• The Thanos subreddit is gleefully heading for mass slaughter
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Since the release of Avengers: Infinity War, fans have flocked to a subreddit dedicated to the film’s villain, Thanos. Once mostly a place for jokes, memes, and chatter about the mad Titan’s ideologies, the more than 200,000 members of r/ThanosDidNothingWrong have turned their attention to fulfilling a one-off joke that will decimate their community: randomly banning half of their members. Today, a moderator announced that they’d finally received permission from the reddit administrators. The ban will take place July 9th. It’s all an elaborate riff on the plot of Infinity War, where (spoilers) long-teased villain Thanos collects the powerful Infinity Stones to complete his goal of wiping out exactly half the population of the universe. Having experienced the consequences of overpopulation and limited resources, he sees it as an act of mercy: an indiscriminate killing of young and old, rich and poor, decided in a single second by chance. Moderator The-Jedi-Apprentice, who originally announced the news, has posted regular updates about their quest to bring this much-requested culling to the subreddit. According to The-Jedi-Apprentice, much of the efforts revolved around logistics and site stability. “[A Reddit admin] told me that doing a massive ban the day before July 4 was a terrible idea, because many of Reddit’s engineers would be out with their families,” the mod says in a forum post. “Also, the engineers would not be prepared for a mass ban so close to it. However, I presented a solution to these two problems, and I now have their permission to ban half of the sub!” The ban will target random members and eradicate 50 percent. “The admins are designing a bot for me that will allow me to do the job in a quick and easy manner,” the mod says. Source: The Verge
Do to the title I thought some idiots where gonna like go through with a plan to kill half of the population, positive surprised it just some fun and giggles.
lol
This is great lol. I know doing it on the Thanos subreddit is appropriate, but I'd love if the reddit administrators okay'd doing it on a much larger subreddit unfamiliar with the context, like the main marvel subreddit or something. They could only do it for a day, but still. This is still a pretty funny/creative way for a community to express it's fandom. I dig it.
2nd favorite the_ subreddit, behind only the_dennis https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Dennis/
So who are the ones bette off? The ones who get are spared or the ones who get banned?
yes
they won't feel so good
“The admins are designing a bot for me that will allow me to do the job in a quick and easy manner,” the mod says. These dickheads aren't creating Infinity War, they're making Age of Ultron. Now everyone on Reddit is going to get banned.
maybe I'll finally get something done with my life
They should just post an image of the snap from the comics the day it happens and nothing else.
The admins are designing a bot for me that will allow me to do the job in a quick and easy manner An ancient and terrible weapon from the Dark Age of Technology!
I'm a bit out of the loop here but why does reddit care about a half assed villain with a quarter assed plan that only a middle school student could agree with?
Both of those are terribly thought-out though. Thanos' plan is stupid because with power like that you could just create an abundance of resources instead of going "hurr gotta genocide". China's plan is stupid for a number of reasons, but primarily that they can't control how much people fuck and the policy created pressure to commit infanticide (which has resulted in a generation of men who can't marry - essentially a generation of incels - because Chinese culture values sons more than daughters).
Now that's an incredibly sensationalist headline.
From what Ive heard China has actually gone away with that policy already
I think exactly half of the people in that reddit need to be banned.
It is implied that the gauntlet can only affect matter that already exists in the universe. Therefore it cannot just create new resources from out of nowhere. Thanos is crazy, but he is also sure of his conviction to his solution. To us his reasoning is insane, but to him it makes perfect sense. You aren't supposed to agree with him, but you are expected to at least understand his reasoning.
it gives us something to do in our boring lives
if Subs = r_thedonnald call function ban else goto 10
pretty much none of the cosmic entities that play an important role in the comic version don't exist in the MCU, so I do think we'll get farmer Thanos, though, considering the ending of Infinity War.
https://www.reddit.com/r/thanosdidnothingwrong/comments/8x2pyo/reddit_thanos_has_a_message_for_you/
Breaking news: Thanos kills half of all Reddit users; the internet has been brought to balance
They keep delaying it. There's going to be so much salt if they don't fall through.
they are showing the banbot run live https://www.twitch.tv/reddit
So what is going on now is that they are creating the list that will contain the banned accounts. After the list is made, the ban will happen.
We can have free speech but not those guys, because I don't agree with them, but I'm all for free speech, just not for those guys.
you have no free speech on the internet. its all private
freedom of speech =/= freedom from criticism
It's happening. https://www.twitch.tv/reddit
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