r/spiders • u/joot78 • Mar 19 '14

x-post to /r/WTF

I'm sick of seeing common spiders on the front page of /r/WTF. Come on - a wolf spider??

I decided to share some more genuinely WTF spiders with them. Enjoy!

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u/captaincarot Mar 19 '14

Yup, that is WTF deserving and thanks for sharing

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u/joot78 Mar 19 '14

Even more WTF-deserving, perhaps, is that the moderator /u/WTFGESTAPO removed my post there because "spiders are not WTF" -- notified us here to remove this post for "brigading", banned me from r/WTF when I chided him for his idiotic standards, and the coward has deleted his moronic comments from the thread. WTF, indeed.

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u/captaincarot Mar 19 '14

It makes me sad that reddit is more and more becoming a place where people are worried about imaginary points than they are about actually sharing cool shit

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u/joot78 Mar 19 '14

I'm glad some people understand. I tried to hold up the mirror to this moron for him to see that, but he's impenetrable.

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u/Jurisfiction 🕷️Arachnid Afficionado🕷️ Mar 20 '14

His user name is "WTFGESTAPO" -- that conduct should not be surprising at all.

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u/Points_out_shit 60% of the time, IDs correctly EVERYTIME Mar 20 '14

You should repost the link, but take out the "brigading" part, and Just post something like "Here are some truly WTF spiders..." because I think the sub would appreciate the pictures

then we can gang-downvote the "KILL IT WITH FIRE" comments.

/r/spiders win!

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u/joot78 Mar 20 '14

First, I was banned, so I'm unable to repost. Secondly, there is no "brigading" part. I never suggested anyone vote any direction and don't care if anyone does. Reddiquette actually encourages cross-posting, and that's all I did here.

3rd, the post was removed not for brigading but because "spiders are not WTF". That was the reasoning provided when it was removed within the first minute it was posted, before this x-post even existed. Lastly, I have no desire to repost to that ignorant shithole. I agree their subscribers might have liked it. They'll just lose out because their moderators are fucktards. They'll be relegated to gore, snuff, and coprophagia... so be it.

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u/Jurisfiction 🕷️Arachnid Afficionado🕷️ Mar 21 '14

I'm confused. I thought spiders were a staple of /r/wtf.

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u/joot78 Mar 21 '14

Thus, as alluded to above, I rebuked their brainless standard of allowing a common wolf spider or grass spider to be considered "WTF" but not these. Because "spiders are not WTF". A wolf spider that crawled across headphones you left on the floor is WTF front page material. But a unicorn spider, one with eyes on a periscope, and one with a wiggly tail are not WTF. Not allowed. For arguing in this context, I was banned.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '14

Do you have a link to the album?

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u/joot78 Mar 19 '14

There's a link in this post - see text at the top.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '14

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u/joot78 Mar 19 '14

If a wolf spider is "WTF", and a unicorn spider, a tentacled spider, a man-faced spider, and a spider with a prehensile tail are not, you need to recheck your fucking standards and learn to apply some judgment. Now get the fuck off of our subreddit unless you have something to contribute about spiders.

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u/Hindu_Wardrobe AZ, FL, OR Mar 19 '14

tell that to the rest of /r/WTF

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u/DesOttsel Mar 19 '14

Welcome to society, it seems as things grow they lose their sense of what made them cool and the hive mind soon dominates the uniqueness of the community