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user1999
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2/27/2025, 12:42:05 PM
Reddit is a shithole
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eleusius
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3/1/2025, 6:38:06 AM
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There may also be something to the Somethingawful Forums being the progenitor of a lot of the same reddit tier bullshit since the early days. I know they would often raid the various chans, but while I was an ancientfag, I never really was a goonsquad guy. I know they've BECOME very liberal but that's one worth investigating just how bad it really is. Also an entire sixth of reddit was moderated by Ghislane Maxwell... do with that what you will.
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user1999
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3/1/2025, 9:20:42 AM
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I helped fund the very first SA forums, bought Rich one of the servers. Unreal what that place has become. I was obsessed with the forums around 1999 or so.
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eleusius
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3/17/2025, 2:29:22 AM
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Damn, I didn't see this response until a full two weeks later, but you were there at the founding. Do you have any insight on what went wrong? SA always interested me as like the last holdout of 90's style forums. Did it succumb to reddit-tier moderation, or was there a clique that just absorbed the site?
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user1999
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3/17/2025, 4:26:13 AM
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I have some insight, but not alot. I got busy being an adult (I joined SA when I was like 22) and distanced myself from it. Defintitely the weirdos we made fun of became the actual users of the site. And yeah the mods got crazy. Zach married fistgrlll - ozma got weird. Standard "main character" syndrome from nerds who did not have a real life. They got obsessed with moderation. There was alot of weird E stalking going on. Rich did not care for years , it was making a few hundred thousand per year and he just lived life while others ran it for basically E clout and no wages. When it stopped making money, it was too late to save it. Then he had some terrible health issues and had to sell the place to people who hated him and the forums. Quite the tragedy. I had not spoken to him in about 6 years before he killed himself. Too much drama that was self inflicted IMO. Almost all of it revolving around drinking, bad choices in women and apathy. He was a good guy from all of my interactions (mostly online a few in person over the years)
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spiritbox96
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3/8/2025, 7:10:13 PM
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Wow look how Lowtax turned out.
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user1999
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3/9/2025, 10:28:11 AM
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He was super flawed, but he also fell victim to some seriously terrible women who were gold diggers and drama queens. ALOT of nuance to all of that story. He was not an angel, but not as portrayed and the women in his life were psychotic and hated him.
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spiritbox96
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3/8/2025, 7:09:49 PM
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GM was modding reddit subs? What the fuck?
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logical
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2/28/2025, 8:18:13 PM
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I have seen more intelligent conversation in porn hub comments than on reddit these days.
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americanamerican
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3/11/2025, 10:39:06 PM
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Cry more Hitler cock srucker.
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eleusius
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3/1/2025, 6:35:39 AM
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The alphabet soup Tumblr brigade ultimately turned that site into a cesspool during the Obama administration. Most of the current disease stems from that particular forge. I would be depressed to hear that there were even more origins, but ultimately this is where the fags inventing flags got started.
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spiritbox96
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3/8/2025, 7:09:13 PM
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The canary in the coal mine was r/fatpeople hate and r/coontown and r/the\_donald none of those subs broke the rules so they either changed the rules to get rid of them or just did it anyway. They had jailbait subs, watch people die, etc all up long after they got rid of these ones first.
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djsonrise
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3/9/2025, 1:23:54 PM
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Thanks for this platform!
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2/28/2025, 9:10:45 PM
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spiritbox96
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3/8/2025, 7:07:52 PM
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I wish Reddit would get caught donated to Republicans or whatever the fuck the current thing is that "they" hate and then they'd have to delete their accounts or deal with it.
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matt
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2/28/2025, 5:58:33 PM
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welcome~ soj.ooO is still new, but anyone that has hung out here for more than an afternoon can tell why it's different.
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spiritbox96
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3/8/2025, 7:10:55 PM
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Did anyone here use VOAT or the other clone, I forgot the name. VOAT was good but mysteriously got shut down out of nowhere.
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2/28/2025, 8:46:11 PM
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Arriving here, at first I saw the /p/something urls and thought "oh, well, another useless reddit clone" ...then saw some posts and it was heart warming :) Time will tell, but have some hope on that place :)
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logical
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3/1/2025, 6:01:20 AM
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heres to hoping for the best, cheers
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earthmightiest
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2/28/2025, 9:12:45 PM
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reddit is SJW's snake pit. Tiktok is brainrot. twitter is..
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3/1/2025, 6:00:07 AM
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twitter is a psyop youtube is the brainsmasher
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