I am that asshole all of you hate so much, 32bites.
I orignally stated this subreddit about a year a couple years ago when I was tired of seeing I Am A style posts show up in askreddit and other communities. From this came an amazing small community that quickly grew and became more awesome with great posts and great questions.
The r/IAmA that I shut down (until incredable backlash), in my opinion is not that subreddit that I started two year ago. It first really started going downhill when we where included in the 100 default subreddits and everyone who was joining reddit and leaving digg at the time began commenting and posting.
I would like you to understand my reasoning that I didn't make entirely clear in the first post ios that I feel that the community has been flooded by people who don't care about it at all to such an extent that a change of leadership won't do anything, it will be everyone posting the same thing that was posted before and indtead of letting IAmA degrade further than it has already preserve what is left and let other smaller communities fill in the gap that would have been left.
As you have noticed IAmA is still around, this is mostly due to the fact that i feared retalitation, while at work today I received a number of phone calls from people telling me that they hated my guts, trying to buy the subreddit from me, and a number of people trying to get in to different accounts of mine with the password reset tools.
I got a message from karmanaut on facebook telling me that he would be willing to take it over, I shortly after contacted hueypriest and let him know that I would like for karmanaut to take control (this would have happened erlier but I couldn't use my phone at the time) and I assume that was done promptly. I hope that karmanaut has good luck and is secusful in leading this community.
But go ahead ask me anything, the only thing that I ask is that you just don't personally attack me.
If you also want to ask about other topics I currently work full time in a warehouse style store primarily as a cashier, I took a year of computer science at Seattle Central Community College, and live in Seattle.
I would have made this post sooner but I didn't get off work until 20:00 PST, bus home, and had to write up this post.
Posted Aug 26, 2011, 4:31 AM UTC
Bad Reddit. Bad Reddit.
He also had all his posts downvoted by stupid vigilante assholes who think they're showing him who's boss. Petty, really.
Harassing phone calls at work, that's fine. But downvoting all his comments and submissions? Taking ALL karma points away? That's overstepping the line.
How will he feed his family without karma!?
He'll have to apply for karma stamps. I hope he doesn't live in florida.
He should have bought reddit gold for the lean times.
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Reddit Gold?
Fun fact: "karma" actually means (animal)food in polish.
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Sprewell wants to know the same thing.
Sometimes I wonder if there are those supposed downvote bots really do exist. After looking at his comment history (expecially knowing the original number of upvotes), it's hard to believe THAT MANY people on reddit felt it nessisary to downvote every comment, including the unrelated ones too.
The eleventh commandment: You shall not fuck with your neighbors karma.
I read that 'drive-by downvotes' from the profile page don't work anymore, the Admins took care of it.
OVER THE LINE!
Every time someone makes a serious comment, the very next comment is a joke and it has more upvotes. This is what went wrong with this place.
The serious comment was a bit too serious. They took his karma away.
This whole reddit drama is what's wrong. And there'll be more of it with 2 weeks.
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It's the only possible outcome, sadly. When you fuck with 400,000 people, all it takes is a small minority of them getting pissed off to get hundreds of people on your case.
Well, I've done my part to rectify at least one asshole redditor.
Imo you only devalued the reddit community.
Reddiquette says:
More like rectum-fy an asshole redditor.
I think you just described the problem with politics.
In any group of 400,000 people there's going to be at a minimum one giant asshole. Thats the risk you take when you step out of obscurity and into the limelight in front of that group.
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A bit slutty are we?
I'm sad that you're getting downvoted, I giggled at that. Everyone is so serious about this issue.
Power to the people
It doesn't count if its on the internet. Get over it.
THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID.
The subreddit isn't even that good. You can only read "I shit my pants, AMA." so many times before you get tired of it. I fucking hate Reddit. Why am I still here? I wish /b/ hadn't gone to shit. Oh well, off I go.
Those motherfuckers went against reddiquette!!
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Redditquette: The biggest lie ever told.
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Says the guy who shut down r/circlejerk. ;_;
Yeah, but now he'll appoint me mod so I can rekindle the community.
He's gonna shut it down next Thursday though.
Wait, wtf, circlejerk got shut down? Where can I read about that?
Try r/circlejerk.
Pettier than deleting a hugely popular subreddit because it didn't meet his 'original vision'? Close, but I don't think so.
EDIT: To clarify, I'm only talking about mass-downvoting, not the harassment in real life. That obviously crosses a line, probably a criminal one.
And so that makes it justifiable?
Nope. Both pretty detestible.
Yes.
Heaven forbid you tell someone how you feel.
If he started it, it's his right to delete. If one of my subreddits became some mutant of its former self, I'd probably 'activate it' too. Just saying.
That's petty. Why not just be a reasonable adult, realize the rest of reddit doesn't share your vision, and instead of shutting it down (which literally accomplishes nothing), step down, make someone else the owner and demod yourself, never to return to that subreddit?
It's his right to piss off hundreds of people and then it's the right of those people to be angry at him.
Justifiable or not. HE created it and has the right to delete it as he chooses. It is his/hers.
Pfft. And everyone one else built it. It's not like without this guy the reddit wouldn't exist.
He made it. He built it. He can take it away.
What the hell is with this notion that when someone creates something that becomes successful or popular that the creator now owes some strange obligation to non-owners? It's like yelling at a closing store owner by stating that you patronized his business in the past, and so you now own a portion of it somehow.
No.
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And people were doing AMAs long before this subreddit existed. This guy just got reddit to consolidate them to one place (mostly).
The concept of AMA was not his idea.
Are you saying a subreddit being deleted is worse than being harrassed in your place of work?
You do know there are similar subreddits out there, don't you?
I was responding to the parent only talking about the mass-downvotes. Obviously getting harassed in real life is a whole new level of awful. Then again, how did anyone who got angry enough to do that even know where he worked... Seems fishy to me.
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I'm not sure he was ever claiming it was pettier, just that it was very petty in its own right.
There was nothing petty about his intentions.
Doesn't the harassment he received kind of validate his point that with so many people involved in IAMA, bad things are bound to happen?
That hugely popular subreddit was HIS brain child. If the cup I use to drink coffee from is leaking, and not fulfilling the purpose I made/bought it for, why would I keep it?
Have an upvote. Thanks for saying what needed to be said.
everybody is saying that. Everyone hates him.
Especially since his original vision was so fucking stupid.
I invalidated his decisions by making him lose an internet point!
TAKE THAT
I'm fairly sure that Reddit has a system for detecting mass downvotes like that. Actually, I'm pretty sure votes that occur on your userpage don't even get counted.
Well, take a look at his userpage, I somehow doubt that he's such a terrible poster that he's going -5 or worse on every single post he's made.
What I meant was that the count will show up on the post itself, but not affect his total comment karma. Go ahead and try upvoting everything in response from within his page. The total shouldn't change.
What other action can you take on a site that revolves around upvoting and downvoting?
Might as well downvote the shit out of him, especially since it makes zero difference in the real world.
And had his post spoofed in r/circlejerk.
Yeah I
didsaw that.NOT THE KARMA!
"15,752 comment karma" Yes that means all his posts right?
Its like the populace is proving his own points!
The Reddit Think-a-ma-processor should notice when user-A just down-votes all of user-B, and not count those votes.
People just like to think that they're being horribly mistreated by the Powers That Be (aka the mods) and that they can show them who's boss by downvoting everything they say to oblivion.
If some random person said, "Hey, I think we should shut down r/IAmA," Everyone would say, "Nah," and be done with it.
If someone with distinct power says "I'm going to shut down r/IAmA" and then doesn't, everyone gets their panties in a twist and fights Big Brother by downvoting everything and sending violent phone calls.
Many will not want to hear it, but that is reddit now - sadly.
Good thing that downvotes don't actually count if done via the userpage.
Bad thing that most folks know that though.
I don't see the harm in people knowing it. Prevents the idiots from wasting their time on doing it. From what I understand too if there's more than a couple downvotes from you to a specific user in certain time frames you also get blocked from having future downvotes against that user counted for an unknown amount of time.
TL;DR: Mass downvoting doesn't actually do shit no matter where you perform it.
Well, now. That looks better.
Yeah pretty much, but for some odd reason there are still people that put value in them...
now the circlejerk can upvote posts like these to feel good about themselves. i'm so morally upstanding, look at me i'm so above what i was just condoning half an hour ago
People got too upset obviously, but the attitude of 32bites certainly asked for a significant backlash. For someone who was admitting that he was doing very little for the community to say that it has gone to shit and cannot be revived is sort of offensive to people who enjoy the r/iama.
He is painting himself to be misunderstood afterwards, but at the time it seemed he was dead set on disbanding the subreddit without putting in any effort at all into finding someone else to take the reigns. That was his right as moderator, but it also is fair enough that people get angry when someone they are supposed to be able to trust mistreats them.
Lol it's funny because this is the worst of what happened to him in most of reddit's opinion.
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Ha, I love how Reddit has completely changed it's tone now he has agreed not to shut it down. Yesterday, I didn't see a single comments in his defence, and now the top post is on his side. Reddit is fickle...
Vigilante assholes? Damn you take this shut way too seriously. Someone call the cyberpolice!
Thankfully most people do this from the user's page, which doesn't actually work. It just looks like you downvoted all of the user's posts to you, but nothing changes on the servers and no one else sees the changes.
Also known as "What happens if you're conservative on the default subreddits." :)
WHAT?! A CONSERVATIVE?!! QUICKLY, TO THE BLUEARROWS.
No, but seriously, a lot of the time when I see a conservative viewpoint, it's accompanied by the person being an insulting asshole in general, which is what motivates me to downvote.
I can't speak for the majority of reddit, but if you can make your point well, I'll probably upvote you even if I don't like the opinion. If you're making arguments that include "Points made: 0. Opinions that sound like they came from a high-school freshman: 1.", you probably won't do so hot though. That said, I wouldn't touch r/politics and the like with a 10 foot pole, so any conservative viewpoints I see would probably be in the wrong place.
Threatening to take down the subreddit simply because he doesn't like it anymore? Childish bullshit.
Reddit reacted in kind.
Yeah, because having a lower karma score is going to hurts his future job chances, break the head gasket in his car, and rape his girlfriend.
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I thought that karma doesn't actually mean anything... He pissed some people off, they downvoted him... boo-fucking-hoo.
lmao shut up you fucking faggot bitch
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For it was that many did wander the wilderness of the interwebs until through chance or perhaps destiny they did come upon the Reddits and joined unto communion with it.
As they were in communion and shared that which was of themselves, many were found to be imbued with knowledge and experience which others found desirable and they were beseeched to share this with all. Many chose to take this path and they were gazed upon with wonderment.
Yet these were scattered across the Reddits and so it was that 32bites did cause to be built the IAmA, where any could come to share their knowledge and experience and be faced with the questions from all.
For many seasons the IAmA served its purpose well and was shared by all until a great community was formed and almost all were part of it. Verily there were those who came unto the IAmA not to spread falsehoods and this did cause much trouble amongst those who were in communion with them.
Lo there was much discussion on how to validate those who came, and there was constant upheaval with those who would moderate, for while there were those who were deceptive, there were many who were good and truthful and there was great joy at asking questions of them for it was seen as good.
It came to pass that 32bites looked upon that which he created and seeing only the emptiness of the chalice, did declare that as he had given life to the IAmA he would take it away, for this would allow other smaller communities room to shine and again allow those who were sincere to spread wonderment.
It was this action that released a great maelstrom for many saw the IAmA to be an integral part of the Reddits and many beseeched 32bites to stay his hand until others could be found to carry on with that which he had created, while others did curse his name that he had sought to destroy that which they held dear
And so it was that all was as it is usually and the Reddits continued on its course to its destiny uninterrupted”
can you post Chapter 34?
http://www.reddit.com/r/gonewild
FTFY
Oh cool it's like a picture book I can read to my kids.
Finally, scripture with a center-fold.
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what.is.this.?
Where's Relevant_Rule34 when you need him?
You're looking for the song of solomon
1:13 A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
4:5 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
PLEASE follow this up with a chapter on THE GREAT MIGRATION: EXODUS FROM DIGG I hear it talked about so much and I legit want to know the details. but only in your wise words oh great and sacred book.
It was like the eternal September, but WORSE
At last school's back in. Eternal September is frustrating (I don't have room to talk here, since I'm still new, but I frequent other such sites) but at least there isn't Eternal Summer Break. Waves of posts by 12-15 year olds right after school is over is manageable, but could you imagine a constant trickle of "LoL i MaDe A cOd ViDeO" posts...forever?
damn aol-ers... September all year long :(
It was when digg launched the v4 and the source of the stories became companies and not the community, it was like getting the worst of reddit, twitter and facebook in one place (without any of the good those services provide).
I was a digg user since 2004, just a few months after they started and I couldn't take it I quit and started using my reddit account that had been inactive for a couple of years.
The first couple of weeks it did degraded the reddit front page since there were a ridiculous high number of posts like "Hey I'm x and I come from digg" and a number of "Reddit 101 for Digg users" and I got kind of annoying for a few days, but beyond that I believe most integrated quite rapidly.
"And it came to pass that the Diggites didst convert to the house of Reddit, and as hueypriest went up unto the administration subreddit, they didst erect a golden Narwhal, unto the image of Bacon. As hueypriest saw this idolatry, he was wroth and didst downvote the image unto oblivion."
Repatriate yourself back to Digg.
It when this place got even more thirteen year old boys. We don't like to talk about it.
It is a tale I witnessed from the shadows. It made me the man I am today.
Was that when Digg went to "v4.0" or w/e? I quit using it then, but I didn't discover Reddit until this month.
Yeah. Most people went over immediately.
I don't really know how much the exodus changed... by the end of Digg, every top post was just yesterday's top reddit posts.
Your commitment to this is admirable.
dont stop...
believing
hold on to that...
hold on to that feeling
hold on to that feeling...
hold on for one more day
Just hold on to that feeling.
...in butt sex?
Thinking about tomorrow.
Best novelty account ever.
Psht
Except andrewsmith1986 did it first yesterday
Well, I don't live here; I'm only passing through. I must have missed it..
This is amazing :O
This reminded me of The Silmarillion, then the Bible, then I went back to The Silmarillion.
I really hope that Chapters 1-48 and all 1,000+ pages exist, and you're planning on publishing this one day.
I highly approve of this and can't wait to see more.
For the love of all that is holy... the Reddit Bible must be created! I think the "Exodus from Digg" as mentioned earlier is a great idea to add.
Thank you. This explained to me what has happened better than anything else.
Its... so.. Beautiful!
You HAVE to cover Bozarking. Those two months he was active in Dec/Jan 2009/10 were AMAZING.
What do you require, oh Book of Reddit, that we may partake in your wisdom but a bit longer?
I clicked your username to check other comments. Dude, you've been doing this for long. Who are you? Tell me or I will feed you a banana.
This drama is really raking you in the Karma, neh?
Two questions:
Do you pronounce 'neh' with the schwa sound?
Do you speak German?
In my youth, we (I and my German-speaking compatriots) used to say this all the time, as an equivalent to the [Canadian] English term "eh?" (like the British English term "innit?").
Bonus question: if none of the above makes sense, just how do you pronounce 'neh', and can you enlighten me on the origin of the term (e.g. what language it comes from)? Maybe it's "typical" English, but I've never seen/heard it before like that.
Cheers!
Two answers:
What's a schwa?
No
Bonus answer:
I pronounce "neh" as you would pronounce the word "dead" but without the "d"s and with an "n" at the beginning (and I am Canadian, so I guess it's sort of strange that I don't pronounce it like "eh" (pronounced like "hay" without an "h" (hope you can deal with nested parentheses))) .
Are you a German-Canadian? I only ask because you referenced "eh" so much.
I can tell you where I got the word from, and that's Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game where the children at Battle School use it as you suggest, like Canadians say "eh" or Brits say "innit".
Are you a German-Canadian? I only ask because you refererced "eh" so much.
oooooooommmmmm.. thud! (monty python style)
and so it was.
I had to downvote, but only because it put your karma at 666...
Hallowed are the Reddi.
and so another excerpt from the codex of a man far wiser than I - or many other a peer - is bestowed upon the community
So say we all.
this novelty account sucks
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too much bold, didn't read
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I would bet money that the majority of the active novelty accounts are actually a dozen or so redditors who spend entirely too much time on this site.
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People reported your post. Why? We're not going to fucking delete comments, why do people think that's even on the table in non-spam cases?
Happens in my sub all the time. Dissenting opinion? Report!
It's irritating at best.
Those actually are deleted in some subreddits.
This free for all policy on reddit that's supposed to represent a bastion of freedom of speech has actually created a website where censorship is common.
Then you have violentacrez who's openly allowed by reddit administration to use reddit mod features as a tool to troll.
r/christianity?
I've reported some of the total fucking asshats that do nothing but post hate, but ultimately since then I've discovered that unless you post someone's personal details (of which some people have done to me and are still not banned) you'll never get banned, so you can be as big of an asshole as you want to be on reddit...which is probably the reason why things are the way they are.
Too many people think report is a second way to down vote. And I get the feeling some think that because it hides the link on them after they report a link, that it gets removed or hidden from everybody -- ie. placed in the spam filter. Well, that doesn't happen. And then, there are the last group: those just trying to annoy the moderators.
Welcome to the hell that 32bites tried to escape.
It's clearly an ad.
I report often and early for things that are against the reddit rules, not just spam. Things like personal information.
"Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum." -Cicero
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True, but is this man a troll?
because you have done that in F7U12
Reported!
Please set it so that anyone who reports a perfectly fine comment gets shadow banned. Also anyone who downvotes more than 5 people consecutively in 2 minutes should get an hour ban.
There is no way to do this. In fact, they don't even get to see who reported it. OMG and you should make the car fly and also be a submarine but with like 20 little tiny wings that change colors with the temperature but not green because I don't like green.
Holy fascism, Batman. You want to turn Reddit into a police state.
Language, maybe? (He uses the F-bomb three times more than you :)
Many forums have rules about vulgarity, and typically the way those rules are enforced is via whatever 'flag this post' system they have in place. So if you're new to this site the purpose of the 'report' link may not be clear.
Edit: Um, guys... I don't care if you swear. I'm not the guy who hit the 'report' button. I'm just someone who saw the question and thought up an answer.
Seriously, can someone explain the sudden hate for a guy who, when he saw a question, dared answer it? How is this not adding to the conversation when it's a direct response to that conversation?
You can say 'fuck', this is hardly a child's website.
I've just found out about this now and part of me wanted to see it shut down so I could witness grown men and women lose their shit over a subreddit.
Are you kidding me? People on reddit can lose their shit on far far more trivial crap. And even beyond that, just look at how people lose their shit when popular websites are shut down (e.g. ncyclopedia dramatica).
What's up with everything going to hell lately? Steve Jobs, slashdot, IAMA, circlejerk, etc. - I'm getting kinda scared.
did you not hear what happened when f7u12 got tampered with last week?
Oh my god the self-entitlement and fucking childishness. It was absolutely pathetic.
I wanted to watch Reddit crumble when a single subreddit gets effed over.
It was almost the end of the world, right? Maybe this is another sign of the endtimes. Earthquakes, Hurricanes, and Reddit drama!
It's a natural human emotion. I felt the same way when the financial markets were crumbling back in 2008. I regretted my schadenfreude when I just graduated two months later to the wonderful world of unemployment.
AT least reddit drama doesn't affect me in real life; only 32bit's real life :O
Well, think about a web site with 400,000 members - that's a lot, and shutting that down would always upset many people. Also, r/IAma is a bit a flagship part of reddit.
Every stupid forum can have people talk and discuss stuff and feel good about themselves, but few can have truly famous and interesting people like Ken Jenkins or the Chrome team or whatnot.
Of course, that said, it's stupid to call for having him banned or anything. All the thoughtful voices said he should just give the subreddit over to somebody else, and that's exactly what he did as soon as he found out people cared so much about it (which could have been a surprise, remember that IAmA sucks balls these days and he knew that)
Whoa, you've been here nearly 6 years, you should have a long gray beard under your name.
That would be awesome!
Than again I'm only 26 so it's not like I'm actually grey in real life. But it does make me realize how long I've been into paul graham yet, as it's trough him that I (and most other oldies I suspect) found the site.
Addicted from day one btw :-)
AMA?
Everybody knew that. 1/3 of the posts on IAmA are about how much IAmA sucks, how full of shit the posters are, etc. I was actually shocked to see people react so strongly against shutting it down.
But...there was a pitchfork sale.
Wow. Finally someone with some fucking sense. It's not about how much of a contribution a section of a website makes to to the website. Even if the entire website got shut down, is this something to fucking cry about? The real problem isn't the loss of a major part of reddit. R/Iama is a major part of www.reddit.com but if www.reddit.com is a major part of your life, you need to re-examine your life. R/Iama was huge to reddit, yes. But reddit is a funny and entertaining site to be visited when you're fucking bored. Your entire social life should not be invested in it. Something so trivial shouldn't be taken so seriously. You people do what you want, but if you stop putting so much emphasis on a website you won't feel like you just got dumped at the prom next time something like this happens. I would bet this website won't be around in ten years.
I hope this comment gets to the top. I agree. This is as bad as religious evangelists going bonkers over the fact that some atheist said "Boo!"
Thank you. I've been laughing my ass off at the hivemind's fucking sense of entitlement for a couple of days now. It's seriously upsetting to me that I have to share oxygen with a lot of these people.
I love you.
I agree. It's absolutely ridiculous that he received hateful phone calls over this.
I really wanted to upvote you in agreement, but your karma was 69, and... well... you know, 69.
I agree. Let's not forget we're talking about a website here... Yes, IAmA is an awesome idea but let's face it: at the end of the day, it is a part (albeit a rather large one) of a website that is intended primarily for entertainment. (yes, there are some serious subreddits
Damn it. Last time I try to comment on my iPhone -.- my point is that at the end of the day, it's just a part of a massive network of primarily entertaining (and distracting) Internet content, and attacking (verbally or otherwise) people for removing it is unacceptable. Not to be rude, but can't we find something more productive to do with our lives than make anonymous and angry phone calls to a person you don't know? Oh, right. Question. How long were you considering axeing IAmA and did you talk to anyone else on the subject? Or was this purely an executive decision?
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I know you're right because you said the word 'fuck' about a thousand times. ಠ_ಠ
Rollypolly and everyone who upvoted his post, slow the fuck down for a sec. One guy flips out, so we should delete a major subreddit, then a tiny fraction of the affected redditors flip out, so we should delete a major subreddit.
What about all the people in the middle?
A subreddit that big and popular would be like a torrent site. Even if you shut it down permanently another would pop up in its place, so that's not going to teach anyone a lesson. "If you strike IAMA down, IAMA shall become more power than you could possibly imagine."
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This is the sole reason I hate reddit and wish to make it a nightmare for everyone who uses it.
A sense of entitlement? On reddit? NO WAY
r/politics
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I can't help but taste the irony in calling for damnation on the actions of internet-dwellers in relation to another internet-dweller while damning their actions with the same actions you deem damnable.
Tell that to 32bites for acting like he gave birth to a child by creating this subreddit.
oh ok, genius. apparently 32bites isnt the one with the huge sense of entitlement, it's everyone else. now why didnt i think of that.
You need to fucking cool it. Yes the internet's anonymity allows people to take it too far, but it's not like there's a Department of Internet Administration building where people can go protest. It's not like 32bites was appointed by an elected official.
He took a big ol shit all over something that people cared about. Fuck off with your self-righteous bullshit, son.
He was a dick.
He was a dick to 450k people.
They pointed out he was a dick and he persisted in being a dick.
That's reason to "attack" someone. Attack meaning use the site he was being a dick on to point out dickishness.
It was only later he decided to stop being a dick.
Who are YOU to decide what is and isn't okay to care about? I personally played no role in any part of this whole thing...just watched from the sidelines. But when something evolves to the point of having almost half a million followers who care about it, what exactly makes them being upset about its potential demise in the hands of a single person "entitlement issues"?
You're just like the people who play a team game online, troll and ruin it for everyone else, and then, when the other players get angry, say "it's just a GAME, chill out".
If you think that YOU get to decide what is and isn't worthy of caring about, then you're the one with entitlement issues.
Just because something like a subreddit is intangible doesn't mean you aren't allowed to care about it.
To be fair, 32bites attacked pretty much all of the subscribers to r/IAmA with his diatribe about how the quality has fallen and it's the fault of the "community." 32bites set the tone of attacking one another. I'm not saying it's remotely okay to harass him IRL, but he absolutely deserves a rhetorical beating here on reddit. He was rude to the subscribers who made his subreddit successful, and that makes him a jerk. Maybe a tired, stressed-out, not-thinking-clearly jerk, but still, a jerk.
And a whiner. Boo hoo, he can't tightly control and dictate the contours of something that's bigger than what he initially created. Welcome to the life of everyone who has ever created anything remotely halfway successful.
Being a jerk doesn't justify people calling him up at work. That's fucked.
I agree. That's why I explicitly stated in my comment that it was not okay to do that.
This whole thing reminds me of people losing their shit when a TV show get cancelled. With a weird socialist sort of feeling of entitlement.
But...but...Firefly was awesome....
I'm not sure of your point. You're saying people don't have a right to enjoy TV shows and/or communities they've come to care about?
Again, I'm not saying anyone was the tiniest hint of justified in harassing 32bites at his place of work or threatening to hack his bank accounts. That's legally, socially, and morally not okay. But I really don't get the dismissiveness and, frankly, kind of superior attitude some folks have about people caring about the subreddit. What's wrong with people caring about things? What's wrong with people wanting to preserve a community they've come to love?
I think this sums things up perfectly. While I don't think there should have been the backlash there was, in such magnitude, he is the one who set the tone and basically insulted almost a half-million people.
I think you should be disgusted with yourself, fatty.
'Hi, I'm from the internet, can I speak to 32bites please?'
"Honey, one of your friends is on the phone - he says he's from a website you two visit a lot."
"Ask him if it's Redtube."
"Is that the internet site with the videos of the kittens?"
I havent laughed this hard in a long time, internet or not.
THat's a quality post.
"He says it's the one with lots of pictures of pussies."
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Oh I hated calling people from the internet, sometimes I wasn't sure if I was calling a house line or not. What do I say to this kids mom. "Hi this is uh.. janus zeal, is, uhh, kakama there?"
It went.
This is the only point that I would like to bring up. This is terrible, reddit.
Welcome to reddit, this place is fucking childish nearly every time something like this happens. Last night people were taking his personal photos and making meme macros of them, making personal threats and insults towards him, etc. it's disgusting.
You have to keep in mind that the subreddit has half a million subscribers - that's probably the work of less than a few dozen. If it was 50 people being dicks, that's still only .01% of the reddit population.
And how many people upvoted it? Thousands? And how many people failed to downvote it? Tens of thousands?
If people thought the content was bad, it never would have been so popular and so highly upvoted.
Clearly the Reddit community valued and rewarded the work of these people.
To throw them under the bus and pretend that the userbase at large had nothing to do with it is hilariously off mark. They may have made the images, but it takes the rest of Reddit to give the upvotes.
If it was only 50 people that felt this way, that stuff would have gotten downvoted into oblivion, and nobody would have seen it.
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so 50 people were doing enough upvotes to get it on the frontpage? more like only .01% of the reddit population will actually do something that is not passive aggressive.
And that makes it OK.
I hate 90% of the people who found reddit within the last two years.
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Uhh not that I want to defend reddit as some bastion of nobility, but
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Links to said photos?
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How does everyone seem to have this guys phone number?
IT'S DISGUSTING. Calling people at work? Only forever alone revolting children do that
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Let's not have yet another "we need to talk" talk, OK? The vast majority of people listening to such a talk wouldn't be the target audience.
Reddit isn't a monolithic place, and I think people forget just how fricking many people there are here. There are 465389 accounts subscribing to r/iama as I write. Are you surprised that a handful of those 456389 would harass 32bites? Assuming they're representative ( a big assumption, but), you got maybe 2000 people with schizophrenia in there. God knows how many aspies.
This isn't some family dispute. This isn't even small-town cozy. This is mass politics in all its ugly glory. I'm confident 32bites has no comprehension of how many people he actually affected with his petty decision.
The "political" system we have of subreddit administration simply has huge trouble scaling up to such a level. Mods who think they can treat a community on the size of Oslo, Norway as their private property, are, to put it mildly, unreasonable.
I'm not sure I believe it.
well since reddit hosts subreddits with child porn, pictures of abused women, hate speech, and a general population that thinks all women are whores, are you really surprised?
I called to warn him about the mob.
People actually try to reset my reddit password all the time.
This is terrible... :(
Also, is there a special club for famous redditors? You all seems to know each other's private numbers etc.
One other thing, is there a cutoff limit as to when someone is famous or not? Like, how much karma points do you need to be considered for membership in such a famous redditor's club?
Nah, but there is an IRC for moderators of large subreddits.
The admins hang out in there.
I actually got his number off his facebook which is where they got the photo of him.
You have to be a wolf to catch a wolf
Alternatively you have to be an Animal Control Operator to catch a wolf.
You have options, I guess
Some people just have too much time on their hands to get so worked up about something like that on the internet. And this is coming from someone who just spent almost all day playing Minecraft. ಠ_ಠ
Seconded, but I stopped to eat and reply to you so far today.
Seriously, it's a fucking internet forum. The fact that people did this fucking blows my mind.
Yes, but we make ourselves to be so much better than everywhere else.
The fact that 32bites takes this subreddit so seriously as to want to shut it down fucking blows my mind as well.
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Are you surprised? Why the fuck do people care so much? It's absolutely pathetic.
That's just uncalled for. I really can't imagine anything on the internet that should warrent angry phone calls.
That's the beauty of the Internet - avoiding personal human interaction. Is the issue of the iama subreddit considered a first world problem?
I told my girlfriend about this and she responded "Yes, because that's the logical and mature way to deal with an issue on an internet message board." Absolutely dripping with sarcasm too.
Seriously. What the fuck is wrong with you people. I don't want to see anyone ever again saying that the reddit hivemind is better than the worst corner of /b/ because frankly, you all just publicly proved otherwise.
And that was just his family.
For the record he didn't say it was redditors calling. Maybe he works as a CSR and this happens every day.
Exactly how does one get a redditor's phone number?
What happens when you piss off 400,000 nerds? Bad things man, bad things.
I don't believe that at all. And I'm surprised everyone else here is buying into it. Seems to me like he's trying to turn himself into the victim.
Seriously, how would anybody get his work number and his name?
How can you get so attached to something online?!?!
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A gut-wrenching neckbeard melodrama unfolds before your own eyes. Every day at reddit.com.
Wow.. Talk about have no life at all...
This is fucking retarded. It's a fucking subreddit people, they're free to make, and they belong to whomever made them. Redditors aren't entitled to anything - I wish 32bites had deleted that fucking sub.
Reddit really has gone downhill over the years hasn't it? :/
wow. It's as if the collective zeitgeist of 4chan temporarily possessed Reddit. I am disappoint.
This is fucking disgusting.
Disgusting behaviour Reddit!
Why would you care that much?
It's not hard to see why the fella has had enough, if these are the kind of idiots he had to deal with on a daily basis.
Holy internet asspain, Batman.
What the fuck is wrong with some people? I'm literally laughing whilst struggling to imagine how some people can get so upset about something that doesn't matter at all.
Can someone give me an insight in to the mind of that kind of person, please?
Reddit is serious fucking business yo. Never get between a neckbeard and his internet ego boosting machine.
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The gardener that worked on my parents house as a kid was named Dick. My mother made me call him Mr. Dick.
That's all.
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Wait is this 4chan now?
meh! OFF WITH IS HEAD !!!!
What? Did you expect them to stay classy? pfft.
Sorry Mr. Dick :(
This happens every single lynch mob, even from people I have seen acting incredibly high and mighty in r/politics. The hypocrisy and childish actions of some people on reddit makes me sad.
FTFY.
32bites tried to ignore the girth of this subreddit. BAD FUCKING MOVE
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He got what he deserved.