RantRANT: Whycan't we have our own fucking spaces?

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[–]ukrdude10[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I have been on r/SuperStraight every single day, and transphobic comments were a small minority, many of them were provocations by AHS agents. There were even trans people who posted in support or curiosity, and we all responded positively and respectfully to them. The mods removed all hate comments, as well as CP and gore posted by AHS to shut us down. The ban was a complete dick move, when the mods worked so hard to abide by the rules.

r/LGBDropTheT I can't say much about it because I viewed it only a couple of times, but new subreddits such as r/NewPride were also banned, despite being actually focused on gay issues, gay history etc. Reddit has been lenient towards racist and misogynistic subreddits, it's a completely hypocritical platform. I've had enough of their pseudomoralistic bullshit to cater to advertisers.

[–]lazy-summer-godSuper Gay 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well, I've been there, too, and I did see quite controversial transphobic posts and comments that weren't removed. The problem with r/SuperStraight was that it didn't focus on celebrating this orientation, but it often did try to bash on trans people. You're right that it was not a majority at all, but I have to objectively say that this vocal minority of trans obsessed users wasn't always punished. It was a fast growing community and adding new mods rapidly meant creating a risk of being infiltrated by bad faith actors; in that environment, mods were uncapable of policing all comments, so they were capable of removing only the content reported by regular users.

The problem with all the new subreddits of LGB is that they'll always have the "ban evasion" card to use against them. That's a mistake on our part, but it would be delusional to expect some incredible level of organisation, considering it was a spontaneous movement. It's okay, though, because Reddit is a lost cause anyway.

I appeal that we don't repeat the same mistakes in the future. We are right in our postulates, so I don't see why questionable actions would be needed, especially when they're just harmful to our cause.