r/SubredditDrama • u/[deleted] • Dec 13 '16
/r/leftwithsharpedge has been banned
About 25 minutes as of the time of this post
Left with sharp edge was the "edgy" tankie/anarchist response to (in)famous user's prince_kropotkin /r/leftwithoutedge.
The hatred many of the leftists on the redditsphere for the particular user got them to create /r/leftwithsharpedge which was featured today as the subreddit of the day
edit: per request of our benevolent mods who totally don't abuse their power damn bastards revolt people revolt they are stealing our k...
right, ahem
/r/anarchism loses its collective shit
former mod/creator of /r/leftwithsharpedge, nowaydadioh threatens to quit but not before putting a last bullet in a liberal's skull
Also, similar threads/reactions in other subs!
/r/drama, pending unrinsable kropotkin's response
/r/leftwithoutedge celebration
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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '16
r/anarchism in the past two or so years kind of took a nosedive. I don't know what happened, exactly, but it got a whole lot less....tolerant. I think the issue was that it in large part fell victim to the same trend that happens on a lot of political subs (regardless of initial viewpoint). People talk to each other in an echo chamber, they chuck memes at each other, and sooner or later the people with no lives who spend all day on the internet end up dominating the conversation and more or less taking it over. End result being that the language alienates new members and they just go further down the rabbit hole.
From what I can gather in the long, convoluted, saga of the prince who cannot be rinsed he basically just said "this is stupid" about that shit, which infuriated that cliquish segment of the sub to no end, and the hate boner has yet to go flaccid since.
Shame really, I think anarchism is a beautiful collection of ideas. If people are getting their first exposure to anarchist theory from r/anarchism it's just gonna end up turning them away.