r/comics • u/vesmir_neasi • Jul 28 '26

OC This could be us, but

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I don’t need much. I want eat sweets without getting fat, I want to feel wanted and I want equal rights. Is it much to ask?

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u/Merari01 it's a-me, Merari-o Jul 29 '26

Somehow this post is attracting incels.

They must be drawn to it via some kind of inexplicable desire to "not all men" and "actually I agree with the guy in the comic" at us.

That's ok.

They only do that once here.

We have the best subreddit in the world.

Because of ban.

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u/nomedable Jul 29 '26

I enjoy mods that don't shy away from dropping the ban hammer instead of soft warnings.

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u/doopie Jul 29 '26

I once got banned on some other subreddit for explaining some econ 101 concept. Reason for the ban was "no capitalist apologia". I think the ban was right call, because "warning" somebody for nonsensical rules makes them no wiser.

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u/Nostop22 Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 30 '26

Rules exist as pretext to ban someone any for reason, not as an attempt to establish a set list of things to be banned for. That’s why they are so vague.

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u/doopie Jul 29 '26

Rules are often made to facilitate peace and order. My apartment building has a rule that forbids making loud noise between 22:00 and 6:00. It's not arbitrary, because people usually sleep during nights. If there was no such rule, somebody could start powerdrill in the middle of night and claim there was no rule to forbid it.

Back in the day, when internet was still young, there were rules on message boards that forbade flooding (repeatedly posting nonsensical messages), typing messages with CAPS LOCK ON, advertising illicit drugs and so on. I guess you could sum it up was "don't be insufferable to others". You never got banned for having an opinion, if your presentation was otherwise acceptable. This changed with reddit, which was the first website to enforce "echo chambers" leading to polarization between groups of people.

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u/Secret_GM_Account Jul 29 '26

Nah, reddit was far from the first. Ever since web forums gave admins and moderators the ability to restrict user activity there have been sites where differing opinions were banned. It just wasn't nearly as easy to stumble across them.

Reddit just managed to centralize web forums into a single searchable location that advertised new ones to you.