I’ve been on TheMotte since the culture war thread moved on and became a new subreddit. I appreciate the amazing conversation and posts that have developed there! There are some incredible and inspiring minds doing their best work on that subreddit.
There are also some of the worst minds of our generation using at a proving ground. It is becoming a bastion for religious zealots and smart indoctrinated people with an axe to grind.
Literally genociding races and people is posted about as a matter of course, there is a cursory attempt to hide it in a “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit” kind of way.
It is a problem.
You can’t see me, but I’m making a puzzled face at the screen.
It is great, just sucks neonazis use it as a recruiting ground.
Wait, the opposite of great.
Back in December,some motters were calling for a civil war because they were so convinced that Trump won the election. And, in case anyone forgot, a month later, a mob of Trump supporters tried to stop the electoral count.
I don’t think anyone, at least here, is unaware of how the discourse norms work there.
“I joined the subreddit that was founded for the Nazis who were kicked off SSC because they just couldn’t help but show their power level, and it used to be really good”
themotte has always been shit, and it’s shit through and through. just because some dunce can open a thesaurus while he’s openly endorsing white nationalism doesn’t make his post “a nugget of gold”. sometimes i’ll see a post so fucking moronic in a different subreddit (eg: my own city’s sub) that it just reeks of sweaty racist ancap nerd energy, check their posting history and yep, a motte poster!
it’s always been bad and it always will be. it’s their whole reason for existing. leave it and dont look back. those people are literally unfuckable.
I forgot to mention, you do know there was an attempt to try and save themotte before right? A group of people made a new subreddit, sadly I have forgotten the name, themotte without the focus on IQ shit or something. I do now wonder how they are doing.
e: right /r/theschism but guess you already knew (as you posted there). But it does seem the subreddit is mostly dead, that is what you get if you remove the CW from the CW subreddit.
It’s a problem, but it’s not really your problem. You can’t fix it and I recommend shortening the amount of time you spend trying.
and?