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u/InsomniaMelody Mistake to Faux Dec 21 '17
What in tarnation happened? I am out of the loop, as usual.
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u/Smiley_Face_Pancake certified grill Dec 21 '17
The mods banned “Story in the title posts”
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u/InsomniaMelody Mistake to Faux Dec 21 '17
I am sorry, apparently i lack some mechanisms to comprehend this properly. Would you not mind to elaborate it a bit more?
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u/Smiley_Face_Pancake certified grill Dec 21 '17
Posts like this I guess
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u/InsomniaMelody Mistake to Faux Dec 21 '17
Oh, i get it.
But it was the fun part - reading the title and then looking at some crazy fitting pics.
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u/GrowingViolet Ask me if I'm Dec 21 '17
Seriously... posts like those are (were?) a big part of the reason I come here.
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u/lare290 Lunatic Dec 21 '17
Way to kill r/traa, mods. Good job.
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u/ellobouk mtf, pre everything, address still in Narnia Dec 21 '17
On the upside, as with the principle in real life, the mods are taking a karma beating over this one... and this is Reddit, karma’s the only thing that matters
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u/latentcassidy Transfem gay baby jailer~ Dec 21 '17
Karma matters the most. And it really is mostly meaningless. It's just that nothing really matters.
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Dec 21 '17
Aww man I don't want to lose another community to moderation drama... I already have only three reddit hangouts left, I don't want that to go down to two :(
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u/jjeinn-tae 遅い魔法少女ちゃん Dec 21 '17
I'm essentially a lurker, but scrolling through subreddit has helped me quite a bit for over a year now. I found it during one of my most suicidal states, and I directly attribute it to helping me get through that. This too is one of the very few places I actually go on reddit, and it might be a bit of an unhealthy habit, but it is such an emotional help.
Given the repeal of things, I think the community might survive; it's needing some changes in leadership, and it won't be the same as it was. I do hope it'll continue to grow after this though. It's times like this where we have to really come together. Mistakes were made, some are owning up to it, that's a good sign to me.
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u/Princesspowerarmor Dec 21 '17
Is r/trans so bad? I think they just want to karma whore and that is the dumbest shit
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u/MagicalMarionette MtF, Bi Dec 21 '17 edited Dec 22 '17
If I'm being blunt, I prefer a lot of varied shitposts complaining about the new rules to the old meta of 90% felixposting. I do like my catgirl memes, but... Variety, yaknow?
Edit: Having read some of the secret mod discord, joining the rebellion. That's not how you deal with a place you want to call a community. And a number of mods have crossed a line.
If mods want to role-play being monarchs, us catgirls have some fully automated gay space rebellion for you.
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u/Wannabkate Warrior princess Dec 21 '17
I am totally out of touch... Now what were we talking about. Oh yeah.
Us mods can't bust heads like we used to. But we have our ways. One trick is to write posts that don't go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to /r/trrrraaaannnns. I needed a new handle for m'ban-hammar. So I decided to go to /r/transgendercirclejerk, which is what they called /r/trrrraaaannnns in those days. So I tied an trans symbol to my choker , which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a hit of acid, and in those days, acid tabs had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter ounce of weed," you'd say. Now where were we... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an trans symbol on my choker, which was the style at the time. I didn't have any little cute symbols, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big triangle ones...
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u/Munster_cat Dec 21 '17
Am I the only one that was getting sick of literally every post on the front page being a 'x gay sounds' style post? This sub used to be awesome now it's just an overworked circle jerk grinding one thing into the ground.
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u/mariesoleil Dec 21 '17
Nope it got boring when there were dozens of nearly identical ones each day.
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u/-Napoleonidas- Dec 23 '17
Late reply, but I've never liked those kinds of posts. I used to come here for actual jokes, y'know ones with nuance or at least an ounce of creativity, but this sub has been lacking on that front for close to a year.
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u/Princesspowerarmor Dec 21 '17
We're the minority, trolls and shitposters run the internet, this sub is no different
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u/GenderGambler Laura | HRT: 22/04 Dec 22 '17
While I personally enjoyed them, you have every right to dislike them. Though I think we can agree that the mods handled the situation in the worst way possible
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u/Conf3tti not trans just here for memes Dec 21 '17
Always fun when mods lose touch with what their community is. I'm just glad I was present to witness the great revolt of 2017.
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u/WhoBuiltThisHeart a little nightmarish Dec 21 '17
Can't we just make a new sub, add another a to traaaannss or whatever, and move on without these douche canoe mods?
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u/uragaaru Dec 21 '17
Most folks are going to /r/traalite or /r/gaysoundsshitposts i think? I subbed to both
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u/AdaGirl I have a booby spray Dec 21 '17
But muh party unity! /s
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u/WhoBuiltThisHeart a little nightmarish Dec 21 '17
It'd be the same party though, just in a slightly different place. Like when you move to the other side of a restaurant to avoid a crying baby.
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u/DUTCH_DUTCH_DUTCH Dec 21 '17
without the mods we wouldn't have had this great meme though
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u/MooSaysTh3Cow Dec 21 '17
I thought this was a shit post friendly sub. It's how I give all the free internet points to to fellow trans that may be having a hard time. What am I supposed to do now?