Yikes. Tough room!
OK I can tell you guys don't care for my comedy so I'm going to REAL POST for a change.
Listen, I understand the complaints about the way the forum is run. And yeah, sometimes I think the mods are a little to quick to shut down discussion of topics they find distasteful. It used to drive me crazy when they would shut down the doobie thread because they thought it was crazy. It bugs me when words like faggot or tranny are probatable. It also drives me crazy when I see readership of Gbs going down down down like a sinking ship because I love participating in threads and attempting to make good content but when there are so few people around, it makes that tough. I know there's plenty of reasons good posters are leaving but I know a factor for a lot of them is the mods shutting down discussion.
But eh, whatever. Things come and go.
Here's another thing, maybe a glimpse into the mind of a sa mod. Back when I had the star, I don't think I ever banned anybody and I did probations rarely. My thinking was I would just try to encourage what the kinds of threads I liked to read. I would do this by sticking what I thought was good and gassing threads that I saw were bad. I tried to limit my gassing to low effort or spammy type threads. My idea was that this would slowly morph Gbs towards the better.
Sounds good, and I'd say all the mods have a simular view point. But here's how it goes bad: I started viewing the forum like my own private rock garden or something, where I had to constantly tend to it to prune away the bad and water the good. I gassed lots of threads, tons of threads, desperately wanting to keep my hands on the wheel of comedy.
After a while, I rarely even looked at the mod queue to handle reports because I was so preoccupied with vetting and gassing threads. The one thing I was supposed to do as a mod I wasn't doing and instead I started multiple cold wars with posters who I viewed as "bad" because they were, in my view point, spamming the forum with tons of threads. I'd Gass em on sight and they'd come back just as quick with three more.
Eventually they demodded me, and I agree with their decision to do so.
This is the first time I've aired any of this out and my intent is not to try and get attention or anything, but just give a case study on how a mod (in my case a bad mod) might progress, and to hopefully lead you guys into, I dunno, cutting them some slack.
At the end of the day it's just a stupid website for making dumb jokes. It's not worth getting riled up about.
So in conclusion, I like your website here, it's funny. I like making fun of people and weirdos and I like the cool forum software. It's funny busting goons and mods chops about stuff. I understand the reason behind "doxxing" is to see the over reaction it takes. But think about how some of these people youre posting information on and humiliating are already half or fully nuts as is, is it really all that funny if it drives them to take their own life or someone else's? This stuff has real world consequences and if is just being done in the name of laughs it's honestly pretty sad.
OK real posting done.. Thank you for your time
First of all, thank you for taking the time to actually write all of this out and give some insight on how things played out for you personally. I knew that you'd been demodded, but I never really had the 'full picture' of things, and I don't mean this with any manner of offense, but by the time you were demodded, going by what you explained above, you deserved what you got.
That was one of the things that really caught my interest about the Farms a number of years ago when I was just lurking and keeping up with the CWC content and really little more than that. People are free to post whatever they want, however they want, as long as they follow a small ruleset thats not the least bit unreasonable. Sure, shitposts will get locked and sent to spergatory, but that happens when you're not shitting in the designated shitting streets.
On SA, each board was it's own unique monster, and what ultimately drove me away was how tired I was of watching every little thing I said as that inherent fear of 'oh boy, yet another probe because I said something that went against the 'consensus' that the mods and users of that area felt was appropriate.' I'm sorry, but if I want to talk about my work day and recant the story of how someone I was forced to work with was a fucking retarded faggot, I'm going to, and in those exact words because it's just the mannerisms of how I explain things and provide accurate context to the story. Now, in no way am I slighting the mentally handicapped, or gays for that matter, but there was a point when it just didn't MATTER anymore.
What you did with your gassing was bad, sure, but it wasn't you PUSHING your personal political/worldview/whatever on the userbase and punishing them because they hurt your feefee's because they used a word that triggers you because you're a petulant manchild who believes he's a beautiful latinx princess. Dick move from you? Absolutely. But it wasn't turning a board into an echo chamber where you either cater to the 'group think' or you get BTFO because you're in THEIR safe space and triggering them.
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As a separate aside, and in regards to your concerns of what we've done to the troon userbase and some of the moderation team/admins, it's going to be a different answer from each and every Kiwi that took part in it, so I won't even presume to speak for everybody. But in my personal opinion, the vast majority of those troons that were doxxed already had so much of their life out there, that it's REALLY not going to matter one way or another. Transtrenders will always be transtrenders because the oppression points and asspats that come from that 'hardship' is all that they care about at the end of the day. I don't think a single REAL transgender was even brought up or doxxed in this situation, because lets face it, its their thing and thats the end of it. If they want to just do them and move on with their life quietly, I personally have no issue with that at all. But when you're screaming into the echo chamber "I AM TRANZ. PAY ATTENTION TO ME YOU DEGENERATE CISHETS" at every waking moment, you've got some real fucking issues going on there, and the fact that someone took your publicly available information and put it all in one place, isn't going to do much. All it will do is garner further reaction as they scream of MYSOGGYKNEE, OPPRESSION and TRANSPHOBIA because they'll never truly understand just how insane they really are.
Mods, was mostly just to prove a point and bring light to just how batshit insane SOME of them are(Genesplicer might not be liked by a number of people, but he's not crazy. He just makes really terrible dad jokes(which is expected, being a middle school teacher)). Take for example all the ones in question that are SJW's to the extreme, and just how tight-knit of a 'community' they've formed by essentially driving Lowtax out of his very home because in todays day and age, those who scream the loudest are the ones that get the attention. Welcome to the wonderful world we live in, where the vocal minority, even when completely wrong, can find an echo chamber to virtue signal in and 'people' will resound it unendingly because its the only thing they know. Most normal people couldn't give two shits about some tranny bellowing on the internets that someone misgendered them because they look like a swamp ogre, but those types of people are smart enough to not cater to the lowest denominator and have better things to do with their time instead of using social media.
