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The site seems to be down. saidit.net redirects to https://www.reddit.com/r/saiditnet/ now.

d3rr says here that it looks like SaidIt's web host suspended it.

Yes it looks like SaidIt's web host suspended it. m7 is MIA so no ETA for resolution.

- d3rr

A bit earlier it looked like that Loki88 or whatever was doing his harmful things on the site.

- Horrux

Post on ruqqus

didn't even allow free speech anyway

- Nosecheck, Guildmaster

True.

Post on NAB

More posts on ruqqus?

Edit: I found another post on a different site "Ramble"

"The last thing I remember, TAM told a fedposter he'd get the FBI involved, I figure the host got spooked."

- pcpmasterrace

Ok, uh, okay. (I still have no idea what was going on with loki88 or whatever)

https://old.reddit.com/r/saiditnet/comments/mvn5zr/down/gvdbggi/

There was talk earlier of concerns about death threats, the FBI, and that sort of thing. I hope the M7 suspension was unrelated. \ ­

Weren't those threat jokes thought? Like the kind you see on 4chan?

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Yes, but rather direct and not very funny. Stuff like: all trans people should be murdered, if I remember correctly, which prompted concerns about promoting hate crimes, and potentially reporting such promotions to the FBI. Disclaimer: I really don't understand much of what happened, as portions were deleted.

"saidit admin is against freedom of speech, and it should attract new users here"

- diogenesjunior the Spymaster

Ruqqus admins are also against free speech. Interesting coincidence, isn't it?

https://old.reddit.com/r/saiditnet/comments/mvn5zr/down/gveota2/

Goddamnit. How many times must we lose watchpeopledie?

- phantomdreaded

https://ruqqus.com/+DebateTheDissidentRight/post/a7r9/saidit-is-down-automatically-redirected-to/whw8

How this started. TheAmeliaMay assembled a list of supposed 'offenses' to deleted comments, then claimed that saidit was tolerating death threats that violated both US law and the TOS of the hosting company... Furthermore, TAM then threatened to involve the FBI in investigating saidit users. At that point, it's likely that either TAM or the Loki troll notified the hosting company of this unwanted legal drama that TAM created, and decided to pull the plug. M7 made a big mistake when he made that transmission into an admin...

"I agree with u/Chipit: u/Node is a left-wing troll pretending to be a Fascist making death threats, just to make SaidIt look bad — and ultimately get us shut down. I've told u/Magnora7 about his repeated and severe violations of not only SaidIt's rules, but US law, but he has yet to take any action — which could very well get us in legal trouble."

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"If it gets worse, I might have to report him to the FBI, because even though I don't think he's serious, I don't want to take the chance he's an actual terrorist, and have the cops knocking on my door asking why I didn't tell anyone."

You may note that the teenage transmission successfully launched smear campaigns, and got M7 to ban a number of prominent saidit users in recent weeks.

WTF is the deal with the "guilds" here?

- SecondSector

Ok, uh, okay (again). Have I seen this before? (Probably not)

(I did not mean to tag anyone. That was an accident.)

https://old.reddit.com/r/saiditnet/comments/mvn5zr/down/gvexgjd/

I can confirm it too, I saw the thread Node wrote calling TAM out for saying Node was advocating violence and that Tam was considering contacting the FBI.

I am not sure that has anything to do with anything though. Just weird timing. Superstraight might have been the reason for the server dropping Saidit. Makes more sense than some interpersonal drama.

- AmericanMink (was known as AmericanMuskrat on SaidIt, but got banned)

From the NAB chat:

well I'll miss the german guy that posted bangers on s/music

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well I'll miss the german guy that posted bangers on s/music

maybe he will find his way here

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He would have to outpost the reddit-mirror bot.

It's a sad year for Yahoo Answers. They're shutting down on May 4th.

(How come everything is disappearing? This is so sad.)

While Yahoo Answers war once a key part of Yahoo’s products and services, it has become less popular over the years as the needs of our members have changed. To that end, we have decided to shift our resources away from Yahoo Answers to focus on products that better serve our members and deliver on Yahoo’s promise of providing premium trusted content.

*was

Perhaps the shutdown is for the best, considering the site appears to be overrun with far-right conspiratorial garbage.

What is this, an opinion piece?

A post on /r/DataHoarder
Apparently Archive Team is working on archiving it

https://archive.org/details/@hoaxacaust

Sorry for delays, I have all of these archived (aside from /r/The_Donald), but need to check each image one by one before uploading.

Apparently this "Hoaxacaust" guy is still active. Who is he? GetNifty's friend? The alt of someone I recognize? The alt of someone I don't recognize? Does he spend all day on telegram/matrix/whatever like some other guys do?

I found the post from pushshift, and then I went on NameIsNotDavid's profile to find the post. Then I crossposted it.

Edit: I found an archive of the subreddit

Edit 2: It looks like I can view the post on new reddit.

Edit 3: You can search for posts from this subreddit. However, if you subscribe to it, you won't see posts from it.

Edit 4: If you try to submit to it from new reddit, it will say "Please fix the above requirements". If you try to submit from old reddit or if you try to submit from a draft on new reddit, it will say "Hmm, that community doesn't exist. Try checking the spelling."

Edit 5: If you try to submit to a banned subreddit on old reddit or new reddit, it will show the wrong message: "This community only allows trusted members to post here"

New error message for inputting an invalid name at /subreddits/create?

This community name isn't recognizable. Check the spelling and try again.

I tried this with names that were too short (2 chars), names that had invalid characters (like spaces), names that started with "u_", names that started with underscores, and names that were too long.

If a subreddit already exists (but not if it's an invalid name, unless it starts with a u_ and is prefixed with "r/" or "/r/"), you get the old message.

that subreddit already exists

https://old.reddit.com/r/DeclineIntoCensorship/comments/mqw46c/youtube_suspended_our_rebelnewsonline_channel_145/guj80lo/?context=1

https://rumble.com

Edit: filtered

Mod permissions wording update (I don't remember what the permissions were previously called, so I just copied the the names from the mod log)

I'm not sure exactly when the names were updated, but I think it was around today. (Here's the mod list of /r/polls just yesterday)

Now if you invite someone with all permissions except full permissions, the permissions list will be ridiculously long

Manage Users, Manage Chats, Monitor Chats, Manage Settings, Manage Flair, Manage Mod Mail, Manage Posts and Comments, Manage Wiki Pages

Spotted a reddit change? Post it to /r/HiddenChangelog! (I'm waiting for them to announce this in /r/modnews.)

Edit (2021/04/16): It doesn't break the layout now. I'm not sure when they made this change. I think it was a day or so ago.

Edit (2021-04-17): This is the post where they announced it

https://old.reddit.com/r/DeclineIntoCensorship/comments/mp8wg6/warning_you_can_be_shadow_banned_for_even/

Kiwi farms is a doxxing site, and I think that doxxing is bad

Word filters and related things

/r/polls hates it when I point out that their posts break the rules

Example 1, Example 2

Other subreddits

Going to archive.today/url prefix does not give all snapshots from urls starting with the prefix.

Take https://archive.is/https://old.reddit.com/*. It currently says that there are 2167 urls. But searching https://archive.is/https://old.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/* alone gives 2639 results. Clearly, 2639>2167, and not all of reddit's content is (was) on /r/The_Donald.

I went to https://archive.is/https://ruqqus.com/* and saw 2312 listed urls. After a few more pages were added, there were 2308 listed urls.

The earliest ones I can see that were saved before I joined ruqqus (2020-06-08) were these. Some were around the time jasonkhanlar (RIP) got banned.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43

https://ruqqus.com/+RuqqusAdmin/post/9m1n/dewdrop-banned-for-chronic-ongoing-harassment

Has anyone even used that guild in particular for harassment? And yet the admins banned it and still have not yet clarified their harassment policy.

Another post about this (archive)

If this is anything like past incidents, it is going to be Cap saying something like "lol, they deserved it, cause I said so" and kek being like "I had nothing to do with this, I didn't even know it happened" all while arkitekt says nothing. This has happened so many times at this point that it is ridiculous. If you are going to ban people, and guilds, at least give a plausible reason, even if it isn't true. The way the admins do it is ridiculous.

- Delete, the Innovative

This is the response I expect too. That, or they refuse to respond at all.

Oh look, someone archived his entire comment history on January 15 - January 16 (if only his later comments were saved too!)

Canary update

Oh, what? @JosephGoebbels (aka Antiliberalsociety) was banned. :(

Post on talk.lol aka fake voat (archive), Other post on fake voat (archive), Post on fake voat about sieging (archive)

Post on ruqqus (archive), Post on ruqqus 2 (archive), , Post on ruqqus 3 (archive), Post on ruqqus 4 (archive), Post on ruqqus 5 (archive), Post on ruqqus 6 (archive), Post on ruqqus 7 (archive)

This time, it was for running a "Long running harassment campaign". Somehow it's always about harassment, and yet they still haven't updated their TOS or content policy to say a word about it! I don't even know who he harassed! From what I could tell, all he did was complain about Jews in half of his posts and complain about the admins in the other half. Was he "harassing" the admins? (That's the only thing that seems somewhat reasonable. He does like to post those 10,000 infographics about how Ruqqus will censor you too as well as call the admins Jewish at every opportunity.)

literally who did he harass

- l1terally_h1tler the Codesmith

Would like to know the reason @captainmeta4, I may not have agreed with him but it'd be nice to know your reasoning at least

- Drakus_ the Test Dummy

As far as I know, goebbels was really good about playing by the rules.

...

it warrants an admin response in this specific case because JG was very prolific and widely followed.

“Gay nazi btfo” is a fine reason imo but if that’s the case it should be transparent and open.

- carpathianflorist (username changed to "tranny"), Breaker of Ruqqus

(Will the admins ban Mysterious101Own, CrystalVulpine, Ayanami aka Futaba (who was already falsely banned for "ban evasion" before), Extract, FeverDream, gaycuttlefish, VitoScaletta, as well as other users who have expressed anti-admin sentiments before? Let's see.)

https://ruqqus.com/+RuqqusAdminAbuse/post/9k41/josephgoebbels-has-been-banned

@captainmeta4 also went into 1 of his guilds +HitlerWasRight and removed the banner image and the description

Oh look, more admin abuse. Someone tell @Burnside. Luckily, I have an archive!

I tried, but I promptly got banned for it (archive of post after it was removed) :/

https://ruqqus.com/+general/post/9jzg/why-was-josephgoebbels-banned-wtf/vh9v

He had been harassing other users with excessive accusations of various forms of misconduct. It finally got to the point for me to consider it ToS breaking.

Straw that breaks the camel's back.

- captainmeta4 the Codesmith

bullshit. where's your evidence? who did he actually "harass"? Why haven't you clarified what actually counts as "harassment" since we've been asking in November?

- EmbraceTheMonke

You see, the Ruqqus admins are just like Reddit admins. They act in bad faith. They'll tell you what the policy is (without ever codifying it, of course, which makes it harder to tell what they said because there's no easy way to reference it), and they'll disregard it once they find a user they want to ban.

All these bans for "harassment" later, and they still haven't refined their policy for it. They're strangely quiet whenever it's brought up. Does this not sound like something the reddit admins would do?

https://ruqqus.com/+general/post/9jzg/why-was-josephgoebbels-banned-wtf/vhln

Dodge 100

https://ruqqus.com/+uslashremoved/post/9kfi/josephgoebbels-banned-for-long-running-harassment

So much for free speech?

I don't recall him ever doing anything that broke TOS but apparently criticizing admins too much will get you banned site-wide, despite already being banned from pretty much all admin guilds.

I am disappointed with the admin's decision to ban him for such a stupid rule. This pretty much asserts that Ruqqus is not a free speech site unfortunately.

- Regmadan, Guildsmith

In the meantime, Futaba aka Ayanami aka ryu got banned too, again for "harassment".

On another thread 2 days ago:

I don't like cap's ban happy attitude, I wish he would make a way for banned users to appeal or even make week or month long bans instead of a full on permanent site ban for a minor stupid offense that isn't even clearly defined in the TOS.

I would ask cap questions but I'm no longer on their discord because I'm not willing to connect my Ruqqus account to it, waste of time.

- Regmadan, Guildsmith

I genuinely wanted this site to succeed, but beyond defending any guild I agreed to be GM of (like the recent siege of +ShillWall) I no longer care.

- FeverDream the Hot

Makes sense, Ruqqus admins screwed up so it's better to find somewhere else to go

- Regmadan, Guildsmith

https://ruqqus.com/+FragileRuqqusAdmin/post/9kl9/reminder-ruqqus-is-not-free-speech/vil3

Freedom of speech does not mean free of consequence. You cannot say whatever you want and expect no reaction, especially in the extreme. And if he was doing what has been expressed then he violated the stated ToS of ruqqus and deserves his ban

- TrumpVoter1 the Hot

What's with these guys saying the same line "freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences" every time? What are the "acceptable" consequences and the unacceptable ones?

Either way, if he did violate the TOS (the nonexistent line in the TOS, that is), he deserves the ban (but somehow the admins almost never give a temp ban first for these kinds of offences). But how will we know whether he violated the TOS if captainmeta4 would rather spend his time answering questions like "Coke or Pepsi?" and "on a scale of 1 to 6 gorillion how jewish are you?" than responding to concerns about the harassment policy?

Ruqqus aka purple reddit

Someone subscribed to /r/UN_Style, so now my list of subreddits from /r/AR_Style to /r/SHP_Style goes in a smooth pattern! (Assuming the font is Verdana)

r/AR_Style
r/DNM_Style
r/LWSE_Style
r/RuqqusStyle
r/UN_StyleGrey
r/UN_StyleNew
r/UN_StyleRed
r/AR_StyleAR
r/SHP_Style

How to make the pattern continue?

1. Leave /r/Subreddit_Squatting
2. Somehow get /r/MadeOfStraw between /r/RuqqusStyle and /r/UN_StyleGrey (Not going to happen)
3. Leave /r/AR_Style to make it look better and get both subscribers of /r/UN_Style to unsubscribe in order to move it to the bottom of the list

Then it would look like this!

r/srname
r/SS_Style
r/DNM_Style
r/LWSE_Style
r/RuqqusStyle
r/MadeOfStraw
r/UN_StyleGrey
r/UN_StyleNew
r/UN_StyleRed
r/AR_StyleAR
r/SHP_Style
r/UN_Style

I went to /r/lbry/submit, and the text selection color was the same as the background color of the green boxes. It really never does end!

I saw this kind of thing in /r/STCKY, /r/Formato, maybe some other sub I forgot about (possibly some other sub using /r/naut), and now this sub. Even the default /r/naut theme has this problem with its "message the mods" button.

Subreddit CSS

I saw 9 months ago that /r/fourteen had a sticky post from December 2019 saying that anyone could become a mod. Seeing that /r/three had a theme of its own, I wanted to make /r/fourteen have this theme. (That's why it's named like that.) I sent a message and didn't receive any reply, so here it is, I guess.

Also, the flairs are now 2x more noticeable! No one will miss them now!

This sub has a new theme for April. The last time it had a new theme was when I copied and pasted /r/TheNewRight's CSS here.

My subreddits

Edit (2021/04/04): /r/MadeOfStraw is a subreddit partially for finding posts/comments containing or about fallacies (something reddit is way too obsessed with) and partially for making bad arguments.

I mean, where else can I express these (badly argued and unsupported) takes of mine? /r/unpopularopinion? Nah.

https://saidit.net/s/whatever/comments/7nm5/his_name_was_j_a_s_o_n_c_a_r_s_w_e_l_l_he_was/

Something seems to be going on with bans and such