As someone who followed gg at the beginning but not too closely (although I am very much for what it’s message is ) I wasn’t aware that there were ever 2 KiA. Could someone give me the cliffs notes version of what happened?
I did notice that KiA had a “whitelist” and a “blacklist” on topics to be discussed which put me off a bit.
Kotakuinaction's mission statement was opposition to censorship and bad journalism. It is impossible to oppose these things without opposing leftism itself. Virtually all bad journalism and censorship is coming from the left. So the sub began to organically tilt conservative.
The mods leaned more left, and they became obsessed with making sure the sub did not become "another T_D". So they implemented a ridiculously vague rule of "no unrelated politics". They then used this rule to remove content that was absolutely relevant but supported conservativism.
At one point, the mods actually put the rules to a vote. The users overwhelmingly opposed the absurd content removals. The mods didn't care. They ignored the results of the vote and continued arbitrarily removing content. Some of the mods became openly hostile to the users.
On a related note: the Kia mods lost their shit when users started talking trash about polyamory. I can't imagine the mods would have behaved this way unless one or more of them were engaged in the polyamorous lifestyle. We might have been dealing with literal cucks.
Kotakuinaction2 was created as a lifeboat for those who abandoned the increasingly garbage moderation of Kia. Whereas kia1's mods censored content to avoid becoming too conservative, kia2 mods are stridently free speech (to the extent that Reddit permits).
I've already seen Kia mods on .win lying about what happened.
Got it. That’s pretty pathetic to ignore your user base. And yes, it does appear you might have been dealing with actual cucks!
I'm relatively new to it too and noticed the same thing. I found KiA2 first and was like "did somin happen to the first one?" and looked, noticed the drastic drop in quality, then just went back to 2 without thinking about it. I wasn't even aware of all the history at the time.
I am still sadden that the KiA mods got control of kotakuinaction.win...
All of the mods are 100% opposed to t_d so i am surprised they would even want a .win community
They're anticipating the death of reddit and want to take control of whatever is likely to be next.
I think they just took it out of spite so we wouldn't get it.
Reading Bane's "olive branch" post and his arrogant assumption that THEY were the community and we just a lost flock of lambs, that's 100% the reason.
Charitable explanation: because they wanted to escape the oppressive grasp of Reddit.
Non-charitable explanation: because they're the vanguard for leftist entryism into the dotwin domain..
The Donald mods, who are TheDonald.Win admins.
I think that half-KiA is coasting on their old reputation (and ours over here at 2) to slip under the radar.
hey man I have a question, how did you get here? how did the core KiA2 community find about this site.
We are the shadows
The true selves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDr_krEQNrU
Honestly, GamerGate was probably the largest mass redpilling of Millennials and Gen Z. Just like that dude was saying, it quickly became obvious to people that the Left was at the core of the attacks on our hobbies and Western way of life. When t_d started, a huge chunk of KiA joined up over there. When KiA mods cracked down on "pedes", they either left for t_d entirely, or joined up at KiA2.
Most of the people here are already t_d users.
I was there at the start in KIA but never a prolific poster. Over time it just got so hard to post anything and if I did not have the exact rules for posting right it was deleted.
It got just too hard to express an opinion
I saw the fights with mods and that guy trying to take back the channel and all that crap but was not getting involved or could not post
Thanks dude