Head mod Ham Sandwich is banning anyone who criticizes how he applies the "no racism" rule.
About a week ago, Ham stickied a thread reminding users about the no racism rule. Everyone was like yeah no shit just do your job and remove any racist comments and leave the rest of us alone. The thread was a shit show as you'd expect and Hammy got his feelings hurt.
I received a permanent ban yesterday without any explanation. I called him a shit head (not directly, just in response to someone else saying he doesn't think Ham has bad intentions) because he took a few random racist comments and posted a screen shot of them next to a PPC logo on Twitter. He added the PPC logo himself to smear the growing political party. The racist comments were all one liners and half of them were probably posted by Ham on alt accounts. None of them had anything to do with the PPC or PPC supporters.
Purposefully smearing millions of people like that makes you a shit head and I said as much.
But since this is tangibly related to the "no racism" rule discussion, he went straight to a perma-ban.
I'm not even Canadian, but I migrated to Omega after the meta Canada subreddit closed by the same head mod who started OmegaCanada.
Here's a newly stickied thread, which he locked immediately after posting so nobody could respond, where he announces that he will ban you permanently if you criticize how he's going about all of this.
https://omegacanada.win/p/12igY9jrCG/if-your-goal-is-to-try-and-turn-/
Anyone else receive a perma-ban over this issue?
Ham has been extra butthurt lately because he sees that his beloved CPC party is no different from PM Blackface's Liberal party, but he can't admit it out loud. He's mad that PPC support is growing and he's lashing out on various ways.
How did you guys get someone like that to run the place?
I just visited and from the looks of it, Ham is sabotaging the sub. So either from bad intentions or gross incompetence...
Ham is almost certainly on the payroll of the Conservative Party of Canada, who finance him in order to run a forum that's friendly to the CPC. Reddit's rules were being so unevenly applied by the admins, especially regarding the Canada subs, that metacanada became untenable on reddit, so they moved here.
The problem is that the CPC, especially under it's current leader, has become indistinguishable from Turdeau's Liberals, and so is useless as political opposition and unlikely to ever win another election as its supporters abandon it in droves. This has created a situation where any non-leftist Canadian forum becomes dominated by conservatives who are disillusioned with the Party, and now Ham is probably feeling pressure from his employers to purge them.
Additionally, he's probably freaking out over Bill C-10. There's very little actual racism on omega that I've seen, but there is a lot of anti-immigration sentiment, and that will likely be used by the government to get the .win blocked in Canada, and again, there goes Vegan_Beyond_Meat_Ham_Substitute_Sandwich77's paycheck.
^ this
I've looked through his comments on the board and he's repeating the same few catchphrases over and over again
There are some handshake accounts defending him that use the exact same phrases. Like he's not even rational enough to change even his wording.
The mods on r/metacanada were always out of touch with the base that actually used the sub. Uber juvenile memes about each other, stickying their own posts, trashing on anyone they disagreed with. Ham was the worst of them, and I don't even know if he actually had full control of the sub before he got control of the .win.
Once they migrated to .win, the handful of mods that came with him pretty much went silent and I think he's been running the place entirely on his own. Brought on a new mod not to long ago, but that mod just quit due to all this stupidity.
The most benevolent assumption is that the last year has been too much for his personal life and he's lashing out the only place he feels he has power to do so.
Who was the new mod that quit?
I've noticed woodenboatguy posting articles to r/canada, which I find odd because he was once an Omega mod.
TrueNorth.
The banned and others (like me) are on Gab now, there's an alphaCanada group.
I'm not even Canadian, I just enjoyed their content and community.
I think he created OmegaCanada.win so has full control of it.
I've heard a few Canucks talking about seeing up a new Canada focused .win and hopefully that happens soon.
no idea how he got there, we are trying now to figure out how .win works to get the mofo out.
Ham will be happy with that. He will just use his 5 alts to talk to himself
Do you have to set up an account to lurk on GAB?
I tried to check out AlphaCanada but couldn't get passed the Sign In screen.
Too lazy/not really interested in making yet another account just now
You can set posts by users, but not comments.
I just gave them a spam email account, I was willing to do that, unlike Parler with the phone number crap.