Pretend I did and that I’m silenced until tomorrow for doing so.
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I won’t comment on that but I will say that there is a lot of “working the mods”. In the sense that there is lobbying from people to influence mod actions for their “side”. It isn’t because they really care about the person moderated or even the side that got moderated. It is obvious to me after taking a step back that it is a sick game to plenty of people here (of both sides).
Again I have myself been guilty of poor behavior here. We don’t need to BE KIND or always agree but the factionization of the site has been for the worse. Everyone would agree with that I think.
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great, proceed with your passive aggressive bullshit.
eta: thank you for your service
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Yea I think I’ve come fully around on this. The mods are good people who mean well, but virtually every mod decision has caused more drama not less. And I just don’t see the point. It even seems to stress them out as much as it stresses out the people getting sanctioned.
Stick to moderating spam, horse pron, and uniquely blatant attacks - the pedo allegation might be the only one in recent memory that qualifies. Everything else is fair game. Let people post, maaaybe extract things as necessary. We’re all adults here. Politics will always be personal.
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Hilariously, the pedo allegation was actually only articulated by goof baller
I have to see that notification on the right side thinking someone liked my post or wanted to talk to me only to have the dopamine sucked out when i see its another flag 
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Ok but who cares, the implication is the important part not the specific word being used
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I’m considering flagging this post.
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No, Goofy is not the one who made the allegation.
I agree that this is bad, but really think it’s an inevitable part of internet forum discussion partly because of the many various forms that it may take. So it may be best for people to just accept it, or else we’re back to flagging posts and dancing around the line all day.
Well if you’ve got a plan to make that happen I’m all ears, but it’s clearly not happening. I’ve been powering through it for like 10 months now and doing my best to completely stay out of it, but some of the good/important threads have been a mess the last few weeks and the volume of quality posts seems to be dropping over time.
Gentlemen you can’t fight in here, this is the war thread!
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NBZ is saying that it’s no big deal and to stop overreacting to squabbles.
Of course he doesn’t have a plan to deal with something he sees as nbd.
telling someone to get help is not attacking someone’s mental health. I find this patently rich coming from anyone from this or any other spin off site, given the degree of bullying I’ve had about that over the years.
this kind of blatant dishonesty is the kind of working the ref behavior that people are alluding to - you keep repeating the same lies as fact over and over until someone overreacts to it, where you all gleefully go “TEEHEEHEE LOOK AT HIM ISNT HE OVERREACTING SO MUCH?” and the mods conclude that the overreacting to the bullying is the real problem.
It’s quite obvious to anyone paying attention what your game is - I am just letting you know I will not be playing it - at least not in the way you would like me to.
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LMFAO is this what you think happened with meb?
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Oh please nobody took that serious and the fucking guy was so “concerned” that he decided to run with this as his avatar for a day or two…
A simple comma could clarify things here.
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There’s been some discussion of mod’s editing jmakin’s posts. I don’t know the specifics here, even though it’s possible that I did something like that and just forgot about it. But that’s not my typical approach to moderation.
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It’s potato’s for anyone who isn’t a “captain”
What about posting the name and definition/description of a mental illness as a response to a post by somebody you had suggested should “get help”? Do you agree that that is attacking someone’s mental health? How would you feel/react if somebody did that to you during the course of the arguments over the past couple of days?
@jmakin should have eaten 24 hours for that for sure, maybe more, it was way out of line - and the same went for whoever it was months back taking shots at jmakin’s mental health. But that was allowed to fly, too, and I see references from time to time that are allowed to fly. Anyone and everyone doing that should eat temp bans until they knock it off.
At a very basic minimum, we should all agree that things that are targeted at negatively impacting people’s mental health in real life should not be allowed on here, and questioning people’s mental health in a negative way can definitely do that.
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