fatpeoplehate mega thread, all fatpeoplehate discussion about the subs being banned can happen here. All other posts about it will be removed.
450 2015-06-11 by Flytape
Everyone is very upset/excited about these subs being banned so you're welcome to discuss it all here in this thread.
Unfortunately the massive volume of posts about the exact same thing has made /r/conspiracy unusable for its regular users, so we are going to be removing all the FPH posts and we will leave this sticky here until its no longer necessary.
If one of you FPH8ers want to write up a huge synopsis that you feel covers this situation better than this sticky, COPY MY TITLE and I'll replace this sticky with yours.
http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/39en60/if_you_are_visiting_rconspiracy_for_the_1st_time/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBmScggN-dc (boogie2988's video reaction)
EDIT: SORRY GUYS
I'm unsticking this post because I've been overruled and all the posts I've removed have been restored.
Check public mod logs for more info.
256 comments
120 stopdropnrofl 2015-06-11
It's simple - just stop buying reddit gold, contact Reddit's sponsors, and demand Ellen Pao step down if you're that upset.
39 [deleted] 2015-06-11
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29 OWNtheNWO 2015-06-11
No one it's a spite campaign by plebbit shills and/or I suspect that the guilding system itself may be nothing but a front at this point and most guilding is just some money funneling operation by some umbrella corp owned by plebbit, and it just auto guilds anyone saying to stop buying reddit gold (test).
19 ronintetsuro 2015-06-11
I have never seen so much gold given out so freely in this sub.
The game is well afoot.
9 OWNtheNWO 2015-06-11
I'm just waiting to see if I get guilded again (most likely automated) or if there is actually some toolbag plebbit gold fairy admin afoot.
4 ronintetsuro 2015-06-11
I don't understand the consumer-side benefit to reddit gold.
I mean, I get it enriches Conde-Naste and allows a level of propaganda management, but from a user level reddit gold is pointless because RES exists.
4 OWNtheNWO 2015-06-11
That's why I have a sinking suspicion that the whole thing is about as real as most big accounts twitter followers.
2 drummer1248 2015-06-11
Yeah fuck getting gold.....
7 The-Prophet-Muhammad 2015-06-11
... Yeah something is going on. I don't like it. I feel like we're all being fucked with.
1 ronintetsuro 2015-06-11
Flat earth wasn't working, so now this.
0 PlantCurious 2015-06-11
It is absolutely fascinating watching the paranoid delusions run rampant inside your skulls, each new delusion amplifying the ones before it. If anything you don't like happens, it's proof of a vast plot to destroy freedom. Your world must be very interesting.
4 The-Prophet-Muhammad 2015-06-11
LOL stop making something out of nothing. Someone IS going around fucking with everyone, giving them gold.
5 PlantCurious 2015-06-11
It's not someONE, it's many people. There are far more people on reddit who support the banning of FPH than oppose it. And those people tend to be very amused by the meltdown among the far-right, pro-hate crowd. And they are openly mocking people they find detestable by giving them gold at the very point when they are advocating a boycott.
1 LordPubes 2015-06-11
Im a far left socialist and loved fph. The SJWs can stick their reddit gold up their collective asses.
6 The_Secret_Hater 2015-06-11
Umbrella corporation? Lol come on now. If anything an admin is probably keeping an eye on people and is just poking people with unpaid gildings.
3 OWNtheNWO 2015-06-11
Don't you think it's oddly convenient and almost, dare I say it, automated that any post that says STOP BUYING REDDIT GOLD (test2) gets guilded? Including my post, which is my first post ever guilded.
1 The_Secret_Hater 2015-06-11
Admins can write bots man.
1 OWNtheNWO 2015-06-11
No shit. Even if it isn't some larger conspiracy with an outside corporation or something doing it, isn't it just as scandalous?
How much you want to bet that second post is guilded within an hour like the last one?
1 ILikeMyBlueEyes 2015-06-11
Is this whole stop buying Reddit gold only happening in this sub?
0 OWNtheNWO 2015-06-11
I don't know, I don't go much elsewhere on this dump.
0 MungInYourMouth 2015-06-11
No, its just hilarious, I've never bought gold, but I want to do it for all you people telling people to stop, not because I care less one way or the other, I just think its funny to fuck people.
-1 reginaldbuxley 2015-06-11
STOP BUYING REDDIT GOLD!
1 OWNtheNWO 2015-06-11
Sure I think that some plebbit shills guilding out of spite, whether they are actually donations or not is the most likely scenario, but it doesn't preclude the less likely scenario.
1 PrivilegeCheckmate 2015-06-11
Literally the name of the bad guy company in Resident Evil.
2 Lookingfortruths 2015-06-11
it would also encourage people to buy gold.. maybe they are automatically guilding people to try and encourage people to buy gold as a funny joke type thing?
To counter this whole 'dont buy gold' thing thats going on
1 groupthinkgroupthink 2015-06-11
Wonder if people are just dumping their gold they already had, or gold is some sort of laundering front :D?
0 PlantCurious 2015-06-11
LOL. I love it when people just start pulling made up shit from their asses.
-1 AssuredlyAThrowAway 2015-06-11
No one it's a spite campaign by plebbit shills and/or I suspect that the guilding system itself may be nothing but a front at this point and most guilding is just some money funneling operation by some umbrella corp owned by plebbit, and it just auto guilds anyone saying to stop buying reddit gold (test).
3 OWNtheNWO 2015-06-11
wat
Are we doing the repeater?
0 AssuredlyAThrowAway 2015-06-11
Yea testing the bot.
3 Quetzie 2015-06-11
Doesn't anyone else find it more likely that it is just regular people who buy gold for posts that say 'stop buying Reddit gold' because they think it is oh so ironic and 'funny'?
2 smarvin6689 2015-06-11
There's no way it could be this many people just doing it for "teh lulz". It has to be some rich kid with some bot handing out gold to anyone who specifically says they don't want it.
2 Quetzie 2015-06-11
Why not? You don't really need that many people. Just a beginning pranker, and then copycats. There doesn't need to be a conspiracy abut this you know.
1 AssuredlyAThrowAway 2015-06-11
Bit of a both probably.
1 OWNtheNWO 2015-06-11
lel
Hey can you re-sticky that post please since we are re-allowing all the fph posts? I sent it to modmail
15 Redhawk1000 2015-06-11
Never have and never will.
3 ImagineWaffles 2015-06-11
This is /r/conspiracy . I'm sure someone could prove how all this gold is coming from a few people's (most likely admin) accounts
8 RJPennyweather 2015-06-11
Yea it's happening all over the place in the past 2 days. Admins have the power to guild anyone at any time.
If the admins guild all the posts urging redditors to stop buying gold and start using adblock then it might catch on as a joke. Then the admins can stop giving it away for free and start raking in "lol so ironic" money
EDIT: clarity
EDIT 2: Whoever guilded me is a fucking asshole.
0 LAT3LY 2015-06-11
Gogo gadget gildbot, this is just a joke at this point. One day people will give to something great, or stop faking their giving to something small.
6 SoCo_cpp 2015-06-11
Reddit gold is for tools. Reward people with something useful that supports wow, not banks, corruption, central authority, and censorship.
+ /u/dogetipbot 2000 doge verify
3 OWNtheNWO 2015-06-11
You know what I had a chance to buy bitcoins when they were 10 cents a pop, I didn't understand what it was at the time, looking at the prices on dogecoin I'm tempted to gamble a hundred bucks on it's future value like I should have with bitcoin.
5 SoCo_cpp 2015-06-11
I previous had run my account empty, so the tip failed. Better late than never :)
+ /u/dogetipbot 2000 doge verify
2 dogetipbot 2015-06-11
[wow so verify] : /u/SoCo_cpp -> /u/mae-brussell-hustler Ð2000 Dogecoins ($0.3089) [help]
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2 Rhabdomere 2015-06-11
lmao exactly
2 Syeth 2015-06-11
To be honest, I've always been too poor to buy/give gold, but now I don't feel bad about it. Never buying/giving gold.
1 hobble420 2015-06-11
A conspiracy in and of its own
1 Balthanos 2015-06-11
I have.
1 JamesTheJerk 2015-06-11
I automatically thought that Reddit the organization was buying gold for people. That's what I would do if I were in their current position.
0 stopdropnrofl 2015-06-11
I don't know who gave it, but the gilding is not part of something else.
1 [deleted] 2015-06-11
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0 stopdropnrofl 2015-06-11
Definitely not. I lurk hella often, though.
1 [deleted] 2015-06-11
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0 stopdropnrofl 2015-06-11
Then what would explain the fact that I posted that comment here in /r/conspiracy , then got gilded minutes after?
5 [deleted] 2015-06-11
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1 cjgroveus 2015-06-11
There are people who are pro pao that are buying gold too.
3 ASK-IF-I-AM-PAULRUDD 2015-06-11
Also turn on Adblock/Ublock
1 WTFHaikus 2015-06-11
It's probably admins gilding the comments
1 Ago_Solvo 2015-06-11
It really isn't that simple, I think that's a cop out. I will stay here, and voice how I think this is a bad idea and ruin reddit, and when it comes to the point that I don't care for reddit anymore, I'll just stop using it, and so will everyone else. They're looking to sacrifice everything they had to change the business model to make this more profitable. That's great. But when you need to go against the very basis reddit was founded on, open discussion, you're basically killing your very own model and seeing what brainless retards are going to stick around to make you somewhat of a profit (which advertisers will quickly learn are the same doofy people that regurgitate everything that is spoon fed to them over and over). I actually believe that a "safe space" is in violation of the 1st Amendment, but with the internet, no one wants to address how the Constitution should apply, and they're redefining what it means to redefine what they are "legally" allowed to do. Slavery was legal at one time. They just aim to make everything that they're doing their right, even though their "right" is openly violating millions of our rights. This is what happens when falsely Corporations are deemed people, which is hugely Unconstitutional to begin with.
1 oBBKo 2015-06-11
Trolls with gold, LMAO! You have to give to him on that one.
DOWN WITH CHAIRMAN PAO!
1 srtor 2015-06-11
Fuck Ellen Pao and other SJWs in Reddit corp. Those scumbags must go. #NOTINOURNAME.
1 codydodd 2015-06-11
Hate to be a cynic, but would Ellen Pao stepping down really mean much? If the lot of you arguing she is a plant are right, wouldn't they just put in a different plant? Are we all falling for the 'throw someone under the bus' gambit? A face to distract us from the fact the problems are obviously systemic? Like it or not, we need a new reddit. Voat isn't picking up steam quite fast enough sadly. And it is also centralized, so one day it could go the same way anyway. We're all just waiting a real alternative.
79 exname 2015-06-11
So I guess I'll post this here. After r/neofag was removed the admins banned my sub /r/neoGAFInAction . The only similarity between the two subs was that they were both critical of anti-gamergate and SJW haven forum neogaf.
Absolutely no rules were broken, hell, I even setup an automoderator removing direct links to reddit and neogaf. Oh and btw, the sub was ~6 months old so they don't even have the excuse that I'm an alternative account that just created it to resurrect neofag.
So much for the "bad behavior" bullshit, huh?
20 Flytape 2015-06-11
That's pretty shit.
I heard /neofag wasn't even that bad of a sub. But I can't see for myself now because its banned.
15 exname 2015-06-11
There's an archive.is backup of my sub though. Here, witness the horrors of "harassment": https://archive.is/8N3XB
9 Flytape 2015-06-11
Wow. They banned that? Pffft
1 bigtimedime 2015-06-11
Just form another Temporary Autonomous Zone.
1 bigtimedime 2015-06-11
Read the book by Hakim Bey. Its very inspiring.
13 P_leoAtrox 2015-06-11
I've already posted this in a few other threads about the /r/fatpeoplehate banning, but I guess I'll post it one more time since this is the mega thread.
8 Vermilion 2015-06-11
It does seem odd to me that the reddit software is open source and over the years people haven't established topic-focused sites using the same software. I figured something like the Gamergate would have inspired people to at least have a second site with different management/owners.
I also ponder the death of Usenet - here you had a peer to per protocol. Why did people give that up? I mean I can understand that people didn't want to use special software - but why do people give up so easily on deep and serious conversations without corporate control?
People criticize spelling mistakes - but not low signal to noise ratios. I mean I understand it isn't unique to the Internet, what I don't understand is why people find it so difficult to recognize and change. it really isn't that hard to fund a few people to setup an alternate reddit. A lot of the hard work of the software was already completed!
6 P_leoAtrox 2015-06-11
It really is extremely bizarre to me, mainly because Reddit's original rise was centered around Digg's userbase recognizing how the corporate control was hindering serious conversation there. That was the need Reddit capitalized on (the need for a space for serious discussion), and now it's users are facing the same need but acting like they can't do anything. Like you said it'd be so easy to create an alternate reddit, and reddit itself was nothing but an alternate digg in it's inception, it really makes no sense to me how long an alternate is taking to gain ground.
TL;DR: Blaming Ellen Pao is ultimate defeatism. Blaming Pao is like acting like she's the only one that can do anything about it, as if we don't all willingly choose to go to reddit instead of a different site.
1 ILikeMyBlueEyes 2015-06-11
Not that the following text should dissuade anyone seriously considering a change, but let's say an alternative website to Reddit is created and becomes a huge success. Everyone migrates to the new site and Reddit is forgotten by many, now completely irrelevant. Now based on what I've learned, would you say that that new site will also eventually end up like Reddit? To the point of having to create yet another website to replace the site that replaced Reddit?
3 Oat 2015-06-11
Conspiracy should organize a monthly/weekly thread that reaches the front page about the current top 5 alternatives to Reddit.
2 Hedro10 2015-06-11
What were the given reasons for why /r/neofag was banned?
13 exname 2015-06-11
"Safe space", "harassment" and other SJW buzzwords.
7 hotjoelove 2015-06-11
They hurt Snorlax fee fees!
2 Kancer86 2015-06-11
Harassing and censoring people that disagree with liberal retards is the only acceptable form of harassment, apparently.
1 [deleted] 2015-06-11
/r/freespaces
Free spaces are what we are going to make. Free spaces for free people.
2 ILikeMyBlueEyes 2015-06-11
So, I goggled 'neogaf' because I have never heard of it, and if I read it correctly it's about discussing video games? Unless there is more to it, what about it did the admins feel that it deserved to be banned? I mean, with FPH, I can kinda understand. But a sub about video games? I'm confused. Please forgive my ignorance.
(Oh, and FYI, I in no way support or agree with the banning of FPH. Yeah, the users of that sub hurt a lot of fee-fees, but they could have easily just avoided and ignored that sub and its users.)
-1 Tocs_Smaillow 2015-06-11
I really wonder if the banning of the larger FPH was in some ways meant as a misdirection to draw attention away from banning the Neogaf related subreddits. Not that I agree with their justifications whatsoever, but they may have thought they had 'better reasons' for removing FPH than they would for the Neogaf stuff. Removing only the Neogaf stuff would expose them much more as taking a specific 'side'.
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14 moshinmymellow 2015-06-11
Pretty open and not completely open are not contradicting statements
9 hellaswag 2015-06-11
Reread it.
-7 moshinmymellow 2015-06-11
I dont think im the one missing something, care to explain?
9 Piggius_Maximus 2015-06-11
'pretty open platform AND free speech place,'
'Pretty open platform' and 'free speech place' are two separate statements, one indicating a pretty open platform, the other indicating a place of free speech.
1 moshinmymellow 2015-06-11
Your taking it in the wrong context. Its a pretty open platform and a pretty open free speech place. It never said it was an unrestricted or completely open free speech place.
10 [deleted] 2015-06-11
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-6 moshinmymellow 2015-06-11
Considering whats "legal" is always changing, I think its safe to say someone is choosing what "free speech" is since changing is it's constant. When i say pretty open free speech, it means with exceptions just like your legal exceptions.
5 tjp- 2015-06-11
Everyone seems to be conveniently ignoring the "but there are a few rules" part as well.
6 PostNationalism 2015-06-11
/r/circlebroke is now calling for /r/conspiracy to be removed as well for "harassment"
18 [deleted] 2015-06-11
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1 Rhabdomere 2015-06-11
Thank You! [2]
18 SteveTucci 2015-06-11
I just want to know how all these fat subs are getting banned and /r/fitness isn't. Aren't they the ultimate anti-fat sub?
3 PlantCurious 2015-06-11
Lol. It's simply amazing anyone would not be able to see the difference.
-13 teh-beast 2015-06-11
I wish /r/fitness was banned too, it upsets me.
13 [deleted] 2015-06-11
At the end of the day, reddit has the right to decide what it wants on its website, so on that principle alone I can harbor no disagreement.
I simply take issue with the soundness of such a management decision and conclude that reddit's time in the sun of boisterous discourse is over. This would not be such a big deal if such a trend wasn't happening in so many other venues these days.
I enjoyed reddit, warts and all, it was a voluntary relationship. I could choose to avoid participating in conversations I did not like.
I could either surround myself with people who shared my opinions, or rush headlong into the entrenched debates with those who disagreed with me; all this was my prerogative.
Reddit's job was to keep blatant criminal activity out of the equation while giving people a forum for open discussions and comparative exchanges of life experiences.
I think this naive policy shift will only bring with it an inevitable arbitrariness due to the nature of the politics involved. The contentious lines will quickly blur as ridiculous disputes and squabbles break out over nearly every conceivable slight.
The shifting sands of intolerance and tacit approval will create a chilling effect as the echo chamber solidifies into an irrelevant mass.
I do not envy reddit admins, but they will serve as the midwives to the birth of a lumbering monster.
Reddit can not be a champion for the free flow of ideas while simultaneously abolishing specific ideas and opinions.
Yes, reddit management will try, but they will fail and reddit will probably be in decline long before this "experiment" is over.
The drops that fill the "bucket" will also drain it.
MySpace and Digg should serve as good examples of how management decisions (or lack thereof) can kill off or retard the existence of once great things.
So, my personal tipping point has been reached and I will be deleting my account.
3 Flytape 2015-06-11
Well said
1 TheAmericanPharaoh 2015-06-11
Fuck. I actually liked what you did this time. Be the change you want to see in the world. I am not a fan of /u/Flytape but I am a fan of the real you. /r/TheDigitalParty
9 TheGeneral 2015-06-11
Don't buy reddit gold.
2 robstah 2015-06-11
Can someone explain this? Both yesterday and today the daily goal is over 100%.
2 PlantCurious 2015-06-11
Only about 2% of redditors are obsessing over this.
5 robstah 2015-06-11
There were 150k subscribed to FPH. There are an average of 1.3 million uniques a day. This does not include anyone who believes in a platform for uncensored discussion and understands that they might be next.
0 PlantCurious 2015-06-11
Whether your stats are correct or not, I do not know. But I can tell just by looking at Reddit that the meltdown, the hysterical reaction, is limited to a small handful of far-right redditors. The rest of Reddit is more or less carrying on as usual.
And outside of reddit, this story is barely a blip on the radar.
Just because the OP of this thread can't stop thinking about how freedom is being crushed by Chairman Whatever-her-name-is doesn't mean it's "a distraction," let alone a deliberate, planned distraction, from TPP.
Just face it: OP is one of those people who declares a conspiracy as a way of not facing reality. He's the kind of person who invents a conspiracy any time anything happens that he doesn't like.
Mad killer shoots up a school? 2nd Amendment fanatics don't want to face the fact that sometimes bad shit happens with guns. So it's easier to say "it's a plot by the government."
FPH gets banned? It's a planned distraction from TPP.
People start openly mocking the pro-FPH crowd by gilding them? The entire system of Reddit gold is a controlled conspiracy used to subvert dialog.
But there's a problem. You have no proof. Of any of these theories. If you want to invent a conspiracy theory to protect your feelings, that's fine. But don't expect others to believe it unless you have evidence -- or unless they share your particular obsessions and fears.
2 robstah 2015-06-11
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=reddit+fatpeoplehate
1 PlantCurious 2015-06-11
Not a blip:
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=reddit
1 robstah 2015-06-11
How old is that data?
If I go to google's front page and just type in "reddit", "reddit fatpeoplehate" is in the top 10.
Plus, we are talking about something that went on a day ago and your charts are very generic in nature and have zero claims on last modified or the likes.
0 PlantCurious 2015-06-11
That data shows all mentions of reddit since 2004.
If you want to see how much Reddit was mentioned on the internet in the past 7 days, go here:
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=reddit&date=today%207-d&cmpt=q&tz=
You can see that it's lower this week that it was last week. So, sure, there are some articles about it this week, but there were other articles last week. The total volume of reddit mentions on the internet, however, has not increased.
This is the particular obsession of a very small group of very right wing people who are convinced they are aware of a giant, global plot to crush liberty, and they see almost everything that happens as part of that plot.
I think you know as well as I do that it's delusional.
Edit: The data does not include June 11 -- today. It may be that if we look at this tomorrow, we'll see a bump from today's activity.
8 ithrowawayi 2015-06-11
Thank you for doing this. I understand where everyone is coming from, however /r/conspiracy is not the place.
If anyone is looking for their fair share of FPH, just check out /r/all
8 aristander 2015-06-11
First they came for /r/jailbait , and I said nothing because I am not a pedophile; then they came for /r/creepshots , and I said nothing because I am not a creep; then they came for /r/fatpeoplehate , and I said nothing because I'm not a hate-filled douche.
7 Redhawk1000 2015-06-11
If anyone here is moving to Voat and is interested in maintaining this community (or something similar) keep me informed. I just opened an account there (username : RedHawk ).
I think /r/conspiracy is next on the list.
2 photonasty 2015-06-11
I don't know. I almost think that /r/conspiracy will probably be safe. People usually write this subreddit off as little more than tinfoil hat quackery, so I don't think it's taken seriously enough for anyone to ban it. Sure, there's a lot of anti-corporate content and discussion, but when people think "conspiracy," they think "reptilian jew illuminati." I don't think /r/conspiracy is in any real danger.
Also, /r/fatpeoplehate apparently brigaded people or something like that. The users of /r/conspiracy seem mature enough not to do that kind of thing, which would probably get a subreddit like this banned in the current climate of Reddit.
3 nickert0n 2015-06-11
With criticisms on Israel, Keep dreaming this place is gone in like 6 months.
2 Rhabdomere 2015-06-11
Not exactly sure what happened with FPH but doxxing and brigading certainly isn't welcome around here. FPH refugees certainly shouldn't assume they're de facto welcome around here.
2 Redhawk1000 2015-06-11
They may think we're crazy in /r/conspiracy - but many people here are anti-Zionist and against Israel - any complaint by the Zionist lobby (who are much more powerful than fat people) and we're gone.
2 purefabulousity 2015-06-11
To be honest, I'm surprised that I haven't seen any of that on this sub.
7 trillbabe 2015-06-11
Am I the only one that really doesn't care what other people do with their body? I can see if its inconveniencing you, like if an obese person on the bus is taking up two seats.
I get how its more of the principle that were being "censored" and it kinda sucks, but are you truly that concerned if the lady three houses down from you is 200 pounds overweight? Or are you just on some circle jerk train? Is making fun of fat people that important to you?
1 Ozzyo520 2015-06-11
Being obese has an effect on other people though. Healthcare costs increase. A fat person and I pay the same premiums but they spend more time and money getting care. How do you think insurance companies recoup that cost? By increasing premiums. Furthermore, everything we do (or abuse) as individuals effects other people. There's restrictions on everything. I don't agree with it but that's what society has decided. New York banned sodas over a certain size. Why? Because people can't control themselves and over-indulge. And now I can't buy an extra large soda because of it.
Edit: To be clear: I don't care what other people do either. But society does. And therefore it effects me. So I end up caring.
1 Dyslexic_Empath 2015-06-11
If fat people didn't exist the health care industry would blame driving. They raise the rates because that is what the market will accept.
Being obese is not as cut and dry the corporations maintain.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2861525/
"The result of the study shows that the years the children were well fed, their own subsequent offspring grew up to be healthier and physically bigger."
"It takes only 25 to 75 years, 1 to 3 generations, not millennia, for evolution of genes to take place."
http://io9.com/how-an-1836-famine-altered-the-genes-of-children-born-d-1200001177
"Among the 1905 birth cohort, those who were grandsons of Överkalix boys who had experienced a “feast” season when they were just pre-puberty—a time when sperm cells are maturing—died on average six years earlier than the grandsons of Överkalix boys who had been exposed to a famine season during the same pre-puberty window, and often of diabetes. When a statistical model controlled for socioeconomic factors, the difference in lifespan became 32 years, all dependent simply on whether a boy’s grandfather had experienced one single season of starvation or gluttony just before puberty. It appeared that Överkalix grandfathers were somehow passing down brief but important childhood experiences to their grandsons. Bygren knew that such a suggestion would be received by some of his peers as scientific treason. DNA sequences are passed down, experiences, after all, are supposed to die with the individual. Still, the longevity findings in Överkalix were so consistent and pronounced that Bygren and two colleagues began submitting them to scientific journals. But it would be over a decade before the report appeared."
"In 2000, with his work still unpublished, Bygren contacted Marcus Pembrey, a clinical geneticist at the Institute of Child Health in London, and told him about the Överkalix data. Bygren had read Pembrey’s work on children who were missing part of the DNA sequence from chromosome 15. The baffling aspect was not that the DNA deletion caused a disease, but that which disease each child had depended on whether the DNA was missing from the chromosome 15 that came from the father, or the chromosome 15 that came from the mother. If the DNA deletion was inherited from the father, the child had Prader-Willi syndrome, which causes insatiable hunger and leads to extreme obesity. But if the identical DNA sequence deletion was inherited from the mother, it conferred Angelman syndrome, a severe mental impairment that leaves children unable to speak and with herky-jerky movement patterns. Somehow, the DNA deletion on chromosome 15 had a record of whether it came from mother or father. There was no difference in the DNA sequence at all, so something else—some memory of where the chromosome had been—was getting passed down. As with the Överkalix data, it appeared that something other than DNA was actually moving between generations."
The mass media peddles ignorance to the masses and calls it being well informed.
-1 Ozzyo520 2015-06-11
It doesn't take common sense (well apparently it does) to realize obesity causes heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, infertility, etc. Couple that with decreased physical activity and health care costs sky rocket. Obesity had been known to cause a 50% increase in cancer rates.
But yeah you're right, obesity probably doesn't cause health care costs to increase.
It's just common sense.
2 Dyslexic_Empath 2015-06-11
Clearly you read nothing that I listed as reason not to hate fat people.
being poor is the biggest cause of heart disease, HBP, high cholesterol, cancers, mental disease, and obesity etc. I know as a fact a box of mac and cheese is cheaper than a bag of regular non organic apples. But you don't see hate being promoted towards being poor. Why? because it's socially unacceptable.
Then on the other hand you have science showing that fat is a symptom of a disease.
https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_attia_what_if_we_re_wrong_about_diabetes?language=en
What I am trying to tell you is that there is no reason to hate fat people because most of the attitudes society have about obesity is based on pure ignorance.
Common sense is cultural by the way. It doesn't mean it is intelligent or true.
-1 Ozzyo520 2015-06-11
I think you're trying excuse obesity. I don't care about the causes of obesity. I know plenty of poor and uneducated people that are not obese.
My original point was that I don't care if someone chooses to be fat (and yes they choose it, ask any former fat person. It's a lifestyle choose). But the fact that it does effect me (because insurance premiums go up and isn't influenced by weight or physical activity) leads me to have some care in the subject.
You've derailed the conversation in an attempt to excuse obesity. I don't care what the cause is, but it does effect me. Whether I live in new York and can no longer buy a large soda or because my insurance premiums are higher, it has some effect on my life.
2 Dyslexic_Empath 2015-06-11
Since you are using "well fat people raise my insurance rates" excuse to justify shitty human behavior. Do you think the same for teenage boys and car insurance? If it wasn't for all the dumbass behavior of teenage boys and their cars your rates wouldn't have been so high while you were in that age bracket! of course you don't hate them nor do you understand hatred towards them .
I am trying to impart a humanistic view of a fat person. It seems to me you are trying to excuse abhorrent behavior. "It's ok to hate as long as the group is popular to hate on." "I hate so and so because of the way they look. "(you don't hate people eating unhealthy if they are thin). Most Americans are incredibly ignorant and either ignorant of their ignorance or proud of it. Many assume it's a lifestyle choice ignoring genetic facts, and socio-economic class issues.
You are just seeking ways to justify the hatred. Society will reap what it sows. I didn't derail the conversation. I simply showed you information in hopes it would appeal to your human side. It is clear you value your ego more than anything else. Just like the haters.
0 Ozzyo520 2015-06-11
No, they pay higher premiums because they're higher risk. I paid $400+/month when I was 17-20ish. Fat people do not, even though they're higher risk. Good try though.
Yes, you. Amazing how that works.
It's absolutely amazing how you conclude that I hate fat people. Where did I ever say that? I simply said I don't care if someone is fat, but their lifestyle choices do have some impact on me. That doesn't mean I hate them. Frankly I find your assumptions and attacks just weird. It's kind of odd and strange. Like you're fighting back for all the fat hate.
You haven't made a single point except that you're an idiot.
6 The11025 2015-06-11
I just subbed here, and I'm curious to know how much that subscriber count has expanded here since yesterday. How many more readers do you have here as of today?
4 OWNtheNWO 2015-06-11
It looks like 5-10k easily.
2 -SPIRITUAL-GANGSTER- 2015-06-11
Nah. Only ~1,500. Still, that's a week's worth of subscribers in a single day.
0 OWNtheNWO 2015-06-11
I thought it was around 305k just the other day.
3 -SPIRITUAL-GANGSTER- 2015-06-11
It was up over 310k yesterday morning.
2 OWNtheNWO 2015-06-11
I stand corrected then.
6 txstoploss 2015-06-11
Good. Put all that crap in one place that the rest of us can ignore.
6 AppleSlut 2015-06-11
Hey. You know why FPH and the other seemingly random subs got banned? Because like it said in the announcement that everyone downvoted like angry little children, they harassed people/other subs/users, vote brigaded, and mod teams did nothing to try to stop it. You know why disgusting shit like /cuteabortions and /coontown werent? Because they didn't do that. They kept their horribly offensive shit in their own subs. So I guess you could say actions were banned, not ideas. Aka literally the opposite of "omg sjws censoring my free speech!"
You ignorant dingbats. Use the ol' noggin once and a while.
0 Shit-Just-Got-Epic 2015-06-11
Yeah it's nothing more than "Rabble, rabble, rabble!"
The only thing that makes me want to quit reddit is the idiots who fall for shit like this, and their endless shit posts.
5 BroAway2015 2015-06-11
Thank you, this whole thing is weird as fuck.
5 RegularMinecraftFan 2015-06-11
This is the beginning of the end. Or wait, that was months ago. I'll see you at voat when this all settles.
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3 b1900 2015-06-11
Its down from heavy load
5 tacky1151 2015-06-11
Oh my god how are you idiots missing why they were all banned? Many moderators of "curvy" subs have come forward and said publicly how much harassment they received and people in their subs did as well. Mostly by redditors from /r/fatpeoplehate and similar subreddits. They are NOT banning ideas, they are banning the harassment and bullying that those ideas have created. I was once part of fatpeoplehate, but when I realized all the brigading and bullying that was going on I unsubbed. Reddit.com is not the government and they have every right to do this.
1 sudo-tleilaxu 2015-06-11
5 alphafox823 2015-06-11
I understand that reddit is a company with the right to do what it wants to with its boards. It should have that right.
My main point is well, immature as it may sound, I feel a little betrayed. I came to reddit and I wrongly thought that this was a place that was more for the fans and not for the profit. I wouldn't mind if Tumblr started censoring things because they never really advertised themselves as a free speech place. Reddit did.
There is a case to be made that reddit is also getting genuinely worse, or the quality of the site is going down. Every day there are more people on here and every day the general demographic of reddit gets farther away from reddit and closer to the general population.
The thing about free speech in this case is, while there is no legal or legitimate infringement on free speech, I felt as if I was led on into thinking reddit is where you can say anything. I thought that this was a place for "unlimited speech". I'm not saying people have to like something I say, I just felt for some reason as if there was some sort of social agreement between me and the site that unpopular opinions wouldn't be removed or deleted by force.
Reddit is in my opinion about to take a steep turn for the worst. This place will go through a transformation comparable to when, long ago, /b/ stopped being an anime board and started being an everything board, and now it's full of shitposts and only that.
Changing the culture of reddit to match everything that's not reddit only takes away its identity as a community. The only thing it seems they traded for profits was their integrity.
0 Dyslexic_Empath 2015-06-11
Reddit turned for the worse when subreddits like FPH came to be and remained active.
What you pay attention to cultivates your mind.
4 Kancer86 2015-06-11
THANK YOU. Jesus christ all of the meta bullshit on the front of this sub was annoying as fuck. There's PLENTY of other subs to talk about that on, and we don't need this sub getting caught up and banned over this shit.
4 conscious009 2015-06-11
I'm glad there are many people here agree that the banning was unjustified and was targeted to make reddit a "safe place"
3 [deleted] 2015-06-11
Thank you moderators for unclogging our sub's arteries.
2 [deleted] 2015-06-11
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1 5arge 2015-06-11
Oh look, a FPHer reveals himself!
3 malachizedek 2015-06-11
Who cares. Real things going on. In the real world.
1 SnoopDoggsGardener 2015-06-11
You said this on the internet...
1 malachizedek 2015-06-11
Yep. To check on real things going on. Not fat shaming. I don't care if you want to bully people. I don't care if you want that "freedom"
2 SnoopDoggsGardener 2015-06-11
Why are you commenting if you don't care? Surely you'd stick to the subs that have nowt to do with this.
2 malachizedek 2015-06-11
Oh I am sorry is this not the conspiracy sub? This isn't a conspiracy.
2 Knight_takes_Bishop 2015-06-11
Thank you.Never mind.
2 DronePuppet 2015-06-11
Nice work Mods!
2 Lord_Surskit 2015-06-11
For those who want to see another possible reason for the ban:
http://np.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/39c0n3/cmv_reddit_was_wrong_to_ban_rfatpeoplehate_but/cs27yt4
2 infotrain 2015-06-11
All the fatpeoplehate threads appear to be back. What's going on?
2 Someone_Who_Isnt_You 2015-06-11
Check his edit. He has been overruled.
2 rachiedoubt 2015-06-11
I am personally glad it was deleted. I understand why people are upset, and the claims that it is infringing upon freedom of speech. However, they're just spewing hate. Harassment. Bullying. I find it disgusting and I think that reddit is a better place without that bullshit. And I'm not even fat. I was as a kid, but I'm not anymore. And even if I was? It's not anyone's FUCKING BUSINESS. Those people's incredibly cruel, judgmental, and cocky as fuck character (as self-proclaimed shitlords) is way worse than any fat person. Being overweight generally isn't a character flaw. The overweight/obese people I have met that were shitty people, it had nothing to do with their fucking outsides. It has to do with their insides. I agree that if someone is obese or overweight, and it isn't because of a health issue, they should make an effort to take charge of their health, but it's not always that simple. Especially in a society where the easiest and cheapest food is incredibly unhealthy, and there is little to no education about actual nutrition and obesity, and what causes it.
I know someone personally who was posted on FPH recently MULTIPLE times. They targeted her on instagram, tumblr, youtube, and apparently even her public Facebook. I don't think that's okay, at all. This girl has a history of suicidal thoughts and impulses, and I was genuinely worried for her life when all of that went down, I was worried she would do something to hurt herself. I know that if it were me, back in middle school when I was chubby, I would have definitely wanted to die, especially after all the years of being ridiculed.
So yeah, I get the bigger picture of why it's an issue. But I'm glad it's gone.
1 _420CakeDay 2015-06-11
Why here? Why will it not be removed?
3 Flytape 2015-06-11
People need a voice or they bottle shit up and explode.
0 _420CakeDay 2015-06-11
Ok, but why here.
-1 Flytape 2015-06-11
Here as in reddit, or as in /conspiracy?
1 _420CakeDay 2015-06-11
r/conspiracy
3 Flytape 2015-06-11
Because we tend to have the balls to do such things.
1 k_r_oscuro 2015-06-11
That's so cute.
0 Jagaraka 2015-06-11
Don't think it takes any courage to do that. No insult intended, just sayin.
-3 Flytape 2015-06-11
Well it certainly doesn't take any courage to just delete someone because they are unpopular.
No insult, just saying.
1 Jagaraka 2015-06-11
I don't think so either but I think Reddit did the right thing deleting fatpeoplehate. Its got hate right their in the title.
1 _420CakeDay 2015-06-11
I wasn't aware this sub is so hated
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2 OffMyFaces 2015-06-11
What, you think the board are going to read a load of hate filled shit being spouted by some haters whose sub they elected to ban - and then sack their CEO, because they don't want those hate-filled losers to leave Reddit?
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1 OffMyFaces 2015-06-11
No she's not.
She's been appointed as CEO to run the company and that's what she's doing.
She will either have a positive or a negative impact on revenues and profits and her fate will be decided by that and that alone - it won't be decided by a few people crying that they dislike her.
1 _Benny_Lava 2015-06-11
See, that's the danger of Corporations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JEYHczRar8
1 cliftonsj 2015-06-11
What if the creators of voat.co were the ones pushing for censorship on reddit so we would go there?
2 dejenerate 2015-06-11
I'd suspect they would have worked a little bit harder building out their system architecture if that were the case.
1 dafuriousbadger 2015-06-11
Does anyone have a complete list of all subs banned during the chaos?
1 undercoversausage 2015-06-11
reddit will become a site for morbidly obese over sensitive whack jobs eventually. Pao wants this to be tumblr or something by the looks of it.
1 Knight_takes_Bishop 2015-06-11
Not all of them have been restored. A large number of threads critical of the shitposts are still absent.
1 jafbm 2015-06-11
Is that the fat dude everybody hates?
1 [deleted] 2015-06-11
Thank you!!
1 retrobuddha 2015-06-11
It's over lets stop talking about it.
1 BadgerGecko 2015-06-11
I count 10 posts on the front page that have not been removed
-1 Flytape 2015-06-11
I got over ruled by other mods. See the OP edit
1 BadgerGecko 2015-06-11
Cheers just seen the edit.
My 2 cents the overruling is bullshit.
Suppose I'll take a couple of days away for all this to die down
-1 Flytape 2015-06-11
That's what I'm doing too.
I was happy to give them a sticky to have a voice but I can't see the logic in giving them our entire front page.
0 BadgerGecko 2015-06-11
Cheers for your effort though
Only Bilderburg coming up so we won't miss much /s
-1 OnSpeakerCrab 2015-06-11
Good. You don't deserve to make decisions. You should not be a moderator here. You are untrustworthy.
0 Flytape 2015-06-11
Stalk me harder.
1 mckenziesdaddy 2015-06-11
Yeah, just stop buying reddit gold. Or just give up reddit and move on.
1 dericknoetzel 2015-06-11
Pardon my out of the loop-ness. Does neofag as a word mean anything?
I also don't know what SJW means. If anyone could fill me in I would be able to understand this thread 💁
1 KingOfTheJerks 2015-06-11
SJW stands for Social Justice Warrior.
1 p_hinman3rd 2015-06-11
FatPeopleHate1 ,FatPeopleHate2 ,FatPeopleHate3 ,FatPeopleHate4 ,FatPeopleHate5 have been banned, but luckily /r/FatPeopleHate6 is still alive
1 negajake 2015-06-11
Thoughts on this ?
1 Moarbrains 2015-06-11
Thanks for trying flytape. I guess I will give up on this sub for a while the other mods let it go to shit to prove how tolerant they are.
1 [deleted] 2015-06-11
The irony hurts.
CENSORSHIP
1 Joemur 2015-06-11
I would like some gold.
1 Reordin 2015-06-11
Oh you fatty.
1 DirtyPoetry 2015-06-11
Don't guild me srsly
1 Alcorr 2015-06-11
STOP BUYING REDDIT GOLD (test?)
1 [deleted] 2015-06-11
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1 HumanFogMachin3 2015-06-11
FPH was an SJW trap, you were being led by the fat cunts you hated. Can any of you prove that the mods were who you thought they were? or did all you know about them come from what they told you on the INTERNET (cause no one lies on the internet)
You dumb fucks walked right into the SJWs web and now they've got a million pieces of evidence that people on the internet are misogynistic harassers.
You just fucked up the whole fight against them by being selfish little children.
1 GrungyWaffles 2015-06-11
What is going on i have never seen gold given in here..its like this is all a big game to someone..does no one else see that this is how it starts..i mean they are censoring the internet..its just eerie
1 m0q 2015-06-11
well is not sticky
0 I_Kick_Puppies_Hard 2015-06-11
Thank you, /u/Flytape .
0 IAmNotHariSeldon 2015-06-11
No Flytape, have you considered the opposite? Let FPH take over /r/conspiracy .. The admins will then be forced to delete /r/conspiracy as well..
See where I'm going with this?
The controversy of deleting /r/conspiracy right now on top of this ongoing disaster, could be the best thing to ever happen to this subreddit. It could be the one-two punch that finally takes down this rotten site. Let's admit it, the administration here is a problem, and will continue to be a problem.
-1 diaryofacatlady 2015-06-11
I love how the shitlords are crying discrimination. I'm glad yo shit got banned. It's Reddit's fault they got out of control in the first place. It should have never been featured on All.
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1 diaryofacatlady 2015-06-11
There is some good shit on All. FPH wasn't one of them. If you wanna defend a bunch of assholes, go for it. I'm still happy their sub is gone for good:)
11 Rhabdomere 2015-06-11
But now they're here, and that sucks.
Collateral damage.
5 diaryofacatlady 2015-06-11
Yeah, they will go away, maybe. Their circle jerk chain is broken but they're grasping for cocks where they can reach.
3 Rhabdomere 2015-06-11
Maybe the cum diet is their secret to normative and healthy body weights?
That sub leaking is pretty much this
2 BetaState 2015-06-11
Some people would have the same view of this sub. Would banning /r/conspiracy be justified?
7 NotAConservatard 2015-06-11
Probably not, but it'd be funny as hell.
4 Triforceman555 2015-06-11
Think of the shitshow that would happen, because there are even fewer people here that would act like rational people, because this is a conspiracy subreddit.
-2 conscious009 2015-06-11
Lol if you don't want to to look at it then don't that's the beauty of reddit. Fph was a good motivator for some
2 asralyn 2015-06-11
By being humiliated until they lost all the weight? Man, those last 15 pounds can be a real whore.
-2 conscious009 2015-06-11
Yas that's what I did
0 diaryofacatlady 2015-06-11
And cruel to hundreds. So long suckers!
-2 conscious009 2015-06-11
Let's get rid of all the subs then? Shit reddit says coontown or pics of dead kids or even the one about beating women up
-3 diaryofacatlady 2015-06-11
Definitely not SRS, the rest though, cool. All for it. Hate is something that shouldn't be spread. There is enough of that in the world.
-3 [deleted] 2015-06-11
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0 diaryofacatlady 2015-06-11
A cum dumpster?
-2 [deleted] 2015-06-11
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4 AmyWarlock 2015-06-11
Do you know how freedom of speech even works? It protects you from the government, it has nothing to do with a privately owned platform
-4 [deleted] 2015-06-11
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6 AmyWarlock 2015-06-11
You have the right to say what you want, you don't have the right to force others to see it or host it. If you write something on my wall, I'm not infringing your freedom of speech by cleaning it off
-1 [deleted] 2015-06-11
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4 AmyWarlock 2015-06-11
No it's still not infringing anything, you still have the right to say what you like elsewhere
1 LordofthePit666 2015-06-11
If its your wall then you can do what you want with it. Like delete things you don't like.
3 diaryofacatlady 2015-06-11
I'm against ass hats with superiority complex. Big difference.
-4 [deleted] 2015-06-11
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5 diaryofacatlady 2015-06-11
Ridiculing and being informative are very different. Don't act like an asshole and pretend it's because you're trying to promote health. That is a very far reach in comparison, also.
-4 [deleted] 2015-06-11
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6 diaryofacatlady 2015-06-11
I wasn't subscribed, I would have been banned for being a white knight. I did look through the top posts, it was a train wreck I couldn't stop watching. There wasn't much intellectual conversation, mostly crude, low brow insults and a circle jerk that produced chafing hands.
The hate was brewing and manifesting. 150k subscribers is 149k too many. I don't get off on shaming other people. I stick up for what I think is right and sorry, I don't like people putting other people down for petty shit. Some of you sick fucks are crazy and need to separated from each other.
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2 diaryofacatlady 2015-06-11
Hope your self righteous tears make fine lube for the circle jerk. Go insult someone in real life, see if 150k people will defend you from their loved ones beating your punk ass into the pavement for being disrespectful cunt.
2 Rytlockfox 2015-06-11
OMG, He's making sense. CALL HIM FAT!
-4 sahugani69 2015-06-11
Found the fatty
7 diaryofacatlady 2015-06-11
Found the ass hat.
0 sahugani69 2015-06-11
I'm sure you could fit plenty of hats on that huge ass gurl.
1 diaryofacatlady 2015-06-11
I couldn't fit any into a shitty FPH sub tho be IT'S BANNED!!! LOLOLOLOLOL
-5 sahugani69 2015-06-11
With the gravity you're putting off of that massive marshmallow you call a body, I'm sure you were banned before you could have tried to squeeze through the normal person sized door.
Oh no did I hurt your massive fee fees?
2 diaryofacatlady 2015-06-11
LOL Not at all. Thanks for trying! Too bad you're grasping for insults. Can't call for your mommy/daddy moderators here. So lost without your numbers. It's pathetic.
-5 sahugani69 2015-06-11
Jokes on you tubby, because while I'm chillin at the ripe old age of 80, you'll be feeding millions of maggots at the bottom of an oversized coffin your poor family had to pay extra for. Take your victories where you can fattie, because I guarantee you won't live long enough to enjoy them.
10 diaryofacatlady 2015-06-11
Aww, the asshat is salty. All that salt is bad for your health, too;)
0 lt_andy 2015-06-11
The problem here is that you are imposing your own views onto what /r/all should be in the first place. On a site like Reddit there's millions of different viewpoints that think 'oh, x needs to be like this! That'll make it better!' when in actuality in only gets better for you .
Personally, I think the proper response should have been to remove /r/fatpeoplehate from /r/all just like /r/conspiracy is. Then peeps who don't want to see it won't and the shitlords still get their little corner to play in.
2 diaryofacatlady 2015-06-11
Didn't I say they should have not been featured on All already? Problem is they couldn't stay in their little corner. They branched out to feed the hate beast. Reddit made the right call. I'm voicing my opinion, I don't care if you agree or not. It sucks that conspiracy has contracted some of the FPH scum. I hope it washes away soon.
0 lt_andy 2015-06-11
They 'branched out to feed the hatebeast?' Please, continue. I'd love to see your examples.
-2 fatpeoplestink 2015-06-11
"First they came for the fat haters, but I was not one of them so I did not speak up... Then they came for the cat ladies..."
-1 snstrmstch 2015-06-11
People are probably going to flip their shit about this too, but whatever. Thanks for trying to fix the deluge of butthurt that's making the sub an unusable shit hole right now.
-1 MyNewestName 2015-06-11
Does anyone else see this move of consolidation favoring reddit? Now we have one thread instead of 40? It reduces the impact of what people are up voting. It's just more FPH scrubbed under the guise of cleaning up the sub. Why not let the votes do the work of clearing space? When subscribers get tired of seeing tons of FPH here they will stop voting it up. By deleting all the threads and doing us the favor of cleaning up the sub, you're doing just what reddit wants, removing material. What's more impactful, 8 posts in the Frontpage on one subject or a single sticky?
5 dejenerate 2015-06-11
How does 100 different permutations of "Ellen Pao killed Christopher Lee" posted as their own individual threads help us as users of Reddit? Seriously, please explain.
0 MyNewestName 2015-06-11
If it doesn't help, down vote it. Let the users dictate the frontpage, not the mods.
2 dejenerate 2015-06-11
Real users hang out in the new queue, not /all. /all is as unusable as /new right now, but I don't really care about it, I care about the feed.
At least with the condensation, /new was legible again. But it looks like the mods have changed their minds as /all is back to being full of gamed threads and the modlogs show Flytape unstickied this thread from the front page and AATA unmarked-as-spam the gamed FPH threads.
So maybe you're a sockpuppet for those guys? Still don't know why, if you're really a regular, you wouldn't just use your real account.
1 MyNewestName 2015-06-11
Did you see my post about sending me a PM with a phrase and I'll post it here as confirmation with my usual name? It will be a bit. Heading to lunch.
1 dejenerate 2015-06-11
That's okay, it's none of my business what your usual name is, I was just remarking that it's messed up to hide behind sockpuppets, especially for discussions like this one.
1 Someone_Who_Isnt_You 2015-06-11
Problem is that there are thousands of ex FPH users mixing in with the r/conspiracy regular users and its screwing up the front page. While everyone is freaking out about this crap, millions of people in India are pretty much eating lead noodles.
1 MyNewestName 2015-06-11
Do you think that reddit has a better chance of stopping consumption of lead noodles by millions or does reddit have a better chance of changing the direction of reddit?
1 dejenerate 2015-06-11
Can you explain to me how encouraging all these sad, whiny children to continue vote-gaming and spamming shit posts to forum-slide /r/conspiracy will "change the direction of reddit?"
Because I'm sorry, I don't fucking see it.
As an aside, I'm as pissed as anyone as to how Reddit handled this situation, but I also find it ironic that there are all these upvoted "Mah censorship" posts are being gamed to the front of /r/conspiracy while ACTUAL threads about real world censorship are being downvoted. Probably by the same forum sliders.
1 MyNewestName 2015-06-11
It wont, but my point was that it made more of a difference than an article about lead noodles and building 7. Conspiracy is probably one of the last free spaces on reddit where mods are pretty rational, if for a few days all of conspiracy was blacked out with "this censorship is shit", you're right, nothing else would get though, it wouldn't add to conspiracy, but it would give conspiracy a chance to walk the walk. To say, fuck this shit is annoying and clogging the shit out of our sub, but it's the will of the people and we will allow the will of the people even of it isn't what's optimal for conspiracy. Eventually FPH dies out and we're left with conspiracy the way it was before FPH shit all over the sub. It's less about letting the sub get polluted in this instance and more about the standing by the overall value that users determine where stuff comes out on the front page. If you browse new, sure, you're having a bad time with all the crap, but that, in my opinion, is worth it for the overall message it sends, basically, r/conspiracy doesn't interfere with posts just because they are annoying.
I get what you're saying. At surface level, fuck, this is childish and annoying and ruins the sub. But somewhere in there it gave conspiracy a chance to be the sub that didn't interfere. Just let it play out.
Agreed. The point here was that this was a flash in a frying pan, let the shit posts role in for 36 hours or 72 hours. Conspiracy will be the same conspiracy the other 362 days a year. The thing that bummed me out was that /r/conspiracy behaved just like a mainstream sub, deleting content and doing it under the guise that it was for our own benefit. Who's the joke really on when conspiracy is just as manipulated as r/pics or something similar. We're sitting here holding r/conspiracy in such high esteem for being free thinking and against the grain, but when shit hit the fan, r/conspiracy fell into line with the rest of 'em.
2 5arge 2015-06-11
No regular subscriber to this sub is buying your bullshit.
-4 MyNewestName 2015-06-11
Would you belive I'm a regular here just posting under a different name since I knew this wouldn't go over well. I'd rather see 40 posts of shit for 3 days and let it die out on its own accord, than see mod intervention. It's just another form of reddit manipulation.
2 dejenerate 2015-06-11
Why would you man a sockpuppet for this comment? We disagree with each other all the time here, there's a lot of no harm, no foul.
Using a sockpuppet for this innocuous comment makes zero sense.
Also, please to explain how 100 versions of the same thread "Pao killed Lee," "Stop buying gold," et al pushing down real conspiracy content AKA forum sliding the sub is useful to actual /r/conspiracy regulars?
0 MyNewestName 2015-06-11
Send me a pm to this name with a phrase. I'll copy it here with my other name.
The sock puppet was to keep drama separate from a name I like to use in other subs. Didn't really mean anything because of it.
I think that 3 days worth of the sub being full, top to bottom bitching about this censorship is worth missing some of the other stuff that is posted. Again let users vote the cream to the top. If something is super meaningful it will get voted up through the sludge of censorship posts. Mods deleting everything and putting it all into one posts lessens the visibility of disgust.
It's like the police setting up designated "protest areas". How meaningful is a protest if it is structured to the request of those you're protesting against?
2 dejenerate 2015-06-11
Right, but when people post the same story over and over, they often get the repeated thread removed so that conversation can continue on the primary thread and so it can be upvoted.
100 posts with "stop buying reddit gold" in the title and no content are shit posts - we only need one.
1 5arge 2015-06-11
No. No I wouldn't believe that. Because it is a lie.
1 Someone_Who_Isnt_You 2015-06-11
Fatpeoplehate was definitely not my favorite subreddit, but what Pao did was fucked up; HOWEVER, screwing up r/conspiracy's front page is not cool. I'm sorry but banning a subreddit is not as important as lead being found in a popular food source in India, the regressive policies of TPP, or how Israel is blowing up dirty b0mbs.
3 Flytape 2015-06-11
People need a voice or they bottle shit up and explode.
2 SnoopDoggsGardener 2015-06-11
Why are you commenting if you don't care? Surely you'd stick to the subs that have nowt to do with this.
-6 moshinmymellow 2015-06-11
Considering whats "legal" is always changing, I think its safe to say someone is choosing what "free speech" is since changing is it's constant. When i say pretty open free speech, it means with exceptions just like your legal exceptions.
2 Quetzie 2015-06-11
Why not? You don't really need that many people. Just a beginning pranker, and then copycats. There doesn't need to be a conspiracy abut this you know.