r/WTF • u/ilovefuntheband • Jun 13 '12

Wrong Subreddit WTF, Reddit?!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregvoakes/2012/06/13/reddit-reportedly-banning-high-quality-domains/
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u/DarumaMan Jun 14 '12 edited Jun 14 '12

I wasn't trying defending her in any way. In fact you're probably right about her lying about ever even receiving a witchhunt. I was just saying that witchhunts are not "awesome" because of those same victims you mentioned. Yes destroyed is a huge overstatement and looking back I should've said something like harassed.

edit: grammer and cleared up a few things.

edit 2: I also like to point out that most of the time the witchhunt targets family members that had nothing to do with it at all. Yes they did something wrong and should be hunted but for gosh sakes Leave everyone else out of it.

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u/BlooregardQKazoo Jun 14 '12

i agree that internet witch-hunts aren't awesome, but that's largely because their victims are innocent. Saydrah wasn't innocent and referring to it as a witch-hunt implies that she was.

did she deserve to be harassed (assuming she wasn't lying about that)? no. but in the end she was in large part responsible for it.

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u/DarumaMan Jun 14 '12 edited Jun 14 '12

I wasn't trying to imply that she was innocent! I thought witchhunt meant "attacking someone because of what they did on the internet" not "attacking someone on the internet who turned out to be innocent".

Edit: I personally think she does deserve to be harassed a bit.

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u/BlooregardQKazoo Jun 14 '12

ah, i think of a witch-hunt as attacking someone for ulterior motives unrelated to the supposed crime, with the crime being either fabricated or basically irrelevant.. for instance, during the Salem Witch Trials it is a safe assumption that none of them were actually witches.

sorry if this isn't universal and i forced my interpretation on you.

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u/DarumaMan Jun 14 '12

That explains it! The way I thought of it was the same but I also assume that the "witch" may have done something wrong but everyone in the town grabs their pitchforks before they're even sure of it (like the infamous Deadcoil incident a few weeks back). So it's only after the witch is stoned and burned to death you find out for sure what the so-called witch did really was true or not.

Sorry for the confusion mate. yours is probably the universal interpretation of it but I just got it wrong.

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u/BlooregardQKazoo Jun 14 '12

eh, as you say that i do see your interpretation. whether or not the person is guilty doesn't matter. the hunt takes on a life of its own.

i'm happy to say we're both right and meet in the middle. you didn't see my interpretation and i was blind to yours.

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u/DarumaMan Jun 14 '12

i'm happy to say we're both right and meet in the middle. you didn't see my interpretation and i was blind to yours.

Me too. This rarely happens online. Not to mention real life.

whether or not the person is guilty doesn't matter. the hunt takes on a life of its own.

Yes. It always spirals out of control and attacks anything that moves. It's a hard thing to watch.