There isn't too much to it. The mods on half-KIA are extremely smug, disrespectful pieces of trash. They have the exact same kind of attitude that mods of shitty SJW subs have - dismissive and sneering if you speak up against them. I don't think they're particularly left-wing, and it ultimately doesn't matter - what matters is that they're jannies who don't know their place. The last straw was when they put out a vote on an extremely controversial rule that basically nobody liked, and almost everyone voted against that rule. What did they do? They just kept the fucking rule anyway and completely ignored the vote. That's when KIA2 was made by our new chad mods who actually have a spine, a thicker skin, and are exemplary users and mods. And now we're far more active than half-KIA.
While you say it doesn't matter, I think its relevant that they are nearly all quite Left, and in the early days would issue warnings for "insulting liberals/leftists" instead of calling them SJWs. There was even a big thing where they pulled a post because the guy called them commies when they were socialists. Or when they tried to remove all T_D crossover users for changing the narratives of the sub.
A lot lot lot of their behavior and actions only make sense with the fact that they are "the good ones" Leftists in their own mind, and want the sub to not be right wing at all.
I mean I'm left-wing too but I support Trump and think that both the left and the right are required for a nation to run properly. I think half-KIA mods are just shitty people in the same way a lot of SJWs are, but it's not necessarily a kind of behaviour that only arises on the left, and that always arises on the left.
The left and right are not what you think. The Republican party are progressives driving the speed limit. Don't listen to what the politicians tell you they want. It's all lies from immoral opportunists.
The exact manner and motivation for which they were doing it, came because of their Leftist leaning. Had they been something else, it would have taken on completely different form. A right-wing mod team isn't gonna start issuing warnings for "insulting polyamory" or "calling a socialist a communist."
I think its relevant that they are nearly all quite Left
Was there ever any evidence produced for this claim? One of the moderators attacked as a left-winger was a Pizzagate nutcase who was calling people pedophilies for saying that it was false.
Sometime after the big drama there was a "post your political quiz results" thread and a lot of them were in fact very far Left based on that from their own mouth. I remember because I still have my own results saved to my computer (I'm a dirty centrist according to this one too).
Also I think the Pinkerton is a special case in all categories.
Plus, the oft touted GG survey showed that nearly Everyone there was a Leftist of some form to begin with.
Nah it was forever ago, right around the election I think when T_D as a boogeyman was getting huge. It never went very far, I think the sticky lasted a day or so.
Well if they don't like the word liberal, why did they steal it from us? It's not even like we just sat there, this was a conceited, deliberate attempt in the 19th and 20th centuries to steal the bloody label, why they would want so damn bad it is a mystery. Now they're throwing it away like a used condom.
I had forgotten it was him specifically, but before his spergout he was no different than any other mod to the rest of us other than being inactive (and KIA famously has plenty of inactive mods on the front end).
And as I wrote in reply to Brim, I knew it was shutdown near immediately but you still made sure to paint these people as "what appears to be clear cases of D&C." Which is the most weasel word MSM headline phrasing possible to give yourself that still take action against those dirty wrongthinkers.
I do like how in that post you said its a problem when certain people drive off the community that disagrees with them, and that the feedback of the community matters, in light of future events.
It's worth noting that not only did they completely ignored the vote, half-KiA mods later expressed the opinion that putting the option that turned out to be most popular on the poll in the first place was an error.
If I may add to it, there were also significant issues with the head mod at the time-Raarara. The vote rule was kerosene dumped over the place, but cooler heads may have prevailed and gone 'Wait, hold on, this is necessary, let me explain why.'
Rararatard's 'Abrasive Australian Humor' instead flicked a match onto it, went 'Fuck you all, this is staying because I can tell you what to do' and ensured that goodwill evaporated faster than a glass of water in the Arizona sun. And then it kept happening, to the point where even the people that can put up with a lot pulled up a middle finger to him and wandered off.
They inherited a movement they didn't build and then burned it to the ground and sat on the ashes. Instead of risking the sub in order to fight the culture war they take 'being allowed to exist and repost news with no commentary' as a victory. And they sit on their throne of ashes and wonder why the peasants are leaving.
Welcome, Refugees! Good to have you here. I guarantee you, it's a positive thing in the long run, being away from Reddit and their insane rules. It feels better! :D
I can finally speak my mind and not have to worry about getting his with a ban hammer... its like moving out to the country and eat'me a lot of peaches
KiA is trying to keep an image of being politically neutral whereas KiA2 is openly anti leftist at the moment because the issues with media are all stemming from leftism at the moment.
This is not true. We're anti-SJW, but this does mean that any leftist who is anti-SJW is more than welcome. We've even had some in the mod team, and you never noticed because they were great moderators.
We had a split a few years ago, the mods in the original KIA were corrupted by the same shit infecting everything on reddit. They started deleting posts not directly linked to gaming and unethical games journalism despite the evidence that GamerGate was just a single front on a much larger problem.
A lot of users wanted more relaxed posting guidelines in order to discuss similar topics in tangentially related fields (comics, mainstream media, twitter drama etc) we even held a vote, the result of which upset the mods who unanimously just decided to ignore what users wanted
So we built KIA2: Electric Boogaloo, and as it stands now, our new sub has 4 times the traffic and userbase as the original.
is the other kia.win run by the same people as r/kia?
Same shit different URL.
It will be interesting to see what changes now that "reddit will ban us" is not a justification for rules anymore.
I think so, yeah. Bane is there at least.
They kept Shadist, so there's no point in posting there.
Shadist is no worse than the rest of them. I thought people would learn from the fact that nothing improved when their bete noir nutcase left.
None of the other moderators there seem to be willing to spend literal days of their time trying to bait somebody into an excuse to say dickwolf.
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Nah, I don't think so, they just act like it. Just authoritarian as fuck and completely incompetent.
Tell me more please? I'm not from around these parts and I don't know the lore yet
There isn't too much to it. The mods on half-KIA are extremely smug, disrespectful pieces of trash. They have the exact same kind of attitude that mods of shitty SJW subs have - dismissive and sneering if you speak up against them. I don't think they're particularly left-wing, and it ultimately doesn't matter - what matters is that they're jannies who don't know their place. The last straw was when they put out a vote on an extremely controversial rule that basically nobody liked, and almost everyone voted against that rule. What did they do? They just kept the fucking rule anyway and completely ignored the vote. That's when KIA2 was made by our new chad mods who actually have a spine, a thicker skin, and are exemplary users and mods. And now we're far more active than half-KIA.
While you say it doesn't matter, I think its relevant that they are nearly all quite Left, and in the early days would issue warnings for "insulting liberals/leftists" instead of calling them SJWs. There was even a big thing where they pulled a post because the guy called them commies when they were socialists. Or when they tried to remove all T_D crossover users for changing the narratives of the sub.
A lot lot lot of their behavior and actions only make sense with the fact that they are "the good ones" Leftists in their own mind, and want the sub to not be right wing at all.
I mean I'm left-wing too but I support Trump and think that both the left and the right are required for a nation to run properly. I think half-KIA mods are just shitty people in the same way a lot of SJWs are, but it's not necessarily a kind of behaviour that only arises on the left, and that always arises on the left.
The left and right are not what you think. The Republican party are progressives driving the speed limit. Don't listen to what the politicians tell you they want. It's all lies from immoral opportunists.
The exact manner and motivation for which they were doing it, came because of their Leftist leaning. Had they been something else, it would have taken on completely different form. A right-wing mod team isn't gonna start issuing warnings for "insulting polyamory" or "calling a socialist a communist."
Was there ever any evidence produced for this claim? One of the moderators attacked as a left-winger was a Pizzagate nutcase who was calling people pedophilies for saying that it was false.
Sometime after the big drama there was a "post your political quiz results" thread and a lot of them were in fact very far Left based on that from their own mouth. I remember because I still have my own results saved to my computer (I'm a dirty centrist according to this one too).
Also I think the Pinkerton is a special case in all categories.
Plus, the oft touted GG survey showed that nearly Everyone there was a Leftist of some form to begin with.
Gonna be honest: I don't remember that one. Was that after I got kicked off the mod team last year?
Nah it was forever ago, right around the election I think when T_D as a boogeyman was getting huge. It never went very far, I think the sticky lasted a day or so.
Well if they don't like the word liberal, why did they steal it from us? It's not even like we just sat there, this was a conceited, deliberate attempt in the 19th and 20th centuries to steal the bloody label, why they would want so damn bad it is a mystery. Now they're throwing it away like a used condom.
I'm not even mad, I'm just amazed.
You need to work on your memory, that was david a few months before his final spergout, and I came in and shut the attempt down.
I had forgotten it was him specifically, but before his spergout he was no different than any other mod to the rest of us other than being inactive (and KIA famously has plenty of inactive mods on the front end).
And as I wrote in reply to Brim, I knew it was shutdown near immediately but you still made sure to paint these people as "what appears to be clear cases of D&C." Which is the most weasel word MSM headline phrasing possible to give yourself that still take action against those dirty wrongthinkers.
I do like how in that post you said its a problem when certain people drive off the community that disagrees with them, and that the feedback of the community matters, in light of future events.
It's worth noting that not only did they completely ignored the vote, half-KiA mods later expressed the opinion that putting the option that turned out to be most popular on the poll in the first place was an error.
They're all left wing as fuck. One of them is a literal cuck who gets smug about it if you point it out.
If I may add to it, there were also significant issues with the head mod at the time-Raarara. The vote rule was kerosene dumped over the place, but cooler heads may have prevailed and gone 'Wait, hold on, this is necessary, let me explain why.'
Rararatard's 'Abrasive Australian Humor' instead flicked a match onto it, went 'Fuck you all, this is staying because I can tell you what to do' and ensured that goodwill evaporated faster than a glass of water in the Arizona sun. And then it kept happening, to the point where even the people that can put up with a lot pulled up a middle finger to him and wandered off.
They inherited a movement they didn't build and then burned it to the ground and sat on the ashes. Instead of risking the sub in order to fight the culture war they take 'being allowed to exist and repost news with no commentary' as a victory. And they sit on their throne of ashes and wonder why the peasants are leaving.
There were a couple of "progressives" in their ranks definitely. But the main thing was that they behaved like cunts.
I kind of like the infighting. It shows how different each group is. And I am a sucker for drama.
I know for a fact one of them isn't, and I've had a couple of trips to the shooting range with him.
He also has a life outside the internet and doesn't have a lot of time to babysit the rest, though.
Yes.
You mean ran by retards.
Feels good to be out of Plebbit.
Feels good to be able to call people retards again
Or trannies. But I prefer troon!
Welcome to the New World, faggots! Checking your privilege is strongly discouraged.
....this must be how the founding fathers felt... its Liberating to say the least
Yep. Some fucking communist tranny come around and I can call them a retarded faggot... It's like dew on flower petals on a Sunday morning
Thanks for getting my hopes up that there was a potentially great mod in him...
The farleft communist media will say were DiStUrBiNg and a platform of HaTe SpEeCh! SHITPOSTING & calling people faggots is the OG counter-culture.
Yep. We all hate commies on KotakuInAction2. Trust us when we say that Reddit really wants us gone.
kia2 was banned on Reddit recently right? I lurked both Kia and kia2 off and on through the years.
Edit: not banned. Don’t know why I thought kia2 had been.
Gamergate is probably too irrelevant these days to bother reddit much. Most of the culture war has since moved on to larger arenas.
Oh I’m sure KIA was still on a list somewhere. Commies never forget.
Hell yes. Let’s get some design going on this site and get shit rolling.
Welcome, Refugees! Good to have you here. I guarantee you, it's a positive thing in the long run, being away from Reddit and their insane rules. It feels better! :D
I can finally speak my mind and not have to worry about getting his with a ban hammer... its like moving out to the country and eat'me a lot of peaches
Nice
Thank God you guys made the leap!
and as far as I know .win doesn't have 10 minute timeouts either... so win win!
Any reason why there are two KIA.win sites?
This is not true. We're anti-SJW, but this does mean that any leftist who is anti-SJW is more than welcome. We've even had some in the mod team, and you never noticed because they were great moderators.
Thats halfKIA hahaha
We had a split a few years ago, the mods in the original KIA were corrupted by the same shit infecting everything on reddit. They started deleting posts not directly linked to gaming and unethical games journalism despite the evidence that GamerGate was just a single front on a much larger problem.
A lot of users wanted more relaxed posting guidelines in order to discuss similar topics in tangentially related fields (comics, mainstream media, twitter drama etc) we even held a vote, the result of which upset the mods who unanimously just decided to ignore what users wanted
So we built KIA2: Electric Boogaloo, and as it stands now, our new sub has 4 times the traffic and userbase as the original.
Suck it Bane
I'm getting a gateway error when I try to go over there now
Kotakuinaction2.win = Always go for this
Kotakuinaction.win (and unfortunately the KiA/KiA 2 on Reddit) = Never ever go for this, only villains do that