...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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