NerdShamer
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RPGnet Forums
- Thread starter Randall Fragg
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Fuck me sideways.
The ban reason is literally because, in the middle of the on topic update, the poster noted the football was starting up soon as an idle aside to lighten the tone. That is the entire reason for a fucking 7 day ban with a thinly veiled threat they deserve more.
So by the same logic if they had interjected into the middle of the same post something about a historical event, a meteorological event, some political thing, anything at all then they should be as subject to a ban.
Awesome. I expect to see that rolling out sitewide soon. It will be hilarious.
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There are Holocaust memorials that allow for more fun than RPG.net's srs bsns threads.
NerdShamer
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Wallace
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RPGNet is what happens when the nerdy victims of bullying become the bullies themselves, while simultaneously maintaining themselves as the virtuous victims.
NerdShamer
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LOL people getting modhammered for 'othering' by a mod team that relies on 'othering' others 24/7.
These fuckers once again are all for diversity and inclusion, but only for the 'correct' people and viewpoints.
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Because, of course, the only "new information" that could come to light is them being vindicated. There's no way the new information could be "Hey, turns out this was a justified shooting afterall, guys!"
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Another reason why I don't visit RPG forums anymore. They're all complete shit shows.
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I especially like the line "...the boundaries of acceptable discourse are necessarily narrow."
Who defines 'acceptable discourse'? Oh right, the mods.
And who determines that it's 'necessary' to have 'narrow' boundaries? Oh right, the mods again.
It sounds really reasonable until you realize it's just new-speak for 'no free speech allowed here unless we approve it'.
Who defines 'acceptable discourse'? Oh right, the mods.
And who determines that it's 'necessary' to have 'narrow' boundaries? Oh right, the mods again.
It sounds really reasonable until you realize it's just new-speak for 'no free speech allowed here unless we approve it'.
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Gods help me, but I'll defend them this far:
It's a private forum. There's no expectation of free speech. You're in Shannon's house. The mods have never made a secret of that, not now, not 10 years ago, not longer.
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All this does is illustrate the yawning divide between 'legally compliant' and 'ethically sound'.
Don't get me wrong.
I absolutely agree that if the owner of RPGnet is happy with a mod team that drives away even the well-intentioned, then more power to that person.
The problem we run into is the same as 'too big to fail'- when a site that is the go-to for a niche hobby like RPG's gets taken over by lunatics, what is there to do?
Start your own? And who will pay for hosting?
Who will support the forum when the communazis from RPGnet engage in a slur campaign to prevent advertisers from sponsoring?
Ethics posit that any viewpoint is fit fodder for the marketplace of ideas.
RPGnet hiding behind flowery phrasing for 'don't wanna and fuck you for asking' is legally defensible but morally abhorrent.
NerdShamer
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As the saying goes, play stupid games...It’s probably already covered but it’s nice of the Retarded Professional Gaylords mod team to allow open discussion of police-involved fatalities…
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You do bring up a good point. At what point do we start realizing that snakes bite by nature and that the dummy who keeps walking around in front of them, barefoot, gets what they deserve. Granted ENWorld isn't much better, but it's still an alternative. I can't see why anyone in their right mind would want to share their thoughts on RPGNET anymore.
FreedomMussel
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You know, the owner of the copyright to The Everlasting games was a police officer killed in the line of duty. I liked some of the ideas in those games and I’m disappointed to see the game fall into legal limbo (the magician’s companion book still isn’t available on drivethrurpg and now it never will be).
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Ironically I could hit both agree and disagree on this statement, depending on pedantic definitions.
Imagine a police officer acting like an rpg mod.
"Oh you want your lawyer? Talking back - that's a lifetime ban from the USA."
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That's probably how a lot of RPG.net mods think interactions with the police always are like, if your skin is on the "not OK" side of the color chart.
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You're actually 100% correct. The thing is when they are called out on that, that there are acceptable viewpoints only and that anything contrary to those will be greeted with bans and lectures, they will deny it.
They will claim that discourse is open and they're happy to deal with facts but when those facts don't suit their expectations, come from sources they will declare unacceptable while being willing to accept the word of "onetruecommunist87" on Twitter as akin to testament written in the heavens when it supports their own biases, in any way challenge their own frankly privileged views of how reality functions then the mods descend screaming from the like a child that has been told Father Christmas does not exist and hurl their tantrums around while also claiming to be a rational beings with the moral high ground.
And god bless them because they are grown adults I feel completely fine laughing at them whereas I would feel guilty doing so to the child.
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You have a point in that I've never been a member of the site and if I joined it right now in its current form and got the inevitable banhammer on my second or third post for saying something sane and normal, I'd rightly be laughed at because what the fuck did you expect, idiot?
I have a certain amount of empathy though for people who joined this shit over a decade ago and it was taken over by lunatics and now they're having to tiptoe around on eggshells to coddle spastic retards. It's a little different when the forum you're on is something you actually spent years building, and these jerkoffs basically hijacked it, stole it, and are now walking around like little tinpot hitlers fucking with everyone.
I just find them so utterly insufferable they piss me off even though, strictly speaking, they have absolutely no power over me personally. They just personify literally everything I hate about communities I used to like that have been wrecked by these absolutely worthless parasites.