Quote from: Ratman_tf on May 15, 2021, 02:20:11 PM

Quote from: Dropbear on May 15, 2021, 10:39:52 AM
I find it somewhat amusing with all of their social justice posturing that the admins and mods have posted a lament that one of the writers for Warhammer has passed away.

Now that is a game they should be banning discussion of and decrying every step of their miserable way, it's honestly one of the rpgs that is the least PC and most easy to find "objectionable" material within. Aside from a few others I won't go over.

Both 40k and Fantasy tend towards racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, and gory body horror themes in their writing, regardless of where an individual GM's campaign might tend to turn.

How it doesn't check off every single thing on their outrage lists I don't really understand.

Maybe that's part of the reason I love it.

And it still amazes me that Chris Parmas and his Green Ronin crew wrote 2E. And that it's actually one of my favorite versions.

You can still like problematic things as long as you flagellate yourself afterwards.

Disagree, sorry. We've seen them ban people on TBP for just discussing problematic things, let alone enjoying them.

Quote from: Ghostmaker on May 16, 2021, 08:48:28 AM
Disagree, sorry. We've seen them ban people on TBP for just discussing problematic things, let alone enjoying them.

  The Children of Light are free to enjoy anything problematic. The Sons of Darkness are condemned by their very enjoyment of such things.

I wonder if the mods have internalized that they are the forum police and therefore by their own rules any support for their own banning action is essentially against the rules.

Trouble Ticket notice: Spoiler in Ban Announcement is beyond parody. I had me a chortle.

Quote from: This Guy on May 16, 2021, 01:01:09 PM
Trouble Ticket notice: Spoiler in Ban Announcement is beyond parody. I had me a chortle.

Could you link to this please?

As to the mods, they are just living proof that absolute power corrupts absolutely.

They're also proof that a so called leftist extremist system becomes indistinguishable from an extremist right wing system, both become totally authoritarian oppressive.

here you go my fine fellow: https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/spoiler-in-ban-notice.880162/

It's from last month so not super recent but still makes me laugh

Quote from: This Guy on May 16, 2021, 06:05:55 PM
here you go my fine fellow: https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/spoiler-in-ban-notice.880162/

It's from last month so not super recent but still makes me laugh

Wow, being called "m fine fellow" made me laugh out loud, thanks, i needed that. Also thanks for the link.

maybe people should log into rpg.net and claim to be liberal snowflakes who are offended by the group attack on police and that they have police relatives or even family who were killed on the job as police, claim it offends and triggers their feelings when rpg.net makes a group attack on police and says they can't be defended.

Doesn't work. If you were a real special snowflake of the left you'd have disowned your family for the incorrect decision to be a police officer.

My sister in law is a police officer. She deals with domestic violence.  I'm pretty proud of her.  Interestingly much of her job entails enforcing laws pushed through by our current president while he was in the Senate.  I'm not sure how they reconcile the fact someone actually has to do the policing job in order for a law to be meaningful.

I saw a while back they banned  a guy's wife for not condemning/ disavowing  him when he was accused of something offensive. I can't recall the details but i remember thinking that was straight out of maoist china and stalinist russia.

I have heard that at one time the moddisars actually asked the users what changes they're like to see in rpg.net and after getting the answers purged anyone who said they didn;t like the moderation policies or certain mods. I think someone compared it to a move the stassi pulled in poland. Anyone got details on that?

Quote from: The Thing on May 17, 2021, 12:22:01 AM
I saw a while back they banned  a guy's wife for not condemning/ disavowing  him when he was accused of something offensive. I can't recall the details but i remember thinking that was straight out of maoist china and stalinist russia.

I have heard that at one time the moddisars actually asked the users what changes they're like to see in rpg.net and after getting the answers purged anyone who said they didn;t like the moderation policies or certain mods. I think someone compared it to a move the stassi pulled in poland. Anyone got details on that?

That's classic Mao from the Hundred Flowers campaign.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign#:~:text=The%20Hundred%20Flowers%20Campaign%2C%20also,express%20openly%20their%20opinions%20of

Well.

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/the-red-baron-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-seven-day-ban-gross-insensitivity.881536/

   If just conceding that Roe v. Wade might be bad constitutional law gets you a seven day ban, should I assume that opposition to abortion would result in a permaban and probably an attempt to banish folks like myself from the entire hobby?

Quote from: Armchair Gamer on May 18, 2021, 08:23:28 AM
Well.

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/the-red-baron-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-seven-day-ban-gross-insensitivity.881536/

   If just conceding that Roe v. Wade might be bad constitutional law gets you a seven day ban, should I assume that opposition to abortion would result in a permaban and probably an attempt to banish folks like myself from the entire hobby?

Yup.

'Gross insensitivity' for a guy who clearly supports their views but is pointing out 'hey, this is kinda built on a shaky foundation, maybe we need to work for something a little stronger?'.

Wow. Just wow.

Quote from: Ghostmaker on May 18, 2021, 08:28:53 AM

Quote from: Armchair Gamer on May 18, 2021, 08:23:28 AM
Well.

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/the-red-baron-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-seven-day-ban-gross-insensitivity.881536/

   If just conceding that Roe v. Wade might be bad constitutional law gets you a seven day ban, should I assume that opposition to abortion would result in a permaban and probably an attempt to banish folks like myself from the entire hobby?

Yup.

'Gross insensitivity' for a guy who clearly supports their views but is pointing out 'hey, this is kinda built on a shaky foundation, maybe we need to work for something a little stronger?'.

Wow. Just wow.

Yeah, even Ruth Bader Ginsburg would catch a ban at TBP, since she felt Roe vs Wade was way too sweeping in removing practically all restrictions to abortion.

I would expect TBP to soon announce a policy banning anyone holding forth any kind of pro-life position, or making any kind of critique of abortion and it's legality. If Roe vs Wade gets overturned or curtailed to any meaningful degree I imagine they will extend that policy to ban anyone they find holding pro-life values off-site the same as they do with others they find violating their site values, or being an employee of ICE.

I completely buy the "this is an unpaid gig we do on our free time"-thing. I do unpaid work for an organization on my free time, and sometimes it gets tiring. But, here's the thing: if you're really that tired of it, and see it just as a slog ... quit. It's unpaid. No one is forcing you to do this. It isn't the end of the world, or even of the thing. Just walk away. But they can't do that because then they wouldn't be part of the in-group anymore, and what's worse if they all quit en masse and got new mod, then those mods might do things differently. That would be unacceptable. That's why they only make people moderators one at a time and then induct them into the proper way of doing things.

This especially applies to Cessna. He should have quit being a mod permanently ten years ago, at the latest. Especially since so much of the current mod culture obviously comes from him. Look at how he behaves in threads were he's just acting as a regular poster. He is incredibly thin-skinned and will brook no disagreement. He has the truth and the correct information, anyone disagreeing is wrong and stupid and should know better than to question his knowledge. He was the dominant mod and set the general tone for a long time and this part of his personality has clearly become the core of the way the mods act there. He isn't the source of the ideology of parodical wokeness that's come to dominate the site, but he is definitely the source of the mod teams smug self-righteousness and unspoken demands to be treated as superior beings.

Does Cessna still cosplay as a Wehrmacht trooper (or was it a Russian or both)? If that hobby came up today, would he be punished for playing a Hitler/Stalin trooper?