There's also the many unwritten rules like the various posters that are given free rein or given it in certain threads by the mods, verboten topics not being verboten for some posters but not others and so on. Insert Animal Farm reference here.
4 brain cells good, 2 brain cells better?
B-Dubs the God-Admin of ResetERA said:
If 8 is apparently bad enough that you considered contacting the FBI, then I'm pretty sure that's not something you can easily forget.
Translation: We don't want to be called out for selective enforcement and double standards by
Earlier, a moderator condescendingly chimes in and straight-up says at one point that they have to walk egg-shells around their userbase. Using quotes because I don't have access to the thread.
I don't really understand where the expectation comes from.
Since day one we have not acknowledged every report.
I would have assumed that by now everyone would have caught on to the general process.
Members report posts
I'd say usually within a day or two said report gets acted upon. Sure, that can sometimes take longer depending on the backlog, but rarely more than a week.
If the report results in a warning/ban, the reporter is typically notified that the member in question has been warned/banned.
If the report is rejected, we generally do not explain ourselves, only in very rare instances would we go back to the reporter and explain why said post was not acted upon.
It is relatively safe to assume if you hear nothing back, we discarded your report for whatever reason.
In an ideal world, maybe it would be nice if we sent a rejection alert every time too, however as of now that really isn't feasible. We'd have to step on egg-shells with every acknowledgement pointing out the minutiae, as to why a certain post doesn't need moderation in our humble opinion. Not to mention, that we take ban/posting history into account and articulating all that in a concise acknowledgement seems implausible. And we all know that every word would be taken apart and dissected which would just lead to pedantic back and forth.
As for the rules not being updated. Rest assured, that work is ongoing.
If only it was as easy as just adding "hogwarts and c*nt are now banned, peace out!"
To be perfectly honest, personally I don't see the big deal myself. E.g. the c*nt thing was announced here, and within 15 min everyone in footy era, Aussi Era, UK Era, etc. was aware of it and ready to get out their pitchforks and complain about their civil rights been trampled... I know when I was just a humble member, I never read the rules and would have never known about any changes to them either... It really shouldn't be too hard not to get banned. Does this mean that some people might get caught off guard and unexpectedly banned? Sure, and if they submit a sincere report their chances are good that we will be lenient and rescind the ban. If they come in hot and throw a tantrum, then, maybe they get to enjoy their full length vacation off the site... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But again, regardless, the rules are being updated by some brave souls on staff as we speak so to say. Yours truly not being one of them.
Ironically, despite believing in a religious conception of an unrealistic version of man the communists were often much better judges of humanity than Era's members. Lenin, Stalin and Mao (at minimum) all recognized toadies and brownnosers (like RedMercury and Messofanego) for exactly what they were and what value they had (essentially none except when they needed a mob whipped up) while giving endless second chances and exceptions to people they could tell had real value and were willing to dissent for the good of the regimes goals. (Well, most of the time.) Deng Xiaopeng was "cancelled" more than almost anybody else in Maoist China but Mao kept bringing him back to clean up and fix shit, then by just a few years after Mao's death he had supreme power and started tearing down communism. They were also all pretty good judges of who was jockeying for power below them and which fervent members (TrasnEra, Nepenthe, etc.) needed to be isolated so that if/when they died they couldn't obtain power. Mao was so committed to a very Trumpian type form of management that he deliberately ostracized his own crazy wife within the Politburo and made clear to everyone else she was not to obtain power ever because it was obvious she was going to try to when he died and she was too nuts to ever compromise. Mao and Stalin were both personally terrible at compromise, being the figurehead of cults tends to do that, but they were both smart enough to recognize that sometimes even in the totalitarian utopia you might need to make some compromises rather than adhere blindly to the perfect scientific ideology that is whatever you think at any moment.
Just say "Rapist no raping!" about 6 times. Works in Dora the Explorer.
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Remember when people used to say "The left can't meme"? It certainly applies to ResetEra. They want to insult people, but can't use any offensive language so a bunch of posts are just variations of "touch grass".
Resetera's trademark insult is "pound sand".
