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Why are there 2 KIAs?
posted 5 years ago by twentyonepepes 5 years ago by twentyonepepes +43 / -0

I know this must seem like a really a stupid question for those with the necessary background knowledge but I've been trying to figure it out for a while.

Update: I get it now! KIA2 is KIA with blackjack and hookers.

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– GallantEnd 12 points 5 years ago +12 / -0

We get this question a lot, I'll copy-paste my answer from last time. I'm happy to have people come and ask, hopefully you'll stick around some.

Over on reddit the mods of the original KiA became very censorious and pushed a lot of rule changes that no one wanted (They even had points where they had votes on rule changes, then did what they wanted anyways when the userbase voted overwhelmingly against them). This resulted in a lot of talk regarding politics and SJWs in gaming and nerd culture being banned, despite being very much on topic. Different people put forward different reasons for them doing this, I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt and say it was because they were scared of getting shut down, but it seemed very power-hungry and very sketchy.

This caused a schism and KiA2 was made in an attempt to be less censorious. This schism lasted over to the .win sites when KiA1 mods made their own and we made our own. I don't go over to that one, but I assume many of the rules carried over from the KiA1 subreddit and it's probably dead. KiA2 tends to err on the side of fewer rules (Which I prefer), with much more talk about a wider range of nerd-culture adjacent subjects.

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– APDSmith 7 points 5 years ago +7 / -0

but I assume many of the rules carried over from the KiA1 subreddit and it's probably dead.

Well, you're not wrong ... KiA1.win still has a six-month-old "TEMPORARY" rule thread pinned and the "new" tab reads, in order: 3 days, 7 days, 9 days, 11 days, 11 days, 13 days, 16 days, 19 days, 23, 24, 29 and then it goes into "months" old. Just 11 of anything submitted in the last month.

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