Now we became the enemy.”Įvidently, the toxicity on KotakuInAction, which has more than 96,000 subscribers, and the subsequent forums it spawned grew so bad that David-Me removed himself from the top moderator position, and he attempted to delete the forum. We banned links to, and then mention of certain links and topics. “This was the best and worst thing,” David-Me wrote. Additional Gamergate forums were created on platforms like 8chan as a result of the community born in KotakuInAction. David-Me said that at first, he expected hardly anyone to join the forum, but within a few days, it was overwhelmed by thousands of individuals flooding in.Īfter some amount of success, David-Me described the “dark time” the forum entered as its membership became more and more toxic, employing racist and sexist language. User David-Me’s post on Friday detailed his original intentions for the forum. Reddit has since reopened the forum and resumed its normal operations. Its creator, a Redditor by the name of David-Me, seemingly had a change of heart in recent days, and he attempted to lock down the forum following a lengthy screed that described KotakuInAction as a “monster” and a “virus.”

SIXTEEN: Do not attack entire identity groups as inferior or conspiring.The subreddit KotakuInAction began life as a pro-Gamergate /anti-SJW forum dedicated to commenting on a perceived liberal agenda in geek culture media, and it was the source of no small amount of harassment campaign organizing. TWELVE: Do not post intentional falsehoods or hoaxes.įOURTEEN: Do not post more than 5 posts a day to this sub.įIFTEEN: Do not direct particularly egregious identity based slurs at users.

NINE: Do not solicit or engage in transactions that are federally regulated by the US govt. SEVEN: Do not post Facebook accounts or twitter accounts with less than 500 followers, and personal information.ĮIGHT: Do not intentionally deceive others by impersonating another. THREE: Do not threaten, harass, defame, or bully users.įOUR: Do not post involuntary Salacious Material. TWO: Do not engage in speech that promotes, advocates, glorifies, or endorses violence. ONE: Do not post Illegal Activity, or criminal manifestos. The below rules are just a summary of the rules which can be found in the Welcome Ashore post. How did the internet turn everyone so fucking neurotic over the things we were supposed to do as FUN? And I am not even just talking about SJW things, but every community is about 'doing it the right way' even though it doesn't matter and there doesn't exist a right way? Others are having depression because their islands are not aesthetic enough. Hell, I am kiiinda thinking about a Switch, I looked at Animal Crossing and people are freaking the fuck out at others for not playing the game 'right'. Cooking? You are not environmentally friendly enough, you are not authentic enough, this is wrong, that is wrong. 'I am having a panic attack because maybe I didn't get all the references in this book.' Get a panic attack because two fucking photons touched the book and how it will be DAMAGED. Do not write into them, do not open them too much or the spine will crack. You can't go to any freaking book-related online space without people asking for permission to not finish a book. It's just so depressing how even book people are about nothing more than intentionally creating this self-perpetuating 'community' of anxiety.

At this point, everyone knows I'm hugely into books.

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