“Looks like /r/The_Donald subreddit is back up again after going dark for almost a day.’
I’ve been following this on FR all day, but I still fail to grasp the overall situation.
It would be great if one of you denizens at /r/The_Donald subreddit could explain “The Donald subreddit,” from A to B, for simpletons like me.
Seriously....Give me the scoop, the news, the mystery meat.
Thanks.
The CEO of reddit is a childish moonbat control freak. Most of reddit is a far left echo chamber, but The_Donald is mostly conservative. [Would be all conservative, except they strongly champion LBGT rights.]
Spez—user name of the CEO—has been harassing The_Donald for many months. He’s gone back and actually edited comments after the person had posted them. He vastly understates their membership [listed as 400,000+, but in fact well over 6 million]. He allows wholesale ‘brigading,’ which means all his liberal shills are allowed to overrun The_Donald and down-vote every post to oblivion. He also let’s all his pet moonbat subs (separate divisions on reddit, kind of like our ‘religion’ section) malign The_Donald all day every day by name, but no one on The_Donald is allowed to mention the names of other sub-reddits.
Oh, and Spez has worked out an algorithm that keeps The_Donald off the front page of reddit, so that new visitors to the site will never find out about it. He’s a very petty, vindictive leftist.
Spez’ newest harassment is to take a post with something in the neighborhood of 12,000 ‘likes,’ and reset it to zero. It’s unbelievable. It’s as if he was determined to keep pushing until he finally got the reaction he was looking for.
I guess he did. The leading moderators of The_Donald called him out and rebelled against his over-the-top discrimination. He retaliated by permanently banning three of them. He’s just a power-crazed leftist dictator run amuck.
If that doesn’t make sense, please feel free to ask more questions. I’ll just add that aside from salty language, The_Donald is a pretty good community. They are very patriotic, and as you’d expect, very pro-Trump.
I’ll give a few pointers on lingo and other things:
- Pepe the frog is basically an avatar for the underdog Donald voters that don’t give up. The use of Pepe as a meme subject started on 4chan, after being appropriated from its original creator. Rare Pepe’s are jokingly traded as currency, and are the focus of most memes. These memes act as a comical way of making fun of our political foes.
- “Reeeeeeeeeee” is the sound that a social justice warrior (sjw) makes when they see or hear something they don’t like, such as the truth.
- Upvoting comments and posts is self-explanatory. However, the super liberal administration of reddit have taken to erasing upvotes and other nonsense, so as to belittle or hide the hated Donald forum. They have enacted ruled that apply exclusively to The_Donald forum, while letting all the liberal forums break those some rules. The_Donalds mods have tried to defend against these abuses by the admin, but admin have all the power.
- In spite of the drama, T_D has been very energetic and influential this past year. They are read and referenced by the campaign and many conservative pundits and media commentators.