About nine months ago this lifeboat came into existence following massive purges by Reddit admins against non-establishment conforming materials. Those purges never ended, which is why this particular forum has become the overall bastion for KIA2/GG materials.
On the creation of this site we were presented a set of 16 rules which we, the users, were questioned about. Overwhelming we found that the rules were overbearing and redundant.
Many of these rules are redundant, unnecessary, or bad.
The most obvious of which is that there are THREE rules covering NSFW/pornographic material. It was pointed out by myself as well as numerous other users that these were redundant and pointless, and the assumption was that these would be changed as the rules were simply temporary.
It's nine months on.
Those are only the most egregiously obvious.
The reason I make this post today is that our rules are so open-ended and confusing that even our illustrious mods have no idea WTF they mean.
I was personally banned for a day for a rule 15 violation after which u/DomitiusOfMassilia/ admitted he misunderstood what the rule meant. Immediately after I watched him make the same mistake with another. Now, a week after, I notice that the majority of action is taken under rules 2, 15, and 16. Almost all content removals are based on slurs/bad language/insults.
This post is largely upvoted while Dom's statement of removal is largely downvoted. That's just one example. This is becoming far too common. Please do not make the same mistakes that murdered KIA1.
Note that I am not calling out Dom specifically. I think the rules themselves are dogshit tier and must be fixed. I like this community, even if I do think you're a bunch of faggots. And goddamnit u/TheImpossible1 there's no women involved here so kindly fuck off.
Can we please have a serious discussion about our rules and the impacts that they have, and FIX THEM? We do not need SIXTEEN RULES, especially when it's clear not even our mods understand them all.
Now Killroy, I think you are being fairly disingenuous about what you're actually attempting to do here. You want to end rule 16 because you want to rant about the Jews controlling everything, and hopefully using this forum as base for alt-right activity.
No, I'm not letting you do that.
Firstly, because I know that it is going to scare away normies, and if we want to survive we need to grow. Without Reddit's search engines, I have to construct an authentic decentralized system to attract attention from outside the .win network in order for more people to use this place as a communicable hub. Normies don't want to hear you rant about a Jewish conspiracy to keep them down because they a) don't believe it, b) don't have any experience that would agree with that, c) it makes you sound absolutely crazy, d) it's resentful and rageful that a lot of normies don't want to get emotionally invested in.
This is why places like Voat died. Well, in addition to a few others:
Secondly, it makes it super easy to commit false flag comments and glow posts that can be weaponized against us as well as .win. It's the 2nd biggest avenue of attack that I could open for the Left. The biggest being porn. I wouldn't care if people posted porn, but I know with 100% certainty that Leftists would come here and post really nasty shit, then report their own posts. The Leftists were pushing false flag, blatant, and unhinged racism to give the John Birch Society a bad name in the 1950's and their still doing it today with Hoax Hate crimes. I'd even be okay with some of the stuff I remove for rule 2 violations if I weren't 100% sure that glowposts would abound.
Third, I consider racialism to be Leftist generally. To the point that I consider your racialism about as actively subversive and dangerous as active communist activity in the forum. I look at it in the same way that I would look at a BLM activist screeching about how this sub can't be a place for black inclusion until we end our innate whiteness and abandon capitalism.
Which also informs my bias assumption that you are being disingenuous with your post, and particularly the objective of bringing 'reform' to the rules. I think you know good and well that if I start making the rules more general and vague, I'll have to start policing subjectively, which will both undermine my own position (and create demands for my removal as mod which you can exploit), and guarantee that users will see rules as weapons to be enforced by their particular ideological faction within the sub. That way, the moderators can use force to craft the sub into something more appealing to their particular faction. After generating enough objections from my subjective enforcement, you should be able to garner enough support to remove most of the rules, and replace (or add) moderators with people more ideologically aligned with your faction. After having removed most of the rules, you will be able to use moderator power to purge users and crush dissent to form a more ideologically homogeneous userbase that you hope you can use for your own purposes.
This, of course, destroys the forum.
Now, as you're reading this and saying: "Dom, you're a paranoid conspiracy theorist."
But remember:
I think of you as a Leftist. What would you expect a subversive communist to do? The same shit for the same reasons.
To be honest, you're much better off parasitizing any successful growth the sub has for political purposes, rather than controlling it outright.
So this isn't a place for free speech and we should be looking elsewhere? I thought the reason we were here instead of on Reddit is so that we don't have to censor things. But you're willing to just do it anyway.
What would you like to be the standard for removals? There's always illegal stuff that has to be removed. There's also some non-illegal stuff that does have to be removed, like spam.
This place is about Gamergate. It's not "Jews are evil", nor is it about any other petty agenda that someone may want to advance.
The sub has evolved past just being about Gamergate to politics in general, which I think is good. But that is naturally going to lead to people discussing conspiracies. Picking and choosing what opinions you think are valid or not isn't a good moderation strategy unless you want this place to end up like Reddit. Saying X conspiracy is not allowed to be discussed sets precedent and is a slippery slope to banning more discussions.
Any resistance to Social Justice is Gamergate.
I did not want that, because politics are a distraction. I'd much rather fix the culture, and politics will take care of itself, as it is downstream from culture.
That said, the rule against unrelated politics on r/Kia2 was never unsuspended, because it seemed to me that this was not what the users wanted. You could argue that IDPol has infected politics to such an extent that it has become very relevant.
Where exactly did you get that discussion of conspiracies was going to be banned? That is quite different from becoming another /r/conspiracy though.