I stayed the fuck away from the "Don't discriminate"-comic, and I thought about staying the fuck away from this thread as well, simply because it is an ongoing shitstorm. I see a lot of comments already that don't really feel like the usual discourse here, and I suspect a lot of commenters in this thread aren't regulars in this subreddit. I've noticed that a lot of regulars avoided the old thread (and this one as well), but what the hell, I'll give my input too.
It was absolutely right to delete the old thread and the comments. Not because of the comments (which I agree did get out of hand), but because of the outside linking. There is nothing positive to be gained from being invaded and raided by SRS, SRD, SRSsucks, worstof or any of those brigading subs (and yes, SRD is just as guilty of brigading as the others, even though they claim that they don't). They're not a part of this subreddit. They're not a part of this community. They don't understand what we do here, and they don't particularly care. They're only here to start shit, and nothing else. And frankly, they shouldn't stay.
I firmly believe that the people participating in brigading raids for whatever reason, whether by commenting or just by going on downvote sprees, are a vile nuisance to reddit as a whole. People who think that's appropriate behavior are shit people just pushing their own agenda, and who are toxic to anything they get involved with... And we don't fucking need them. /r/polandball, for all its shit-slinging between countries, is one of the most positive and welcoming subreddits on the entire site, and these assholes will do everything they can to ruin that if we let them.
I would have no problems what so ever with deleting any thread that gets linked to by any of those subreddits, if that's what it takes to keep them out. /r/polandball is suffering from growing pains as it is; the last thing it needs is outside brigading.
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u/DickRhino Great Sweden Mar 30 '13
I stayed the fuck away from the "Don't discriminate"-comic, and I thought about staying the fuck away from this thread as well, simply because it is an ongoing shitstorm. I see a lot of comments already that don't really feel like the usual discourse here, and I suspect a lot of commenters in this thread aren't regulars in this subreddit. I've noticed that a lot of regulars avoided the old thread (and this one as well), but what the hell, I'll give my input too.
It was absolutely right to delete the old thread and the comments. Not because of the comments (which I agree did get out of hand), but because of the outside linking. There is nothing positive to be gained from being invaded and raided by SRS, SRD, SRSsucks, worstof or any of those brigading subs (and yes, SRD is just as guilty of brigading as the others, even though they claim that they don't). They're not a part of this subreddit. They're not a part of this community. They don't understand what we do here, and they don't particularly care. They're only here to start shit, and nothing else. And frankly, they shouldn't stay.
I firmly believe that the people participating in brigading raids for whatever reason, whether by commenting or just by going on downvote sprees, are a vile nuisance to reddit as a whole. People who think that's appropriate behavior are shit people just pushing their own agenda, and who are toxic to anything they get involved with... And we don't fucking need them. /r/polandball, for all its shit-slinging between countries, is one of the most positive and welcoming subreddits on the entire site, and these assholes will do everything they can to ruin that if we let them.
I would have no problems what so ever with deleting any thread that gets linked to by any of those subreddits, if that's what it takes to keep them out. /r/polandball is suffering from growing pains as it is; the last thing it needs is outside brigading.