Post: #101

http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfiv...t_who_did/

OP asks why Pao is the CEO. Naturally reddit locks the thread. Hilarious..

Post: #102

(06-13-2015 05:02 PM)Cattle Rustler Wrote:  A couple of days ago this Fat Chick posted on FB how she wanted to run cyclists off the road for not using the sidewalk....

It made it to a biking FB site I'm part of, I said that at least the biker has used the sidewalk once, unlike her.

Someone said "I was fat shaming".

I replied with "Quit thought shaming me you white woman. Check yo privilege". Bitch didn't know what to say.

Bikes are usually supposed to use the road.

Post: #103

A growing mob is gathering around Reddit's door. These guys already have experience costing Gawker a lot of money:

http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/c..._you_from/

Post: #104

(06-13-2015 10:02 PM)Blaster Wrote:  

(06-13-2015 05:02 PM)Cattle Rustler Wrote:  A couple of days ago this Fat Chick posted on FB how she wanted to run cyclists off the road for not using the sidewalk....

It made it to a biking FB site I'm part of, I said that at least the biker has used the sidewalk once, unlike her.

Someone said "I was fat shaming".

I replied with "Quit thought shaming me you white woman. Check yo privilege". Bitch didn't know what to say.

Bikes are usually supposed to use the road.

To my sidewalk comment, I meant the biker probably jogged or walked on a the sidewalk, considering he's an active dude, unlike the fat woman.

Many people do not understand that bikes go on roads. They think we're acting entitled by using the road and not the sidewalk.

I had a guy the other day trying to run me off the road. There's some crazy people out there.

Good thing there's a sale going on for this baby, $1199! But it can't fit inside my camelbak for personal protection for the crazies or when in the trails (woods, desert, etc). The five-sevens are out of stock

Post: #105

Maybe I was late to the news - is this the same group? From the site's main page:

Quote:Hi, it looks like you're new. Welcome to Voat!

Voat is a censorship-free community platform based in Switzerland where content is submitted, organized, moderated and voted on (ranked) by the users.

Users can earn a percentage of our ad-revenue share for the content they submit.

Welcome to capitalism Reddit. What made you popular can also make your competitors popular.

Post: #106

(06-14-2015 03:45 PM)SunW Wrote:  Maybe I was late to the news - is this the same group? From the site's main page:

Quote:Hi, it looks like you're new. Welcome to Voat!

Voat is a censorship-free community platform based in Switzerland where content is submitted, organized, moderated and voted on (ranked) by the users.

Users can earn a percentage of our ad-revenue share for the content they submit.

Welcome to capitalism Reddit. What made you popular can also make your competitors popular.

Wow, financial incentives to post. That is a game breaker.

Post: #107

I find myself kind of liking this new Voat. This thread is on the first page right now and the comments from Voaters (heh) are pretty sensible.

Quote:He had no way of knowing at the time, this is insane. France just passed a law that make lying to a woman about something, like say how much money you make, punishable along the same lines as rape. But of course when it's the man who gets lied to, he should have known better!

Women wonder where all the men are going. They're hiding from all the fucking crazy laws that govern our every interaction with them!

Assuming they keep up with free speech/no censorship, I might join just to give them a member count of +1.

Post: #108

The anti-free speech saga continues:

Quote:Our hosting provider, hosteurope.de has terminated all our contracts and shut down all our servers without issuing a warning or trying to talk to us. This includes my private server which was only used to host my girlfriends blog. She is a scientist. She published her research papers on that blog (pre-formatted papers to which she owns the copyright). That server contained no other data whatsoever.

The reason they gave us when they notified us that they have cancelled our contract is "...we have received significant information that the content on your server includes political incorrect parts that are unacceptable for us." and "Due to the fact that we cannot keep bond of trust to you as our customer...".

Luckily, we have managed to move our databases to a cloud platform mere hours before they shut down our servers. Ladies and gentlemen, my eyes have been opened by this. I don't know about you, but we are living in a weird world. We will have to carefully evaluate our long term options of providing a platform of free speech if we are to stay online. Your donations are what keeps us afloat. Our paypal account has been un-suspended, so you can still donate to [email protected], or via bitcoin to wallet address 1C4Q1RvUb3bzk4aaLVgGccnSnaHYFdESzY.

Also, I am back in Sweden from my post-graduation vacation, currently packing my things and I will be driving (moving) to Switzerland tomorrow or day after tomorrow.

Edit: just to clarify, I have been a hosteurope.de customer for well over 5 years, always paying my bills and never hosting any illegal content.

Just in case their cloud provide goes nuts on them (the link would die), always good to see what's happening. Leftists are fighting against free speech and doing everything they can ("my feelings are hurt") to control what can be written and said.

Also, look at the power of bitcoin; when PayPal suspended their account (and we should expect this in the long run), bitcoin was there to pick up the slack. Where would we be without bitcoin?

Post: #109

So, I'm not so good at making my own threads, especially clickbaity ones, but I figure this subject needs attention, seeing as it has to do with Reddit and censorship:


https://voat.co/v/announcements/comments/146757

Quote:Our hosting provider, hosteurope.de has terminated all our contracts and shut down all our servers without issuing a warning or trying to talk to us. This includes my private server which was only used to host my girlfriends blog. She is a scientist. She published her research papers on that blog (pre-formatted papers to which she owns the copyright). That server contained no other data whatsoever.

The reason they gave us when they notified us that they have cancelled our contract is "...we have received significant information that the content on your server includes political incorrect parts that are unacceptable for us." and "Due to the fact that we cannot keep bond of trust to you as our customer...".

Luckily, we have managed to move our databases to a cloud platform mere hours before they shut down our servers. Ladies and gentlemen, my eyes have been opened by this. I don't know about you, but we are living in a weird world. We will have to carefully evaluate our long term options of providing a platform of free speech if we are to stay online. Your donations are what keeps us afloat.

Also, I am back in Sweden from my post-graduation vacation, currently packing my things and I will be driving (moving) to Switzerland tomorrow or day after tomorrow.

Edit: just to clarify, I have been a hosteurope.de customer for well over 5 years, always paying my bills and never hosting any illegal content.

Edit 2: thank you all who donated. I removed info on how to donate as I feel we have received enough to help us survive for quite some time. We will publish a detailed report about how much money we have received through donations (all bitcoin transactions are already public) and what the money will be used for. I can already say that we have received around 8000 USD since our call for donation went up a few days ago. This money will most likely have to be taxed, but a detailed report will be published asap. I have received interview requests from several major news agencies but responding to these agencies will have to wait. A voat which runs smoothly and satisfied users is my #1 priority. It would feel wrong for me to be spending time appearing in the media while there are plenty other more pressing issues to deal with right here.

Apparently the provider is a German company. Is Germany as bad as Sweden when it comes to free speech, feminism etc?

Post: #110

^ Free speech isn't a right in Europe.

Post: #111

(06-20-2015 09:13 AM)Samseau Wrote:  ^ Free speech isn't a right in Europe.

It's only a matter of time before the libtards become the totalitarian dictators of the early 20th century. After all is said and done, I wouldn't be surprised if several European countries enact "free speech" laws after the left goes full retard on censorship.

Post: #112

erm.. so they close down FPH; leave open subs like r/coontown?

hilarious.

Post: #113

/r/European is down (https://www.reddit.com/r/european ).
Surprised it took this long.

Post: #114

^ What were the reasons given if any?

Post: #115

Yesterday Reddit hired one Philippe Beaudette to head up their 'Community Team'. He originally worked for the Wikimedia Foundation (which managed Wikipedia) where he was responsible for the team that did 'community management, user trust and safety, and strategic change management, guiding the community through a time of immense growth and maturation.'

In other words, he is part of the group that made Wikipedia the biased bastion of leftism that it is today. The chatter on Reddit in right/free speech leaning subreddits is that by quarantining /r/european they're attempting to curate Reddit into a form that will be more acceptable to donors and advertisers.

The censorship is done under a banner of suppressing hate speech, but its only directed at non-leftist subreddits. This whole fiasco reeks of similar surpression done by Twitters Orwellian 'Trust and Safety Council'. We can only hope this has a similar effect on Reddit's profitability.

From a comment on /r/theRedPill:

Quote:You see two things here. One, the business side of reddit is trying to find a away to monetize our speech. Being dyed in the wool San Francisco hipster SJW, they honestly think that proper words and group-think are more valuable than the mob of ideas. They are trying to curate reddit so they can sell its produce. It will never happen. Two, and this is particularly applicable to the founders, they think the investors gave them their money to do good, instead of build a good company. The assweasels at Facebook got away with this because they had viable business model. Reddit? When they run out of money, that's it; no one else will help them.

It will get much worse as they run out of runway. Ultimately, they will be forced to sell the user-base to a bigger company, who won't give a single fuck about content, speech or anything. They will do it just to get your eyes for 30 seconds and dispose of the whole pile of shit.

From /r/kotakuinaction (the gamergate subreddit):

Quote:I agree in my humble opion they see the guy as somebody who succesfully policed a community in a growth spurt and in such a "positive" way that they could virtue singal for money afterwards.

They think they can make reddit as appealing to donors as wikipedia.

This means the dude is expected and authorised to purge the undesirebles but only for reddit to find out that wikipedia is far more valueble in utility to the internet at large.

The vision they expressed with this hire is clearly in the ultimate conclusion a bad sign for the future.

Anti-PC subreddits like /r/The)Donald , /r/kotakuinaction and /r/TheRedPill believe its only a matter of time until the Reddit admins shut them down and most seem to be working on continuity plans.

Post: #116

(06-10-2015 02:46 PM)Dusty Wrote:  

Post: #117

The nationalist subreddit /r/european was quarantines, meaning it will be extremely difficult for them to attract new subscribers. They moved to Voat.

https://www.reddit.com/r/european/

Post: #118

(06-10-2015 02:46 PM)Dusty Wrote:  

Post: #119

Reddit is continuing their path of suppression of dissenting non-PC opinion in order to try to monetise the site.

Two weeks ago Reddit hired an ex-Wikipedia community manager to head up their 'Community Support' team. The next day /r/European (an anti-immigrant sub similar in content to our Migrant Crisis thread) was quarantined. A quarantine means the subreddit no longer shows up on searches or lists and is hidden from new users, effectively destroying it.

Now /r/science is going anti-science by censoring any comments that transgenderism is not real or a mental illness.

The official stance is that you can discuss the issue and that only hate speech will get banned, but comments such as this have been censored by the mods:

Quote:I don't understand how anything can be off-topic in science. The assumption must be that we are absolutely correct at the moment, and no evidence can exist to prove otherwise. People have made that claim regarding countless issues throughout history and have been proven wrong over and over again.

Heliocentricity was an absolute no-no a few hundred years ago. It was considered outright blasphemy. Look what happened when we actually started talking about it.
We are fallible. Science is about trying to fix that.

/r/kotakuinaction has some good analysis of the issue here

You can expect Reddit to continue its decline. Its following the same pattern of wikipedia and twitter where they use heavy handed PC censorship to try to make their platform more attractive to investors/advertisers. Instead the censorship will be the deathknell for the site as users abandon the platform for non-censored alternatives.

Post: #120

Post: #121

I'm enjoying watching the zealous overreach, followed by all of the opposition groups forming from this nonsense.

These idiots had all kinds of power, and they're throwing it away over the small percentage of people that want to prance around like that freak in silence of the lambs.

Post: #122

Have any more reddit communities been shut down since this thread was created? Gawker has since died. Reddit should fold up soon.

Also, the TRP subreddit (as has been said many times) continues to get even worse. There was a thread about polyamory in there a few weeks ago, and 3 years ago it would have been laughed out of discussion. Now there's "poly alphas" in there posting about gettin' cucked on the reg.

Post: #123

A lot of supporters in the /rThe_Donald have voiced their thoughts. They only visit Reddit for that sub and nothing else, so once the election is over they may move away. Personally I think if Trump wins Reddit will have a big Donald_POTUS section full of Trump things.

Anything outside of that sub is pro-Hillary and CTR infested like many sites currently. Many down votes occur too.

Post: #124

I noticed on r/all this morning a shit ton of posts condemning r/The_Donald and saying what's wrong with the r/all having all r/The_Donald posts. Obviously r/The_Donald posts have a huge following and quickly get uploaded, and Reddit's algorithm picks it up and puts it on r/all. But the amount of posts at various subreddits all upvote condemning r/The_Donald made it appear to be a coordinated attack.

r/The_Donald posts have already gotten pulled from the front page because the admins said they're spam. I would bet money that the admins will tweak the algorithm to not pick up the Donald posts any longer. I don't go to the front page anymore b/c it's just bullshit PC spam.

Post: #125

(06-10-2015 02:46 PM)Dusty Wrote:  

Thanks for ruining my day