@Typo-MAGAshiv

Reading this thread brings back a lot of annoyed feelings for me.

I spent many years on Reddit under about 3-4 different accounts providing all sorts of content. Some subs were hard to work with (TRP was one), and others were just perfection (WAATGM and related subs).

To devote that much time only to have my content essentially stolen (Yeah, debatable, but that's how I see it) pissed me off immensely. Add to that countless hours of mod work (which many of you did WAY more than I) and you have a formidable amount of human effort. Add to that the work that you all did along with other good contributors and mods long-since departed and you have made a mark on the world. I truly believe that.

Once the site added the ability to see stats on a post it was a real eye opener. My engagement was sometimes into the multiple tens of thousands.

When I left, I deleted all of my content. @Kevin32 was good enough to port it over here, so it was not completely lost.

In sort, that place was purchased and repurposed to be a Marxist bullhorn. We were doomed when that Asian chick took over.

That was for its time. This place serves a different purpose for me. I find camaraderie here. That is what I want right now.

The maori chicks of the world have taken over large platforms. It is only a matter of time that they get to this one. The pattern is too strong.

So enjoy this place while it lasts.

CC: @moorekom, @goodmansaysfuckyou, @lurkerhasarisen

@lurkerhasarisen

Re: /r/InspinTears - it didn't help that just about all of us got really busy IRL at the same time. That, and I got booted from reddit.

Re: coining the term - that accusation was laughable.

Re: deleting your content from reddit - aw man, your "No Shaming Men For Any Reason is rule number 1 for a reason" post was gold. I always got vexed when I'd go back to re-read something of yours I'd saved only to find it deleted, but when you explained why you did it, I kind of understood. That particular post should have been left up along with the inspin one.

Re: deleting your reddit account - someone needs to boot bloopies on that shithole site, and with my permanent suspension and @goodmansaysfuckyou apparently being in a coma, and all the remaining mods seeming distracted by RL, that leaves not many active mods there.

I, for one, think you ought to stick around on there. Although I appreciate your giving us a heads-up, unlike where_muh_good_mens who just up and deleted his without warning.

CC: @moorekom, @Kevin32

@Typo-MAGAshiv

I see where you're coming from, and the fact that she has IG may be a yellow flag (I've never had it, but I don't want to be one of those old geezers who thinks any social media activity is a disqualifier). But it seems to me that we're hanging this particular narrative on a pretty thin reed. I'll admit that the church girl may be influencing my thoughts.

I say that because we went to the same church for a long time, and she was the real deal. She was exactly the kind of woman I would have made a full-court press for when I was single.

I also understand that we're issuing warnings about what can (and often does) happen to guys who fall for chameleons, and I agree that nobody owes anyone a chance. Buuuuuut...

One of the things that separates us from incel and inspin fora is that we don't engage in criticism of a member of the opposite sex no matter what. We have always required the women to "tell on themselves" (for lack of a better term). That's the entire point of Rule 5. If a woman makes a dating profile wherein she's dressed modestly and isn't a raging bitch or an obvious cc-rider, and we peg her as a chameleon who's going to go feral once the alimony is locked in, we should base that on something more than the fact that she has a social media account and expresses a bit of frustration about meeting men who don't follow hundreds of e-sluts. That's honestly a pretty basic request in those circles.

Granted, her age puts her in the "secondary" market for women who want to be TradWives, and that's a legitimate yellow flag, but it's hardly definitive. If we create unfalsifiable assumptions that amount to, "If she breathes she's a THOT," we deserve to be compared to bitter incels.

That's why I suggested some sort of consensus on how much evidence of thottery is enough. I'm not suggesting a courtroom standard for a criminal conviction, but before we showcase a woman as an example of someone to be avoided we should be able to articulate why we say that... and if we're not going to require that a woman "tell on herself" we should be able to clearly and convincingly articulate why we think she falls into that category.

Oh well, the worm-can is open... might as well loop everyone in:

@loneliness-inc, @deeplydisturbed, @melkorhimself, @impressive-cricket-8, @goodmansaysfuckyou, @houseoftolstoy, @aldabruzzo, @Land_of_the_losers, @ogrilla99, @sleepyweaselisawake, @woodsmoke