Not saying his name because I don't want more brigading] after all. When he got doxxed some moron decided it would be funny to call the police and pretend to be him and say he had committed various crimes. Because of this (and various brigading related offenses) /r/pcmasterrace has been banned.
ONE LAST THING!
TO ALL THE MORONS CURRENTLY BRIGADING AGAINST THE MOD IN QUESTION, FUCKING STOP IT!
THE ADMINS HAVE BASICALLY SAID THAT BECAUSE OF THIS WE'RE VERY UNLIKELY TO GET OUR SUB BACK AND MOST OF THE SPINOFF SUBS ARE PROBABLY GOING TO BE BANNED.
LINK TO ORIGINAL THREAD HERE: http://np.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1qx9ml/incontinuationfromthedramainrgaming/
what the actual fuck? I was giving a dude PC advice about eight hours ago.
Yeah, I've talked with the admins and it doesn't sound like we're getting our sub back. I understand where they're coming from, especially because it sounds like some morons immediate reaction to the ban was to brigade [mod name] harder, although I don't agree with the decision to ban a sub with 40,000+ subscribers for the actions of a very small minority.
You can see me! No shadowban!
On a more serious note, there were over 45,000 subscribers!? What the heck happens to all of them?
They get washed over.
I personally don't see why it's such a bad practice. I mean, look at it this way: There's a criminal that stole a handbag from an old woman in New York. Now, do you find and imprison the criminal? No! You nuke the whole city into ashes. That's the only proper way for justice to be upheld. /s
Yes, that is a completely reasonable analogy.
It's the only way to be sure.
Reddit Admins commit another genocide.
And the people overrespoind to it... Comparing it to genocide is overreaction at best. People will just move to other subs and keep on doing what they're doing.
C'est la Reddit.
It is the wholesale destruction of an entire culture.
You don't have to kill people to commit genocide.
Just checked a number of dictionaries, genocide does indeed require killing. Most common definitions seem to include this essential idea of "The systematic and widespread extermination or attempted extermination of an entire national, racial, religious, or ethnic group."
Your comparison isn't even close to being a reality because those who hold the opinion that "PCs are better than other gaming consoles" aren't even being banned. How is it ANYTHING like a genocide?
Not to mention this will hardly kill PC gaming culture, and is hardly systimatic and widespread. Thus under either defination it's overreaction and wrong.
We are all lost now. We went from basking in the light to being in total darkness.
Punishing everyone for the actions of a few is nothing short of ridiculous. Admins are being completely unreasonable and we should fight back. We can't just shrug it off and let it go.
Personally I was hoping that being calm and rational might make this all go away and get us our sub back, although it looks like I might have been wrong about that.
> [Not saying his name because I don't want more brigading]
>TO ALL THE MORONS CURRENTLY BRIGADING AGAINST THE MOD IN QUESTION, FUCKING STOP IT!
I have no idea what's going on here.
There was a mod (two actually) from /r/gaming who antagonized /r/pcmasterrace. I'm not even saying that to make the actions some idiots from the sub took look good, the mods literally antagonized the sub. They unofficially banned almost all PC related content from /r/gaming, banned any users who asked them about it and sent spam messages in response, and even made a post on /r/pcmasterrace that /r/circlejerkcopypasta fell in love with.
In response a few idiots started brigading against the mods in question and one of them got doxxed.
Also, according to the admins as soon as the banhammer fell spinoff subs sprung up that started brigading against said mods even harder.
tl;dr: both subreddits are immature and did bad things?
Yeah, except one thing was mod sanctioned (because it was the mods themselves doing it) while another was not.
Doxxing sounds like the tipping point. If the sanctioned mod also doxx'd someone, then someone should follow up after this slows down and bring proof to the admins.
The mods was the one doxxed and according to the admins that was in fact what got /r/pcmasterrace banned.
It's stupid that the mods are still mods, since after how immaturely they behaved I wouldn't trust them to mod anything, but thats life.
>It's stupid that the mods are still mods, since after how immaturely they behaved I wouldn't trust them to mod anything, but thats life.
Nah, they still definitely have the rights to be mods (King of your castle and all that), but the actions seem like they could be defined as variations on brigading. I guess the only stickler is that PC gaming is part of gaming culture...
This. Doxxing was stupid, and the moron who called the police is even more stupid. But the /r/gaming mod was being an absolute child before it ever got to that point. If PC gaming content had been allowed on /r/gaming in the first place, then it doesn't get this far. It doesn't excuse the few bad apples from /r/pcmasterrace, they certainly deserve whatever ban and/or legal action is heading their way. But tossing out a 45,000 sub community based of the actions of a few is not the solution.
>"You can't post pictures of PC hardware because your PC might just be used for Tax returns"
Was the reason used to disallow the original post in question.....this would be a PC which had a pretty beefy GPU in it. Obviously bigger GPU is just for filling in your tax returns quicker and like, browsing the internet and shit! Might have been a better idea to just let one PC hardware thread pass, instead of intentionally antagonizing a troll subreddit for, I dunno, shits an giggles.
It does however make for interesting reading on SubReddit Drama, so, all in all, I would have to approve of the moderators actions! :V
What if your xbox 360 is just used for netflix? Is that quote you uh... quoted, the actual wording of why PC hardware wasn't allowed? If so, that's retarded.
Basically, what it takes to get any Subreddit banned is to pretend to be a member of their community, and then doxx a mod of another Subreddit that the Subreddit you're claiming to represent has a problem with.
Which is hilarious, and I fully expect /r/subreddit drama to get more interesting!
> the mods literally antagonized the sub
What does this even mean? He deleted a picture of a PC, then got tired of the masterrace crowd raging about it and got pissed. I don't really agree with him deleting the picture in the first place, but the PCmaterrace reaction was beyond absurd. If its a "joke" subreddit, why are people going full retard nerdrage mode over it?
And honestly, the PCmaster race crowd is incredibly annoying and toxic on /r/games. They contribute nothing, and every thread is full of highly upvoted comments like "Praise GabeN" or "Peasants." If they want to have a satire sub great, but keep that shit out of other subs. You don't see people from /r/onetruegod flooding /r/movies with annoying, unfunny jokes.
Good riddance.
So because of one person they ban the entire subreddit? Did this subreddit agree to do that to the mod? No. We had a thread adressing the issue with the mod on r/gaming.
I'm not really taking either side here, but I believe that this was more or less the "last straw" after a history of brigading that was associated with the sub. Obviously, those doing the brigading were still a pretty small minority, but I guess it got to the point where the admins felt that it was necessary to take action.
It's literally genocide... /s
Guess what, REddit mods are under zero obligation to be fair. You're going to have to deal with that.
Is there proof of the cops getting involved? Pics or it didn't happen.
I got nuthin. That's just what the admins said.
How would there be proof? It would require the admins to doxx the moderator in question, which would just make this entire situation even worse. There's no way the admins will release proof.
Nope, just some admins words.
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Yeah, that's the form the admins sent out to everyone who asked about it.
> This is stupid. PCMasterRace is a circlejerk subreddit dedicated to PC gaming. Anyone with half a brain can tell that it's about as serious as /r/onetruegod.
Riiiight, just like /r/shitredditsays.
>posted 15 minutes ago
>43 comments
Oh lawd.
Scoops butter
>1 hour ago
>170 comments
20 minutes later?
70 more comments.
This is great.
This has probably blown up faster than May May June.
Drama breach!
More context here.
This isn't me messaging cupcake btw.
What is this /r/masterrace sub?
My first thought: "It's private? Aww I want to join to support GabeN's glory!"
My second thought: "This is probably a Nazi/Aryan subreddit... Yeeaah I don't think I want to see what's in there."
Typo - /r/masterrace still exists, whatever it is.
It is a private subreddit
>TYPO
The person in the image obviously meant /r/pcmasterrace lol
Just out of curiosity, why did they decide to target some mod from another sub??
That mod was deleting posts of PC users, while letting the normal dribble flow freely.
Why? What is the point of doing that? It just doesn't seem like the sort of thing that one would have any reason to actually do unless they just wanted to be a massive asshole...
One /r/gaming mod apparently banned one user in particular and in his messages included "There's nothing a PC can do that our current-gen consoles can't do better. Fuck you." So clearly the mod of /r/gaming that sent that message isn't the most level headed person.
(I don't want to provide a source because it has the usernames of the mod in it.)
There where often posts about a mod who was removing PC related items on /r/gaming.
http://imgur.com/a/pamyt
Because PC's aren't gaming related according to one mod.
Edit: These aren't my PM's.
That's disgusting. Why isn't Wheaton's Law more widely observed on the internet?
What a douchey response by that mod. I'm not saying the punishment fits the crime though...
Users in /r/gaming love the "YEAH ITS RELATED TO GAMING BECAUSE (insert tangentially related explanation)". And yet PCs aren't considered gaming-related? I'm not even a big PC gamer, but they double-standard is just silly
That mod made himself the target for being a cunt, basically.
If the phone call in question is real, some asshole risked that mod's life. I'm not exaggerating.
If the police believe you've already killed someone and you're ready to kill more, they will send in a tactical team with little hesitation to shoot. If the mod was caught offguard and tried to defend himself, it's not far-fetched that the team would have shot him.
Fucking ridiculous. This sort of reminds me of the /r/dota2 fiasco when some idiot called up /u/cyborgmatt and harassed him for something he had absolutely nothing to do with. People here are reckless. Maybe banning the whole subreddit is overboard, but if this is real, someone is facing some serious jail time.
Seriously, how is this the mod's fault for "being a cunt"!? That's a fucking horrible thing to say and is blaming the victim. I'm reporting that post as it's clearly against the subredditdrama rules.
Internet, still serious fucking business.
EDIT Mods answer in this thread
Go upvote real comments now instead of mod pitchfork stuff.
The write up specifically is what was needed. The direct links, you'll notice, ALL link to comments of people arguing. Never the full comments. It's in the sidebar as this:
>When submitting drama do not link to the full comments. Instead link directly to the comment tree containing the drama. If the comment you're linking to requires some context, add "?context=x" to the URL, where "x" is the number of parent comments you want displayed. If there are multiple drama threads create a self-post containing the relevant links. Exceptions may be made to this rule, however they must be submitted as self posts.
guise pls. chill
I think it needed context as to what it meant that the subreddit is banned. Without the other links (and explanation!) there isn't much drama to pick over.
Ask the mods here.
Copy/paste from previous thread.
Apparently someone posted 's (Gaming mod) personal info.
Honestly it's been coming to a head for a while now.
I actually messaged the creator a few weeks ago about this possibility. Sad to so it go, circle jerk aside it was a pretty fun sub.
Edit : http://np.reddit.com/r/redditrequest/comments/1qx9fg/pcmasterraceincorrectlybanned/?already_submitted=true
I have a feeling this ban is going to cause a nice bit of meta drama.
It's been going a little downhill, but it still shouldnt have gone away like that.
Why is everyone self-censoring his username? Listing usernames doesn't count as doxxing... right? That would be insane.
This is an alleged admin response, posted to /r/gloriouspcmasterrace: http://i.imgur.com/DtgpfGN.png
This is a new message that shows up on the subreddit page now:
>This subreddit has been banned for repeated targeted brigading offenses, harassment, and doxxing.
And SRS is still afloat. WTF Admins.
Iirc, SRS, for all their doxxing, hasn't yet SWATed a user.
I think Reddit should have no tolerance policy about doxxing, it doesn't matter what you do with the info.
/r/WhatAboutSRS
Okay, well...jeez, that is a ban-worthy offense. Even as a former subscriber, I understand the justification of this ban.
Post 1 hour old, already nearly 200 comments and "what about SRS!?!"
Dis gonna be good.
Well, this is disappointing, I actually kinda liked it there. It was the one circlejerky subreddit I could tolerate. I never like the feeling of being punished for the actions of some asshat I have no control over, just like when teacher would hand out class-wide punishments even though you behaved. Though I can't think of a way around it in terms of moderation. Admins gave warning, and hell, the mods even tried a bit, but some people can only find their joy though negativity.
As a /r/pcmasterrace subber I am sad. :(
> mod cupcake
bro, do you even admin?
Not surprised, r/gaming has been getting hit hard but what these 2 did was obviously the straw that broke the camels back and used all other instances of harrassment, aka facts, as material to get the sub banned. That's fine.
I am the creator of /r/pcmasterrace and have issued a "statement" here: http://np.reddit.com/r/gloriouspcmasterrace/comments/1qxnrj/iamthecreatorofrpcmasterracepleasereadand/
The creator of /r/pcmasterrace makes a great post in /r/gloriouspcmasterrace:
http://np.reddit.com/r/gloriouspcmasterrace/comments/1qxnrj/iamthecreatorofrpcmasterracepleasereadand/
mods are deleting every thread about this... WTF mods? Explanation?
sorry for the confusion! it fell under the "no linking to the full comments" rule
from mod /u/stopscopiesme:
"removed, please post as a self post with context"
http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1qx9ml/incontinuationfromthedramainrgaming/cdhgtxx
That seems strange, It seems like basic drama,
Has Subreddit drama always been moderated like this?
...do I need to make a "drama on subreddit drama" post?
>Has Subreddit drama always been moderated like this?
I vaguely recall previous instances where a simple link to a subreddit ban page was also removed, so that there would be more info/context to the readers, but not positive.
The mods need to set up some sort of megathread about this drama.