So there's some recent major reddit drama at the admin level involving a recently hired admin turning out to have hired their now-convicted pedo father post-arrest during a brief journey into Britbong politics. This has completely exploded over the last couple days after posts on /r/ukpolitics were force-removed, a moderator was suspended (then later reinstated) for linking to an article from the Spectator, and there have been horrifically broad automod rules implemented which were nuking any links to that and more articles, alongside accusations made regarding this admin by name (username and IRL name).
Now, we aren't getting into the weeds on the accusations, but the overwhelming admin level response to them, including mass comment hard nukes (they show up for moderators as [removed] and cannot be reapproved at all), mass user suspensions, as well as the hard block on links to actual news sites (IIRC the Spectator, Independent, and a couple others were included) is something we cannot remotely condone. There's such a thing as a proportional response, and this from the admins is not it.
To add to the mess, we recently felt it necessary to implement a broad "no transgender discussion of any kind" policy on KiA (Reddit, not here) to head off the rather insane Anti-Evil removals and warnings/suspensions issued, including a warning issued to me personally for using the term "chick-with-a-dick" in reference to Polly from HuniePop2 as "promoting hate". When I approached the admins to get clarification on their policy, including a request for a full list of what they consider to be "trans-related slurs", I was given the run around with half-scripted answers before I asked to be escalated to a senior community team member. My request was never escalated, and it now turns out that the admin who gave me the run around was the admin at the center of all this drama. That makes the admin decision a total conflict of interest regarding actual sitewide policy enforcement.
All this put together - the bans, hard comment removals, link blocks, and the direct policy interactions with this admin - have caused us to make the decision to speak up the best way we can to make reddit take notice, by going private alongside hundreds of other subs for at least a day (we will see if it goes longer or not). We just have one benefit that most other subs do not in that we can link to a post here to more clearly explain why we are doing this, instead of just relying on a link to another post on reddit by someone who is not completely representative of our position.
A few of us will be around on and off today to maybe answer some questions, though this is almost fully in the laps of the admins to decide if they are going to continue fucking up their enforcement policies, counter to how things have been run in their own rules regarding public figures for years. Our own Rules 2 and 5 regarding personal info of people were built on the original interpretation of those sitewide rules with admin help. Going completely counter to that makes it impossible for anyone to enforce rules evenly, and the admins need to pull their collective heads out of their asses to understand that.
EDIT: So the admins sacrificed the employee on the altar to appease the masses, but failed to actually address any of the real issues this mess created around sitewide rules, automated moderation, etc. We are going to stay aimed at a target of roughly 24hours of staying private, in hopes that something gets addressed by a redname on that side of things. So figure somewhere in the 5am US Eastern timeframe, give or take, then the sub should be public again.
Then you might as well ban every white and/or male mod from enforcing the rules on the sub--Nearly every post that touches on race and gender in KIA is sympathetic towards whites and dudes. Or is that what you want to do? Neutering the mods' ability to police their own community so people like you can freely post off-topic political shit? Got it.
You got some fucking nerve responding to my posts with your flimsy-ass bullshit arguments. I'm far more convinced your own anti-R3 crusade-like politicking is far more befitting of being considered an "ideology " than some tranny wanting to be called a different gender than the one he was born with.
Go back to KIA2 where you crawled from.
The question was not about posts, but about insults at groups. This generally doesn't happen to white men - or Middle Easterners. Nor do white men get offended a lot. Except when they are SJWs and can take offense on behalf of others.
Yet you were quite interested in changing the subject to 'white men', or 'dudes' as you call them - which is quite distinctive.
It's not "their own community". The sub belongs to the community, and the community definitely does not belong to moderators.
Sorry, Your Highness. I didn't know that you were some sort of sacred figure.
All your meta contributions that I have ever seen, have always been aimed at trying to establish more censorship, more curation, more removal of stuff that the community likes. So sitting on your own extreme of pro-censorship, you no doubt do regard anyone who doesn't like censorship as crazed by ideology.
How about no?
I see no problem with this. I joined Gamergate and KIA to defend gaming from SJWs, not serve as a "culture warrior" in some right-wing political army. If I had to choose between censoring my games/entertainment and censoring your irrelevant political shit, I'll choose censoring your political shit any day of the week.
You got a problem with KIA bring a activist sub focused on protecting gaming/entertainment instead of being a broad, politically-obsessed shithole of a sub?
Get over it. Make your own community if you really want to have a politics-focused sub--oh wait, you fucked up doing just that, so you have to come crawling back here to parasitize us under the guise of representing the "popular opinion" yet again.
Get the fuck off the sub.
How can you not realize that one led to the other? Look where this is hosted, see the other communities that are also here. You’re possibly the only person left that hasn’t been subsumed by right wing politics. You have to have seen that, I hope.
Because unlike some of these asswipes here, I've lived long enough to witness both left-wingers and right-wingers attacking gaming/entertainment through the years. There is no way I'd just trust right-wingers any better than left-wingers, especially after considering how conservatives attacked adult-oriented entertainment during the 80s (especially on porn) and adult-oriented gaming during the 2000s (hello, Jack Thompson!).
These idiots who push right-wing politics in GG have done absolutely nothing to prevent their own side from repeating history and doing the same shit again. In fact, we already saw it with Gab and Parler's porn bans, despite the fact that they emerged because American right-wingers incessantly bitched about getting censored by big tech for their political views. Same goes for NCOSE/Morality-in-Media and their support for Steam's waifu purges.
GG and KIA didn't start getting infested with politically-obsessive right-wingers who cared nothing for gaming until about 5~8 months in. Just like how a lack of gatekeeping led to the infestation of gaming-apathetic SJWs in the broader gaming community, a lack of gatekeeping in GG and KIA led to an infestation of gaming-apathetic alt-rightists in the GG community.
Parasites. All of them, man.
Did you? I have barely ever seen you talk about that, or really anything except trying to impose more censorship on KiA.
I voted for the ban on unrelated politics. But of course, you call basically everything 'politics', including attacks on free speech on college campuses.
Oh?
The vote spoke for itself.
I don't take orders from people who contribute nothing and only agitate for more censorship.
Part of the job description involves calling out dipshits in our own ranks that try to derail it, be it covert SJW co-opters or overt alt-right co-opters.
I make no distinction between the two.
Nice try attempting to paint as though you care about "free speech" on campus, as opposed to making colleges agree with you. I already know that accusing colleges/academia of being the original sin is a classic tactic employed by people with right-wing ideologies. You're lucky the mods here were idiotic enough to allow "campus activities" under R3.
You predictably voted against the ban on unrelated political shit because you wanted the sub to be more than just about defending gaming/entertainment. You wanted it to be about political shit in general.
Anyways, I got news for you: If the 40-year history of gaming is any indication, partisan political fuckheads have never given a shit about the free speech of gamers, regardless of whether they are liberals or conservative. With that said, why should a gamer such as myself give a shit about defending "free speech" for a partisan fuckhead like you?
What do I as a gamer have anything to gain by allying with back-stabbing politically-obsessive assholes like you?
Yeah, the votes for the various vote-stackable opinion surveys that you dumbasses misinterpreted as being binding referendums on the sub. You morons should be thankful that the mods actually tried to listen to your opinions instead of doing mass-banning sprees on you for constantly trying to D&C the sub with your anti-R3 crusade.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
It's hilarious. It's almost as though you're saying that you yourself actually contributed anything worthwhile to the sub. Thanks for the good laugh.