On the old Chapo subreddit, the sub was made private for like a day or something as a bit. A very angry person made a lengthy text post that was titled something like "Closing the Sub as a Bit Was NOT Ok"
I lost mine a few resets ago it was only three months younger than the site.
On the bright side I think I'd gotten a few grudges due to my prolific posting. Definitely felt like I've been received much more positively ever since I got this account.
I don't know how I feel about this joke. If the person who originally posted it in the /r/cth days was posting in earnest, then picking on them isn't great. I'm sure there are more than a few people who feel that this is their only outlet or source of left wing voices. It just seems weird to kick one of our own for something that isn't chuddy
Not trying to start anything, but I've never seen this brought up.
I think even at the time the consensus was that the poster was right, and closing the sub was a shitty joke that took away an outlet a lot of people relied on. But now the sub is long gone, the people who ran the sub are long gone, and we're on like ten degrees of ship of theseus shit by now and calling out "closing the site as a joke wasn't ok" every time there's scheduled or unscheduled downtime for whatever reason is divorced from its original intent and is now just a meme form of complaining about downtime. I feel like people say it because it's the rote thing you say after downtime, like cursing someone's ancestors when they sneeze.
Fair. I'm not really trying to advocate for this joke to be banned or whatever.
I just hope that we won't do it to someone else again.
And yes, I think that joke was unfunny. Not just because it hurt someone's feelings. It was just some reddit brained "hehe the sex and weed number" and "let's flex our mod muscles for no good reason".
Yea, I agree with you. I haven't seen the reddit post, but this is legitimately my only left/trans support and is incredibly important to me. So I understand why someone would think removing that support, that they or others might rely on isn't funny. But I don't expect joking about it is going to change, and I'm not trying to be the fun police.
That's what I was trying to convey. I'm not trying to police people, but there are real users behind these screens, and we don't know their lives. They could be in an abusive situation, homeless without a safety net, or just plain lonely.
Commenting about posting about shutting down the site is not not ok. I was not happy with my grass touching experience. Mostly because it was mowing my overgrown back yard.
I agree, especially since it's certainly not like it's a bit that's really funny enough to be doing over and over again for the last like half a decade oe whatever
the arms on @Lumalo@hexbear.net's l's broke off when he joined and they were rattling around in the servers for a few days until they got stuck in the deliberalator and the whole site crashed, the admins had to crawl in and get them out