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by NoCulturalFit 3881 days ago
So a bunch of "bigots, homophobes and sexists" decided that certain cliques in poetry were cashing in prizes and reviews with controlling the narrative?

Where was Gawker and The Guardian when we needed them!

Jokes aside, there is something like this today http://deepfreeze.it but it's run by "bigots, homophobes, sexists and obviously racists".

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I immediately thought of deepfreeze upon seeing this article - you'll notice that the people that it's cataloguing the misbehavior of are the ones that scream the loudest about its tone or the distastefulness of the people running it or associated with it, with precious little to say about the facts.

At least in DF's case, there's a reason for that. Most of everything you'll find there are of the form "X did Y" with a direct link to an archive where X was documented doing Y.. it's pretty hard to argue "I never said that!" when someone's got a third party link to you saying that.

As far as proof goes, they've got a higher evidentiary standard than Wikipedia, something that many trust without question.