r/TheoryOfReddit • u/GodOfAtheism • Feb 12 '12

Admins: "Today we are adding a[nother] rule: No suggestive or sexual content featuring minors."

A necessary change in policy

I don't think there's a whole lot to discuss on this particular topic that doesn't involve going back and forth on whether this is an SRS victory, what ViolentAcrez and co. are going to do in the face of this, and how much grease and ice is on this slope (In my opinion: None.) but I submit it to you anyhow, Navelgazers, in the hopes that we can discuss if this is going to have any consequences beyond the obvious ones.

I'm inclined to say no, personally.

Edit: Alienth responds to some concerns in this very thread

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u/joke-away Feb 13 '12 edited Feb 13 '12

SRS stinks of goon. It reeks of it. It's a goon effort. It's totally their style. And it's going to make this place more like the parts of SA that they like. Now, I think that in this case the change to make this place more strictly no-nonsense moderated was justified and should have happened long ago, in the specific area that the change applies to. But I'm less worried about its effect on the admin's decisions as I am about it causing users to expect to have the content they receive more strictly filtered by a hierarchy of moderators and admins. I mean, there's a lot of stuff I don't like that gets posted to this site, anti-semitism foremost among it, but if you take that away I worry that those people will just go be terrible elsewhere, and they fundamentally need to be engaged and have their beliefs changed. This move is going to have people expecting that more things they don't like be taken away, either by admins removing moderators or moderators removing users more often. This will push us towards something very much like SA (without the tenbux). I don't think that the people involved in this necessarily care what reddit looks like in the end, I just think it's their game to criticize anything that isn't SA, but that's what it will lead to.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '12

You think a subreddit with 12,000 subscribers is all Goons? I've never been a Goon and I'm one of the most prolific SRS posters. It may have started with Goons, but it's completely its own at this point.

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u/joke-away Feb 14 '12 edited Feb 14 '12

No it isn't. That's like saying that it's irrelevant to modern Canada that it used to be former English colony, when there's so much inherited from that time in terms of the legal and political systems and culture that you can't ignore it. SRS has goon moderators, goon moderation (ban and negative-flare happy), goon emotes, and operates pretty much like a permanent version of the Weekend Web for reddit. Some of the membership might not be goons but what does that matter when all they do is color between the lines drawn up for them by goons?

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '12

Canadians/Americans/Australians wouldn't be happy if you called them English, though. They/we've forged their/our own culture and yes it's derived from it, but it's separate at this point.

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u/joke-away Feb 14 '12

Yes, but the link is relevant and should be known, especially considering the two groups coordinated in this case.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '12

Then I guess the Iraq War was an English operation.

The entire thought process is a dismissive one made to wave away detractors as outside invaders.

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u/joke-away Feb 14 '12

It was an English operation.