Dear All:
In case you hadn't noticed my absence, I have been absent from moderating for a significant period of time. This was due to a sudden family emergency that required me to take on the role of home health aide. Our family was not prepared for this emergency either monetarily, logistically, or physically; so I've had to make many critical choices about how to prioritize my time. Unfortunately, this meant I had to prioritize health care, transportation, extra work hours, and minor construction ahead of you all.
Frankly, I figured you would all be fine for the most part. I've always said that you all make the forum what it is, not me. But, it doesn't change the fact that I have been delinquent in my duties to you all. And maybe I could have been forgiven myself after a few weeks of regular moderating and creating a good system for it, but after this period of time, it simply isn't fair to you for me to continue moderating.
I would have greatly preferred a transition phase, but it simply isn't something I can maintain due to my time constraints. Any plan I come up with is pretty regularly thrown to the wind, so I'll have to let the chips fall where they may. I'll try to check back more regularly than I have, but I genuinely can't make any strong commitments.
Thus, I'm looking for volunteers for moderation. Truly the forum only needs moderate moderation. Heavy daily commitments isn't necessarily required, as it can probably be mastered by a crew of a few taking different days.
Thank you for your time, and I apologize for the frustrations I have caused you. Please volunteer in the comment chain with your available commitment, and if there are people you would like to work with.
Of course brother, family comes first. No worries whatsoever.
Not to be the "I told you so" guy, but there's been consistent pleas from the community for years to appoint a second-in-command mod as a contingency plan for just such a situation. Which repeatedly fell on deaf ears.
I'm glad that you've returned & are bowing out gracefully. But there's alternative scenarios where Dom could've disappeared forever, effectively abandoning & killing this special community for good.
If he had shut it down and abandoned his post we could have petitioned the site admins and gotten new mods.
In theory.
That option did absolutely nothing for us for the last 5 years when this place was moderated like a fiefdom.
Eventually. Maybe. It took months and multiple requests to get the admins to give mods to c/gaming and they never even replied to any of the request threads on c/meta after the c/conspiracies mod left.
Were they unmodded? Wow, normally you get the leftists in pretty fast posting the favorites of their large CP collections to shut it down.
Yeah, months without a mod.
I miss Ruqqus.
I'm sorry to hear that, man. Genuinely, thanks for the five years of work you've put in.
So sorry to hear that. Will be praying for you and your family
I'll throw my hat in, hopefully I've been around long enough and not stepped on so many toes that I look like a fed, cunt or infiltrator. Happy to just clean up the most obvious spam and leave it at that.
I can usually spare an hour or so a day, spread over mornings and evenings most days, but say 1-2 days a week at a minimum.
Also, all the best to you now, hope it all ends up on an upward trend. We definitely could have had much worse.
Moderate moderation would be something I'm still able to do, since I'm busy working UK hours and only bother using this site on desktop because the mobile UI is already a pain I don't want to have to add moderator functions onto that. So having a few others would also be welcome should it be something I ended up helping with.
I do not wish any ill will on your family, and you have my condolences.
That said, I mirror the sentiments of Benevolentdictator and others, and say that while I'm glad you are finally asking for volunteers, it shouldn't have gotten to this point in the first place.
With that out of the way, I nominate u/Kienan, u/MargarineMongoose, and u/Kaarous as potential mods, and I am willing to volunteer as well.
While I appreciate the sentiment, I do not want the job. My wife and I have a newborn baby and between my current mod job, work, and running a game of DnD I simply wouldn't be able to give this enough attention.
Besides all I'd really want is to just ban Imp and his alts, and someone else can do that just as well.
Are you the dungeon master? I’d love to find a game. My local comic book store is very leftist so I need to search for some like minded ppl.
I am the DM but between my friends and my older children we're full up. I recommend looking for an online game, that's actually what we do. We play via voice chat and Tabletop Simulator.
Sounds good. Will do.
I'm flattered but I'm only willing to commit to a lazy effort. Truth be told I think if we want some who can actually moderate discourse here then u/Smith1980 is one of the few people I'd trust to take the reins. He's got that good Christian outlook that keeps him tempered and compassionate without veering into zealous idealism.
I disagree about Smith. I think he's wonderful but I think you need to be callous on some level to be an effective moderator.
Perhaps, but I trust him to not go mad with power more than most here, which I think is an important consideration.
Honestly, that's fine. We mainly need gatekeepers who can press the button when severe bad actors come around. I view it more as a safety backup, and a "lazy" mod is fine, maybe even preferable.
I don't view that as a mod's job anyway, so we're good.
I'm down to gatekeep, but I expect some people are going to be unhappy when I shitcan some familiar faces who don't actually belong here.
I'm sorry to hear about this development. Hope things are stabilizing/improving with your family, Dom.
That StaticNoise2 guy looking like nostradamus right about now.
Either that or a mockingbird.
Sorry to hear about your family situation, I hope it all works out as good as possible.
I was already nominated (thanks), but I'm officially volunteering. Never wanted to be mod, but always said I was willing. I've been here forever, and strongly believe in free speech, so won't abuse the system. I think those two things (account age/community engagement, and free speech) are the two most important elements for a mod, honestly. I want people to speak freely, and if modded will primarily use my powers against brigaders and other disrupters, as well as over-the-line calls to violence.
I'll second the nominations of u/SocraticMethod1 + u/The_Shadow_of_Intent + u/smith1980 + u/StaticNoise2
There are some other solid oldtimers around here too.
You got my vote
Is there anyone still using their Reddit KIA2 username here that precedes the jump to the .win lifeboat?
I had a different username for the Reddit days. I don't recall much about the pre .win days other than Dom & AntonioofVenice being mods.
Yeah, I am, though my pReddit name has numbers tacked on the end.
Me and, although it's been so long, I'm pretty sure I recognize other names. AoV, of course. I think Socratic. Alfredic? Mpetey? Again, it's been so long, but I think some of the oldetimers here have the same names from Reddit.
I'm still using the same name, although I've always been more of a lurker than a poster. I tend to only chime in when I have an input to make, or a silly dad joke to insert.
On a different topic, though, I was curious about how it works for new members to join. I saw someone mention that basically anyone new was effectively shadowbanned, until a certain out-of-reach condition was fulfilled. If so, then that would mean that we're effectively incapable of growing, only bleeding members, and would eventually become a dead community. What do you know about that, and is there anything you could change as a mod to make it easier for people to join? ln fact, would that even be something we would want, or are we comfortable with the few people already here?
Yeah, Dom implemented some filters that shadowban practically all new members, that's true.
Not sure how much power he plans to give over to the new mods, so don't even know if it would be in my power one way or the other, but I could see rolling back some of those filters, if we had an active mod base that could crack down on actual bad actors.
That was part of the problem. Dom wasn't around enough - and refused to institute new mods - so the board was constantly overrun by absolute fucking shitters (actual trolls, pedos, and Indians, but I repeat myself), so the filters did actually help make the board better...outside of stifling growth.
Again, though, the only reason that was "necessary" is we didn't have active moderation. So it all depends on who gets in as a new mod, how many of us/them there are, and what everyone wants to do. But I can certainly see opening things up more. But it's also dangerous; there are a lot of brigaders, so we would have to keep a close eye on new arrivals, one way or the other.
Honestly, this is one of the main places where I come to get my news, so I'd much rather the community stays alive. I would want it to grow, to be able to get more varied perspectives and prevent us from being so insular that we become a bubble that loses track of reality outside of our community, but as you said, any growth comes with the risk of bad actors.
Ever since you suggested becoming a mod 3-ish years ago, i personally supported you in the position. I tend to agree with the vast majority of your takes, which ironically probably made me seem less active than I was, since your posts already said what I would have wanted to say, making my input redundant beyond a simple upvote. I look forward to seeing what you can do.
I will say, we've always been so diverse, I think we have the 'varied perspectives' covered in spades. It's actually pretty amazing, when you think about, just how many different perspectives we have represented here, especially for such a relatively small community. We have fascists, Zionists, libertarians, Christians, atheists, people from various countries, and a bunch more. It's pretty incredibly all these factions can exist, and choose to exist here, when it was a definite possibility that most of a faction would have given up and fucked off.
Thanks, appreciate it. Although, again, never wanted the position. Just, like you, want to keep the community going.
Appreciate that, too, but it honestly shouldn't figure in to whether or not I - or anyone - should be mod. I don't care about a mod's politics; I care if they're sane, reasonable, and responsible enough to do the job fairly. If you're extremely ideologically driven in any direction, that actually has potential to make you a worse mod. For example, on the current Israel/Jews discussion, people fully on the "stormfag" side, or the "JIDF" side, would both make absolutely shitty mods, generally speaking, since most of them would effectively make one position illegal. They'd abuse their power to push their own agendas, and try to change the community.
One of the reasons I've always been so wary of expanding the mod base, too. We have so many diverse and contrary perspectives here, if the wrong people get in they'll abuse the power and destroy the balance and community. A bunch of people are already champing at the bit to destroy their opponents. Which is a shame, since we go back more than a decade as being a big free speech place.
Which, to shill myself, is why I think I'd be such a good fit. I don't fucking care. Again, with the Israel example; love 'em or hate 'em. I don't care. It's an opinion. You're welcome here. Don't spam, don't threaten violence or promote illegal shit, don't engage in obvious bad faith. Outside of that, it's generally all good. I would never use mod powers on someone for their opinion, even if I hated it.
If it is just the thresholds in the settings of the community, that is scored.co wide, so they can gain fake internet points in patriots.win or conspiracies or that giant streamer community whose name escapes me right now.
Kudos for taking the time to make it official and not just ditching us. I'm sure any reasonable regulars with the spare time will be accepted. And I'll be praying for your family.
Screw it. I'll do it. I volunteer. I've got nothing better to do.
I'm sorry you had to go through that.
As I said before, my very first action will be to ban Imp for good--and instantly ban any known alts.
I have personally banned the pedo from c/Gaming well over 100 times--that is NOT an exaggeration--and sometimes before he ever posted there. He is ban-on-sight, and I'll do similar here.
You are a brigader and do not belong here.
101 topics on this one board alone since June 2022, almost all pretty well-received.
I even announced Imp's sitewide ban.
Apparently spreading hope and optimism is brigading now.
10% of your last 20 posts were here. You are not a member of this board.
Oh no. I like other things and don't think about politics 24/7. The horror. The horror.
Very sorry to hear about your family. That's a big responsibility and it doesn't come lightly. I'll pray for all of you.
Thank you for everything you've done for this forum. Your work has been difficult for a while, but we're still online thanks to you.
I'll volunteer to be on the mod team. Would also nominate u/SocraticMethod1 and u/Kienan.
Good choices. I'd also suggest u/smith1980, though he might be too nice to be a moderator.
Thanks. I would have to agree with your assessment lol. Would definitely be a weakness of mine
We haven't even officially deposed our last dictator & we're already proposing bringing in the diversity hires 😉
Ha! Well I do have an ancestor that came on the mayflower. I’ll hide behind that fact.
Meh, he's got my vote.
I think to be an effective moderator here you have to be able to do two things:
I'm pretty sure even Jesus himself would be able to find enough coldness in his heart to throw them out.
I'd add Tallest to that list.
Mark 9:42
Honestly that might be a strength in this case. The goal being to keep the forum functional while not clamping down on what can be discussed, your hesitation to be too heavy handed would be preferable to someone who wants to impose their own vision on the forum(which takes a heavy hand).
Seconded.
I'll second that, the three of you have a solid history. And having a team would definitely be an improvement over heaping all that work onto one guy.
Sorry to hear that, I hope things improve for you and your family on a personal level.
Though board, you've done good with less moderation we haven't spazzed out.
You are officially at the level of kids that know the line and just play up to that limit to avoid ruining it!
Sorry to hear that. Been through a similar situation, keeping plugging along. You're doing the right thing stepping up for your family
Getting ahead of myself (and not volunteering personally for the mod team).
But perhaps it could be readdressed once the mod team reassembles the topic about why in 2026 we are still technically living under the same 16 sidebar rules that were cut & pasted from the old KIA2 reddit days.
Reading them over again, the ones that remain Reddit-tier are mostly Rules 2, 3, 7, 15 & 16.
I wasn't even aware of Rule 7 pertaining to criticizing small social media accounts below 500 followers. I suppose the 500 threshold is an arbitrary cutoff between civilians & those that technically aspire to be "influencers".
So far, the nominations are as follows, and all seem pretty reasonable.
The following users seem to have been nominated, but have not been stated that they are prepared to on-board.
That being said, 6 mods is probably more than enough for now. Having users in different time zones can also be useful for coverage.
Just so we're doing this all at the same time, I'll add the top 6 mods tomorrow morning around the same time I made the original post. I'll also kick ClockworkFool as he is alive, but basically doesn't use Reddit or Win very much; and exists as a kind of "David-Me" contingency in the event of internal sabotage. Effectively, I can just take that position as you see fit.
You will all likely need to have a mechanism of discussing meta issues internally using some sort of secure chat app (or you could just Discord it if you are trusting enough). Feel free to discuss among yourselves how to chat. If you all find that it isn't fitting well with you, we can probably bring the other 4 members on as time goes on. I believe C has a discord for generalized .Win moderation, but for the life of me, I couldn't get into my old Discord account, and I no longer know what that server is, or if it's still utilized, so it might be worth researching.
Something I've learned (the hard way) over managing people outside of social media is that friendship and trust are more important than competency, so please make sure to be kind to each other, be patient with each other's disagreements, and try to actually make friends. I wasn't ever really good at that, but I have more faith that you can all put that stuff together more easily than I could.
If anyone wants to take the time to learn more about the Auto-Filter (Liberty Prime), it's going to be worth it.
Edit - u/SophiesBoyfriend is also self nominated
I'm willing to onboard but I agree that it makes more sense to keep it to these six. I can tag in later on if need be but I doubt you'll need to.
I should also clarify that I meant we should add Tallest to the list of people who need banning alongside Imp and the Pedo Pajeet.
oops, that is an important difference
Tallestskil often has bad takes, but not always. He does contribute positively sometimes, so I would advocate against banning him outright. I agree with banning imp, though. He made some good points in the past, and I was even extremely impressed with the amount of research he was willing to do on a topic, being able to give me over a dozen links to research and articles on a given subject, but he's clearly no longer the same person. He's completely lost track of reality, and needs help. I don't think that there would be any benefit whatsoever with keeping him here, either for us or himself.
He has dementia, he takes a shit in every thread he participates in and he spams. He is an active detriment to this forum and an outsider to boot. If you're gonna ban Imp you have to ban him too because he is worse than Imp.
Yup. He's currently a schizo and a troll. No matter how you feel about his opinions, he's not mod material, by a long shot. He's literally mentally unwell.
I think it's funny Dom didn't get that.
To be fair, the latter half you quoted was about Imp, not Tallest.
BetterNameUnfound is a brigader from GreatAwakening and NOT a member of this forum.
Good grief, how miserable ARE you?
It really does love company. You want everyone to join in.
How dare I... (checks notes) ...not be obsessed with one and only one board?
How dare I be optimistic about the future?
How dare I like other things?
Hatred really does become an autoimmune disorder at some point...
Also just saw I didn't get the job. Oh well. I'll live.
I don't know what "on-board" means in this context, so how can I say I'm prepared for it?
Also, it's "Unfound," not Unfounded.
On-Board is military slang meaning: to join in.
I see now, thank you.
Thanks Dom. I agree with the additional names that have been nominated as well.
u/BandageBandolier u/CarmenOfSandiego u/Socraticmethod1 u/Kienan u/Smith1980
Should we make a private mod community for this? Discord is a possibility but I'm leery of that. Any other options for chats?
I'm fine with whatever.
Also, just like with Dom, the pings don't seem to be working. Which is weird, they were earlier today for sure.
Maybe set up a private community to start, then we can branch out later if we need?
Discord is founded, controlled, and operated by furries, so it has a left-wing operations staff, and should only be used for insecure communication. It is the easiest to integrate in with everyone else's life, because most people have it. That being said, of Left-wing dominated spaces, Discord doesn't normally do crazy shit like Reddit does.
Secure communications would involve stuff like telegram or keypass, or other encrypted person-to-person chat systems. It may not be necessary if no one expects to need confidential information, but remember that the previous administration tried to implement a "department of countering malinformation", and some people live in the UK where 12,000 people a year are arrested for 'hate speech'. I'd argue that under those circumstances alone, an encrypted chat system will be necessary out of sheer political risk of people losing bank accounts for saying "there are two genders". The Trump admin won't use Discord to arrest you for it, but Discord might co-operate with the Two-Tier-Kier government voluntarily.
Just so you know, the sticky and tagging people doesn't seem to be working. This comment is not at the top, and I did not get a ping.
You may want to message people individually.
Thanks for letting me know. That is annoying.
Sorry to hear about your family, I hope things turn out okay in the end.
You really, really needed to do this years ago, though.
It’s nice to have more than one allowable failure points.
It should be me, I should be the mod.
Weird how many mods are dropping lately/communities becoming unmodded.
Have Project 2025 abandoned the site and are now preparing to close it?
Ban u/Kaarous for being a paid shill as your last act, please.
Sorry to hear about your family issues. Hopefully it gets better.
First act of business is going to be you getting permabanned again, Imp. Regardless of who ends up onnthe mod council. Ironically this will be something you could have avoided if you had just stuck to your social media whore quitting announcement.
And, if it's not me, and the mod doesn't do it...I'm still screenshotting the modlogs and posting a thread.
Imp's fucking cooked, no matter how you slice it. And, as you say, he brought it on himself by intentionally being a shitter.
The trouble he caused with admin backing him on here lead to a movie about Scored.
Oh no, whatever will I do if I can't read the stupidity of the lowest IQ community second only to Kardashian show discussion boards?
Faggot.
You'll still be able to read, genius. You just won't be able to post your monkey boy pants-wetting retardation any more.
You announced that you were leaving but came back almost immediately and also have a new user name to get around the ban. Why don’t you just stop coming here ?
Oh you can’t cause you’re all alone and need attention.
What would you do? I'll go out on a limb and make a prediction. You'd make another ban evasion account and stick around despite claiming you don't care and don't want to be here.
No one knows what you'll do because you've never not done this. This seems like all you have.
Remember when I said you were a pathetic loser that comes here for attention and then that was confirmed when you mentioned you come here because the only person you had was your cuck natay dad and now he’s dead. Lol
Can I be a cuck here and say that it's not cool to attack people's parents, particularly when they're deceased?
Good people have terrible children, and vice versa.
Yeah. Don’t be like Piers Morgan
Nick Fuentes is a pedophile.
Perhaps, if he wasn't attacking others in much the same manner. Look at his username ffs.
Nazis are not human and neither are their families. If hell exists, you're all burning down there. If it doesn't, then we didn't torture your worthless kind enough after the war.
You're like a smuggy IRL.
Who were the majority of the electorate in 30s Germany?
You're the feminists. You wouldn't have "won" otherwise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Feminists_by_religion
Your hell is our Heaven 🙏🏻✨
Except the hell we'll give you exists. Death to stormfaggots.
Sorry, I recently bought out that Hell and refurbished the place into a hot springs-themed tourist zone. You don't get to decide who goes there anymore.
These remarks just make me more determined to see the live long overdue mass execution of white nationalists.
You are entirely dependent on the power of an usurped State because firing a gun would break your wrist, you disgusting commie tranny. Cry some more.
The site has been slowly dieing since the URL change, nothing sudden about it.
What URL change?
The biggest drop was when they lost the thedonald.win url, not long after the January 6th mess. Then later when they changed from patriots.win to communities.win and further complicated things be adding the scored.co site they drove even more users off. You might not have noticed if you just use the KIA URL and don't bother with the other boards.
We are bad at running stuff.
Yeah. I still think we'd have done better by focusing on how we started as a lifeboat for groups purged from other sites for being too right wing and leaning into that identity.
Why would I bother with the other boards? I'm here for KotakuInAction, everyone else is some outlander.
That's a big part of why this site's failing, everything is siloed.
Yeah and that's honestly how it should be. We got on just fine under that model for years before all online discourse became centralized.
Good point. Now that I think about it, kinda miss all the little independent forums we used to have.
Based KIA patriot.
I know who my people are.
But the patriots.win and communities.win domains are still active.
I assumed the thedonald.win loss was just taken down due to the massive DDOSes against it at the time making it not worth keeping up after the inauguration was over.
Pretty much every new account is just a stormfaggot alt.
Who's keeping the lights on here? If it's Project 2025, then this site dies when they get purged in the 2026 midterm.
Hilarious, you still think this place is full of republicans.
Upvoted for name alone even though you got filtered.
Despite our previous disagreements, I won't rag on you for this. Family is truly important, and I thank you for being honest on the situation. Read up on books on healthcare and being a health aide and I'm sure you can do your new job splendidly. Goodbye for now and take care of yourself too.
Thank you, I wish you well too.
Thanks
Sorry to hear that.
I’ll throw my hat in. I promise only to ban the Imp if made mod.
We got 6 in this morning. We should be good for now, but there's always a possibility someone or something doesn't work out. So I can add you onto the additional list for a reference.