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It was not ok taking the site down as a joke
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this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2024
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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".
How do you feel about
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Wait what?
I was there for the bunny cop fetishist and it was funny, but it probably wouldn't happen now because of the internal site culture. Like maybe if someone from a federated site came onto c/anime with some wild take like "Made in Abyss is revolutionary and good" (it's actually the worst thing anyone has ever made and its fans should all go larp it in
) and kept doubling and tripling down on it over a 200+ comment thread, that might get memed on when people dredge their profile and find a bunch of weird creepy posts they made on other federated sites, but just having kind of a weird and cringe take doesn't start the same sort of feeding frenzy.
No context for the other emoji at all, some twitter thing? Never used the bad bird site.
That's dialectics for you.