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Paul: Life begins at conception. Piers: So, you would be taking a life. Paul: Well, you dont know if you are be taking a life... by kcsquaredin PoliticalDiscussion

[–]SurferGurl 1 point2 points ago

that somehow the founders of this country thought like you is total crap. but if it helps you justify your extremism then more power to ya.

Paul: Life begins at conception. Piers: So, you would be taking a life. Paul: Well, you dont know if you are be taking a life... by kcsquaredin PoliticalDiscussion

[–]SurferGurl -1 points0 points ago

why don't you go live in afghanistan? you could help the taliban dream up lots of ways to enforce sharia law.

p.s. i did a quick scan of your comment history. seriously, go live in afghanistan. PLEASE.

Paul: Life begins at conception. Piers: So, you would be taking a life. Paul: Well, you dont know if you are be taking a life... by kcsquaredin PoliticalDiscussion

[–]SurferGurl 3 points4 points ago

no, we're not. some woman you don't even know is dealing with a cluster of cells that is not a person yet. when there may come a time that you actually know the woman, you'd probably choose your words much more carefully.

/r/writing, reddit and moderation: call for mods, witch hunts and why violentacrez was added as a moderator. by illuminatedwaxin writing

[–]SurferGurl 5 points6 points ago

what those other communities think of ViolentAcrez is irrelevant to this conversation.

and ViolentAcrez asked that question of the community late at night (for most of the community) and has garnered only 142 votes in total as of the time i'm writing this. hardly representative of the community's feelings.

but...the appointment of ViolentAcrez as moderator of r/writing is not a good fit. at all. and that's quite obvious from the response in other postings which you neglected to mention.

/r/writing, reddit and moderation: call for mods, witch hunts and why violentacrez was added as a moderator. by illuminatedwaxin writing

[–]SurferGurl 6 points7 points ago* 

there's some things that really suck about this whole situation. first of all, people are being downvoted for expressing their opinions about this when there really shouldn't be any up or down votes. ALL voices in this debate need to be heard, no matter what is being said.

we can go on and on for days and weeks about ViolentAcrez' character and we won't get anywhere. basic fact: lots of people on reddit, not just in the r/writing sub, don't like him. message to ViolentAcrez: you can't go around whining that people don't like you when you've chosen to be a controversial high-profile reddit user -- and seem quite proud of your rep.

because of that, when illuminatedwax didn't communicate with the subscribers about anything, just appointed ViolentAcrez and Karlgraves as co-mods. in the time it took to ping these two people and ask them to be mods, illuminatedwax could have informed some or all of the community about his plans -- he could have run this idea up the flagpole, so to speak. that would have avoided lots of grief.

illuminatedwax claims he didn't know ViolentAcrez was so controversial. i don't buy that for a second. if you're on reddit, even occasionally, you just can't go around claiming you live under a rock.

yet, even if we go with illuminatedwax's fantasy that he innocently appointed an active, talented moderator as a "fixer," it doesn't change the fact that ViolentAcrez came into the community like he was a badass gunslinger sent in "to clean up this here town" and banned a subscriber right away was even more heavy handed. (who cares if he unbanned him right away? it was a cheesy thing to do.) add to that the fact that now, 12 hours or so later, the situation has devolved into illuminatedwax and ViolentAcrez and their posse of thugs engaging in a flame war with people who care a shit ton more for the community than they ever will.

at any point in this cluster fuck, illuminatedwax could have chosen to be humble and gracious and cooperative, and collaborated with the top contributors to fix problems that were, really, in the grand scheme of things, just minor issues.

and to think, after all this, illuminatedwax and ViolentAcrez are STILL making excuses, blaming others, and allowing the shit storm to continue to stink up this joint.

doesn't sound at all like good moderating to me. actually, it seems that any claims the mods make about how much they care about reddit and this community is total bullshit at this point, considering all the bad choices they keep making.

it should not matter which subscribers post in this community or how often they post. almost every single redditor was a lurker at one time, and some redditors continue to lurk in some communities and seldom if ever post, yet post actively in other communities. mods, however, really should be active in their communities and not just fixers. if fixer mods are needed, then there should be a designated, roving crew -- users known for their ability to remain as neutral as possible while fixing things that are actually broken. just sayin...

Time Lapse Showing the Urbanization of Las Vegas from 1984 - 2009 [570x328] [GIF] by barnellin MapPorn

[–]SurferGurl 1 point2 points ago

i heard that story, too. they said for a while a new school was being opened every 20 days. that blew my mind.

A Request for Comments by violentacrezin writing

[–]SurferGurl -6 points-5 points ago

So far, you've proven to be exactly like Bashar Assad.

A Request for Comments by violentacrezin writing

[–]SurferGurl 0 points1 point ago

I'm not familiar with most of you...

...of course not, you don't crawl out of the sewer very often.

So we asked for a new mod. We got ViolentAcrez, creator of r/jailbait who supported the subreddit even after people were exposed for trading child-porn. Who spends all his time posting to the porn subreddits. Not even a writer ... huh? by [deleted]in writing

[–]SurferGurl 3 points4 points ago

it wasn't that he was chosen because he'd do a good job. the choice was intended to piss people off.

seems the only thing to do is migrate.

I had a lot of explaining to do when my parents found this on their camera roll... In my defense he deserved it... by MicMcKeein pics

[–]SurferGurl 0 points1 point ago

i had a friend whose dad ordered her and her brother out of the car. he got back in the car and drove away. they were crying hard when he came back to get them five minutes later.

I had a lot of explaining to do when my parents found this on their camera roll... In my defense he deserved it... by MicMcKeein pics

[–]SurferGurl -1 points0 points ago

we got the living shit knocked out of us...for being bad.

years ago, i was listening to love line on the radio. adam carolla talked about his dad beating him with a length of hot wheels track and asked if anyone else had ever experienced that. I HAD!!

i don't know why, but i don't consider it abuse. but intellectually i know it was.

i never had kids, but if i had, i NEVER would have even swatted them on the butt. my brother feels the same way i do and has never hit his kids.

I ate at a Red Robin over the weekend and when I ordered my burger wrapped in lettuce, they told me about their new GF Buns! by SmurferPenguinin glutenfree

[–]SurferGurl 1 point2 points ago

yep! it's so nice to sit with all my glutenized friends and eat a burger just like them.

I had a lot of explaining to do when my parents found this on their camera roll... In my defense he deserved it... by MicMcKeein pics

[–]SurferGurl 0 points1 point ago

i'm the oldest of three. had to babysit all the damn time and hated it. my sister wouldn't eat peas for dinner one night. i made her sit at the table for hours, then chased her down when she made a run for it. i shoved peas in her mouth.

one came out her nose.

she's never let me forget.

I had a lot of explaining to do when my parents found this on their camera roll... In my defense he deserved it... by MicMcKeein pics

[–]SurferGurl 286 points287 points ago

my dad would just start swinging his arm behind him as he drove. it didn't matter who he hit, he didn't look, he just swung until he made contact with one of our heads.

Rutger Hauer, you have nothing to be embarrassed by. by VanTrashcanin movies

[–]SurferGurl 1 point2 points ago

the universe is so incredible it makes even droids have overwhelming feelings.

Rodrigo y Gabriela - Tamacun. You can only listen once, then your ears are melted off. by HOLYmcCOWanin Music

[–]SurferGurl 0 points1 point ago

there must be something in the poudre river water that makes for good guitarists in fort collins. here's a guy who doesn't scat but sure makes some nice sounds come out of his acoustic guitar. i went to school with him.

Do another other southpaws have trouble with certain tasks... by Kelnazin southpaws

[–]SurferGurl 0 points1 point ago

it's hopeless. i'm old. the memories of trying to learn from right-handed people -- and other tasks, not just shoe-tying -- are depressing.

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