At the heart of it the difference between what you call process and what happened is trivial and would have created an unending cycle of argument. Anachro was obviously free to defend himself. If anyone at all felt that this poll (these polls - which spanned weeks) were too hidden they were always free to publicize them and lobby people to one side or another. And, unlike Lapka or you, anachro was not unpopular just among some groups of posters, cool or not. It wasn’t clique-ish. He was a troll and it was part of his mission to be disliked.
IDK about @ anachronism. Good riddance as far as I’m concerned. I’m not hard blocking… only because it would be laughable to call this lynching as precedent.
Voting people off the island by running straw polls buried in random bad poster threads is still not process. It’s not community modding… in fact it’s the opposite, It’s a lynching.
If we can’t even be bothered to have any process at all when we’re handing out what to us is the “death sentence”… it’s time to just say goodbye to even aspiring to associate as a community here.
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So is your poll to ban zara serious or a troll? I don’t see how it can be serious if this is your position.
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How the fuck does a supposed progressive us the term lynching so incorrectly right now, of all times. Jesus.
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It’s as serious as his AOC avatar.
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Pot/kettle?
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It’s neither. I didn’t expect her to actually end up being banned (although she is the most abusive poster in UnStuck history AINEC). I never troll like that, so I don’t even know why you are asking,
I’m making a point.
This is a random bad poster thread. There is nothing ‘official’ about it. It’s absurd that anyone can be put in jeopardy of being “killed” by anyone else, at any time, in any random bad poster thread. Just like I did ITT.
It’s absurd to imagine that we have an actionable precedent that (a) anyone can bury a straw poll in any random bad poster thread, (b) get 50%+1 by whoever happens to be posting ITT in some random time span, and (c ) talk some mod (or admin?) into carrying out the lynching?
Would that even fly in a fantasy sports league?
Really?
Not very well.
You could help, cousin.
I have changed my votes to no for both anachronistic and triceratops. I am fine with banning both. They certainly deserve it. We should have a process in place though and not just an unexpected poll in post 953 in a low traffic thread.
Let’s have a dedicated thread for each banning. Link the thread prominently across the forum and then have a simple majority vote to ban. We don’t need endless discussions on the merits of each ban. Those will likely have taken place long before a thread and poll have been started.
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There was discussion upthread about whether there should be a new thread each time and @zikzak was very much opposed and no one else seemed to care. So for now polls in this thread are what the community wants.
I think calling the poll “buried” is a bit dramatic. This is the thread for these discussions. I assume anyone who cares is following along. The poll got 57 responses, so people are reading. The poll was linked in one other high volume thread and anachronistic was @'ed so he had the chance to link it in other threads or speak up for himself.
Seems fine.
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Really thoughtful comparison to make right now.
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A lot of trolls are a fan of the “I’m not touching you” game but for posting. I personally think it’s a mistake to let them keep doing it.
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Good point.
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Well, I do think Sabo’s politics are closer to AOC’s than yours are. On the other hand he may be trolling with it while you’re in earnest.
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Every single poster on the forum, including anachro, was free to make that thread and had they done it, it would almost certainly have become the decisive thread on these bans.
Conflating Raids with @zarapochka is disingenuous on the level of RWNJ arguments. @Triceratops is a moron, but he’s contained to one thread (that I and others have muted) and he’s not spamming other threads with low effort posts to cause derails ala raids.
I started the initial poll weeks ago for Raids. The majority voted to ban him. He wasn’t banned. Much discussion was had. Another poll was made. He was subsequently banned.
If only Emmet Till was treated as unjustly.
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Haha I highly doubt it. You’re just misguided about what either mine or AOC’s views are.