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[–]deoxyribo 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

[–]BigNoseFloyd 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Is Handofbane is the original mod who fucked something up that led to KiA2? KiA2 grew bigger than 1 and now he's asking for a reunion?

[–]deoxyribo 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I don't know if I can do justice to this. I'll give some notes below, but it's probably better answered elsewhere like this KIA2 WIN thread (Difference between KIA and KIA2) that I only glanced at - https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/GIJGCGXq/difference-between-kia-and-kia2/

Mods as a collective held a vote about content guidelines since they're very picky about what goes on the subreddit, and have very quaint idea about what is or isn't "unrelated politics".

One of the KIA2 mods can actually expand on the rule set of KIA1, the more important thing is that the KIA1 mods have internal ideas about what should be allowed, irrespective of the community.

In reality, it's not a new thing and the whole topic of what is or isn't allowed there has been a bone of contention for a long time (spanning years). The user base strongly opposed various changes that strictly aligned with the ruling janitorial on the majority basis.

After the vote, they went ahead with their own changes anyway. They called the original poll "non-binding" and more or less a suggestion.

Some intimate this audacity is a result of drama in preceding months / half year where with the help of admins they somehow managed to overthrow the resident sleeper, inactive top mod that out of nowhere wanted to subvert the community to his own ideas. There's some irony here.

After that vote-doesn't-count announcement, things degraded and the users called them out on it, often times not too politely.

Moderators kind of held it together, but the attitude of general contempt for the user base's opinions kind of was made obvious. Eventually relation were bad enough that the mods would constantly bait others to try to ban them, and ignore the infractions of their peers. To give you some idea, they had/have a rule about not being a "dickwolf".

AntonioOfVenice eventually started KIA2 since the community was fractured. There was some olive branch entreaty by ex-mod TheHat, and they posted their debates/attempts at reconciliation in a temporarily closed subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/KiAmeta/

The ACTUAL mods weren't actually interested in any of that shit, as we eventually found out once they opened the subreddit for general viewing. It is now closed again...

Not to mention there were some arbitrary bannings when certain users shouldn't have been, the condescending attitude of certain mods that really needs to be seen in order to fully understand, 1 of the "very conservative" and "very active" female mods that would go out of her way to neutered conversation that many argued shouldn't have been deleted in the 1st place, KIA1 becoming a ghost town due to how little people were allowed to post (or how certain posts were deleted / resulted in people not bothering), 1 mod named Brimshae going against the others to restore a thread that he (and the majority) said didn't break the rules and was subsequently de-modded...

I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot of stuff, some of this is not strictly accurate, I didn't type everything coherently (it was a pain either way), but in summary the mods being authoritarian faggots drunk on their power of being Internet janitors.

Edit: KiAMeta was by TheHat, not HandOfBane. Important distinction.

[–]LithargoelKiA Old Guard 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

1 of the "very conservative" and "very active" female mods

99% sure you're referring to Pinkerbelle, whom the other remaining mods largely simp over like thirsty jackals. She was (still is?) very active, and if by "very conservative" you mean the exact opposite of that, the "token leftist 'feminist' agenda'd diversity hire" who mostly gets her way by said mods backing up her egregious modding with panty-sniffing levels of "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society" behavior, then yes, that would sum up late 2018 through most of 2019 mod activities on half-KiA.

[–]deoxyribo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, her, I didn't want to say the name since then I'd feel personally inclined to explain why each 1 of them is a cunt, and that's way too tiring.

Excluding this recent Saidit foray, I'm a strict lurker. I shouldn't even known any of the KIA mod names...and didn't, until they started acting like hypocritical assholes. I'm trying to forget them again.

Pinkerbelle is / was very active for sure, in an extremely bad way. Her medical response to any sign of infection is an immediate lobotomy.

"Very conservative"? That was personal sarcasm based on her public comments and thread removal justifications, but she might actually be that in private as her moderating peers keep adamantly insisting.

Who knows? There's a thread titled "NBA to Allow Players to Replace Name on Jersey With 'Social Justice Statement'" in this community and it's actually real. I still find it hard to believe ~24H later, but here we are...