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r/Antkeeping was just picked as r/aww's subreddit of the week!


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#1 Offline soulsynapse - Posted April 26 2018 - 1:07 PM

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I posted this thread with good intentions, and the selective moderation in this community let it become what it is.

 

I wish the best for the ant keeping community, and I've shown that through my actions and my discourse. Letting one be slandered is the same as letting down the rest of the community.

 

I'm disappointed.

 

 

Come join check us out and decide for yourself if you think it's nice.

 

 

 

 

If you really want to know what the rest of the thread is about, it's a person that was banned for posting pornography in front of children and linking alt-right promotional videos. He's banned from most German speaking forums and the discord, so this is the last place he's got.

 

 

 

Hey everybody!

 

I just wanted to make mention of this because it's a big opportunity for the hobby but r/antkeeping was just selected as r/aww's subreddit of the week!

 

This means that for a week, r/aww will have r/antkeeping stickied at the top of their subreddit. They have 17 million subscribers and they have 25,000 visitors every 15 minutes.

 

This translates to about ~100 NEW people who are taking a look at the subreddit every 15 minutes to see if they might be interested in ant keeping.

 

Link to the subreddit!

 

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A quick overview:

 

Reddit is a news aggregate, information from all over the place is posted by anybody who feels it's worth seeing by the wider community

Threads are sorted by votes as a function over time, which means if something is highly voted, it'll be seen by lots of people, but as the post ages, it falls further down the page

We actively advertise all ant keeping communities!

Reddit is NOT a replacement for formiculture and we direct people here as they ask all the time

The subreddit is just a place so that people don't have to check 20 different vendors to see if new things came up, subscribe to every youtube channel, trawl instagram, etc

 

Formiculture has a much greater wealth of knowledge and so many more experts so for people to get the best information they come here.

 

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That said, this is a really big opportunity for us! Please come visit and help us put our best foot forward and bring new people into the hobby!


Edited by soulsynapse, April 26 2018 - 10:53 PM.

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#2 Offline Barristan - Posted April 26 2018 - 1:09 PM

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Come join us and be part of the SJW ant keeping community...

 

Banning people for nonsense is our expertise.

 

I'm wondering why you advertise your intolerant community in one of the most tolerant ant keeping forums?


Edited by Barristan, April 26 2018 - 1:12 PM.


#3 Offline T.C. - Posted April 26 2018 - 1:12 PM

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Come join us and be part of the SJW ant keeping community...
 
Banning people for nonsense is our expertise.


The discord and reddit are kinda different. And this is a good opportunity to bring new people to the hobby.
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#4 Offline Barristan - Posted April 26 2018 - 1:13 PM

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no, they are the same people...

 

EDIT:

 

Discord chat link made sticky on reddit:

 

antkeeping reddit discord

 

I don't know who the third moderator is but at least two of the moderators are also admins or moderators of the discord server:

 

reddit antkeeping moderators

 


Edited by Barristan, April 26 2018 - 2:01 PM.


#5 Offline soulsynapse - Posted April 26 2018 - 1:33 PM

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I'd really like it if the mods here could delete this specific reply and Barristan's replies in this thread as I didn't invite any of this and I'm still very excited for the opportunity this represents for the community.

 

 

As T.C. said, the discord and the reddit are different. I'm sorry that you don't care about the greater community, and it's strange to me that you don't try to bring this awfulness into formiculture, but since you keep claiming that you were unfairly banned, I am happy to explain why you were.

 

Here's why you were banned.

 

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#6 Offline Barristan - Posted April 26 2018 - 1:37 PM

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I don't care who posted this video but you can watch it by yourself:

 

 

You are really defending such a crazy SJW?


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#7 Offline Martialis - Posted April 26 2018 - 3:48 PM

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This is a fun topic.

 

 

Congrats on being named the subreddit of the week!

 

Now, quick! Somebody do something before the topic gets locked!


Edited by Martialis, April 26 2018 - 3:48 PM.

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#8 Offline Enderz - Posted April 26 2018 - 4:20 PM

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I don't care who posted this video but you can watch it by yourself:

 

 

You are really defending such a crazy SJW?

I must side with barristan just because I feel that he shouldn't have been banned for such a small act. This little video doesn't do much to the discord, and it seems they had other non-ant related videos on that same discord previously.


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#9 Offline Zmagz - Posted April 26 2018 - 5:53 PM

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I don't care who posted this video but you can watch it by yourself:

 

 

You are really defending such a crazy SJW?

I must side with barristan just because I feel that he shouldn't have been banned for such a small act. This little video doesn't do much to the discord, and it seems they had other non-ant related videos on that same discord previously.

 

If you read the picture of why he was banned, It also said that barristan posted a picture of a person with their penis out in a chat full of kids and younger people. I think the ban was the right thing to do if this was the case. It even says in the rules of the discord that posting inappropriate photos like he did is against the rules. Anyways why would anyone want pictures of penises and inappropriate things in an antkeeping chat.



#10 Offline JackPearl - Posted April 26 2018 - 6:02 PM

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I think people are missing the point. It seems some people here just want to bicker and argue over crap.
This is an opportunity to grow the Antkeeping community and hobby, and show off not JUST the discord, but the community as a whole.
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#11 Offline Barristan - Posted April 26 2018 - 6:55 PM

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If you read the picture of why he was banned, It also said that barristan posted a picture of a person with their penis out in a chat full of kids and younger people. I think the ban was the right thing to do if this was the case. It even says in the rules of the discord that posting inappropriate photos like he did is against the rules. Anyways why would anyone want pictures of penises and inappropriate things in an antkeeping chat.


LoL, what a lie. I've never posted nude pictures there and I am also posting a lot of funny stuff here but also never nude stuff.

Here you can find the complete chat history: https://imgur.com/a/8g2pG

All my posts were done on the #offtopic channel and before my posts, a lot of political stuff was posted there too also from comedians etc. So please don't be liars and don't change the reasons why I was banned all the time lol.

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#12 Offline Reevak - Posted April 26 2018 - 7:29 PM

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Come join us and be part of the SJW ant keeping community...
 
Banning people for nonsense is our expertise.
 
I'm wondering why you advertise your intolerant community in one of the most tolerant ant keeping forums?


Isn’t Barri breaking at least one of Formiculture’s rules? Maybe look at 4-6 and see if any of those seem to fit his behavior?

(Side note: really great how you mentioned how tolerant this forum is while being a very intolerant member of the forum at the same time)

#13 Offline soulsynapse - Posted April 26 2018 - 7:37 PM

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You already said in the chat that "oh that was me", but even if you do try to do a 180, I posted an image to discord logs where we deleted your post. It's not allowed on the forums, because it's sexually profane, but the url is in the image. I already described what was in the image. Anyone determined enough can put the url into their web browser.

 

I did not do the posting, but you were also

 

1.posting "kekistan" videos and

2. videos from alt-right youtube groups

 

A quick google search will show you what you need to know about "kekistan"

 

 

so this more or less establishes two things then

 

1. He's peddling alt-right ideologies to children

 

2. He was trying to post pornographic images to children.

 

Which the discord doesn't allow.


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#14 Offline Barristan - Posted April 26 2018 - 7:39 PM

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oh, now I am a member of the alt-right lol. So funny ;).

I eat bread for breakfast, some members of alt-right groups may be eating bread for breakfast too, so I am alt right than?

I don't care what other stuff the YouTube-Channels do post, the stuff I posted wasn't racist at all.

Typical SJW behavior here. If someone has another opinion, silence him, try to ban him etc.

Maybe you should go back to your safespace called discord server where you are protected from evil people's opinions.

By the way that is the "porn" picture of a man with his penis out I posted: PM Me if you want to see it ;)

 

But hey what do you expect from some SJWs running a discord server...

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#15 Offline StayLoki - Posted April 26 2018 - 8:10 PM

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And other posts get locked?

#16 Offline StayLoki - Posted April 26 2018 - 8:15 PM

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I joined this website to interact with other knowledgeable enthusiasts and I have to see this shiiiit on here?!

Every part of this inappropriate.

#17 Offline soulsynapse - Posted April 26 2018 - 8:19 PM

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I joined this website to interact with other knowledgeable enthusiasts and I have to see this shiiiit on here?!

Every part of this inappropriate.

 

I'm sincerely sorry you happened upon this. I was trying to share something exciting happening in the community.


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#18 Offline T.C. - Posted April 26 2018 - 8:28 PM

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@Stayloki, I locked that other post because you took a thread that didn't have anything to do with the original topic, and complained about this very post here and where upset when I said I couldn't delete it. Then you started criticizing me. Grow up. Nobody is making you read this topic.

 

 


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#19 Offline StayLoki - Posted April 26 2018 - 8:34 PM

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^I don't know this website up and down and inside and out.
I asked for your help on an off-topic post about how to delete a post!!!
Sorry I didn't directly pm you, I should have asked someone else.

Talking crap to me and then locking a thread, but not locking or deleting this [censored], like I asked!! is highly inappropriate!

I hope you don't get nominated for re-election

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#20 Offline Barristan - Posted April 26 2018 - 8:38 PM

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I am sorry that you have to view all this but you have to point out tyranny wherever it happens. Even if it is just happening in an ant discord server. 

 

 

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Charles de Montesquieu


Edited by Barristan, April 26 2018 - 8:40 PM.





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