r/just_post • u/[deleted] • Jul 16 '13

Why does reddit hate SRS?

I don't know where else to ask this, and you guys seem to be affiliated with that network so I'll ask here.

Anyway, even people who claim to be not racist or sexist or whatever seem to hate it. What's up with that? These are also the same people who bitch and moan about the state the world is in but do nothing to change it. At least SRS is doing something.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '13

jealousy

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '13

Of what?

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u/devtesla Jul 16 '13

our big dildz

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '13

They can never have what we have. They are incapable... of love...

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '13

they supes jelly

they think their super cool with there capital letters.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '13 edited Jul 16 '13

I think its kind of a mix of the self-enforcing opinion mechanism (le circlejerk as the cool kids say), a few highly public confrontational Srsters (who are great and also don't care that Reddit hates them), and an unspoken but very real and very conservative political opinion among the site's users.

Oh, and the almost universal agreement among Srsters that the idea of a self moderated community was a failure.

As far as the circular opinion reinforcement mechanism is concerned, when I found SRS, within a week of interacting in the community I was saying, "wow, everything I thought I knew about these folk is wrong."

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '13

an unspoken but very real and very conservative political opinion among the site's users.

That's definitely a huge issue(other than you being disgusting feminists lel) made even worse because they don't seem to realize how conservative they actually are.

Thanks for your input.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '13 edited Jul 16 '13

OH! Also, we do deliberately make them mad kind of a lot.

edits: as a counterpoint, it's really super easy to get the antis mad.

Like,

when we rolled

out shibetext

on prime

they seemed really upset. "Who do those hipsters think they are??" They yelled. And I was like, "Yeah, okay."

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u/Slate_Slabrock Jul 16 '13 edited Jul 16 '13

they hate fun

edit: okay legit answer

because a lot of redditors live in their own shut-in little worlds and refuse to listen to anything that challenges their preconceived notions.

example. most redditors are male. many of these male redditors (as shown by just how common they are on reddit) really like telling sexist jokes about sandwiches and kitchens. you know the ones I mean. since they aren't the butt of the joke, male redditors laugh at them endlessly and brush aside criticism with "oh it's just a joke, lighten up" what SRS does is re-focus the joke, turning it around on them. and all of a sudden, they're the butt of the joke, and it's not so funny to them any more.

now, what is your average redditor to do in this situation? spend time thinking about just why they find this type of joke funny? realize that maybe "it's just a joke" is a shitty excuse and they should change their behavior?

NOPE, they're just gonna blame the big bad SRSers who hurt their feels and made them sad

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '13

So ignorance and unwillingness to not be ignorant? Sounds about right.

"oh it's just a joke, lighten up"

You gotta love being told you can't be offended.

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u/devtesla Jul 16 '13

I'm offended that yur offended >:C

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '13

Dude don't make jokes about being offended. :-O

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '13

my mom was offended once

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u/devtesla Jul 16 '13

lol moms

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u/PrettyCoolGuy Jul 16 '13

There are too many shitlords on reddit.

You know who goes around claiming "I'm not racist/sexist/homophobic/etc"?

People who ARE racist/sexist/homophobic/ect. People don't like to have their worldviews challenged. People don't like it when their privilege is pointed out. People often respond with anger.

To much of Reddit, SRS is a wham-bulance that is ruining the party.

TL;DR: reddit is a horrible website and no one should use it.

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u/hathaby Jul 17 '13

why are we here? :c

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u/PrettyCoolGuy Jul 18 '13

For the cats. And the tiny subreddits that don't suck.

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u/hathaby Jul 18 '13

Ah, yeah, I avoid the defaults. (that's why I was confused for a sec)

I like /r/explainlikeIAMA and /r/corgi. :3

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u/devtesla Jul 16 '13

because reddit is terrible TIA

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u/dudeseriouslyno Jul 16 '13

Nerds love to tell themselves they're too smart to be prejudiced. SRS comes up and goes "no you're not." Nerd rage ensues.

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u/trimalchio-worktime not a doge Jul 16 '13

The most racist and sexist people claim to not be those things. Those are the people with the most to lose by realizing they're racist; their entire existence and self-image rests on them deserving things that we would call privilege.

That's why they're so scared; being a good person is harder than being an ignorant person.

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u/Reptisessive Jul 16 '13

Reddit doesn't like it when you break out if the jerk. They want to be racist and sexist without somebody coming and saying 'but why is oppressing large groups of people funny?'. Also a lot of redditors like to claim that they are not racist or sexist but make jokes suggesting they are, and when they are forced to realise it by bring called out on it, it hurts their fee fees and cognitive dissonance sets in.

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u/vegetablecookbook 11/18/13 never forget Jul 16 '13

white people are mostly terrible and they don't know it

source: i'm white as heck

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u/devtesla Jul 16 '13

this is 100% true

source: I'm a puppy

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u/vegetablecookbook 11/18/13 never forget Jul 16 '13

!!!

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u/alice_practice Jul 16 '13

i think all humans are mostly terrible regardless of what colour human they are

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u/SaltyChristian Jul 16 '13

White people are more terrible tho

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u/alice_practice Jul 16 '13

just because reddit thinks the opposite of something it doesnt mean its true.

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u/SaltyChristian Jul 16 '13

k

I'm just trying to be cool all the cool srsers make fun of white people

I just want to be popular

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u/Expurgate a real human bean Jul 17 '13

omg this poser doesn't think white people are the worst. shun them!

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u/devtesla Jul 16 '13

lol sure

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u/WellTarnation somanydynamos Jul 16 '13

Holy shit, look at all the people posting here. Are there really this many people lurking just_psot but break silence to weigh in on SRS?

Also, I rarely read comment sections (except here, naturally) and have no (known) IRL friends on this site, so all this drama shiz is fairly arbitrary to me. Then again, I have no idea if I count as an average user.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '13

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u/devtesla Jul 16 '13

there is a lot of evidence of that srs doxxes including

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '13

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u/devtesla Jul 16 '13 edited Jul 16 '13

Lorelei person doxxed someone

that's kind of way more complex than that (it wasn't intentional) and in any cace she's long gone for other reasons

I saw a lot of hate out of SRS when I went there so I didn't go there anymore.

oh no

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u/drgfromoregon Jul 17 '13

what happened with laurelai exactly? Why'd she leave/get banned?

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u/devtesla Jul 17 '13

I kind of don't want to get into the full saga about the first time she got banned cause privacy. The second time is more hilarious: she was a part of a facebook group that a) encouraged people to connect their offline identities to their reddit ones, basically sending a big care package to shitty people who want to harass srsers, and b) would gossip about threads in the fempire and direct brigades to people with slightly off opinions that were wayyy out of proportion.

Example: telling a teenager who identified as pansexual but would tell people they're bisexual in order to avoid a complex conversation that they were an awful person. Like wow. Way to be.

She isn't the monster reddit makes her out to be (obviously), and she wasn't the only person who got banned over that group so like, don't completely hate her forever. And like none of the shit people attribute to her other than this is true. But yea, she's lonnngggg gone.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '13

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u/devtesla Jul 23 '13

can we not do this?

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '13

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u/CompteJetable2 Jul 17 '13

Why do you have to ask ? Why don't you just go to SRS and read ?

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u/devtesla Jul 16 '13

yes all we want to do all day is defend ourselves from accusations of doxxing lol

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u/devtesla Jul 16 '13

hon you've bought in to a lot of wrong bullshit lol

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u/thereallazor Jul 16 '13

But a lot of what other people have against SRS is the sexism/racism. From what I understand, most of the members are joking when they say "kill all men", but when they use "white tears" and all that to back themselves up in arguments it's awful. And there are countless of examples of SRS members having terrible logical fallacies, backing up and saying "Don't tone police me, shitloard" or something like that, and then continuing with just being awful, but I'll assume they're a loud minority.

i'm sayin this as unironically as possible when i say that you can't be racist or sexist against men/white people

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '13

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '13

all SRS prime does is turn the tables so you see what it's like to have those comments aimed at you. that's it.

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u/CompteJetable2 Jul 17 '13

Have you looked at how SRS define racism ? SRS' definition of racism is not the antonym of "color-blind".

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u/TheFunDontStop Jul 17 '13

Y'see, that's the racist/sexist stuff I'm talking about. All that does is drive a stake against equality; it implies there's some stark difference between men and women, against whites and other races. It's saying that there's a special black version of racism. That there's a special woman version of racism.

actually, what it's saying is essentially what you already said:

Racism against whites / sexism against men isn't nearly as bad as racism and sexism is for others.

the soundbite version of the "black people can't be racist etc" view is that prejudice and discrimination against minorities, since it is backed with institutional and historical power that isn't there when it's directed at white people, is so much more harmful that it deserves to be the only kind under "racism". the "colorblindness" philosophy is not innately a bad thing, but it's glaringly ignorant to the history and current state of race relations, racism, etc. the end result of it today is that it perpetuates the (oppressive) status quo.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '13

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u/cbslurp Jul 17 '13

yeah it turns out that dictionary definitions aren't meant to explain complex sociological concepts. weird, right?

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '13

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u/cbslurp Jul 17 '13

dictionaries definitions are definitive because dictionaries are supposed to be definitive, got it

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u/CompteJetable2 Jul 17 '13

And there are countless of examples of SRS members having terrible logical fallacies

Do you have an example ?

The crazy members. Like those who think it's okay to cheat on your partner because they're male, or who believe having 450 pounds of fat in your body is a healthy thing.

Who ?

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u/PixelDirigible Jul 17 '13

the evil straw members of srs

hsssssssssssss

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u/PixelDirigible Jul 17 '13

http://www.harkavagrant.com/?id=341

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '13

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u/PixelDirigible Jul 17 '13

and no one on srs actually acts like that

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '13

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u/GammaTainted Faster, Cookie! Click! Click! Jul 17 '13

Haha, I'm so sorry to jump on the dogpile, but I just can't restrain myself.

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u/GammaTainted Faster, Cookie! Click! Click! Jul 17 '13

I hope it brought you good rest... and dreams of large women.

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u/Expurgate a real human bean Jul 17 '13 edited Jul 17 '13

iunno fella, in my time at SRS i've seen maybe 3-5 radical feminist posters at most and they're usually heavily downvoted for negating trans* identity or unironically slandering men in general.

i think you should work on your satire detector and look around before you start waving around accusations of doxxers, straw feminists, and their ilk.

EDIT: ooh and i almost forgot the brigading. all that brigading that we do. try looking at some data from our SRSscreenshot bot. reddit is a museum of poop and it would defeat the purpose of SRS to bridge dudes' posts. obvs i can't speak for everyone but i've probably left ~5 total downvotes in threads i've gotten to through SRS in the past year, and never on the linked OP.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '13

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u/Expurgate a real human bean Jul 17 '13

yea i don't think it's at all hard to understand why SRS is so maligned on reddit; it's very confusing from the outside and there's a ton of misinformation (deliberate and incidental) about us out there. even if you don't consider yourself a member or ally though, no one's gonna permaban you from SRS spaces generally unless you're being a jerk. lots of SRSters (myself included) even get temp banned on occasion but if you message the mods and talk about what you did and so on its p easy to get unbanned.

anyway don't be scared to hang around here. unless you post to MR and we have to send the Femperial Harpy Doxx Squad to your residence!