Announcing the Orange Arrow Hunger Games, also sorry about all the banning

Hello,I'd like to apologize for any ruffled feathers from our massive purge of Europeans. Turns out our scientific "ban anyone who posts in the early morning sometimes" algorithm almost seemed random to some people. Well that's a good thing because we weren't actually banning people for that reason at all, and I'm hoping those of you who were ENRAGED can point that feeling towards an entity that could maybe actually do something to change the situation with Article 13. It's easy to be angry at /r/dankmemes for banning some users, maybe it's slightly more effort to be angry towards the suits who voted for Article 13 in the first place. But it's worth it to get involved if you can.A good place to start:#SaveYourInternetI would recommend sparing them the barrage of 500 "kill yourself" messages that we were sent, at least be creativeSo what are we up to, anyway? I'm sure some of you are already aware of the basics but we are happy to announce our first and probably only shitposting competition:theOrange Arrow Hunger GamesThis is a competitive event between 25k people divided into 21 teams. Starting in one hour, these teams will face off for the glory of their team's subreddit, with the winning team choosing special /r/dankmemes flairs for both them and one chosen by them for the losers. And also some platinum and gold being handed out as well as control of the team's subreddit at the end of this. Perhaps the material prizes could be better, but it was the best we could afford on a dankmemes mod salary./r/dankmemes will be restricted to these 25k users for 24 hours, and during that time, we would direct those of you wishing to comment or post about this event to go to/r/OrangeArrowPeople who can't wait to post their own memes, please consider one of the other fine meme subreddits that exist.Rules and FAQ are also found in /r/OrangeArrowSpecial thanks to:All of the people who are participating, especially the team captains. Thanks to all of you for being a good sport and most of you for keeping your mouth shut./u/TheWolfREvenge for being a huge help during all of this/u/AtomicWeeb for their inspired unlawfulmemes icon/u/skatterbug for helping keep scoreI know you said you didn't want it to be about you, but we really couldn't have done this without you EM so thank you again, also you're hilariousAlso, special shout-out to those of you who sent me kind messages explaining the law and trying to make me understand why we had it so wrong. I appreciated every single one of those, and you are all really good people.Personal thanks to the bot team of r/dankmemes who continue to be the best around, and I feel extremely lucky to share the same sub with them.And now we will stop new posts in the sub for one hour to prepare for the competition. And may the best team win, and odds in favors and all that. via /r/dankmemes https://ift.tt/2OAbOYE