About Moderation

[d2_e4]

I guess I must have survived by not participating.

[Trolly]

It’s more like one guy finally got banned after doxxing multiple people and the neverending shitstorm immediately stopped.

[alex]

Yea man the quality of this forum sure is great compared to 3 years ago

[otatop]

3 years ago we all had multiple common enemies (like Trump and COVID) and as those common enemies fell away the knives came out for one another over relatively minor differences.

At least that’s how it seemed to me, maybe the infighting was always there and never changed but just became more apparent as we moved on from monitoring every new COVID variant and insane Trump tweet.

[King_of_NY]

@Trolly

one guy finally got banned after doxxing multiple people

UP fantasy fiction probably deserves its own thread

[kerowo]

Right, it was jal AND six getting banned that stopped the shit show.

[King_of_NY]

the work of the anti-ahole posse is never-ending

[ripdog]

et al.

[jmakin]

Hard unnecessary use of the n word? No problems here.

Vague reference to someone’s religion? Permaban.

Reinstate jal and 6ix.

[simplicitus]

Jal and 6ix were forum cancer, and the forum is a better place now that they are gone. However, I personally think some of the other bans were a bit heavy-handed. My antenna goes up when people say they feel “unsafe”. Such claims, while often valid, are not above scrutiny, and I don’t think people should be permabanned for calling out someone’s religion in appropriate contexts. I am an atheist and it’s important to understanding my perspective on many issues. I think it’s important to apply common sense to such decisions. Strictly following bright-line rules turns people into Scalia. That said, I appreciate the efforts of the mods doing a difficult job.

[otatop]

@simplicitus

Jal and 6ix were forum cancer, and the forum is a better place now that they are gone. However, I personally think some of the other bans were a bit heavy-handed.

There has been exactly one other ban and it was enacted for the exact same reason as 6ix and jal’s.

@simplicitus

I don’t think people should be permabanned for calling out someone’s religion in appropriate contexts

Here’s the context:

@MrWookie

You really don’t have anything better to do here than bully skydiver, huh?

@cassette

You’re defending the wrong person again. Roll back the tape and see who’s been throwing insults.

“When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to Him who judges justly.”

cassette decided, out of nowhere and for no reason, to use a bible quote in response to a wookie post.
Then jal and 6ix decided to hop in on the fun.

@6ix

@cassette

You’re defending the wrong person again. Roll back the tape and see who’s been throwing insults.

“When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to Him who judges justly.”

@MrWookie

You’re fucking pathetic, dude.

No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.

@Jalfrezi

The good Christian who didn’t swear like a trooper is dead.

@Jalfrezi

I don’t know of any other sweary religious zealots here.

@Jalfrezi

Oh don’t get me wrong, I swear like a trooper too but I’m not avowedly religious so that’s ok.

If anything one might argue I was too heavy handed banning jal.

[simplicitus]

I did not know the specific context there, though understood a certain charitable way throwing out a bible quote could be construed as a clever piece of rhetoric. I assumed it was something like, “Of course you support Israel, you’re nothing but an arab-hating jew” or similar.

In terms of being heavy-handed with Jaz, his body of work speaks for itself, and he should have been banned years ago. I think you and the mods do a solid job. I am just generally of the opinion that the baseline for bans should be fairly high, especially now that the worst offenders are gone.

[Fabian2]

@otatop

cassette decided, out of nowhere and for no reason, to use a bible quote in response to a wookie post.

Wow, sounds serious. Straight to permaban jail with him.

[otatop]

He was warned and chose to ignore the warning.

@otatop

@cassette gets a week off for violating the new moderation policy.
I deleted the thread hinting at cuse’s initials.

Next time is permanent.

[mukdukaluk]

I’m confused what recent ban are you talking about? Has somebody been banned over Israel Hamas matters? Or OlD dRaMa?

[simplicitus]

Old drama. I tend to only read moderation threads every few months. I only ventured into this section because of some recent technical issues with the site.

[Churchill]

@simplicitus

Old drama

Used to be a banable offence IIRC - in the Jalfezzi Era

[Churchill]

@simplicitus

Jal and 6ix were forum cancer,

aha, he loves the (old) drama

@otatop

If anything one might argue I was too heavy handed banning jal.

hear, hear - never too late to correct a bad decision

[jmakin]

Lol churchill you’re one of the top 5 worst posters OAT you don’t have a leg to stand on.

but yes unban jalfrezi. I made a similar post before but it was deleted by mods. Weird how yours aren’t.