3 Dec
2012
3 Dec
'12
6:40 a.m.
On Mon, 3 Dec 2012, Daniel Seagraves wrote:
On Dec 3, 2012, at 7:31 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at
gmail.com> wrote:
Meh. Any community (online or otherwise) will almost always contain one
or more smaller fringe subgroups which others find controversial,
distasteful, etc.
Most of what you just described above has happened on Wikipedia too. I
know this from first hand experience. Don't believe it? Ask me off-list.
This from someone too dumb to bottom-post.
Already with the personal attacks? What are you, 14? Obviously you're
already in the tank for these creeps. Anyway, I'm not too dumb, I was
too lazy. I was posting from my cellphone and didn't want to hold
backspace long enough to delete the post under mine. I should have
waited until I got to my computer to post.
I'm not arguing this on the list. I delivered my warning, that's all I
intended to do. Anyone who cares to do the research can confirm what I'm
posting. The top admins aided and encouraged posting of the most vile
content available purely to drive traffic (and therefore ad revenue) to
their site. When people complained about it they were harassed and
threatened with lawsuits. When they persisted their real names and phone
numbers were posted so that they could be subjected to additional
harassment. When they turned the tables by posting the real names of the
people posting crap, they were banned for "breaking the rules." After
the outrage spread the subreddits in question were claimed to be "shut
down", when in reality they were renamed an the "rules" (which aren't
enforced) were changed. (For example, creepshots was renamed to
creepyshots) These guys are shady as hell and you should not be
supporting them.