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[kestrel9]

4 months ago https://archive.is/ZHWwO It's a sad day for SaidIt. They're removing /s/Ice_poseidon2RIP

"The IP2 sub is going to be removed in about 25 hours because our server company is forcing our hand.
There were a large number of complaints about the IP2 sub lodged by one person with our server company. (Please do not name the server company in these comments or I will remove your comment.) Eventually the person creating these accusations convinced the server company that the whole of saidit.net was violating the server company's acceptable use policy.
So, about 3 days ago, I got a message from the server company saying we had 96 hours to leave their servers and shut all of saidit.net down.
But since literally all the complaints generated were about IP2, and we are a sub-based website with many communities, we reached a compromise with the server company to remove IP2 to stay online. Our only other option seems to be to continuously change servers and server companies literally every week, which isn't a sustainable option realistically. Plus IP2 was generally dragging things down the pyramid of debate quite badly, which is the exact thing that caused Acceptable Use Policy violations with our server company. So there seems to be no other option moving forward than the let IP2 go."

later in the post the edit says "They're saying wildly speculating that the Ice Poseidon guy may have been the one who was trying to take /s/Ice_Poseidon2 down." (links in post)




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4 months old comment on ruqqus regarding the removal of IP2: "The worst part of this is it was just one person complaining about that sub to their server hosts, they’ve set the precedent that they’re happy to bend the knee to this sort of bullshit." https://ruqqus.com/+Webdev/post/2b55/we ... ced-by-our