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Spanish Manlove posted:What's a tankie? Not much what's a tankie w u?? E: wrong thread, mea culpa it was a reflexive post
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There was the Windows 98 guy who I think set records by going mad with power before he was even properly modded?
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Oct 8, 2019 14:20
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Spanish Manlove posted:What's a tankie? It's like a furry, but instead of animals, it's totalitarianism.
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Oct 8, 2019 14:21
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bradzilla posted:It's honestly loving mind boggling how nearly every admin and mod is eventually outed as criminals, insane or some combo of both. FAU was only a little insane and he's much better now  Spanish Manlove posted:What's a tankie? Hardcore Communist regime apologists, basically. Stalin/Mao/Pol Pot/etc. were Good, Actually. Generally identified by statements such as, in our dear departed admin's case, "the USSR definitely didn't engineer the starvation deaths of millions of people" and "Cummunist China definitely has non-genocidal plans for the Uyghurs"
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Oct 8, 2019 14:22
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A tankie is a leftist who believes no one who says they are leftist can do know wrong Edit: I've been up all night with a teething toddler and I think my point is made even though its very poorly
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Oct 8, 2019 14:22
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It’s fine, I hope your mouth feels better
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Oct 8, 2019 14:25
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Paladinus posted:It's like a furry, but instead of animals, it's totalitarianism. *Notices mass grave* OwO what's this?
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Oct 8, 2019 14:25
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Snow Cone Capone posted:FAU was only a little insane and he's much better now Ah ok got it. Thank you.
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Paladinus posted:It's like a furry, but instead of animals, it's totalitarianism. Man, their cosplay events must be something else.
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I actually didn't know this, I thought it was a reference to Tienanmen Square:wikipedia posted:Tankie was a pejorative term referring to those members of the Communist Party of Great Britain that followed the Kremlin line, agreeing with the crushing of revolts in Hungary and later Czechoslovakia by Soviet tanks; or more broadly, those who followed a traditional pro-Soviet position.[38]
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El_Elegante posted:It’s fine, I hope your mouth feels better Haha if it was mine at least I could use Orajel on it instead of just frozen toy rings
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Oct 8, 2019 14:30
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IMO moderators should only ever be people who don't want to bbe moderators.
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Oct 8, 2019 14:32
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I think admins should not be decided because a mod is being chain probated on fyad
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a tankie is an apologist for / supporter of authoritarian regimes that claim to be communist, socialist, or anti-imperialist. the term derives from splits in the international socialist movement after the USSR used military force (tanks) to suppress pro democracy protests in Hungary and referred to those who continued to accept the Soviet party line. e:f,b
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Oct 8, 2019 14:33
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BattleMaster posted:IMO moderators should only ever be people who don't want to bbe moderators. The Cincinnatus Protocol
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Oct 8, 2019 14:34
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Bad luck for Guyovich that Smythe wasn’t around to immediately change the subject or close the thread, like the last few times his genocide denial was brought up in QCS
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Oct 8, 2019 14:37
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the only ban i have on this account is because homex didn't know parachute accounts aren't illegal. this is the one and only time i will ever mildly complain about that, welp that's my story
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Oct 8, 2019 14:39
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Smythe had the good sense to leave the last scalping thread open for a celebratory round of dunks. This is worse.
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Oct 8, 2019 14:40
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Sid Vicious posted:I think admins should not be decided because a mod is being chain probated on fyad to post so badly that you are made an admin is this a blessing...or a curse...
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Oct 8, 2019 14:40
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Hoshi posted:Not much what's a tankie w u??  BattleMaster posted:IMO moderators should only ever be people who don't want to bbe moderators.
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Oct 8, 2019 14:42
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BattleMaster posted:IMO moderators should only ever be people who don't want to bbe moderators. This was sort of how it worked before, back in the day. Admins would just give people mod buttons without prior warning after deciding they'd be good moderators. Turns out you can be a perfectly normal poster but once given moderator powers very few people stay sane.
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Oct 8, 2019 15:01
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Known Lecher posted:As someone who hates himself and therefore follows the C-SPAM China thread, it's kind of amusing to see the widespread horror at R Guy's genocide denialism. If you read that thread at all, it wasn't even an open secret, more like an open fact. You could read any of the 4 China threads (not counting chinese language) and seen it. This was just known.
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" shitpost and basically ignore anyone who tried to argue otherwise.
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Ruflux posted:This was sort of how it worked before, back in the day. Admins would just give people mod buttons without prior warning after deciding they'd be good moderators. Turns out you can be a perfectly normal poster but once given moderator powers very few people stay sane. But as a result of the selected-amateur nature of moderation, the lack of resources to screen people, the adversarial relationship between posters and mods on SA and the way that contributes to wagon-circling, the challenge of sorting valid QCS complaints from invalid ones, and other factors I'm sure I'm forgetting, a bad mod can do a lot of damage before someone higher up steps in or even knows about it. It's always a risk each time someone gets picked, and there's very little you can do besides hope that this time it'll work out - you don't usually have much influence over the actions of fellow mods. It gets harder with admins, because there often isn't someone higher-up. I assume that's changing but when ZDR left what we had was a bunch of ostensible equals without the person who had been head admin. I spoke about it before in the Bobbie Wickham thread but I could have a hard time navigating the social complexities that sometimes came with adminning. Everyone has their weaknesses and the two in particular that led me to step down were a tendency to inattentiveness and a tendency toward decision paralysis that led to inaction. The point isn't to make this about me, but just to share a perspective. The more we can understand about how decisions get made, good and bad, the better we can do as a website. SA is still the best site on the internet because at least we take moderation seriously and the posters here actually give a poo poo about the forums.
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r-word guyovich
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GoutPatrol posted:You could read any of the 4 China threads (not counting chinese language) and seen it. This was just known. As someone who never read any of them, my image of r guy was some lefter-than-thou douche who liked to pick on Bernie supporters when he was feeling small, which is why i was pretty dismissive and flippant about him at first. I figured the best way to deal with that was to just hoot louder in the Bernie hooting thread Then the rest of the info came out in the qcs thread and 
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Oct 8, 2019 15:41
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Space Camp fuckup posted:r-word guyovich no
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Ruflux posted:This was sort of how it worked before, back in the day. Admins would just give people mod buttons without prior warning after deciding they'd be good moderators. Turns out you can be a perfectly normal poster but once given moderator powers very few people stay sane. that is what they did for me , op. i actually checked the forum before i checked the pm FAU sent me basically saying “alright youre up” and saw i could ban people. thankfully i chose not to go on a massacre and check the PM to find out what was happening
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Is it weird that after learning that he's posting/adminning through a vpn from China that i just kinda assumed the Ugyur genocide denial was at least partially a personal safety thing? Doesn't explain the Holodomor poo poo or the other bad modding, or excuse anything, but he could be worried he's being monitored.
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One More Fat Nerd posted:Is it weird that after learning that he's posting/adminning through a vpn from China that i just kinda assumed the Ugyur genocide denial was at least partially a personal safety thing? Doesn't explain the Holodomor poo poo or the other bad modding, or excuse anything, but he could be worried he's being monitored.
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Oct 8, 2019 16:08
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The fact that he was a Holodomor denier was pretty well-known. He even had a few defenders when it came up in QCS the one or two times that the thread wasn’t closed or redirected immediately after it came up, both other people denying it and a “Nazis also think the Holodomor was bad, you don’t want to be like a Nazi, do you?” routine. But he was gone 24 hours after it was brought to everyone’s attention that he also denied the Uighur genocide. I guess you get one free pass for genocide denial but that’s it.
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He was on the wrong genoside of history
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Oct 8, 2019 16:11
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FactsAreUseless posted:Any kind of nationalism If your nation is invaded, and your family can tell who's winning by the uniform you're wearing, you're doing things right.
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:The fact that he was a Holodomor denier was pretty well-known. He even had a few defenders when it came up in QCS the one or two times that the thread wasn’t closed or redirected immediately after it came up, both other people denying it and a “Nazis also think the Holodomor was bad, you don’t want to be like a Nazi, do you?” routine. I think it's an interesting read.
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FactsAreUseless posted:There was a decent QCS thread about the Holodomor (not about R. Guy though): https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3899085 Since that thread I’ve thought about “the domor, the holodomor, and nothing but the domor” at least twice a week.
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Ultimately, Guyovich's apology rings hollowdomor.
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Paladinus posted:Ultimately, Guyovich's apology rings hollowdomor. Boo
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One More Fat Nerd posted:Is it weird that after learning that he's posting/adminning through a vpn from China that i just kinda assumed the Ugyur genocide denial was at least partially a personal safety thing? Doesn't explain the Holodomor poo poo or the other bad modding, or excuse anything, but he could be worried he's being monitored. The easiest thing would be to not comment at all on the uighur genocide, so I highly doubt it. He had an agenda.
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Oct 8, 2019 17:45
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R guy posting hot genocide denial takes while furtively looking over his shoulder at the entrance to the cybercafe every few seconds
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Snow Cone Capone posted:R guy posting hot genocide denial takes while furtively looking over his shoulder at the entrance to the cybercafe every few seconds 
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