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[–]reluctant_commenter 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Hope you don't mind if I ask some newbie questions because I barely ever saw r/lgbdropthet before it was banned, although I am pretty active here:

  • Are these all the posts for the old subreddit's entire history?

  • Who runs this site?

  • Which (banned) subreddits are covered on this site? I see droptheT and also itsafetish, but are there other similar ones?

Thanks for sharing, I started reading a couple threads. Really wish I had been around to see the sub when it was up, but-- its banning on Reddit is part of why I joined this community, lol.

[–]trainingbluejay[S] 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thank you for your questions! I was a moderator of r/itsafetish on reddit (from September 2019 to mid-July 2020, when it was banned) and I created this website from webpage snapshots I made using https://archive.is and archival data provided by Pushshift, the reddit data collecting and archiving resource on which removeddit.com is based.

Pushshift's database indicates that 6,790 submissions were made over the entire lifespan of r/lgbdropthet. While my website does not yet reflect this as I am still actively adding post and comment data, my aim is to encompass the complete record of posts and comments for every banned subreddit I feature on this website, omitting only posts for which no interesting information can be retrieved - so posts that have no user comments and the selftext data was removed or deleted before it could be archived by Pushshift, for example, or commentless posts which link to images that can no longer be found.

I'll update this comment later to elaborate my answer to your third question about the other subreddits I include on the website but here's the full list of them for now:

https://itsafetish.org/archives/truelesbians

https://itsafetish.org/archives/actuallynotlesbians

https://itsafetish.org/archives/gc_woc

https://itsafetish.org/archives/gendercritical

https://itsafetish.org/archives/gendercriticalguys

https://itsafetish.org/archives/gendercynicalcritical

https://itsafetish.org/archives/menwinningwomenssport

https://itsafetish.org/archives/terfisaslur

https://itsafetish.org/archives/thisneverhappens

https://itsafetish.org/archives/itsafetish

https://itsafetish.org/archives/neovaginadisasters (you need to create an account to see this page, which has graphic content)

https://itsafetish.org/archives/trollgc

https://itsafetish.org/archives/lgbdropthet

Edit: forgot a few!

https://itsafetish.org/archives/gcdebatesqt

https://itsafetish.org/archives/actualwomen

https://itsafetish.org/archives/detrans (while not currently banned, this subreddit was targeted and banned for a few hours during the same wave of subreddit bans in the summer of 2020 which eradicated all the other gender-critical, feminist, and pro-lgb subreddits included on itsafetish.org)

[–]motss-pb 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well done and thanks for doing this. The website looks very clean and search function works like a charm. Do you have any plans on adding a forum? We don't really have a reliable backup should saidit get taken offline again. I think compiling documentation and evidence is very important and, if needed, I'd be willing to help out with the limited programming experience I have.