Fucking what a trainwreck.
tl;dr Throughout many years, many different "women" online with multiple year old accounts and backstories accused fantasy author EdMcdonald of sexual harassment generating a metoo movement against him. It appears that the moderator of the fantasy community involved in the smearing is actually a mod of r fantasy and the mods there intially took the decision to ban the author from the sub until 2020
So if the mods apologized why is he since banned until 2020? They look like the fucking idiots for believing a lie.
Had to look into this, seems like everyone is blasting the mods.
And the Mods gave a fucking shitty excuse and got downvoted.
Nuke Reddit
That fucking excuse is so fucking weak.
>look what's happening on reddit guys!!!
kill yourself my man
>toxic individual
>toxic
This word has lost all meaning now.
>the first amendment doesn't apply
I genuinely want to strangle anyone that feels the need to say this when nobody is talking about government censorship.
The thread is locked because ya'll couldn't behave.
from what i can tell he seems to be into these leftist politics so he's only getting what he deserves
Who gives a fuck about Reddit sff drama ?
Neck yourself my man
It's such a bizarre argument.
>We believe in free speech but only if we're forced to. When we have any power at all we don't allow it
They clearly don't believe in the actual idea, that open discourse will allow the best argument to win out. I guess that was abandoned some time in the last century and is now seen as an antiquated enlightenment ideal
You have to go back, all of you.
>edit 2: Aaaand the thread is locked. Links and information are below.
>edit 3: This forum was locked due to brigading from outside of r/Fantasy.
Holy shit, holy shit my fucking sides.
>following fantasy book drama on reddit
wewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Wait. The mods banned someone because in their opinion he was “toxic”, the users said that was stupid and called the mods out in their bullshit then the mods locked the thread? Are the mods babies?
>Dear community,
>Firstly, let me say thank you for the messages of support that I have received since yesterday's revelations.
>In the aftermath, I would like to ask people to bear in mind the following:
>The #MeToo movement is incredibly important. Victims must have a voice, and they must be encouraged to speak up. Do not stop trusting people when you hear their stories because of this. People must be heard. Despite what has happened to me, I am an ardent supporter of #MeToo. The person who enacted the campaign against me relied on using well intentioned people who are believers in all the best parts of #MeToo. They did, however, take action in error, and many of them on discovering the deceit have posted public apologies and retractions.
>No ill will should be borne towards those that were brought to be a part of something unwittingly. The level and scale of deception used to influence and coerce those that were used against me was extraordinary. And when I say that, unless you have seen the evidence, what you're imagining by 'extraordinary' probably does not even begin to cover it. I'm going to go on stating this because even describing it that way does not begin to explain the lengths, depths and time investment that were put into this. The people who were coerced have been abused and they are also survivors of online stalking. Some of them have posted publicly to say that the perpetrator has groomed them for an entire year. It is not right to be angry towards those whose trust has been abused. Those that have come forward and publicly apologised must not be blamed or attacked. Not in my name. Not because of this incident.
>While I was the target, and the consequences of that targeting would have been life altering and devastating for me if not for the actions of those who believed in me and brought the truth to light, I am not the only survivor of online abuse. The people now discovering that they have spent months, or years, talking to and confiding in someone they believed to be a friend, only to discover that they have been played, are survivors as well.
>Secondly, this has nothing to do with gender. I was not targeted because I was male. Due to the nature of the campaign, and because I have never met or spoken to the perpetrator, I do not know whether the person responsible is male or female. Please do not make this a platform for unrelated issues. The issue is entirely one of online harassment and falsification, which could happen to anybody irrespective of who they are.
>Be kind to one another. If there's at least one lesson we can all agree on, it's surely that.
Am I supposed to feel sympathy for him?
That's completely normal behavior from Reddit mods.
I guess it’s hard for me to wrap my head around this way of thinking. As a mod it should be something you do for fun in your free time. The way this comes across as these people taking their Mod peer way too fucking seriously.
there are reddit subs that will ban you if you post on some other sub they deem a hatethink zone. The entire site is a kind of comical zoo of wildly impotent mini-stalinists
I always thought the meme about read it being a shit hole was a joke but if they literally like the thread because the users of that for him we’re disagreeing with the mods that’s pretty fucking awful
That's how nearly every non-anonymous site works mate.
Stop posting these gay off topic internet minidramas. I come here after a hard day of work for some legitimate book discussion, not this overstimulated nonsense
>reddit is full of braindead white knighting tripleniggerfaggots
Call me when there's news.
In OPs defense the author was pretty famous.
this desu
>reddit spacing on a reddit thread
Why do you guys even come here?
>Yea Forums has spacing rules now
kill yourself my man