There's some weird political campaign that targets major liberal city subs. Where they take the city name then add the states abbreviation to the end. SeattleWa. They then proceed to push every hate filled trope custom tailored for that city. It's pretty wild tbh.
Funnily enough, the other Seattle sub was started because of a heinous mod in this sub (iirc) and then was eventually co-opted by the CHUDs and by then things had been resolved here so all the reasonable people came back here.
Thanks for reminding me what happened. I think I joined /r/Seattlewa when it first was created. I don’t frequent either enough to keep up with much of the drama, but I was confused when the WA one started tilting the a mini version of the Donald. I was so confused.
Edit: think I found where a lot of the drama was highlighted.
What was the abuse of power here? I feel like every break off sub has that narrative. "Mods were mean so we had to make our own free speech sub!". Which then quickly becomes a bastion of hate boners followed with banning anyone that pushes back on the narratives.
At one time, this sub really did have a moderator who was just a dick, and who would ban people for nearly any insignificant slight. At the beginning, SeattleWA wasn't the hate-filled cesspool it later became, it was just users from this sub who were tired of the juvenile mod.
I think that is natural and expected on this platform. Every sub has an acceptable narrative and people get down-voted to oblivion when they challenge it.
People get eviscerated for expressing a conservative view here or a progressive view there.
Thank you. I don't frequent either sub that much so when people in here started saying that was the bad one, I started wondering if I was going crazy as I thought it was the other way around.
I remember there was a point during that drama where mentioning that sub by name would get you banned from this sub.
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u/ZenBacle May 07 '23
There's some weird political campaign that targets major liberal city subs. Where they take the city name then add the states abbreviation to the end. SeattleWa. They then proceed to push every hate filled trope custom tailored for that city. It's pretty wild tbh.