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God no. I can't imagine a more horrific punishment than to be childless.

I wish we had more than the two we have, but my wife and I started late. My daughter (12) sometimes asks how many children she could realistically have... a good sign that she hasn't been tainted by whatever mental illness it is that the "childfree" people have.

If only he were mad. Madmen sometimes decide to change directions 180° for no reason at all.

Non-madmen get desperate when they realize how badly they've fucked up. They attempt ever-greater follies trying to recover what they just recently lost.

No, but you can convince them by being close enough to them that your distaste for their nonsense is palpable and constant.

That can't happen if you've chased them off though.

I have no idea what "greatest" means. It's a superlative word, but implies no meaningful measurement that can be tested and verified.

Also the word "believe" is problematic. "think" might be better. Or "hold the opinion".

Both of these points support the idea that you're asking about an emotional state, rather than a intellectual position. Basically you're asking "why do people like the place that they live and mindlessly cheer for it when sociologically appropriate moments for such displays become available". That's a question that answers itself, is it not?

So you destroyed the village in order to save it? You did lose the subreddit anyway. Nothing could ever be discussed. Everyone self-censored even if you didn't force the issue on them.

The admins did it. But instead of them doing it despite your efforts, you cooperated. Hell, even that might be forgivable if afterward you'd realized the mistake you made and owned up to it. Instead, you're here defending it.

What great lessons have you learned, that the same or similar wouldn't be repeated here? I mean, another person might have spent years struggling with and straining their brain to figure out how to make a forum that assholes like the reddit admins can't nuke. No, your best is apparently waiting for someone else to come up with a possible solution, and then just migrating over to it until the copyright trolls catch up and start lobbing legal thermonukes in this direction. Then I guess you'll cooperate again, and wait for yet another forum to be created somewhere else, only to repeat the pattern.

Supposing that somehow "well run" means anything that anyone else agrees with, aren't you sort of the poster child of "not well run"? During your tenure at reddit, for instance, r/piracy became almost entirely useless. Years of prime advice was nuked when you erased everything but the last 6 months of history. Rules, and also secret rules, were enacted that make it impossible to discuss anything important. Contributors were banned form the subreddit having already demonstrated their worth.

As it is now, if the MPAA and RIAA teamed up with the Spanish priests who burned the Mayan codices to run a piracy internet forum, they still wouldn't do as shitty a job as r/piracy does. If you had any sort of integrity at all, wouldn't you have shut down the forum years ago?

There is a big banner across reddit's page when you are banned. It's pink, with a hammer logo. It will have a link to form for appeal, which is manned by a monkey trained to click "denied".

Also congratulations.

If you wish to create a new account, it will become necessary to never log into the old one, even to read replies you might've gotten late. You will need to get a new ip address, you will need to create a new email (Yahoo still lets you create them, apparently)... doing the [email protected] is apparently something they check for. It is also likely true that they use third-party tracking, so you may need Firefox and Facebook-container or similar installed.

Given that you were banned because someone reported you, if you announce that you were OldUsername in a post or comment, then when your hecklers go find it, they can report you for ban evasion and get you banned again. So resist the urge.

Honestly, it's mostly not worth it though. Whatever you did to get you banned in the first place will happen again. And in many places, you aren't allowed to comment without an older account or a higher score. It'd be better to accept that reddit is dead, even if at one point you enjoyed the website.

Lemmy fixes some of what's wrong with reddit. Let's see how long it lasts before problems emerge.