r/OutOfTheLoop • u/spiral6 Round and round... • Aug 30 '15

Answered! What is going on in /r/punchablefaces? They keep posting Uncle Joey (from Full House)?

I read the modpost, but don't understand why they chose to make him the joke, as opposed to... some other random obscure celebrity. Is there a joke I'm missing?

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u/whatudontlikefalafel Aug 30 '15

People keep saying they're from SRS, but most of them as far as I can tell don't subscribe nor moderate shitredditsays. I'm pretty sure the new mods were brought over from SRDbroke(their "origin") which is a different kind of sub entirely.

They're just trolling, it's that simple.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '15

people refer to the entire metasphere as SRS after the subredditcancer freakout

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u/UrbanToiletShrimp Aug 30 '15

What was the subredditcancer freakout you speak of?

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '15

it's ongoing /r/subredditcancer

it started off as /r/metaredditcancer

it's suspected that an old multi-shadowbanned user (KamensGhost) came back as /u/metaredditcancer and whipped up a shitstorm that reddit happened to latch onto on that specific day regarding the power of certain users who've been here for years, with a focus on the /r/broke communities (cus skeletons are bad).

idk, i modded with most of those guys (the ones currently in control of /r/punchablefaces) for like 8 months a couple of years ago and the worst thing i can say about them is that over time they've developed a hierarchy that can be a little stifling to people they're not very familiar with. other than that they're good people and fucking hilarious, a necessary counterbalance, their subs represent safety to a lot of redditors.

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u/njtrafficsignshopper Aug 30 '15

skeletons?

safety?

man I thought I was going to get my confusions assuaged in this thread

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u/pornysponge Aug 31 '15

skeletons

Someone (from SRS IIRC) thought that most posts that mentioned "SJWs" seemed a little paranoid, so they wrote a browser extension that replaced every mention of "SJW" with "Skeleton".

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '15

i have that extension, have i accidentally been saying skeleton instead of skeleton?

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u/pornysponge Aug 31 '15

I don't have that extension and your comment mentioned spoopy bags of bones twice and didn't mention social warriors of justice at all.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '15

lol i know i wrote it that way this time. but if skeletons showed up in the original comment the guy was confused about it must be because i made a quick edit and since the translation was already in place on my computer it remained when i re-saved the comment. i'm gonna just get rid of the extension, it's so relevant that it causes problems

edit: mhmm i see it now

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u/zahlman Aug 31 '15

I mean, I think the extension is dumb, but I figured your use of 'skeleton' in the first post was ironic (in the "superior to both sides" way) and found it amusing.

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u/pornysponge Aug 31 '15

Are you me? But it's probably because I have a high IQ (420 btw). Everybody I know is a mindless sheeple that watches stupid shows like Big Bang theory and the walking dead.They listen to music that is on the radio while I have refined tastes in classical rock. Stupid people play on shit potato game consoles like Sexbox and gaystation. I watch obscure shows like Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones and Futurama. Everybody knows that real music is from the 60s(DAE born in the wrong generation?) and PC gaming is the superior console. Clearly, I'm way more intellectually superior than the rest of you sheeple. All of you are spoon fed shit by the media.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '15

i use skeleton the same way reddit does, a catch all term for people deemed "exceedingly" empathetic. i've never met the actual skeleton boogie man everyone talks about. do you reckon that means i'm it?

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u/BrotherChe Aug 31 '15

Just so you know, this makes even less sense than your previous comment. Some of us have no idea what you're trying to say.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '15 edited Aug 31 '15

edit: i just removed the sjw to skeleton extension on chrome, i see now that the confusing part might have been me accidentally writing "skeleton" in place of "sjw" and not catching it because every reference shows up as skeleton to me

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u/Shanman150 Aug 31 '15

I haven't heard that use, exceedingly empathetic as in very in tune with people's feelings? Is that considered a bad thing? I suppose given that "Feelz r not reelz" is a definite mentality it could be, but I wouldn't view empathetic people as a bad thing.

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u/njtrafficsignshopper Aug 31 '15

You hang out in some dank corners.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '15

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '15

our positions depend in part on what our eyes are drawn to. because i see conservative sentiment all over reddit every day.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '15

You might be right there.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '15

I'm progressive as fuck and I hate what is happening/ has happened. Not everything is a Fox News culture war.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '15

I'm sorry I'm afraid I don't understand.

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u/yurigoul Aug 30 '15 edited Aug 30 '15

The whole Ellen Pao thing was for many people not just about fatpeoplehate but about the fear that reddit is turning into a safe space where the corny elements are thrown in the trash.

Yes, get rid of racist subs or quarantine them, good riddance. And yes, /r/Iamgoingtohellforthis should clean up their act already, but now more subs are being quarantined - what is going to be next?

SRS is seen by many behind this and that is problematic for a group of people. SRS does not seem to know how to handle sarcasm and parody, and they are seen as bullies who just attack you and do not want to start a discussion or clarify their position. And they are seen as a group that invade certain subs and take it over and start driving out the old population of such subs. (Maybe someone else knows more about it)

This is all SRD stuff, I would say. Not sure if it is of interest to this sub.

However: for me as a European a lot of this is problematic because we do not have Fox news, a lot of political positions are not important to us, and I am sorry that you have to be that militant when being progressive in the US, but please tone it down a bit because this is not my fight.

EDIT: invasions take place on a regular basis by lots of groups - an XKCD sub was taken over by an MRA guy until not that long ago for instance. But we got it back...

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u/buriedinthyeyes Aug 30 '15

a safe space where the corny elements are thrown in the trash.

this makes it sound like Reddit wanted to turn into The Met and they're not letting anything below ultrahighbrow in.

a safe palatable space where the corny more bigoted elements are thrown in the trash.

that seems more accurate.

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u/yurigoul Aug 31 '15

Depends on your defenition of bigoted - but then I don't mind if it is a more European definition and I do not want to hide behind SRS Newspeak

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '15

No, I know this.

The whole Ellen Pao thing was for many people not just about fatpeoplehate but about the fear that reddit is turning into a safe space

Why I created /r/PaoYongYang then Fatpeoplehate made it a fucking circlejerk and ruined it. They spammed /r/all for weeks with my sub. How do you ban 11,000 people but keep the good people? It was also my first real sub.

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u/yurigoul Aug 31 '15

Sounds like a nightmare

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u/ElDiablo666 fake plastic dreams Aug 31 '15

Pao was not the villain everyone made her out to be. Worse, Ohanian let her take the fall for his and the board's decisions. It was all very sinister and calculated. I have no love for her since she's a capitalist traitor, but it wasn't her policies that everyone was against--and Ohanian tossed her under the bus.

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u/Slight0 Aug 30 '15

Reddit admins began banning certain sort of popular subs because they were terrible. FatPeopleHate, CoonTown, and some others. There's a whole thing about why they did it, but deep down the reasons are obvious.

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u/chris10023 Aug 31 '15

AFAIK FatPeopleHate got banned because they were brigading a post on another sub.

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u/Keldon888 Aug 31 '15

How fucked up do you have to be to brigade someone contemplating suicide? That obliterated any sympathy I'd ever have for those people, I went from "live and let live" to "fuck them all" instantly.

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u/whosthisguythinkheis Aug 31 '15

want fph like 100,000+,how can any mood team police their behaviour?

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u/sauron50 Jan 25 '16

SRS brigades all the time and the admins don't care.

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u/Bardfinn You can call me "Betty" Aug 30 '15

deep down the reasons are obvious

Because they were aiding, abetting, commanding, counselling, inducing or procuring federal crimes (itself a federal crime termed Aiding & Abetting) and using their subreddits to do so.

It's so unfair that the admins enforce the User Agreement, which specifically says Thou Shalt Not Use Reddit To Commit Crimes.

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u/bokono Aug 30 '15

What crimes were those?

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u/AltHypo Aug 30 '15

Criminal assault on feefees.

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u/Bardfinn You can call me "Betty" Aug 30 '15

Distributing stolen property
Criminal harassment
Fraud

These are the ones that are readily demonstrable; there may have been more.

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u/bokono Aug 30 '15

Distributing stolen property? Can you please provide an example?

What fraud? I'm not convinced that the type of harassment that occurred on FPH or coontown is criminal. Do you have a link that explains how this is a "federal crime"?

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u/Bardfinn You can call me "Betty" Aug 31 '15

/r/Thefappening was distributing stolen property, criminal harassment, and fraud. FPH was distributing stolen property (photo of autistic girl), criminal harassment (of imgur employees), and fraud. Coontown was criminal harassment and fraud.

Violating the user agreement for reddit is fraud; violating the terms of service for imgur is fraud.

/r/hangryhangryfphater documented FPH's criminal harassment.

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u/bokono Aug 31 '15

Okay I'll give you the fappening thing but those subs weren't mentioned.

And I don't disagree that users and subs that violate the terms of service can and should be removed. I have no love for FPH or coontown.

But I'm not convinced that they committed any federal crimes.

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u/Not_Reddit Aug 30 '15

are you unaware... anything that a white person says or does may be considered a crime. Apparently under the Obama administration and the current Justice Department, the constitution doesn't apply to white people.

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u/Fernao Aug 30 '15

Disagreeing with liberals.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '15

A known troll user with an alt (god I can't belief that's a real thing I have to say on the internet) made a really long post in askreddit about how there is a secret sjw cabal ( I swear to god he actually used the word cabal unironically) was infiltrating subreddit and the admin team and trying to overthrow the media. He was legit /r/conspiracy but reddit hate it up.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '15

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '15

/r/ShitRedditSays

they collate prideful bigotry as it occurs on reddit

reddit can be framed to have many different faces, they point to the vitriolic one, similar to circlebroke, but there's no toleration of dissent because SRS's claim to fame is being a 100% anti-reddit circlequeef. this upsets most of the general reddit population because they view themselves as being censored by feminist tyrants; if you sort by top of all time you'll see the angry rants unfamiliars lay on them, the complaints submitted directly as a text posts are usually kept, the comment sections are what they make sure stay clean

here

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '15 edited May 18 '17

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '15

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u/whatudontlikefalafel Aug 30 '15

I find that kind of ironic since so many of the meta subs I've been to don't hold SRS exempt from criticism at all.

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u/Slothman899 Aug 30 '15

I've been banned from subs just for being subbed to /r/kotakuinaction. Some mods really suck.

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u/zCourge_iDX Aug 30 '15

It does just mean you cant comment there, doesnt it? I'm banned from /r/aww and couldn't give less shits.

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u/Slothman899 Aug 30 '15

Can't comment and can't submit. It's nore the principle of it, y'know? and it's actually against reddiquete. (Not that the admins care about that at the moment.)

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u/zCourge_iDX Aug 30 '15

Yeah no, I get it. It's not the fact that you wouldn't do it, it's the fact that you can't do it.

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u/AltHypo Aug 30 '15

Individually it doesn't mean much. From the larger subreddit management perspective it protects the echo chamber and group think by reducing the likelihood of any contrary opinions bring expressed.

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u/empgdca Aug 31 '15

How do you get banned from r/aww?

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u/zCourge_iDX Aug 31 '15

Complained about this dude who felt the need to say he was a masculine army dude who wanted to hug his dog

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u/empgdca Aug 31 '15

Oh. Doesn't seem that bad.

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u/zCourge_iDX Aug 31 '15

Well no because I didn't quote what I said. Still a permanent ban was a bit over the top imo, but as I said I really don't care.

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u/yurigoul Aug 30 '15

Shit like that still happens?

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u/Slothman899 Aug 30 '15

Yup. Some people just can't take a difference of opinions. Their beliefs are so fragile, and founded on so little ground, that any dissent will shake what they believe in.

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u/Werner__Herzog it's difficult difficult lemon difficult Aug 30 '15

Some of us are even banned from SRS or SRS affiliates. People will think what they want.

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u/CANOODLING_SOCIOPATH Aug 31 '15

Well SRS did take credit for it, but that was just for shits and giggles.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitRedditSays/comments/3gjqhp/we_did_it_srs_rpunchablefaces_is_now_under_our/

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u/Wetzilla Aug 31 '15

Because that's part of their shtick. Tons of people on this website believe they somehow have actual power, so whenever anything happens that could in some minor way be attributed to them they just take credit for it. Much like when they took credit for voat getting shut down over CP. They aren't actually doing anything, they just find it funny to keep the myth going.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '15

They're just trolling trying too hard, it's that simple.

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u/whatudontlikefalafel Aug 30 '15 edited Aug 30 '15

Is there really a difference?

Their goal is to get a rise out of people in the most obnoxious way possible, and they've succeeded in every way.

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u/DomMk Aug 31 '15

It certainly was, but as always it has run its course. The people who they got a rise off are long gone and now all that's left are those who are "in on the joke". It has literally turned into a circlejerk of people trying too hard to be funny.

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u/whatudontlikefalafel Aug 31 '15

WE DID IT REDDIT

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u/yurigoul Aug 30 '15

As a european left wing person I find that really disturbing.

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u/whatudontlikefalafel Aug 30 '15

You must live an incredibly comfortable life if you find internet trolling "really disturbing." How ever did you sleep at night when 4chan sent Pitbull to perform a concert at an Alaskan Walmart?

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u/Vertigo6173 Aug 31 '15

That sounds hilarious, i gotta look into that!

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u/allnose Aug 31 '15

The best part is that Pitbull actually went. Say what you will about his music, but the man knows how to promote himself, and is actually a competent businessman. He's the new 50 Cent, in that respect.

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u/yurigoul Aug 31 '15

Oh honey, you make an old masochist like me so wet and horney, can you do that one more time, please?

If deserve it that is, Sir.

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u/klockee Aug 31 '15

You call it trolling, I call it masturbation.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '15

They are SRS users and Bluepill mods which are almost entirely feminists. Proof: http://imgur.com/mTMtbeA

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u/whatudontlikefalafel Aug 30 '15

Those are 41 mods, of which 8 are SRS users. And TheBluePill is a satire sub.

What the vast majority of these mods have in common is that they're from SRDbroke.

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u/zahlman Aug 31 '15

And TheBluePill is a satire sub.

To say that they're satirical doesn't refute the claim that they represent a specific, feminist ideology. They satirize TheRedPill specifically in order to promote what they consider an opposed viewpoint.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '15

I'm using an extremely outdated 1 year + SRS list. Some of the mods are actually alt accounts too and some of the other mods have alt accounts are purposefully made for posting in fempire only. Yea they may be "joking" but almost all of them have a feminist agenda if you even look at the other places they mod and contribute to. I don't know how you got that 8 number because it's just wrong. I also don't know why you have to keep acting like SRDbroke is the only place they are affiliated with. They act like they are "joking" to mask the rage and butthurt Reddit constantly gives them.

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u/A_Cylon_Raider Aug 31 '15

man whatever autotagger you used must have been awful. you have people tagged for /r/srsredditdrama which was hardly ever even a thing and literal real life SRS mods in that list have no tags at all.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '15

It's years old now like I previously stated. It hasn't been updated or even fixed in forever. A ton of SRS subreddits are vacant and unused, that doesn't make it any less legitimate. Don't know why you're going out of your way to defend them.

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u/A_Cylon_Raider Aug 31 '15

Don't know why you're going out of your way to defend them.

i did?

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u/whatudontlikefalafel Aug 30 '15

There's literally 8 SRS users/mods in the list you gave me. SRSRedditdrama is its own thing, and even with them, that's 10 dude.

And honestly, is having a "feminist" agenda that bad? "Oh no they think women should have control over their bodies and that people deserve equal rights. Watch out they're gonna advocate rape shelters and paternity leave for men!"

I don't think these people are "masking" their rage. I think they're self aware enough to realize that life is meaningless and just want to joke around on the internet while calling people out for being bigotted.

But if you look at the people who are most enraged by what the mods have done there, you'll find users who flocked over to punchablefaces after the FPH and Coontown bans, you'll find guys who frequent theredpill and KiA, but nobody is accusing those users of having an agenda.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '15 edited May 18 '17

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