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Difference between KotakuInAction.win and KotakuInAction2.win?
posted 4 years ago by endersshadow 4 years ago by endersshadow +32 / -0

Sorry if this has been asked before, but now that we are on the .win network, is there a reason these two are still separate things?

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– deleted 28 points 4 years ago +30 / -2
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– endersshadow [S] 12 points 4 years ago +12 / -0

Okay cool - that sounds reasonable.

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– Reinholt 9 points 4 years ago +9 / -0

I think it's good to have both, and hopefully the mods can put down the pitchforks now that reddit threatening to ban people over false flag user bullshit is gone.

I think there is merit to the approach of the KIA mods, though I haven't always agreed with their exact actions. I think there is merit to the approach of the KIA2 mods, though I haven't always agreed with their exact actions. Hopefully both can agree it's better that both exist.

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– HandofBane -3 points 4 years ago +6 / -9

I made an "olive branch" post to KiA2 on reddit, which went about as well as I expected because people want to eat sleep and breathe outrage rather than see what I was actually saying. We are not banning anyone from there preemptively, including people who had been banned on KiA reddit previously. Everyone gets amnesty, they just have to not be dicks about it when they come here. Funnily enough there are at least two people in this very thread who had been banned (temp or perma) from KiA that are being chill right now.

We have banned exactly one KiA2 user so far, who went full retard in his first comment here, making a "Hitler did nothing wrong" comment. I don't care where anyone is from, that kind of shit does not fly here, and would probably have been removed and the user banned on KiA2 reddit, too.

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– Quixotick 7 points 4 years ago +8 / -1

We have banned exactly one KiA2 user so far, who went full retard in his first comment here, making a "Hitler did nothing wrong" comment.

Some people can't suppress their /pol/ power level.

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– deleted 5 points 4 years ago +8 / -3
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– HandofBane 1 point 4 years ago +3 / -2

There were no demands for apologies, no "you must bow down" or any of that kind of shit. Just my pointing out that we were not importing bans over, and that meant for everyone, including Antonio, who has gone out of his way at every opportunity to play up his victimhood over his being banned from KiA reddit. There were certainly demands that I bow down, apologize and grovel from folks there. I will do no such thing, because I expect no such thing from anyone who chooses to take advantage of not being banned from here.

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– wharris2001 4 points 4 years ago +7 / -3

I belong to both communities on Reddit, and both communities on .win. Your alleged "olive branch" was full of snark. You were probablly thinking of the KiA2 members you banned from KiA1 when you posted it, but most members of KiA2 are there because of a non-inflamatory preference for their moderation style (i.e. a broader view of relevant topics) and have never been banned from KiA1. Telling those users they have "a second chance" is condescending.

Which is entirely your right to do so under KiA2 rules.

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– HandofBane 1 point 4 years ago +4 / -3

See, that's the problem with trying to read intent in something. You will almost always get it wrong. There was no snark in that, but I sure as fuck was tired when I wrote it, as I had just dealt with nearly 12 hours straight of getting this site up and running, dealing with the fallout of the admin sitewide decision, making sure people who had to do their parts to get this site functional had done their parts, all while getting a ton of PMs/DMs from folks worried about retroactive enforcement by the admins in regards to the rule change.

but most members of KiA2 are there because of a non-inflamatory preference for their moderation style

No, that is certainly a part of the community there, but you cannot say "most" when most of the population there, especially the increased active users, are folks who came in well after the split and have had little or no participation on KiA itself.

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– wharris2001 1 point 4 years ago +2 / -1

Back on Reddit one of the available flairs indicates that the owner was part of the moderation wars/vote/discussion that led to KiA2's activation. It is one of the more popular ones.

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– HandofBane -1 points 4 years ago +2 / -3

Gotta maintain that tribalism attitude.

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– wharris2001 1 point 4 years ago +3 / -2

If by "tribalism", you mean "Proof that they were part of the original community" then you are correct.

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– DonnyCypra 3 points 4 years ago +4 / -1

I think some people like to test the limits of free speech when they get to more open platforms. That being said I don't think TD would want something edgelording in that particular fashion on the platform with an election coming up. Any reporter seeing it would not be interesting in the nuances of separate communities

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– H_Guderian 1 point 4 years ago +3 / -2

It was because you were saying two things. On one hand your words looked like compromise, but the intent was given away by how the sub itself was run.

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– DonnyCypra 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

Where did the name come from anyway?

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– HandofBane 1 point 4 years ago +2 / -1

The KotakuInAction name? Originally, when everything kicked off shortly before Gamergate started, there was a wide spread of people just finding out about the ZoePost thing which pointed out that Nathan Grayson of Kotaku had written several positive pieces (in some cases wedging it into pieces on other things) about Zoe Quinn in an effort to get on her good side and into her pants. This was a gross breach of journalistic ethics, which put Kotaku as one of the key "targets" for getting ethical reforms in place. One of the first places that didn't immediately kill all posts/comments about the issue was TumblrInAction on reddit - they decided we were overrunning them, and several mods decided to spin off to form KotakuInAction to get folks in a more focused environment. Everything kind of spiraled out from there.

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– MaouRem 8 points 4 years ago +9 / -1

Just a dispute over how to moderate the same issues and how broad the topic should be, having seen both they attract different audiences so I don't think members of each get along well enough to merge either

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– endersshadow [S] 8 points 4 years ago +9 / -1

I think there is a LOT of crossover between the two (me being one of them) but I agree that it seems like it should be kept as two different things. Thanks for the info.

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– mbnhedger 3 points 4 years ago +4 / -1

theres crossover for sure, but there is definitely differences in the degree and the tactics on which the culture war gets fought.

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– HandofBane 0 points 4 years ago +3 / -3

It's a difference of holding to absolute principles regarding how to approach the "war", vs being willing to adopt the tactics the "enemy" uses to use against them.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I have no desire to be MovieBob.

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– veus_dolt 7 points 4 years ago +8 / -1

If the mods here will allow it, here's a thread from kia2.win on the same question:

https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/GIJGCGXq/difference-between-kia-and-kia2/c/

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– HandofBane 0 points 4 years ago +7 / -7

Not removing this, but I am going to point out the misinterpretations and outright falsehoods in that top reply, since it keeps getting quoted around on TD itself, and elsewhere.

It is impossible to oppose these things without opposing leftism itself. Virtually all bad journalism and censorship is coming from the left.

False, it's just easier to find this shit coming from the left because the left has a larger mainstream presence. Censorship runs rampant on the right, too - just look at what Saidit, Gab and Parler have been adding to their list of things they consider censor-worthy after claiming to be homes for free speech.

The mods leaned more left

At last tally, our mod team was about 1/3 right wing, 1/3 left wing, and 1/3 yuropoors of various leanings. That may have actually drifted more right in recent months, as one of our lefties has decided he's probably voting Trump this year for various reasons.

they became obsessed with making sure the sub did not become "another T_D". So they implemented a ridiculously vague rule of "no unrelated politics". They then used this rule to remove content that was absolutely relevant but supported conservativism.

"No Unrelated Politics" was originally offered up and voted on by the userbase to be added as a rule because of a wave of spam from the folks at /r/Sanders4President, back at the end of 2015. We recognized we had a broad political mix of users from all across the spectrum, and didn't want to alienate any of them including the right wingers at the time that were getting annoyed at the leftie spam. Part of the issue was that political posts that had absolutely nothing to do with gaming, journalism ethics, or similar were being posted that nearly every time turned into tribal shit flinging between different political factions over things that had nothing to do with KiA itself. We implemented the rule to curtail that kind of thing before it happened. There's an old saying that if you want to keep your friends, you don't talk politics, religion or sex at the dinner table - that was the theory we have been operating around.

At one point, the mods actually put the rules to a vote. The users overwhelmingly opposed the absurd content removals.

Another misrepresentation. The vote was originally between three options intended to cut back on some wildly tangential posts that kept on causing the tribal fighting I mentioned in the last point. A last minute decision was made by the then-head mod (I had retired for almost a year before coming back, this was during that timeframe) to add a fourth option "no further changes" with it being made clear in the replies that there may be a need for changes later if this did not resolve the issues that were attempting to be fixed.

The mods didn't care. They ignored the results of the vote and continued arbitrarily removing content.

The mods stuck with the vote result of "make no further changes" for about two months, until the issues that were trying to be addressed erupted to the point that either something had to be done, or they were going to be forced to ban dozens of users for breaking Rule 1 (don't be a dick) due to that same unrelated political tribal shit flinging causing people to constantly attack each other over things that had - at their core - nothing to do with KiA.

On a related note: the Kia mods lost their shit when users started talking trash about polyamory. I can't imagine the mods would have behaved this way unless one or more of them were engaged in the polyamorous lifestyle. We might have been dealing with literal cucks.

Only bringing this one in because it's something that parts of the KiA2 crowd love to mention so they can pretend that they have any idea what goes on in the personal lives of mods here. One of our mods had been involved in poly stuff in the past... as the bull in a relationship. But recognizing that possibility would shatter any attempt at painting the KiA mods as "evil sjw cucks".

Kotakuinaction2 was created as a lifeboat for those who abandoned the increasingly garbage moderation of Kia.

We actually encouraged the split when it happened, in part because it meant most of the users causing the biggest tribal-based issues attacking other users would have a place they could vent on that we would no longer have to warn/ban them or the people they picked fights with for breaking Rule 1. It became a self-selecting containment sub. There were some users who went over that had legitimate concerns about parts of Rule 3 (our posting guidelines), and we felt the need to address that to the point where we actually hired on one of those critics from KiA2 as part of our mod team (and another critic who stayed on KiA without making the jump to 2) to help revamp Rule 3 dramatically, to permit a lot of content that had been inadvertently caught and blocked that should have been allowed to get through. That was about 8 months ago we hired them on, and we made the Rule 3 revamp around 6 months ago. We also intend to thin it down a bit more over the next few weeks here, as we get this site more fully functional and get settled in.

kia2 mods are stridently free speech (to the extent that Reddit permits

The great irony there is that KiA2 on reddit actually censored more than we did, making several words forbidden, regardless of context. We may have slapped people for being anti-semitic shitheads using echoes, but we never banned the use of words like "faggot" or "tranny".

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– veus_dolt 1 point 4 years ago +3 / -2

i honestly just wasn't sure if it was within the rules or not, neither intended to endores or detract from anyone's perspective/interpretation of things etc.

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– H_Guderian 1 point 4 years ago +3 / -2

In the Culture War that sparked GG, what are Unrelated Politics?

As to the content votes "These rules were intended because we don't trust the people to come here to generate the content we want them to."

You say: "Part of the issue was that political posts that had absolutely nothing to do with gaming, journalism ethics, or similar were being posted that nearly every time turned into tribal shit flinging between different political factions over things that had nothing to do with KiA itself. We implemented the rule to curtail that kind of thing before it happened."

Listen, it was Reddit. If someone posted something and it got upvoted and made it to the top - That is how this kind of system works! If a funny post or a tangent post made it to the top maybe it was just a slow news day and people were upvoting a laugh.

KiA was neutered by stuffing it into a little safe box. At one point KiA was the leading edge of the culture war, mentioned by name. For the most part it became long forgotten, just reposting news articles from other places.

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– Txiribiton 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

Say what you want but the karma rules only allows the system to be played and destroyed, a tool for astroturfers, trolls and bots.

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– Shadist 0 points 4 years ago +3 / -3

Only bringing this one in because it's something that parts of the KiA2 crowd love to mention so they can pretend that they have any idea what goes on in the personal lives of mods here. One of our mods had been involved in poly stuff in the past... as the bull in a relationship. But recognizing that possibility would shatter any attempt at painting the KiA mods as "evil sjw cucks".

Going to add one thing here... the real issue I have with this particular mistelling of theirs is that it's flat out a lie.

Someone was warned and before starting to write this I couldn't t even remember for what, and in the warning message I made a off-hand comment about what they were saying was wrong judging by my experiences in poly circles.

Two loves to bring this up as me taking action for something said about poly while doing their utmost to avoid the fact that the person was clearly warned for something else. They also have an interesting habbit of not being able to remember what happened and sometimes bringing up me banning someone for this.

So I present to you their proof!

Which is found on their own sub here

So looking at the image you see me warning someone for insulting another user, a clear violation of R1 both there and here.

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– AnarcrotheAlchemist 6 points 4 years ago +8 / -2

The neutral simplified version:

KotakuInAction had strict moderation. Partially to try to avoid getting banned from reddit and partially to try and keep things on topic. The mods at KotakuInAction wants to keep the movement focused on video games and not the greater culture war at large. KotakuInAction2 went with lighter moderation, while still having a focus on gaming also discusses the wider cultural war as well.

KIA1 probably overmoderated and a lot of relevant stuff wasn't allowed, but KIA2 is probably a bit too unfocused and a little spammy at times.

KiA attempts to stay politically neutral and tends to ignore wider media and more focuses on gaming media and nerd culture media than tackling the likes of CNN and Fox.

KiA2 has a lot more lax moderation and focuses on the wider cultural war as well (the logic being that gaming and nerd culture issues are just a component of the wider cultural war so the whole thing needs to be talked about otherwise its like saying you can't see the forest because of the trees). This means the KiA2 gets more political and as most of the egregious and overt and obvious examples of unethical behaviour in media at the moment is coming from the left the sub is antileftist.

KiA mods did spend a time calling the users over at KiA2 nazi's white supremacists etc. for awhile which further polarised the divide as well as some KiA2 users making personal insults against KiA mods specifically. At the moment most people just do the live and let live stuff with a lot of people being active on both subs and some that only care about the wider cultural war posting only on KiA2 and others that only care about gaming posting on KiA. KiA2 replaced what KiAchatroom was trying to be in a sense.

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– HandofBane 0 points 4 years ago +5 / -5

KiA mods did spend a time calling the users over at KiA2 nazi's white supremacists etc. for awhile

That has mostly gotten under control in the last few months, as Antonio has cracked down harder. I think BloodAndSeed finally got suspended by the admins for all his stormfront-tier posting.

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– AnarcrotheAlchemist 5 points 4 years ago +6 / -1

They painted the whole sub with that brush not just individual posters. If they just kept it to focusing on the individual user it would have been less antagonistic but they called the whole sub and userbase that stuff for months. I understand the personal beef some mods may have with particular users (especially with some of the vitriol thrown their way from some) but that isn't an excuse to pull the same shit that was pulled on KiA by its detractors.

It has been a fair few months since any of the mods have said that about KiA2 though... or even spoke about it (publicly) really. It shouldn't matter anymore as the two subs seemed to have settled into a peaceful coexistence with both serving similar yet complementary purposes.

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– HandofBane 1 point 4 years ago +4 / -3

I'll just suggest taking a day to go through Dom's userpage, and look at the number of comments he removes for echo-posting, or a wide variety of other things that caused us to take the stance that KiA2 had an actual problem with the extreme end of /pol/ cutting loose to understand why we took the view that KiA2 had a problem. Part of the issue with the entirety of it is that everyone is playing telephone, taking "there is a problem with this here" as "the entire sub is nazis". While I could easily name a dozen KiA2 regulars who regularly crossed that line, at the same time I could easily name a dozen KiA2 regulars who actively fought against it.

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– Aurondarklord 5 points 4 years ago +8 / -3

Focus and atmosphere.

We try to stick mostly to issues affecting journalism and media, particularly nerdy media, while they lean more towards general social justice bullshit and politics.

We also try to feel like "old reddit" in the sense that we like to be shitposty and fun, but we draw a line at overtly uncivil behavior between users and blatant bigotry. They prefer to cultivate a more chan-like environment.

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– nogodafterall 5 points 4 years ago +7 / -2

I'd say the easiest difference is that we're focused on gaming/journalism, they're focused on not-gaming/culture war.

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– TonyTGD 4 points 4 years ago +7 / -3

As someone who jumped to KIA2 upon its creation I saw what lack of moderation brought, and yes it was literally idpol bullshit. Instead of admitting it or , better yet, fixing it the KIA2 mods decided to sweep it under the rug to prove their little experiment was better than KIA. Eventually AOV let power go to his head and forced "troll" flairs on users who deviated from the groupthink. KIA2 is the mirror image of SJWs.

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– Skanda 4 points 4 years ago +6 / -2

KIA's own little version of the CHAZ.

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– HandofBane 0 points 4 years ago +4 / -4

Eventually AOV let power go to his head and forced "troll" flairs on users who deviated from the groupthink

I'll admit we have done a handful of "troll" type flairs on some people in the past, albeit most often on people that everyone could easily see was only trolling, but we never pulled the "you must keep your flair on or you will be banned" thing that Antonio did.

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– TonyTGD -1 points 4 years ago +3 / -4

I would agree putting it on obvious troll would be amusing but AOV considers not agreeing with the herd to be trolling.

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– DennJW 3 points 4 years ago +8 / -5

KIA2 is a terrible name. I think they should rebrand.

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– TheImpossible1 4 points 4 years ago +9 / -5

I would have suggested culturewar.win, but they had me banned when they were talking about it.

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– Shadist 5 points 4 years ago +6 / -1

Shame, it's a good name.

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– RedChanIt 1 point 4 years ago +3 / -2

Reminds me a bit of the change of r/MetaCanada into OmegaCanada win.

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– DennJW 0 points 4 years ago +3 / -3

Ooook lol. Well, they can have a lame name if they want, I guess. I think it's going to be a detriment to them, rather than anyone else. But that's their business.

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– TonyTGD 1 point 4 years ago +6 / -5

Agreed.

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– Txiribiton -1 points 4 years ago +2 / -3

Exactly.

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– Txiribiton 1 point 4 years ago +3 / -2

The content is far less focused on the other sub, they talk about lots of other things more related to social justice, but instead of using a name describing their sub they are using the same name as KIA which doesn't make any sense beyond showing a desire to mislead people or show their feeling were hurt here.

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– Shadist 2 points 4 years ago +3 / -1

That's largely as a result of them wanting to become "the true KiA", so they couldn't ditch the name and keep that as a goal.

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– AuEllai 1 point 4 years ago +3 / -2

Basically jannie drama, old-style blackjack and hookers story after the jannies went full West Side Story in the parking lot one day.

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– Shadist 1 point 4 years ago +5 / -4

If you're curious you can find information about our guidelines and rules here

They will be showing up in the sidebar as soon as we're able.

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– H_Guderian 1 point 4 years ago +3 / -2

KiA's mods inherited a movement they did not build and insisted on neutering whatever power it had left just to be allowed to exist.

Being around since 2014 I would come to KiA for daily updates. KiA nowadays I can skip large periods of time because all the news KiA aggregates is all unactionable or uninteresting. It doesn't -do- anything, and anything that comes down to having a little off topic fun to keep people coming back to the sub was disallowed. Its a sad, low energy shell of what was once one of the most powerful organizing forces in the culture war.

But hey, its on topic and easier to manage. Irrelevance has its advantages.

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– H_Guderian 0 points 4 years ago +3 / -3

KiA insists on keeping in power those who will overrule the sub as they please. Imagine asking for a vote, it not going your way, and then just overruling the vote.

When the current mod set took over KiA the sub stopped participating in the fight for gaming and merely became spectators.

KiA2 sees no reason to rejoin if all the old corrupt mods are brought right on over.

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KotakuInAction is a platform for open discussion of the issues where gaming, nerd culture, the Internet, and media collide.

We believe that the current standards of ethics in the media have alienated the artists, developers, and creators who perpetuate the things we love, enjoy, and enthusiastically build communities around. We have observed numerous incidents involving conflicts of interest and agenda-pushing within media which we feel are damaging to the credibility of the medium and harm the community at large. We believe much of the current media is complicit in the proliferation of an ideology that squashes individuality, divides along political lines, and is stifling to the freedom of creativity that is the foundation of human expression.

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"Fuck off, retard," is not an argument. Neither is "Kill yourself, faggot." Regardless of whether you think someone is a shill, SJW, or whatever, stick to arguing the points. Name-calling does not contribute to discussion. Refer to the pyramid as a general guideline. If anything, just make sure your criticism outweighs any insults. However, well-reasoned arguments that end with parting shots like, "Stop being obtuse; even children understand this concept," are okay. Ostensibly, we're all adults here; a comment like that can just be ignored.

The core of this rule is primarily based on patterns of behavior, which fall into these categories:

1.1 HARASSMENT Badgering and/or baiting another user across multiple threads or baiting after disengaging (mod enforced or otherwise), including persistent /u/ mentions and/or replies. Note that this generally does not apply to people that are outside the subreddit, (e.g. "God, the guy who wrote that article is such a fucking retard."), but does apply in cases of /u/ tagging a user (e.g. "/u/reallybadpersonidontlike you're a fucking mongoloid and you should go die in a fire.").

1.2 TROLLING Posts and comments which are clearly not intended to generate discussion, but rather aimed at generating or maximizing as much drama and emotion as possible. Intentionally posting to make people angry.

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1.5 MALICE Don't resort to malicious name-calling, brazen insults, and/or general hostility against any individual user. Don't use identity politics or unironic slurs (that is, language intended to advocate blatant hatred) against groups of people. Behavior that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a group of people is not allowed, in conjunction with sitewide rules. Do your best to treat your fellow community members excellently.

1.6 ESCALATION TOWARD VIOLENCE Posts and comments making declarative statements about a potential civil war/boogaloo will be removed from KiA. By "declarative statements" any comments which delve into the area of "if X keeps doing Y, then there will be a violent response" or similar are to be included . These removals will not be issued warnings/bans as long as other rules are not breached, just a public statement of why they were removed.

Examples of things which will likely cause removal:

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"If they show up here and police try to shut them down, there will be bloodshed"

Other statements which can be interpreted as escalation toward an actual violent act. This list is not all inclusive, these are just examples. We will try to be lenient on it where we can, but have to step in now due to a repeated pattern of this showing up in our report queue.

More generic things like "This will end badly" will not be removed under this rule.

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  1. DON'T POST PERSONAL INFORMATION Reddit is very strict about the publication of "personal information," commonly referred to as "doxing," so don't post it.

Personal information is constituted as:

2.1 DIRECTLY LINKING TO PERSONAL SOCIAL MEDIA Exceptions are made for "public figures," including (but not limited to) journalists, actors, published authors, and public-facing company personalities. However, direct links to Facebook and LinkedIn are not allowed, due to sitewide rules. Posting archive links to personal information is considered directly linking to it. Linking your own information is permitted. Posts from accounts with fewer than 2,500 followers, or anyone who does not otherwise meet the "public figure" or "limited-purpose public figure" requirements must be in the form of screenshots with all identifying information censored.

2.2 REAL NAMES Exceptions are made for the public figures as mentioned above, also including primary subjects of articles from multiple non-blog sites (or "limited-purpose public figures").

2.3 PHONE NUMBERS OR ADDRESSES Public contact numbers/address for companies (not including individual employees) are exempt.

2.4 OTHER INFO WHICH MAY BE USED TO PERSONALLY IDENTIFY SOMEONE Including sites hosting personal information, images of homes, etc.

If you are in doubt whether what you posted may constitute posting personal information, reach out to the moderator team.

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  1. POSTING GUIDELINES Posts on KotakuInAction must focus on one of the topics included in the whitelist and may not include a topic from the blacklist. Post that do not meet this criterium will be removed. Removals due to Rule 3 alone have no consequences aside from the post being removed.

Meta Posts are excluded from this rule.

WHITELIST Gaming Journalism Ethics Censorship Official Social Justice Media Meta Tabletop gaming, comics, sci-fi/fantasy, manga/anime, and derivative media of such Sub related OC Artwork Tech Happenings

TEMPORARY WHITELIST ITEMS None

BLACKLIST Unrelated Politics Memes (as in image macros) E-Celeb Bullshit Forum Noise (random users complaining on random forums [directly involved devs are exempt from this]) Social Media Hot Takes Lets Plays

NOTES To pass unrelated pol, topics containing politicians; laws; government or major political organizations without direct relation to GamerGate, must be presented without partisan slant and the majority of the topic must focus on relevant actions or proposals, rather than their partisan or electoral implications.

Official social justice is defined as: The propagation or implementation of identity politics by institutions or companies of major size.

Tech Happenings is defined as: Significant events concerning the policies, business practices, algorithms, behavior, and corporate cultures of tech companies and social networks, especially where pertaining to free expression, identity politics, and anti-consumer activities, as well as legislation affecting tech spaces.

If you believe your post is of sufficient importance to the subreddit but are concerned that it would not pass the above guidelines, please contact the modteam for approval

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  1. POSTS MUST BE INTELLIGIBLE Non-English links must include a translation in the immediate comments from the OP. This can be either a full length translation, a copypaste of a machine translation, or a direct link to a full machine translation of the page.

All links to videos longer than 5 minutes will require either a comment by the OP or to be in a self post summarizing the relevant parts of the video to what they are trying to point out with it. Exceptions may be allowed if the title is clearly explaining what's going on with the link pointing directly at the relevant timestamp in the video.

Avoid mobile links if possible.

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  1. WE ARE NOT YOUR PERSONAL ARMY Don't post a call to action against someone or something you disagree with.

Don't make posts like "let's give that idiot a piece of our mind!" if you come across something stupid someone said on the Internet. If you want to point and laugh, then post an archive, but engineering brigades or dogpiles against individuals or other communities will not be tolerated. The rule of thumb here is to look but don't touch. If you choose to take action offsite in direct response to something posted here, you will be dealt with as having violated this rule, if not sitewide rules.

Additionally, random, stupid things said by nobodies on Twitter, Facebook, etc. should not be posted. A "nobody" is defined as any account with fewer than 2,500 followers, or anyone who does not otherwise meet the "public figure" or "limited-purpose public figure" requirements.

You are not allowed to directly link to other communities.

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  1. ARCHIVE AS MUCH AS YOU CAN Use link archivers for as many things as possible.

This is to preserve articles in their original format in case they are edited in the future, as well as to ensure that the articles comments sections are not brigaded. Record-keeping is important, and archiving pages are our way to preserve those records. Additionally, there is an active blacklist of sites that will automatically be pulled if not archived. You can find this list here.

Some links like GoFundMe and Bitchute get temp canned on reddit for a bit, whereas links to Encyclopedia Dramatica and Kiwifarms will never be approved because of reddit sitewide doxxing rules.

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  1. DON'T POST MISLEADING CONTENT We want to make sure we're not reading garbage, or being lied to about some of the claims being made here.

To ensure this, posts should be free from the following:

7.1 EDITORIALIZED TITLES These are post titles for news articles that are framed in such a way as to push discussion in a single direction, typically stirring outrage, rather than leaving it up to the commentators in the thread. Hyperbole is a form of misinformation; you don't have to add anything "spicy" to the article's headline—it's better to simply post the headline itself. Additionally, quotation marks should be reserved for the exact wording someone used. If you need to add inline context, put the words that weren't said [in square brackets].

7.2 MISINFORMATION Defined as the intentional spread of provably incorrect information, or spinning a narrative without presenting all the facts. Typically, there is a degree of agenda-pushing or soapboxing related to this. Note that well-intended posts with information that has yet to be proven will simply be given an [Unverified] flair. However, any claims that are proven false after a post is made will result in it being given [Fake News] flair, and a stickied comment correcting the information, regardless of vote totals. This is to prevent the spread of misinformation on KiA.

7.3 SPAM AND SELF-PROMOTION Users posting anything that can be considered spam or self-promotion must demonstrate a 4:1 ratio of participation/commenting in unrelated posts to self-promotion. For example, for every 1 post or comment promoting their own material (websites, videos, social media, etc.), they must have at least 4 comments or posts that are participating in KiA (or other communities) that are wholly unrelated to discussion of their material.

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  1. DO NOT REPOST We will remove reposts of the same information.

This includes posting articles on the same topic from different publications when one is already on the front page, unless there is substantial new information. If a post is older than 7 days, its content can be reposted for visibility, if the situation warrants it.

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