Kal Turnbull, who is now 22, created the Change My View subreddit in 2013. If a submitter doesn’t respond to commenters in good time, they’re considered AWOL, insincere, or obdurate, and the board moves on.
You can’t just post and skedaddle for the day. The rule that makes Change My View different from a freewheeling chat room is that a submitter is required to respond within three hours to brook respectful challenges to their view. Once you submit a view, you’ve committed to a mental marathon. Instead CMV posters foreground their flexibility-and maybe some insecurity, which brings with it a poignant willingness to be transformed. These are “commenters.” Submitters are not supposed to look for fights on Change My View that’s for … everywhere else on the internet. You’re a “submitter.” Then those who aim to change your view roll in, posting their views of your view. (The parent company of Condé Nast, which owns WIRED, holds a majority stake in Reddit.) Yes, you have to trudge through the Caledonian Forest of Reddit’s UX and, as usual, risk being hazed when you trespass against Reddit’s clubby customs. (Turnbull deletes what he calls “low-effort” comments.)Ĭhange My View looks like a standard subreddit, a message board on which threads are organized by topic. He enlisted moderators from among the more fair-minded regulars, and for five years now they have policed not just name-calling, rudeness, and hostility but superfluous jokes and mindless agreement. At first Change My View did attract rancor and ad hominem brattery, but Turnbull was patient and true to his vision of civil discourse. He meant to populate his forum with people sincerely in quest of lively and honorable debate. Turnbull didn’t want to attract the chippy you-talkin’-to-me? crowd that was already adequately represented on Reddit. My hormone-therapy prescription was designed both to recognize the suffering of the sinner-he’s “sick” and treatable with medicine-and to punish him with that pitiless word. Yet another contingency undergirded my pro-castration platform: a church-trained, perhaps sentimental worldview that even the worst among us can be delivered from evil-if not by prayer alone then by the ministrations of a compassionate endocrinologist. My view, if I really advocated for it, might not only redeem my own experiences, it would revise my earlier meekness with a Valkyrie-like reversal-and avenge the sisterhood. I’ve either wised up to or aged out of this dispiriting cycle, but now, I imagined, with a touch of grandiosity, I might stop it dead. Like many who have held jobs, I’ve served my time in taxis and at happy hours showing down with groping goats in the garb of VIPs.
My opinion was built on a couple of statistics, but less rational motivations were also in play. The abusers would just get shot up with something called an anaphrodisiac, a brew to suppress androgens and other traces of Aphrodite in the blood. (Another upside: Castration is rumored to forestall male-pattern baldness.) Of course I meant an entirely bloodless course of hormone therapy. While castration hasn’t been tested on abusers in the Harvey Weinstein style, it’s been used with success on child molesters, bringing the recidivism rate, or so I’d read somewhere, from 75 percent to 2 percent. Castration, I believed, would sideline the abuser’s compulsions and thus keep the world safe from him (or her lol).
#Reddit simbl serial#
I had a view, and my view was this: Serial sexual abusers should submit to castration.
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