Guy fused a phylactery and a prophylactic, making a prophylactery.

(apologies for the necro-post?)

I didn't say: "X mod has gone alt-right! This must be a conspiracy! The moon isn't real!"

I said: "I guess this mod has gone alt-right?"

Seeing and mentioning changes is worth mentioning, even if those changes are unrelated. That's just... basic observation.

Of course, if you want to conspiratorially cast aspersions on everything I'm saying, that's fine. I am going to disengage starting... now.

Throwing in that comment about Son_of_Sophroniscus was pretty out there!

It seemed relevant to the discussion to look at the moderator list in case there was any information. In this case, the information seemed to be a dead end, which is why I didn't try to speculate beyond a statement of fact.

But instead we’ve got that, people talking about a “weird/bad vibe”, reading tea leaves all over the shop…

People are allowed to comment on the vibe. I think it is completely fair to express frustration at the reopening for the reasons stated in other parts of this thread.

But even in just your own case, it seems like the opposite of not jumping to conclusions to throw in references to old mods going alt right that bear absolutely zero relationship to any of the handful of posts on the “resurrected” sub

I can't believe I have to explain this very ordinary attempt of trying to see what's going on:

1. the status quo changes (r/sneerclub comes back online)
2. I look for answers (in this case, I ask here for information, and look around the subreddit for information)
3. I resist the urge to jump to the easy/obvious answer, and share what little information I had here

Then, as you pointed out in your other comments, it was the obvious answer, which I will happily accept as there is proof.

Yo dawg, slow your roll. Yes, that is the easy explanation. I just wanted more information before jumping to any conclusions. Not all of us (read: I) were deeply familiar with the moderator dynamics nor had a reason to be.

Again either way I’ve made my choice to be here, so to me, it doesn’t really matter what’s going on beyond my own curiosity.

There is a lot about the hard drive (and imc i guess) that I am learning from this thread. I did not know about any of the goings on at the hard drive. I’m trying to find articles and so forth about what’s been happening with hard drive but would love some pointers.

(Also I shared this based on the title and not the text, my bad.)

“And are these fifteen-year-stale peccadillos in the room with us right now?”

true, tho google wants you to think the sizes are the other way around.

Rentarou’s family is history’s strongest polycule

this would require self awareness, so no, this has not happened.

HPMOR aka ハリポッターとクリンジのじゅつ

I constantly experience [the Gell-Mann amnesia] effect on this subreddit; everyone sounds so smart and so knowledgeable until they start talking about the handful of things I know a little bit about (leftism, the arts, philosophy) and they’re so far off the mark — then there’s another post and I’ve forgotten all about it

Bias noted, impact not reduced. Basic rationality failed. These people are so willing to discard their own sense of right and wrong, moral or rational, just to belong in their weird cult. Why is it so hard for these dorks to admit that they don't actually care about being smart or rational and that they just want a bunch of other dorks to be friends with?

Are there crazy people adjacent to the community? Of course, and there are certainly loud billionaires co-opting it to their own purposes, and even some of the people from the beginning have failed to live up to their aspirations.

99% of EA funding went into building a lampshade to hang over this minor quibble.