It’s the community’s site, and when one disrespects the community’s standards, they should expect to lose the respect of many people in the community.
As I pointed out during the c-word debate, the appropriate analogy would be a New York to London or London to New York flight halfway over the Atlantic with a mix of American and British passengers.
I assume most posters here from the UK would know better than to use the term in that mix of company, but if not, I’m pretty sure if an American sitting nearby asked them to stop using it on the flight because it was offensive, they wouldn’t respond by calling them the c-word and insisting on using it.
They want it to be “their” site in that nobody can tell them what is or is not acceptable to say or post, whereas we want it to be “our” site in that everyone is mutually respectful. We may ask them not to use the c-word and they may ask us not to use “spaz” and nobody on either side should get upset about either thing.
The original point of Team A was that bad actors were complaining about moderation instead of knocking off their bad behavior, and that was the real problem. Then when Team A fires back and stuff gets both sidesed, they get upset.
Then more and more people got pulled in on both sides who’s start date of exposure to the conflict was later and later, so they don’t know the full backstory of why they hate posters A, B, and C, they just know they’re always mean to them and thus they snap back.
This is just ridiculous. Keeed was given a fair chance, used his powers to troll people, violated a norm which was made a rule and then violated it again, and is claiming that he didn’t because ACTUALLY he didn’t dismiss the flag, he just banned me for it!
Unfortunately I don’t think I’ll be out there until the very end of June this year, and it’s probably going to be 99% business.
