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Author Topic: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again  (Read 118818 times)

Abraxus

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #60 on: January 03, 2021, 11:30:33 AM »
You’re not exaggerating.  Most if not all the mods have posted that they suffer from severe mental illnesses.  I came back to the forum after years away from the hobby and was sickened by what it’s devolved into.  It wasn’t like that before.  Basically a gang of mental defectives have high jacked the most prominent forum in the hobby.

Until they actually have the papers to prove it they either need to grow a pair in some cases. Or simply jumping on the "I'm mentally ill so my bad behavior can't be help against me because of it" bandwagon.

Either the mental healthcare system is both that broken and useless with those who work in helping those with the same issues incompetent. Or it's bunch of people who hide behind "mental Health" issues as an excuse to behave poorly both in public and outside of it. As they can't be that many mentally ill people in one place. When every product review requires a trigger warning for every page sorry time to grow up and stop being a grown child hiding in an adult body. They have a review for Paizo Book of the Damned and every page the reviewer had to include trigger warnings. When one reaches that point how the hell do they even leave the house left alone keep a job.

So some are genuinely mentally ill. Some use it as an excuse for bad behavior. We had one guy who was manic depressive happy one day and sad the next. WE cut him much slack at first as he could not keep a job nor afford the meds or treatment while having had a falling about with his family. Fast forward ten years and he was able to borrow money from a friend who let him at first get the treatment need to reduce the symptoms of the disease.  Followed by a job so he could get the meds to keep it under control while also reconnecting with his family. Except the bad behavior did not stop. Anything and everything would set him off. One days as a group we got fed up as we were watching a martial arts movie and he lost his shit because we were pronouncing the word Sensei correctly and he was not. He not only wanted us to pronounce it like he did all us were both wrong and clueless. We looked at each other and enough was enough refused his bullshit demands. He stomped off slamming the door. We decided he was out of our lives. Instead of apologizing tried the "But I'm mentally ill " defence to weasel his way back into our good graces we were having none of that anymore.

To put it another way my tolerance for bad behavior due to mental illness is and remains at an all time low.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #61 on: January 03, 2021, 11:41:23 AM »
As they can't be that many mentally ill people in one place.
If speaking about RPGnet specifically, consider how long they've been curating their membership, particularly their moderators. As they appear to be selecting for such, it's not all that improbable that they've found what they're looking for.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #62 on: January 03, 2021, 03:51:30 PM »
"Must Be At Least This Woke to Moderate"

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« Reply #63 on: January 03, 2021, 04:59:12 PM »
Mental illness is not a joke, it is contagious.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #64 on: January 03, 2021, 05:13:15 PM »
Mental illness is not a joke, it is contagious.

I guess that is why they call it a disease.


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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #65 on: January 03, 2021, 05:18:13 PM »
Mental illness is not a joke, it is contagious.

I guess that is why they call it a disease.

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« Reply #66 on: January 03, 2021, 05:22:53 PM »
Mental illness is not a joke, it is contagious.

I guess that is why they call it a disease.

Is Cancer a disease?

Not if your born June 21st - July 22nd!
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #67 on: January 04, 2021, 12:03:44 AM »
The infractions forum is publically visible and a good laugh.

Wow, that is something else.

Honestly though, the more I look at what has become of them, and the approach many anti-social RPG fans have online in general, the less I am surprised. 

Think about it; how often do you see people on RPG sites tell each other their feelings and opinions are "wrong"?  How often do you see them argue with absolutely no intention of persuasion, but simply to fulfill some internal need or insecurity?

It isn't as big a step to that RPGnet circus as I used to think.

I've always wondered what it was about this extremely social hobby that drew so many extremely anti-social people.  Perhaps it's the idea of being able to exert more control over a shared fantasy than they ever could over their own reality?

I have no idea.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #68 on: January 04, 2021, 08:24:40 AM »
The infractions forum reads as if Orwell wrote 1984 as a high school drama.

How people can live life so easily triggered is beyond my comprehension.

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« Reply #69 on: January 04, 2021, 08:35:21 AM »
The infractions forum reads as if Orwell wrote 1984 as a high school drama.

How people can live life so easily triggered is beyond my comprehension.

When people are expected to be and are socially rewarded for stoicism, you get a lot of stoics.  When they're expected to be and rewarded to be civil, you get mostly civility.  When you are expected to be always purging the wrongthinker...

I'm also a Big Purple veteran from years back, and I was able to have reasonable discussions with many of the most unreasonable moderators.  But that was then, and this is now.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #70 on: January 04, 2021, 03:28:59 PM »
The infractions forum reads as if Orwell wrote 1984 as a high school drama.

That's the most apt comparison I've heard yet. :)
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #71 on: January 04, 2021, 04:08:23 PM »
...In what decade did this happen? Because I got banned over just putting Castro in a list of celebrities that died in 2016.

I see your mention of Castro, and I raise you my banning because I used a pic of Che Guevara as my avatar.


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They're not.  That's why they can't stand any dissent.  If you are secure in your beliefs, you are not afraid of disagreement.  That's the forge of solid opinions.  They are ideologues, so they have no desire to test their opinions against reality.  They expect reality to conform to their beliefs...

This.

Most on the left have lost the ability to process dissent, or even the mildest criticism.

They do very poorly when they are being confronted and they cannot control the rules of the debate.

They react especially badly when the way they passive-aggressively deride and mock other people is turned on them with no cover.


Criticizing ANYTHING runs the risk of being flagged as 'threadcrapping' or 'edition/sequel warring' and getting you booted from the thread. ...

It is also the inconsistency.

Actual quotes:
Someone says: “4e D&D was disliked. 5e was able to turn the ship around with an edition that mostly avoided 4e and 3.xe's mistakes….”

This is seen as edition warring, you get a warning on the post and a mod comes in with red text in the thread to tell you how naughty you were.

Someone else says: “Just as 4E was the best version of D&D's rules, 4E was the best version of D&D's settings…”

No warning on the post. No mod jumping in with red text. Perfectly fine.

Some narratives are OK – most others are not.

Looking at it the traffic at the big purple has slowed down a lot. Plenty of active threads there where you can see fresh user bans. They are slowly strangling themselves when they used to be the biggest and most active forum out there.

ENWorld is desperately trying not to go down the same path – they are more likely to do the temp-ban rather than perma-ban thing. But one of the chief mods over there is a big SJW fellow traveler, and it is only a matter of time before the cycle repeats itself. Unless Morris derives a good chunk of personal income from the site – in which case the almighty $$ may see him try to stop things before they go too far.

Places like the rpgsite will always draw less traffic, because it is inherently more confrontational here than other sites. If someone thinks you are wrong, you’re gonna get it! And most gamers are very non-confrontational and simply would rather avoid such an environment.

Unfortunately, that also means most other forums moderate any confrontations with a leftward bias of varying degrees.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #72 on: January 04, 2021, 04:18:55 PM »
ENWorld is desperately trying not to go down the same path – they are more likely to do the temp-ban rather than perma-ban thing. But one of the chief mods over there is a big SJW fellow traveler, and it is only a matter of time before the cycle repeats itself. Unless Morris derives a good chunk of personal income from the site – in which case the almighty $$ may see him try to stop things before they go too far.

If you think Morris is even trying to stop the rot then you have another think coming.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #73 on: January 04, 2021, 04:25:38 PM »
ENWorld is desperately trying not to go down the same path – they are more likely to do the temp-ban rather than perma-ban thing. But one of the chief mods over there is a big SJW fellow traveler, and it is only a matter of time before the cycle repeats itself. Unless Morris derives a good chunk of personal income from the site – in which case the almighty $$ may see him try to stop things before they go too far.

If you think Morris is even trying to stop the rot then you have another think coming.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #74 on: January 04, 2021, 04:38:28 PM »
ENWorld is desperately trying not to go down the same path – they are more likely to do the temp-ban rather than perma-ban thing. But one of the chief mods over there is a big SJW fellow traveler, and it is only a matter of time before the cycle repeats itself. Unless Morris derives a good chunk of personal income from the site – in which case the almighty $$ may see him try to stop things before they go too far.

If you think Morris is even trying to stop the rot then you have another think coming.

I do agree that he probably does not see it as rot. Just a natural part of being "inclusive".

And if recent history of other examples is anything to go by, the almighty $$ is no longer the incentive it once was to keep general insanity at bay.

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