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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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What's the deal with the recent activity on the old subreddit? (awful.systems)

submitted 3 months ago by swlabr@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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I'm seeing two posts from the mods that are sneerworthy content that aren't meta-posts announcing the de-sunsetting of r/sneerclub. I just wanna know what's up.

FWIW, I will stay here and probably won't participate in the subreddit out of laziness.

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[–] self@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

the official word on our end is: no idea! we’re monitoring @mawhrin@awful.systems’s post over there with interest.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

in a typical reddit fashion the post is getting downvotes despite just asking the obvious question.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I'm a bit weirded out that new posts on a year dead subreddit suddenly get ~50-100 upvotes

[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

to be honest, I’m getting a weird vibe off the resurrected /r/SneerClub in general. that might just be me though

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Scabs the lot of them!

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

snabs?

[–] YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

/u/completely-ineffable, who founded the sub, and closed the sub a year ago, literally just made a post! That’s all that happened! I’m distantly in touch with that person! Everything is fine! In fact I’d almost be tempted to theorise it was all a dumb ruse to see if you lot turned out to be crazy people!

And it seems to have worked wonders!

Who even put the term “resurrected” in there? It’s one post, followed by a smattering of others including posts bickering about the supposed resurrection! What monstrous goings on are people permitting themselves to imagine?

[–] YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

People are still subscribed to the subreddit. When a post gets made, it goes on their reddit feed. Lots of mobile users in particular will just have seen it pop up while doomscrolling.

[–] AcausalRobotGod@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago

They had a lot of subscribers.

[–] YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

“Why, for fuck’s sake?”, as an illucutionary act, seems to do a lot more than simply “asking the obvious question”

But it is, indeed, in typical reddit fashion to omit that sort of thing from one’s own complaint about the response one got to one’s provocation, notwithstanding the traditional SneerClub response to user’s complaints, which is of course “if you want to leave, but can’t, we can help with that”

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

Twice the sneer, double the… club?

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

so the official reply is that mod got bored, and also was asked to re-open. which is, of course, fine.

and to be clear

i didn't think there is any conspiracy, that would be ridiculous,
if we subscribe to the idea that a community is owned, not stewarded, by mods, it's perfectly fine to do with the community whatever the mods want, without the need of them being accountable to anyone else,
i do think that reopening the sub after closing it in protest is mostly sad,
and a very small and rather insignificant footnote to a more general discussion on (f)utility of using master's tools to bring down the master's house.