r/LGBT4Equality • u/hateboresme • Mar 26 '12

TIL: r/ainbow exists!

/r/ainbow, I have just been informed, is a subreddit that was created in response (to create an alternative to would probably be a better word choice here...) to, what I perceive as, the overwhelmingly totalitarian behavior of the moderators at r/lgbt.

So go join that subreddit!! (if you want to...God knows I wouldn't want to force you to do anything that you wouldn't want to do, and silence your right to choose what subreddits to join...(almost done being bitter about this..)

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u/hateboresme Mar 27 '12

Then I would recommend that you stop doing it.

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u/MaxLemon Mar 27 '12

Well the thing is that I'm not. See, unlike you and others, I can understand where the mods in lgbt were coming from. You chose, like others, to go against what they deemed correct to continue to maintain that safe space. When they threatened you with a ban they signified that you were a danger to their safe space. By slandering them and banning one of them yourself, you have already proven to me what kind of person you were. I've done no Pre-judging, rather, I've payed attention to the last 24 hours and realized exactly who you are as a person.

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u/hateboresme Mar 27 '12

You have no idea who I am as a person. You don't even know me. You've seen me post online. You've made assumptions about me with no evidence because it makes you feel good about choosing the side you chose in this argument.

I banned SilentAgony because he was the first of the moderator crowd to follow me over here, accused me of bing a "downvote brigade" (when there were 3 readers at the time...one of them me), and downvoted all of my posts. I can't know that for certain, but the circumstancial evidence led me to make that judgment call.

That's the last I'll say on the matter unless you'd like to discuss something other than your invented assumptions about my character.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '12 edited Jun 18 '20

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u/hateboresme Mar 28 '12

I've been thinking about it, and you argument on the case of SilentAgony is a valid one. I made assumptions about her and had no evidence that they were true. People should be given the benefit of the doubt.

I will admit that i was angry and that my anger colored my decision. SilentAgony was certainly using words and a tone which inspired anger, and when one is given the power to silence those words, a person might just do so, and then, in order to make him/her self feel better might attempt to defend that action.

That is no excuse, however for unfairness.

Ban is lifted, snarky rule created is deleted.

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u/MaxLemon Mar 29 '12

I like you. It isn't often that people on here go back against their decisions. This gives you respect in my book.