/r/gunsarecool on that "other" site is an absolute disaster of numbskullish garbage from people who hate guns. Fine, I don't care if that is their opinion, they can be jerks over there, but why does HenryCorp get to come to voat, steal a subverse from people who were just minding our own business, and ruin /v/gunsarecool?
At the very least, our subverse should be returned to us, and HenryCorp should be banned.
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MinorLeakage ago
The issue is, you can't really "take it back" without literally becoming what you despise. The unfortunate side of freedom and free speech is you will have to defend people you disagree with. If we violated our own rules to strip someone of their subverse and/or ban them, what would make us any different from SRS, etc? The fact that our opinions are "right"?
The best course of action is to just keep telling people about what happened, and try to prevent further abuses in the future. I also have a subverse I would love to "liberate", and it's even currently technically abandoned. I just can't bring myself to sink to the level of the assholes who stole it and perverted it in the first place.
Anyways, I agree that @HenryCorp is a real piece of shit. However I don't think the solution can ever be "just ban him and take it back". It has to be within the rules, for legitimate reasons. And unfortunately, HenryCorp generally follows the letter of the law, just not the spirit.
Porphyrogennetos ago
I don't agree with this point.
If we were to silence HenryCorp, that would be becoming what we despise. If he were trolling or just being an asshole, so what, who cares? Ignore him.
What he's doing now can't be ignored not because it's a choice to care, but because the outcomes of his actions (not speech) are having a very negative effect on the site and its members overall.
We all strongly dislike him and his actions and we want them to stop. The will of the people has been spoken, but nothing has been done.