Ideology Polls





Ideology Polls the First was established in October when the sub r/IdeologyPolls hit 2000 members. It rapidly grew and was very active, with an average of up to 1000-2000 daily messages. The mod team at the time was essentially the same as r/IdeologyPolls's mod team. Borker was the most active member, with Zim, the owner, taking a more relaxed approach to modding, though he occasionally came on to remove things.

On 11/21, Borker was arguing with some individuals on the separate server Rightjerk who were making silly points. He posted screenshots to Ideology Polls, prompting multiple members (Occulum, Conor, Uno, Zhah, and Jules) to join and see how foolish it was. This started an argument in the verification channel, and Zim, one of the moderators of the sub, decided to ban or kick all the new members and claim it was a brigade. This caused a general negative attitude towards Zim in the server. Uno then created a new Ideology Polls server and kept Zim away from it and unaware of it.

On 11/28, user Erwin posted a compass he created, sparking the Ideology Polls Civil War. Upon seeing it, Zim became upset and removed it from the server and subreddit, and timed out anyone who posted it, even banning Erwin from the server. Borker attempted to calm Zim down and let it remain, but Zim removed him as a mod and instead appointed random people as admin and mod, including Carrot, Willow, and Yankee, without any background checking or permission. At this point, many people had already moved on to the new Ideology Polls server after being banned or kicked from the original one following the Civil War.

On 11/29, the Civil War came to an end, with Yankee, who had been a Zim critic from the beginning, inviting friends and giving them admin to destroy the server. Zim and Borker initially believed that it was Chinese hackers (the friends that Yankee invited had Chinese names) who had nuked the server for fun. Yankee then joined Ideology Polls 2 and explained how he had done it, and Borker revealed this to Zim, who initially believed him but took no action against Yankee.

Borker eventually resigned from r/IdeologyPolls after Zim tried to convince him that a mod vote had occurred for a new sub rule that Borker would have opposed (the "No Trolling" rule). Borker opposed the rule because it was too vague, and Zim could use it to remove anything he didn't like, which is why Borker was no longer friends with Zim.


 * [[File:Anpostleft.png]] Uno
 * [[File:Egocom.png]] Conor
 * [[File:Post-an.png]] Zhah
 * [[File:Socliber.png]] Occulum
 * [[File:Socliber.png]] Jules
 * [[File:Minarchist.png]] Jimmy
 * [[File:Necon.png]] Erwin
 * [[File:Volu.png]] Gaycommie
 * [[File:Volu.png]] Gaycommie


 * [[File:CringeLibSocPixel.png]] Libsoc
 * [[File:Carrot pixels.png]] Carrot
 * [[File:Edelismpixel.png]] Edelex
 * [[File:Distributist.png]] Pollere
 * [[File:Minarchist.png]] Cato
 * [[File:Ancom.png]] Garan
 * [[File:Fungaliberalismpixels.png]] Fungal
 * [[File:Purpura ball pixel.png]] Purpura
 * [[File:Apolit.png]] Devoff
 * [[File:Centrist-yellow.png]] Elite
 * [[File:AnSynd.png]] TheDude
 * [[File:Killionarie pixels.png]] Killionaire


 * [[File:Soymund_ball_pixels.png]] Soymund
 * [[File:Necon.png]] NatoCrusader
 * [[File:Cfash.png]] Wellfed
 * [[File:Nastyism Icon.png]] Nasty
 * [[File:Cybercom.png]] Titan
 * [[File:ChipBall.png]] Chip


 * [[File:Ingsocf.png]] Zim
 * [[File:Socdem.png]] Yankee