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- Thread starter Randall Fragg
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Once again, my autistic dreams rear their head like Great Cthulhu rising from the depths of R'lyeh. Of somehow buying out the server rpg.net is hosted on, and having an unbannable account that the autocrats can't shut up.
I know, I know, I'm being a tard. But God DAMN these smarmy, self-righteous fuckwits need a good smack in the groin with a karma mallet.
I know, I know, I'm being a tard. But God DAMN these smarmy, self-righteous fuckwits need a good smack in the groin with a karma mallet.
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RPGNet's founder committed a rookie mistake when he threw together his mod team: Don't give mod powers to whomever signs up first.
This is why background and credentials checks are important. If you just hand out mod powers willy nilly, all you're doing is giving dangerously unqualified randos power over their peers. Mods are supposed to be impartial and act in accordance with the rules, but the average nobody will shirk that duty sooner or later and make rulings based on emotion.
Next comes the formation of "cliques" within the community. Generally the slackjaws have made a bunch of friends by the time they get modship, and those people are thereby above the law. That means they'll give you an arbitrary punishment if you upset their friends, and if you report them, you'll get a response like "yeah well I don't see anything wrong here, stop trying to use the mods to harass other people, enjoy your ban". Sometimes, the friends will their mod friend as a conduit for their own selfish sense of justice, and they will ban you through the friend.
By disobeying the cardinal rule, RPGNet puts its users at the mercy of children who have memorized the social justice playbook and hand out punishments based on their own feels, instead of employing the impartial moderation you'd find on any actually reputable site. It's very clear that the mod team is a combination of dangerhairs and betas who are more interested in quashing le evil white cishet oppressors than moderating a forum; their rulings are just dripping with raw emotion.
In their minds, when they do a thread ban, they're not banning a user, they're smashing the patriarchy.
This is why background and credentials checks are important. If you just hand out mod powers willy nilly, all you're doing is giving dangerously unqualified randos power over their peers. Mods are supposed to be impartial and act in accordance with the rules, but the average nobody will shirk that duty sooner or later and make rulings based on emotion.
Next comes the formation of "cliques" within the community. Generally the slackjaws have made a bunch of friends by the time they get modship, and those people are thereby above the law. That means they'll give you an arbitrary punishment if you upset their friends, and if you report them, you'll get a response like "yeah well I don't see anything wrong here, stop trying to use the mods to harass other people, enjoy your ban". Sometimes, the friends will their mod friend as a conduit for their own selfish sense of justice, and they will ban you through the friend.
By disobeying the cardinal rule, RPGNet puts its users at the mercy of children who have memorized the social justice playbook and hand out punishments based on their own feels, instead of employing the impartial moderation you'd find on any actually reputable site. It's very clear that the mod team is a combination of dangerhairs and betas who are more interested in quashing le evil white cishet oppressors than moderating a forum; their rulings are just dripping with raw emotion.
In their minds, when they do a thread ban, they're not banning a user, they're smashing the patriarchy.
robobobo
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Wow, that's resetera level banning, there.
Wallace
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It apparently came from an actual (Italian) fascist so someone should definitely post it on RPGNet.
Wallace
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Not sure if he's getting banned for suggesting that Nazis are human beings with rights, or for playing Blue Rose.
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Fallen Empire packs smelled really weird. I think the plastic wrapping was very different from other sets, and they switched to foil shortly after for following sets. That set had some strangely good commons and dogshit rares.
I enjoyed Homelands' theme but anything good was rare; Autumn Willow, Baron Sengir & Eron the Relentless.
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You see, if you take out the one letter, flip the words upside down, rotate these letters, rearrange these letters, and stand on your head, you can see that it says “Rape the chinks”. You’re banned, racist.
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'We generally avoid using forum and topic bans.'
Right up there with 'The check is in the mail', and 'Don't worry baby, I'll pull out in time' for blatant falsehoods.
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What that probably really means is "We generally avoid doing our jobs unless there's an opportunity for some good ally points."
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That's pretty rich of them to ask for a Shakespearean soliloquy from appealing banned users when they never bother with anything more than "I don't like your posts GTFO and fuck you I do what I want".
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And what do you think the chances are of them even reading said soliloquy?
IMO, that's just them adding a little extra dickishness. 'We don't want you here, but MAYBE if you sweat and bleed over the keys, we'll entertain letting you back in. Maybe.' If someone wants to make you jump through that many hoops, walk away. The only reason to put up with that shit is if actual money is involved.
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It's starting to look like the hobby is in desperate need of a new forum, one that will get rid of politics and PC bullshit and get back to talking about the hobby.
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They'll migrate there before you finish fully uploading the forum database. You'll go live and find 6 SJW's are somehow mods, there's twelve threads about how things are problematic, and 20 people will have been banned, all before your DNS even propagates.
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It would be nice. ENWorld is kinda shit these days. I tried TheRPGSite for a while, but they're just kinda... weird and depressing and don't talk about much. If there were more people who used it, maybe.
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It's really amusing how every nerd space gets bullied into submission.
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I'd suggest /tg/, but then again a lot of its users whine about how the board's gone downhill ever since nazi-mod/quests were banned/summer/that anon's pet issue. Then there's GiantITP, where they don't ban you, but they overmoderate everything and censor (or "{scrub}" as they call it) posts just when things start to get interesting. Commentary on real world politics and religion are banned, which is hilarious when the site's owner throws his own views into his webcomic "Order of the Stick" and no one's allowed to debate him in the forums.
And I've glanced at r/rpg, but they seem to love identity politics there. Once saw a guy argue that everything is political, and if you portray feudalism without distinctly saying it's A Bad Thing, then you're condoning it.
I just want an rpg board where games and gaming concepts are open for discussion with little moderation, and with room for fun "elf slave wat do" threads.
Wallace
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When Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Game of Thrones made fantasy and sci-fi trendy, it became necessary to shame the nerds into submission so the cool kids could occupy the space.