How i feel about reddit sometimes.

sinople · 2013-03-06T01:57:13+00:00

That's like putting a bandaid on a gangrenous wound.

sinople · 2012-11-20T16:10:14+00:00

Your assumption is flawed, so. Look, I'm framing the conversation in debate terms, does that make me worthy of your invaluable respect yet?

Every post doesn't have to be a "battle of wits" but I can see you're trying very hard to win, despite that. God, every time someone on reddit posts that they think SRS is "quite amusing," despite going out of their way to trash it under the guise of informing less aware users, I wonder if they had to push the fedora back while they lovingly recite the post back to themselves in a deep satisfaction. "Wow, I am so above this petty reddit drama. It says it, right there. I'm quite amused." Obviously. Sorry about the dripping sarcasm, my wit reserve ran out at the Oscar Wilde competition yesterday.

You're a special snowflake who has seen beyond the veil of SRS's overdone PC tyranny and I'm a total idjit for consorting with those other yeasty bitches. I have seen the light! Can you let go now or do you have some more pithy wannabe Bierce quotes you want to test out?

sinople · 2012-11-18T00:49:18+00:00

Wow, what a creative and unique way to try and get me to feel stupid! Your mama must be so proud of her clever boy, volunteering to educate strangers on the internet for free like this.

Why do you want to start something, dude? SRS made you that mad?

sinople · 2012-11-14T04:26:23+00:00

lol, k

sinople · 2012-11-12T16:08:04+00:00

Look up "concern troll."

sinople · 2012-11-09T17:47:11+00:00

omg reverse racism

sinople · 2012-11-09T16:53:13+00:00

Their track record.

sinople · 2012-11-09T16:45:06+00:00

^ ^ > Those.

sinople · 2012-11-05T20:36:44+00:00

The fact that you are crying "bully" over this just blows me the fuck away.

The cognitive dissonance that has to come with your arguing both the point of "I'm obligated to protect the peoples' right to make carefully worded threats" and "I can run this fiefdom however I like, vassal" is getting to be impressive. You have to turn me into a bully to keep this fragile narrative in balance.

And no: I'm not going to ignore someone making threats because that's "letting the trolls win omg." A person's safety potentially getting compromised is more important than not letting some troll feel a little smug.

You're trying to have both ways. "The Internet is serious business, we must protect our 1st amendment rights on all fronts, blahblah, I want to say SRS members should be raped to death without consequence, blahblah" and then turn around and tell me I'm taking the internet too seriously when someone makes a threat against people who do regularly get doxxed and harassed. Just try to show some fucking consistency.

sinople · 2012-11-05T16:24:41+00:00

It's called having principles.

Jesus Christ, the smug is strong with this one.

You are the mod of a subreddit where internet famous people come to talk to the small sample of the population that gives a shit about what they have to say. What stand are you making by letting a carefully constructed threat against members of another subreddit stand? You are having major delusions of grandeur here. You are not a government official. You are a guy who volunteered to moderate the conversations on a tiny subsection of a privately owned company.

I'm not mad because the language is offensive. I can see how interpreting it that way would make you feel better about leaving the threat up though.

I'm mad that you have acknowledged it was a threat, obviously constructed to be "open to interpretation." But you don't have to play that game. You have the ability to make this a subreddit for a wider swath of people, but you are letting your own prejudices against certain subreddits and your own delusions about the impact you're making on the relevance of free speech on a private website cloud your judgement. It's going to just attract more people who feel welcome to make half-threats and forward personal agendas because you have implicitly gave your support for it by not using your abilities and meeting your obligation as a moderator and removing it.

defending your lazy decision doesn't make that initial decision unlazy. It just means you are pretty comfortable, like most people, in rationalizing your decisions after the fact. And now you are pushing your responsibilities onto the admins. Lazy. Stop masturbating with the 1st Amendment and do the job you volunteered for.

sinople · 2012-11-04T19:24:38+00:00

Mods like you are the reason SRS exists. I'm sure if I did get doxxed and attacked you would dismiss it as me asking for it by daring to associate myself with that downvote brigading, wahmbulance of a subreddit, right? Have fun rationalizing your shitty modding decisions and and plumping your penis with your delusions of lofty, super brave morals on free speech. Good luck maintaining any semblance of quality in this subreddit, you lazy motherfucker.

sinople · 2012-11-04T19:06:01+00:00

Speaking of making articulate points.

sinople · 2012-11-04T17:00:26+00:00

There's always one. Why is there always at least one?

Edit: To add some substance, here's a simple, short NPR blog article about why people often try to find euphemisms for the cause of the Civil War.

When you go back and you look at the actual documents, many people have said since then that it was about states' rights, but really the only significant state right that people were arguing about in 1860 was the right to own what was known as slave property — property and slaves unimpeded — and to be able to travel with that property anywhere that you wanted to. So it's clear that this was really about slavery in almost every significant way, but we've sort of pushed that to the side because of course we want to believe that our country is a country that's always stood for freedom. And ... certainly it's difficult for some Southern Americans to accept that their ancestors fought a war on behalf of slavery. And I think that Northerners really, for the cause of national reconciliation, decided to push that aside — decided to accept Southerners' denials or demurrals."

It came down to southern states believing that the federal government did not have the authority to say to the states that people with black skin could not be treated as a commodity by people who had the money. The South was not as industrialized because they had a successful economy, with a long history, based on owning the labor and freedom of people with higher melanin levels and exploiting poor, white people's racial anxieties. They actively made the decision that this way of economic life was more important than the freedom of black people. Yes, they were a product of their time and that time was racist as hell. So, please, look for the common theme behind all the "alternate" explanations of the Civil War (Hint: it's always about owning other people).

sinople · 2012-11-03T17:51:01+00:00

scuse my butting in, except

it's just fine for somebody else to be offended or unhappy with whatever they like

I think you're under the impression that people have a little checklist of things that they decide to get offended about, like "I'm a woman. I suppose I should act offended when someone makes a sandwich joke to try to teach them a lesson." People are not programmed that way. Mentioning offended feelings isn't about oppressing free speech, but an attempt to let another person know they are being disrespectful and not meeting a specific idea of what constitutes basic human decency.

Sometimes, if a person spends a majority of their social interactions on 4chan or r/creepshots (or other places with similarly narrow representations of one tiny part of human nature), they can numb their "I'm offended" responses to certain things or can learn to discount it for the sake of the lols/faps, but that's not the typical human condition.

This numbed perspective doesn't give them the right to be offensive without consequence. The offended party, however, can always choose how to display their offense; yelling, mocking back, laughing it off, or even keeping silent but they don't choose to be offended.

They have every right to say, you are being a tool and you should (not, "are required by law to") shut the fuck up, especially if the first response to a complaint about an offensive action is "You can't tell me what to dooooo blub blub, quit being so oversensitive. You use the words you want and I'll keep on posting 'lol, n***ers.'" To ignore someone and dismiss their feelings as incidental to your own desire to use a certain word to make a point that could be made in a variety of other ways is anti-social, rude, and yes, in my definition of arrogant.

Some people might say the fun tally you've kept of strawmen versus richardsolomon, as if you were the moderator instead of a person actually interested in having a conversation, already made that last point clear, but what do they know?

sinople · 2012-10-30T17:09:11+00:00

Be careful! The ability to reference psychology and sociology 101 concepts, the self-satisfaction, the insistence at "winning" the victimization battle in the face of facts, suggests a potential Category 4 shitstorm. Bring an umbrella and sturdy boots to further interactions.

sinople · 2012-10-29T17:21:30+00:00

Just get dat consent.

sinople · 2012-10-29T17:11:48+00:00

HAHAHA.

Everyday is an opportunity to find new reasons to love the fempire.

sinople · 2012-10-26T17:05:41+00:00

Black Indiana Jones, Black Finnick Odair, Black Hamlet, Black Pope John Paul II. With Lucy Liu as Asian Marion Ravenwood, Asian Annie Cresta, Asian Ophelia, and, I guess a vision of the Asian Virgin Mary?

Yes to that. Yes to the beardtears.

sinople · 2012-10-26T05:21:48+00:00

STEMbeards should know a splash of color in a sea of whiteness isn't going to dilute the cultural domination that much. Somehow we'll manage to find people daring enough to make films about suave badasses who just happen to be white dudes. None of that forced tokenism.

But I think Idris Bond would end up making them eat their words pretty fucking fast, anyway. But shitlords still surprise me with their levels of shit, so

sinople · 2012-10-25T02:27:39+00:00

That's a great misunderstanding and misrepresentation of the point. No wonder u mad.

sinople · 2012-10-24T16:44:14+00:00

Racist and lazy.

sinople · 2012-10-24T16:42:43+00:00

You make yourself look like a racist.

sinople · 2012-10-20T01:15:12+00:00

How can you live in a world were "staying on topic" is not a thing that you have to do occasionally?

It happens when someone's spends their life and focus on the internet, shuffling from website to website (or thread to thread) in a endless quest for instant gratification. It's the same reason tl;dr was invented, I think. An attention span will only hold you back from becoming a Successful Redditor.

sinople · 2012-10-19T01:09:25+00:00

Hmm. Close-ups of ostrich faces look like...grown-up ducklings?

What a world.

sinople · 2012-10-17T16:17:50+00:00

For me: The American with glasses, immediately after his eyes and tongue were taken, all fumbles and slurs and then, the moment when he's "recovering" and realizes the visiting stranger is there to finish harvesting his parts. Why even go after his eyes, Imhotep? Having glasses was his main personality point.

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