a sub of 122k users

Yeah, everyone has totally bailed on KiA. All that's left is the mods and a couple of the most active die-hards from the beginning.

They became controlled opposition and refuse to see it.

I wouldn't go that far. HalfKiA.win is a fuckin' ghost town. Nobody uses it.

With an invite like this I'm downright shocked people didn't swarm in! (Text quoted below for people without a Reddit invite. The poster is a mod of the original KiA.)

Re: KotakuInAction.win (self.kotakuinaction2)

submitted 1 month ago by HandofBane

I am just posting this here as a followup to the announcement that most of you have noticed already. Consider this an "olive branch" of sorts, or don't.

I fully expect a KotakuInAction2.win to be made, and allowed to stay up as part of the wider community there. I was even asked specifically about whether it would be a problem, and as long as folks aren't specifically coming over to attack people/mods, I do not believe it would be a problem. With the new site comes a new chance for everyone - we are rewriting parts of the rules, and thinning several down as there are many parts which were directly tied to reddit and admin rules (public or hidden) here which would not be relevant or necessary on the new site. Alongside this, we are NOT going to preemptively ban anyone from here, provided they are willing to work within the new lighter ruleset there. This means we are not importing existing bans of people who had previously earned temporary or permanent bans. Yes, this means you are included in that "one more chance", Antonio.

Word has already been going around about one user from here being banned after his first comment. What he fails to state clearly is that his comment dove over the line far enough that it would have likely been removed here too for the final part of the sentence in reference to a certain WW2 leader "did nothing wrong". So don't just listen and believe. The admins there have stated they intend to have public mod logs available, and we will be setting those up in the near future as we get everything else functional.

So I hope that you all take this in the way it is intended - as an "olive branch". I don't expect you all to start liking us as mods, but I do hope you'll give the community another chance as we get things more fully operational there.

Even the actual subreddit is almost completely dead. As of now the newest post is 9 hours old. 

That is actually a major reason for people, specifically people making post submissions, to leave halfkia.

The mods police the queue so hard and ban so much that you often end up with very few topics that are submitted almost entirely by either the mods themselves or their superuser friends.

Good thing half.win launched with more mods than users or some wrong think might slip through.

It goes a lot deeper than even that. It was a story that started in Year 1 (Hat and the SocJus ban, "Core GG," etc.) that just kept having blowups quarterly until it finally exploded violently for nearly a year. I could probably write a multi page essay on just the random bits I remember.

During the early days of KIA2, a huge portion of the subbase were people banned (rightfully or not) from KIA1, which is one reason why they hate this place so much. It undermined their control.