Speaking as a moderator (/u/Bilbo_Swaggins) and the primary mod for its current backup subverse, many of us have been sick of the "niggers" branding for quite a while now, viewing it as crude at best.
If you pass the baton to another user, they'll probably just do the same thing again; the reason for this is that the first volunteer to jump up will be yet another dipshit who has absolutely no intention of moderating the community in a sensible manner. I honestly suspect that WSIMBR had something like this in mind since the beginning, and that many other volunteers have similar things in mind.
/u/adhdferret and myself are the two most active moderators left, basically. He's wanted to get /v/coontown back and move the community there; I've wanted to just move things to /v/Coonshire. We had agreed to put it up to a vote and see where the community wants to go. Either of us- and most users, I believe- would be satisfied with destroying /v/niggers and setting up on Coontown or Coonshire.
If the mods are all in agreement about the name issue and would be happy to transfer to a backup subverse (I personally think Coonshire is better, because CoonTown is somewhat infamous from people pointing out its continued existence on Reddit when FPH was banned, while Coonshire could be mistaken as the name of some fan-fiction town in some post-Tolkien fantasy setting, but I don't even go to any of the subverses in question, so my vote doesn't matter much), then Option 3 is far better than Option 1.
My only concern with that option is how it is like the "scorched earth retreat" tactic that was made into a part of many history textbooks during the Nazi invasion of Russia, in that it cuts out the problem area and nicely transitions into a subverse that the community already trusts, but it is an unsustainable tactic if we get multiple subverses taken over in short order.
My assumption is that /v/Coonshire will never be compromised. It's an easy assumption for me to make because I am top mod there and I know that I'm never going to mess with it.
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7554313? ago
Speaking as a moderator (/u/Bilbo_Swaggins) and the primary mod for its current backup subverse, many of us have been sick of the "niggers" branding for quite a while now, viewing it as crude at best.
If you pass the baton to another user, they'll probably just do the same thing again; the reason for this is that the first volunteer to jump up will be yet another dipshit who has absolutely no intention of moderating the community in a sensible manner. I honestly suspect that WSIMBR had something like this in mind since the beginning, and that many other volunteers have similar things in mind.
/u/adhdferret and myself are the two most active moderators left, basically. He's wanted to get /v/coontown back and move the community there; I've wanted to just move things to /v/Coonshire. We had agreed to put it up to a vote and see where the community wants to go. Either of us- and most users, I believe- would be satisfied with destroying /v/niggers and setting up on Coontown or Coonshire.
7558037? ago
If the mods are all in agreement about the name issue and would be happy to transfer to a backup subverse (I personally think Coonshire is better, because CoonTown is somewhat infamous from people pointing out its continued existence on Reddit when FPH was banned, while Coonshire could be mistaken as the name of some fan-fiction town in some post-Tolkien fantasy setting, but I don't even go to any of the subverses in question, so my vote doesn't matter much), then Option 3 is far better than Option 1.
My only concern with that option is how it is like the "scorched earth retreat" tactic that was made into a part of many history textbooks during the Nazi invasion of Russia, in that it cuts out the problem area and nicely transitions into a subverse that the community already trusts, but it is an unsustainable tactic if we get multiple subverses taken over in short order.
7558211? ago
My assumption is that /v/Coonshire will never be compromised. It's an easy assumption for me to make because I am top mod there and I know that I'm never going to mess with it.