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[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 6 fun6 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 6 fun -  (6 children)

I personally felt hurt that I didn’t make the list :(

[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

If it counts for anything, I would have included you - and the select few folks I invited to co-mod /s/Agenda21_Agenda2030, /s/Corporatocracy, /s/Surveillance, /s/Technocracy, etc. Or more broadly the /s/WhiteOwlSocialClub.

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Shhh!! Only those who are supposed to know, know about /s/WhiteOwlSocialClub, 😜

And thank you, I would have done the same! 😘

[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Anyone can find it if they bother to look so it's not a secret, just not promoted. Unless it got good while I wasn't looking, it's a shame it didn't build into something impactful. Much potential there, aside from the censorship. Also, members can't invite others, only mod can it seems.

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I was just joking, I know anyone can find it, but no one is looking for it because no one has heard of it unless they were invited! But life happened :( I moved out for the first time, started taking intense courses at uni, and all of that unfortunately is more important.

The mods were under no obligation to do any work, just make sure the sub wasn’t infiltrated and it wasn’t. And I know, I wasn’t happy about both the fact that it technically was a form of a censorship (being invite-only), with only mods being allowed to invite naturally via the settings (I would have liked to keep it open, but that defeated the purpose, it had to be private. how else do we keep accounts with an agenda out other than the sub being invite only, and unfortunately only mods are allowed to invite on private subs - users were allowed to make suggestions or ask for others to be invited. That’s part of the reason we had seven mods from different ideological backgrounds).

Maybe one day WOSC will come back when it’s needed. SaidIt may need it some day soon.

It’s not like it isn’t still used from time to time - even the websites owners communicate messages on that sub they feel the crowd over there is mature enough to handle, like when the IP2 situation went down. Whenever a site situation goes down, users usually go there to ask questions and get authentic responses. At least it’s good for that right now.

[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The censorship that bothered me was my lame-joke comment being removed on the While Owl cigars. The "private club" thing bugs me too, as I'm generally against "elites", but obviously not enough for me to unsubscribe. The latter I can deal with on this site but not IRL, the former I don't like at all.

I had assumed members could invite other members, or there might be a setting for that - no random walk-ins, yet freedom to expand for the members - and of course the mods could either collectively or singularly kick out the unwanted.

I guess I need to catch up on the WOSC. It won't be soon. I have to completely re-organize my place to be climber-cat friendly - and while I'm at it re-arrange EVERYTHING to be more ergonomic and practical - and build a year-round garden in the basement, as well as other stuff - and finish my story. Hopefully all this will break my SaidIt addiction so that I can write or build and in a few months come back with much to show.

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The censorship that bothered me was my lame-joke comment being removed on the While Owl cigars.

If that happened and I did that, that was an accident. Seriously, I hope you know I would never censor your opinion, let alone a joke. I apologize - why would I censor your joke, and you were the one iirc who found out why the sub was named what it was. The only thing the sub called for was being polite when engaging in debate, and you're polite lol. The only thing I do remember was when you were made mod, you started changing/adding a lot to the side-bar and I changed some back and wanted to talk to you about that, but that was during the beginning of all of this (I had messaged you saying I wanted to talk to you when I wasn't as busy and never did, because life got complicated rly fast, that's my fault, I'm sorry).

And yeah, It would've been really cool if users could invite other users - I assumed so too, but it wasn't possible. The idea behind it wasn't to make it an "elite club" or "elite group", but a section of SaidIt that can't be infiltrated. I may have told you b4, but that Sub stemmed from a conversation Magnora and I had both publicly and then in private. I was curious to see what would happen if I invited members I knew were good from my personal observations/interactions despite me not necessarily agreeing with them or their views, along with the other mods doing the same since members couldn't invite other members (and during this time, Magz was looking for a solution to the "Reddit Refugees" coming and not adapting SaidIt's culture and trying to enforce their culture here). I was curious if we'd see a difference between our user-base's behavior & the rest of SaidIt in 6 months to a year, if the WOSC was still active. Regardless, in the event of SaidIt being overrun and infiltrated, that sub would always exist for people to return to and discuss the situation. Having a back-up spot was kinda instilled in me by IP2 lol.

And dude I miss gardening so much, you have no fucking idea. I always thought it looked boring and only gave it a shot last year. My apt doesn't get enough Sun. Are you going to be putting up those cat climber shelf things? I was thinking of doing that too when I first came to my apt if a cat tree didn't work - they seem like a lot of work (but maybe I'm lazy lmao). I put a cat tree right next to the window where my cat could watch cars and a tree filled with birds, and she's good lmao.

Edit: And I know you wanna catch-up on the WOSC later, but check out this thread: https://saidit.net/s/WhiteOwlSocialClub/comments/53lq/i_already_miss_being_able_to_see_the_regular/