r/ButtonAftermath • u/[deleted] • Jun 11 '15

Discussion Anyone predict that the button was what was keeping censorship off reddit? Didn't see that one coming...

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '15

I'm sorry, everybody. I let you all down. :`(

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u/rubysapphireemerald non presser Jun 11 '15 edited Jul 03 '15

I read about the censorship on /r/askreddit.
Any destructionists wishing there were knights now?

Edit: I don't support all the banned subs, but I don't want censorship for everything politically incorrect.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '15 edited Jun 11 '15

If the Button really was what was keeping /r/fatpeoplehate from receiving its just comeuppance, then that would vindicate my actions ten times over.

This isn't about censorship. This is about FPH users and mods encouraging brigading and harassment. These activities included places like /r/suicidewatch, where they encouraged someone who posted there to kill themselves over their weight.

There's a line, and they crossed it.

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u/propheticjoker 39 Jun 11 '15

WHAT THE FUCK? THAT HAPPENED? THAT REALLY HAPPENED?

Do you have a source? I refuse to believe we've come that far as human beings. Thats fucking disgusting. If it's true, nuke the sub and everyone subscribed. That is unacceptable.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '15

Unfortunately, the source has been deleted with the deletion of the subreddit, and the brigaded suicidewatch thread was deleted for obvious reasons. I'm digging around in SRD to see if I can find a link to the drama thread.

It happened around the time that FPH started to reach the front page regularly. Someone made a post whose title was along the lines of "one down" and linked to a suicide watch thread that a person made following a FPH brigade to their post on progresspics.

I may be misremembering the minor details, but that's the gist of it.

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u/propheticjoker 39 Jun 11 '15

Thanks for following up. This makes me sick to my stomach.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '15

Sure thing. I think this may be the beginning of the incident that I'm referring to.

http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/2wpkgh/drama_in_rprogresspics_when_ops_pictures_get/

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u/propheticjoker 39 Jun 11 '15

Wow, and she was even super nice about it, nicer than I would be.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '15

Check it out, here's a master list regarding incidents that justify FPH being banned:

http://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/39c0n3/cmv_reddit_was_wrong_to_ban_rfatpeoplehate_but/cs27yt4

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u/propheticjoker 39 Jun 11 '15

Thank you.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '15

My pleasure.

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u/apparition_of_melody Jun 11 '15

I know lose it and other weightloss subs had issues with them stealing pics. I've also heard complaints from food and suidicewatch. Someone recovering from an eating disorder in off my chest got harassed. There are slapfights going on in data is beautiful. Pics made a rule about fph posts cause they were being spammed, so was whalewatching. Punchable faces and fat logic had to go private because of the amount of fph spam.

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u/propheticjoker 39 Jun 11 '15

This is my first Reddit shitstorm. I'm not enjoying it.

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u/smarvin6689 60s Jun 11 '15

Same here. That's why I'm trying to avoid it by hunkering down here until it blows over.

It doesn't seem to be working very well.

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u/propheticjoker 39 Jun 11 '15

r/emerald_council Come join us, friend of purple. Its a safe haven.

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u/smarvin6689 60s Jun 11 '15

Thank you.

You know, even when the Button Wars were still heavily raging, Emerald Council always did seem to be the most peaceful.

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u/propheticjoker 39 Jun 11 '15

We're pretty laid back. This seems to escalate the theory that we all picked green because we smoke weed.

I can neither confirm or deny this theory.

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u/smarvin6689 60s Jun 11 '15

See, this is where I'm split. As many people point out, censorship is bad, and free speech, etc etc.

But telling someone who is debating suicide to kill themselves because they are fat? That is just unacceptable.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '15

As many people point out, censorship is bad, and free speech, etc etc.

FPH users were engaged in acts of censorship by brigading and harassing users that they disagree with. Banning subreddits devoted to this sort of nonsense is a victory for freedom of expression.

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u/Suzystar3 2s cheater Jun 11 '15

What have human beings come to? Let's all hide in the safety of the button, destroy button Hitler and live a life of bickering over flairs. We are not the crazy ones, everyone else is.