you know a Reddit AITA is gonna be good when it’s titled like ‘AITA for [insert perfectly benign or benevolent act that anyone would agree with doing here]?’ and it has the asshole flare

a non-Reddit observer might take this post as meaning that the comments section of a post like this is just outwardly malicious to an actually good deed, and don’t get me wrong like it’s Reddit and people WILL do that shit, but you’d be surprised to know that this in fact is an indicator that op is actually an insane person being roasted in the comments section for good reason, and you now get to open the thread to see exactly why

“AITA for burning down my brother’s house?” ends up being a thread where OP rescued his small nieces and nephews from a raging drug party, accidentally knocking over his brother’s meth lab in the process and therefore setting the place ablaze; “AITA for giving my daughter a stuffed toy when she was crying??” ends with it being revealed that OP manufactures the toys himself in a sweatshop staffed by local 8-year-old orphans

I'm also presuming there's a healthy dose of the assholes doing everything they can to frame themselves as the reasonable party

oh yeah those are the best ones. sometimes op will start arguing with people in the comments and the mods have to come wrangle them up to abide by the ‘accept your judgement’ rule, and after that they just start editing the post like an angry mid 2000s fanfiction.net author to own the haters but that only infuriates the crowd more, so it ends up being like you’re in a courthouse watching the crowd go insane in support of the jury while the judge bangs their gavel for order. even if the story is fake like, you can’t beat that entertainment

i made this post a couple weeks ago and one of the most fascinating parts of the responses here are that everyone seems to be on the same page that sure, a lot of them are probably fake, but it doesn't matter because the true point of r/AITA is for entertainment. like part of the fun is not knowing if it's actually real or not, but going into it suspending your disbelief and pretending that it's real is the most fun because that way you can 1. think about what you would do if you were in this situation, 2. think about who the fuck would actually make these choices and what op might be hiding, and 3. take part in throwing rotten food at our protagonist as the mods slowly trudge them through the medieval reddit city in chains in a show of public humiliation to the masses

I’ve seen even people who are pro-ao3 say that it should just get advertisers instead of having donation drives, which is. Uncomfortable. The ad-free aspect of ao3 isn’t just about convenience or even about giving fans at least one space where they aren’t bombarded with advertisements, it’s already about protecting ao3 itself.

The thing about hosting ads on your site is that it means your advertisers can influence the content the site hosts, demanding that certain things be removed (or added) and threatening to cut their support if they aren’t listened to. Relying entirely on donations doesn’t just protect users from invasive advertising and marketing, it also ensures that ao3 can continue to exist as an archive that isn’t censored by corporations or banks.

I honestly can’t believe people are so ignorant about how the internet works as to not realize this, but apparently it needed to be said.

It also helps protect A03 as a fanfic archive in specific.  No one can accuse them of monetizing things they don’t own when they visibly aren’t doing that.

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btw being excessively nonconfrontational is NOT a positive trait. it does not mean u are “too nice” or just too kind to hurt people, it means u have a problem communicating and you need to work on it.

There are people in the notes saying that the alternative reason is that they’re doing it because of trauma and i gotta say that

1) same. I did have this same problem and reason for doing it.

2) this is not actually an alternate reason. You guys also have a problem communicating and while you can trace exactly WHY you have trouble communicating that doesn’t mean it’s okay to treat everyone like they’re potentially your former abuser and that you DO still need to work on this.

‘This behavior comes from trauma’ and ‘This behavior is harmful to you, to others and to your relationships with others’ are two truths that can co-exist, and that do co-exist quite frequently.