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Few things are funnier than watching them eat each other.

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There are a lot of words in the Internet/SocJus lexicon that have double meanings or are regularly used as weasel words. These words are also often used as cultural shibboleths by certain groups in the culture war. When someone on another group sees them, they interpret them as codespeak for something else. Confirmation bias kicks in, and suddenly it is very easy to read hidden agendas and intentions in other people’s statements. The first party then switches back to the motte definition of their words—the perfectly reasonable and unobjectionable definition—and gets indignant that someone is trying to put words into their mouth. A massive Internet Argument ensues.

I can safely say this happens a lot on RPGNet.
 
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Wallace said:
Few things are funnier than watching them eat each other.

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There are a lot of words in the Internet/SocJus lexicon that have double meanings or are regularly used as weasel words. These words are also often used as cultural shibboleths by certain groups in the culture war. When someone on another group sees them, they interpret them as codespeak for something else. Confirmation bias kicks in, and suddenly it is very easy to read hidden agendas and intentions in other people’s statements. The first party then switches back to the motte definition of their words—the perfectly reasonable and unobjectionable definition—and gets indignant that someone is trying to put words into their mouth. A massive Internet Argument ensues.

I can safely say this happens a lot on RPGNet.
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Explaining yourself drains your spoons, I guess.
 
Pina Colada said:
They even get triggered over misgendering comic characters.
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Wow, they are so obsessed with gender identity politics that they flip their shit over "misgendering" a fictional character? Wow, just wow.

I mean, if it were a real forum user and they politely asked that you use their preferred pronouns and you didn't, I could understand the mods raising a fuss. But over a person who doesn't even exist? Damn.

Just when I thought RPG.net couldn't get any more cringe-inducing and downright exceptional, I am consistently proven wrong.

Stay classy, RPG.net!
 
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The mods invite a discussion of the board culture and their modding style in the wake of everyone being miserable about the board culture, then proceed to hand out bans when people criticize them or have the temerity to suggest some kind of accountability for the mods, or even some separation between mods as regular posters and mods as mods.
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Pointing out that the mods are also a secret cool kids club on Facebook is also frowned upon.

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Cessna's statement is also a lie, since a former mod got banned a few years ago for discussing the mods secret clubhouse on Facebook.

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