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Author Topic: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again  (Read 118859 times)

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #855 on: May 13, 2021, 06:24:15 PM »
Someone really needs to make a bot. 

It reads a post, any post and then finds a bullshit rpgnet justification for banning.
 
Doesn't really need sophisticated AI as arbritrariness would just add to the authenticity.

Then they can let it loose on RPGNET and get rid of all the human mods.  Just have it randomly mod one in every 200 posts and then see if the userbase ever actually notice.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #857 on: May 13, 2021, 06:46:23 PM »
New rule: Police are presumed guilty and not worthy of any defense in any police killing.

Wow. Just ... wow.

I am almost tempted to go over there, post a thread in Tangency announcing my approval for this rule, and then start campaigning in the spirit of that new rule for disclosure of the name of the Capitol officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt on January 6, just to see what would happen. But in the end, I find this a resistible impulse less out of distaste for the necessary a-holishness, and more out of the despairing conviction it would simply not accomplish anything worth the effort or the subsequent ban.

(I take an odd and probably not very practical pride in the idea of my exile from there being by my choice rather than theirs, if that makes any sense.)
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #858 on: May 13, 2021, 06:51:49 PM »
Moderators on forums are essentially forum-police, are they not?

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #859 on: May 13, 2021, 07:00:18 PM »
I wonder if any neo-pagans are going to take the mod to task for calling one of their deities fictional.

Are there active Zeus-worshippers among modern neo-pagans?  Back when I had any contact with the community they almost always engaged solely in pseudo-Celtic goddess worship, by way of Graves and Alexandrian Wicca.
There is a small number.

https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/modern-pagans-worship-illegally-in-athens-20070122-gdparv.html

You can Google some other articles for more examples.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #860 on: May 13, 2021, 07:22:52 PM »
New rule: Police are presumed guilty and not worthy of any defense in any police killing.

Wow. Just ... wow.

I am almost tempted to go over there, post a thread in Tangency announcing my approval for this rule, and then start campaigning in the spirit of that new rule for disclosure of the name of the Capitol officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt on January 6, just to see what would happen. But in the end, I find this a resistible impulse less out of distaste for the necessary a-holishness, and more out of the despairing conviction it would simply not accomplish anything worth the effort or the subsequent ban.

(I take an odd and probably not very practical pride in the idea of my exile from there being by my choice rather than theirs, if that makes any sense.)
It would be way to easy for the mods to shut down a conversation about the shooting of Ashli Babbitt under their no support/defense for the Trump administration policy. If you want to test this new policy you need an example like this:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2021/02/20/man-shot-killed-by-police-in-lawrence-county/amp/

The man shot is a minority. The person being beaten was transgender. Unfortunately, even lethal force by the police wasn’t enough to save the victim. Probably present the article to the forum as an example of the futility of lethal force, and how using lethal force the police prevented Juan Carter Hernandez from having a chance at rehabilitation, etc. See how the SJWs dance around that one.



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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #861 on: May 13, 2021, 07:32:35 PM »
New rule: Police are presumed guilty and not worthy of any defense in any police killing.
Well at least they admit that they've basically made any actual discussion of the topic worthless.

(You are allowed to post so long as you say this and this only).

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #862 on: May 13, 2021, 07:40:12 PM »
New rule: Police are presumed guilty and not worthy of any defense in any police killing.
Well at least they admit that they've basically made any actual discussion of the topic worthless.

(You are allowed to post so long as you say this and this only).
Worthless from the point of view of having a rationale discussion about use of force? Certainly. However, from the mods point of view the posts they’ll allow will serve a useful purpose. They’ll serve as opportunities for Two Minutes of Hate, and they’ll serve to reinforce doctrinal thought among the members.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #863 on: May 13, 2021, 08:26:25 PM »
(I take an odd and probably not very practical pride in the idea of my exile from there being by my choice rather than theirs, if that makes any sense.)

I do too. Walking away instead of being banned shows it can be done, and you can have some amount of control over how it goes down.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #864 on: May 13, 2021, 08:40:13 PM »
Even after more than a decade, I still feel a mixture of amusement and pride at having been banned from RPG.net for... talking about rpgs. That really should have told everyone the way the site was going, but only Pundit was really paying attention.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #866 on: May 14, 2021, 03:29:18 AM »
The Stanford prison experiment, the forum edition.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #867 on: May 14, 2021, 05:13:14 AM »
Has anyone ever taken up a kickstarted or GFM to launch and advertise a website aimed at competing with TBP specifically on the grounds mentioned here? I mean do enough ads to get it noticed and clearly say it is meant to be very different from that site? I would not want it to be just like here as this site has issues to, but definitely not as ridiculously woke and hypersensitive as  woke.net.

BGG exlipsed about everything game related years ago. The only reason it doesnt have more RPG and video Game traction is because they treat those sections like dirt half the time and staff people who have no clue what an RPG or video game even is the other half the time.

Pretty much anything can compete with RPG.net because they have turned away so many.

Prior to all this it was rediculously easy to make, and lose, a forum on Yahoo Groups. But last year they totally gutted the system so severely its actually LESS functional than the original E-Groups Yahoo bought up 20+ years ago. But Y-groups had lost most of their userbase long ago as they regularly did mass covert group purges and account bans out of the blue. They were BGG before BGG. This on top of Ya-Hell being overrun with literally thousands of harvester bots collecting emails for spam mail companies.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #868 on: May 14, 2021, 05:14:59 AM »
The thing that annoys me is that it was once a place where I enjoyed discussing games.  And those jackasses wrecked it.

I think alot of people feel that way and have moved on to other fora.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #869 on: May 14, 2021, 05:24:36 AM »
I've been (thinking about) getting back into tabletop miniatures wargames, and have joined a couple of wargames forums (non-GW/Warhammer, independent sites).

And there is just no politics. At all. (I'm almost reluctant to post this in case I jinx it.)

We see it more and more over on BGG with each passing month and it has creeped into wargames and most assurely they have had their claws in board games a good while now. Theres been 'discussions' about how playing nazis in a board game "normalizes" racism, and then thers the emdless complaints of "sexism" and every other ism at some point.

"You cant have Washington in a historical game because he was racist!"
"A game about exploring and colonizing Africa - promotes genocide!!!"
"Dwarves liking beer is racist!"
and so on ad insanium.