Resetera, the only forum where the jannies have a hundred words written about them being butthurt
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Resetera jannies, each and every day. The thinnest skin jannies you can find on the internet.
The jannies being butthurt in a topic about suicide is the peak of exceptional.
“Never required to passively receive” is a nice turn of phrase for “licensed to retaliate against at will,” and “abuse and invective” is 100% subjective for the receiver. It allows mods to ban anyone at any time for anything.
This is not in itself a bad thing. Forums are private entities and membership is at the will of both parties. If the Kiwi Farms staff was only allowed to moderate based on fair, limited, objective written rules, the Kiwi Farms would suck ass and would be overrun by autists lawyering their way around every rule. Instead, if someone on the Kiwi Farms consistently causes problems (and is consistently undeterred by community mockery), they get banned and called a faggot. People who find this unfair are encouraged to go elsewhere.
Big forums like ResetERA have a problem with crazy people living on them like they’re a home. Anybody who talks about needing a “safe space” on the internet is probably a wayward cancer cell looking to colonize and grow into a new tumor. These people
will study every written rule, they
will lawyer the fuck out of every rule, and they
will terrorize the staff over any perceived injustice or unfairness if the rules are enforced against them or their peers. And because their forum is their safe space, telling them to try doing something else is construed as oppression, erasure, downplaying, whatever else they come up with.
The solution that big internet communities have come up with, by my observation, is to have rules that are written in extremely broad, vague terms and enforced selectively. ResetERA needs rules to point to when they ban someone so the ban isn’t facially arbitrary, but if every rule they have was enforced equally against every violator, ResetERA would have no users left. “We may or may not ban you for violating any of a laundry list of vaguely written, subjectively and inconsistently interpreted rules” is functionally equivalent to “We may ban you at any time for any or no reason,” but the latter is far more straightforward and honest.