Hail and well met, G.R.O.S.S.'ers.

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At long last, I've been removed from r/calvinandhobbes's moderation team. This was not unexpected: we've received and ignored numerous reports and mod mail messages from their head moderator regarding posts that cover the drama that led to their removal as a mod here. Coincidentally, my fellow mods and I had discussed severing ties with said sub last week along with the changes laid out in this post due to an extremely offensive moderation feature they've deployed, so this has simply sped up an eventuality.

Following the drama here and the reopening of the other sub, u/hive-protect was added to r/calvinandhobbes's moderation team, a bot that can be programmed to flag, filter and remove comments from users that have previously interacted with other specified subs. In this case, the bot has been deployed to target r/okbuddyrosalyn users for the transparent reason of removing any discussion on the drama. If you've had a post or comment immediately removed upon sharing it there, even it was innocuous, this was almost certainly the cause. It was clear from viewing their mod logs that this has affected a significant number of posters. This unwanted addition was never discussed with myself or any of their other moderators.

Many of you will be rightfully upset that the existence of this discriminatory practice wasn't publicly disclosed to the community sooner. Both myself and our mod team were incensed to discover it had been put in place, however we agreed that sharing it would likely revive the drama and make attempts to brigade more frequent while definitively ending any chance for a resolution.

It's unfortunate that things have gone down this route, but it seems clear that the animosity towards our sub and its members by the moderation of r/calvinandhobbes is here to stay.

So, going forward:

1. Posts and comments discussing r/calvinandhobbes, their moderation team's actions, and the prior drama will continue to be allowed here.
2. Posts and comments that specifically encourage brigading r/calvinandhobbes, or any other community, will be removed. This includes encouraging people to go to another sub to cause issues and screenshots of inciting content/removals in other subs.
3. Rule 3 will be amended to have generic wording that covers brigading instead of being sub-specific.
4. r/calvinandhobbes will be removed from our related subs section.
5. The head moderator of r/calvinandhobbes will be permanently banned from participating here, both so that mentions of their username will no longer go to their notifications and due to repeated abuse of the report function.
6. I will breathe a massive sigh of relief at no longer having any relation with a sub that bans people for being part of the best sub in existence.

TL;DR: r/okbuddyrosalyn will have no longer have any official relationship with r/calvinandhobbes.

This place is now just a sewer of endless AI slop posts. This is your sign to depart.

Farewell.

It's that day of the year again when we celebrate the birthday of the acclaimed, well-known creator of Calvin and Hobbes: Gary Larson.

🥳🥳🥳

For the next 24 hours, Larson-posting is in effect. Until the end of the day, all posts must feature Mr. Larson to show our appreciation for his great work.

We maxed out the character limit of 40k (Warhammer reference!?!) on our first megathread post, so we'll be continuing the extensive chronicle of our extremely niche shitpost sub here.

Feel free to recommend additions in the comments.

Link to Part 1 of the Megathread

1. SUBREDDIT LORE, PAST TRENDS & "HIGH" ART (PART 2)

• Sadposting: 1, 2, 3
• War with r/okbuddyronald: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Boneposting: (Birth of r/okbuddyquiche), 1, 2, 3, 4
• Kählveenposting

2. SERIES (PART 2)

• "Mom and Hobbes" by u/BottleGoblin: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• "Sometimes, You Really Are Just Alone" by u/Amansaysamen: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Bigger sub, more bots.

Our karma requirements have needed an update for some time now in order to catch more spam, AI and karma-farming accounts. As such, the minimum karma amount to post and comment here has been bumped up from 100 to 500. Account age requirements will stay the same at 2 days.

You may notice the Automod removing more posts and comments than usual for a while due to this change until the bots detect and adjust to the removals. It's far from a perfect deterrent, but it does filter out the worst of it.

- Your Dictator-For-Life

P.S. - Plan B was filtering all accounts made after 2022 and the rise of AI. Make of that what you will.

The Canadian government is simultaneously working to pass bills that will require ID for social media, mandate hardware-level backdoors for law enforcement purposes, and create a loosey-goosey legal definition for inciting hatred online (Bills C-34, C-22, and C-9, respectfully). We are entering a digital police state, a thought crime hellscape where Minority Report becomes reality.

The silence here is deafening.

There are no protests planned, no debates, hardly even an angry post online to be found about it. At best, you might come across someone that will mention this topic in passing before moving on to another subject.

It looks to me like the Canadian people have well and truly been broken into complete submission at this point. The frog has been boiled. The public's opinion has been ignored on every topic by our elected officials for so long that most have people have completely checked out.

Someone tell me there's something that can be done, because I'm not seeing it.