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Author Topic: Oh mY Gawsh - that New warning is now necessary?  (Read 1413 times)

Koltar

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Oh mY Gawsh - that New warning is now necessary?
« on: January 20, 2018, 10:47:32 PM »
Oh My....

I was browsing the forum from work after my shift was done while not actually logged in - saw the New Warning in Orange and thought "Okay, this is what it looks like when I'm not logged in".

Then I get home - and its now a permanent feature?
All because of a guy acting like a jerk?

Wow.
Its kind of sad - having to add that warning.

 If I don't have appropriate shit to add to a topic - then I don't post. Also, arent people getting damn tired of politics by now?
Gaming and gaming forums should be a way to relax or chill out after too much political crap......a way to take a break from the day or week.

- Ed C.

If this thread gets closed or locked - it won't bother me. I would completely undersatand the reasoning....
« Last Edit: January 20, 2018, 11:50:26 PM by Koltar »
The return of 'You can't take the Sky From me!'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUn-eN8mkDw&feature=rec-fresh+div

This is what a really cool FANTASY RPG should be like :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-WnjVUBDbs

Still here, still alive, at least Seven years now...

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Oh mY Gawsh - that New warning is now necessary?
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2018, 11:16:12 PM »
I couldn't agree more.

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Oh mY Gawsh - that New warning is now necessary?
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2018, 05:17:07 PM »
Koltar doesn't have the context to understand why there's now this horseshit warning.

TrippyHippy was posting in a political thread in a very political forum (Pundency). He wasn't posting in the RPG forum, in fact I can remember him ever dragging politics into an RPG thread.

The image he posted was not NSFW as it was on the front page of every newspaper in the Western world, my office still gets newspapers delivered to the office everyday and lots of people have legit news sites accessible on their work computers. So that is obviously a bullshit excuse. Pundit outright admitted he limited and then banned TH for being a 'fucking liar' aka. disagreeing with Pundit's extremist rhetoric.

Pundit himself rightly posted videos of right wingers being violently beaten down in the street by Antifa with no warnings or reprecussions. The idea that the image TH posted 'crossed a line' in a subforum filled with extreme aggro and hateful rhetoric is manifestly absurd. Some animals are more equal than others.

TH was banned for not putting up with Pundit's bullying and having the wrong political opinion. Loads of trolls in Pundency get away with just as much as TH but they have the appropriate right-of-centre politics. It is the same selective outrage and Admin punishment you see on TBP.

The idea you can have a mini-Breibartian forum on an RPG forum and not have that spill over into the rest of a forum dedicated to playing pretend games is delusional. It failed at TBP and it has failed here.

Brettmb's avatar quote is hilariously ironic as Pundency becomes a magnet for all kinds of far right loons that bans or dogpiles anyone to the left of Mussolini.
« Last Edit: January 21, 2018, 05:26:55 PM by Voros »

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Oh mY Gawsh - that New warning is now necessary?
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2018, 05:55:47 PM »
Koltar, now you see why.