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Author Topic: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again  (Read 118883 times)

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #195 on: February 09, 2021, 10:27:04 AM »
I loved and still love the psuhback they received about it. Telling posters to report a thread or Else! was going to go over so well.

Lol, indeed. And completely expected when you start powertripping with the "I'm personally angry, therefore I'm right" attitude.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #196 on: February 09, 2021, 10:39:11 AM »
Well, a guy got permabanned for posting this:

As mentioned, the reason to play DnD as a game is because you want to get into fantasy-themed tactical combats and resource management.

In order to provided level-based challenges, enemies and other challenges like trap damage are calibrated around certain level expectations - people like BlogOfHolding and SongOfTheBlade have managed to backport the math so that, for example, a level 6 monster is calibrated to do roughly 12 damage per round to a single player.

The classes as currently designed are intended to, one way or another, meet enemies of their level and be able to deal sufficient damage or keep their allies alive to do so.

The risk in multiclassing is that unless you're doing short dips or you know your build is basically a straight upgrade, that you fall behind on the expected damage or power curve. This means extra work goes either on the shoulders of your party (they have to work harder to compensate for you), or on the shoulders of your DM (they have to work out what your effective level is to construct appropriate challenges).


https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/manwhat-receives-a-%F0%9F%92%80-permanent-ban-rule-0.876758/

Note: I disagree with his assumption (the reason to play DnD as a game is because you want to get into fantasy-themed tactical combats and resource management.). To me D&D is (and can be) much more than this. But... what in the hell there could be in his post that justifies a permabam??????? I read and re-read it ten times and I'm stuck.  ???

BTW, this is the official motivation: manwhat, in the year 2020 you had 7 infractions including a week and thirty day bans. You have regularly been aggressive and condescending in D&D threads and despite your long infraction history have not changed your behavior. Reviewing your history, the thirty day ban was when you basically admitted to trolling and purposefully raising the temperature of threads.

Aggressive? Condescending? Now stating your own fucking opinion is reason enough for a permaban? They are really in need of professional help up there.
It looks like manwhat had racked up enough badfeels among the mods that they were itching for any excuse to kick him off. Looking at some of his past infractions, he could be somewhat abrasive, but no more so than anyone else here, really.

This is the 'threadcrapping' excuse they use when they want to fuck you over but can't scrape together a justification.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #197 on: February 09, 2021, 10:46:19 AM »
This is the 'threadcrapping' excuse they use when they want to fuck you over but can't scrape together a justification.

  Nowadays, they rely more on 'Rule 0' and 'not a good fit for the site.'

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« Reply #198 on: February 09, 2021, 12:51:37 PM »
Another gem: this one led to a one week ban:

I'm maybe stupid, but why was Markov banned at all? The alleged "rape apologia" on their part is a literal text of the novel/show. It's not some wild conjecture, it's what the author says. We can disagree with the writer, that the show should have been written differently, and Markov condemns the events in his post after the spoiler tag. But how is it a forum poster's fault that Mushoku Tensei has rape apologia material in it?

Should RPG.net run a justice system, the prosecutor would be arrested for describing the alleged crimes of the defendant.

Amazing. You go to RPG.net, you open a random thread and they just keep giving.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #199 on: February 09, 2021, 01:30:47 PM »
rpg.net took another step towards turning into East Germany. The mods have admonished the users in general for NOT reporting posts in a thread the mods didn’t like.

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/is-this-a-new-policy-thing.876904/

Pretty soon turning in your fellow posters will be mandatory for wrong think.

I don’t even really know anything about the topic they were discussing. Maybe the posts did cross a line, but the authority figures lashing out at the users looks totalitarian/cult-like to me.

Quote from: some clueless poster
Maybe mods will provide a whitelist.



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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #200 on: February 09, 2021, 01:37:06 PM »
Another gem: this one led to a one week ban:

I'm maybe stupid, but why was Markov banned at all? The alleged "rape apologia" on their part is a literal text of the novel/show. It's not some wild conjecture, it's what the author says. We can disagree with the writer, that the show should have been written differently, and Markov condemns the events in his post after the spoiler tag. But how is it a forum poster's fault that Mushoku Tensei has rape apologia material in it?

Should RPG.net run a justice system, the prosecutor would be arrested for describing the alleged crimes of the defendant.

Amazing. You go to RPG.net, you open a random thread and they just keep giving.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #201 on: February 09, 2021, 01:58:03 PM »
Oh come the fuck on...none of this is real.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #202 on: February 09, 2021, 02:03:14 PM »
Thou shalt NOT question the High Priests of Woke!

PRIESTESSES. Take a 30 day ban for misgendering, sexism, Holdoing, Hodoring, and HoHoHo-ing.

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« Reply #203 on: February 09, 2021, 03:01:04 PM »
My question is twofold
1) When will this end. If anime is so bad, then shouldn't any reference to anime rpg's also be banned?
2) Given similar problematic themes (ie rape) also occurs in other genres, for example superhero comics, shouldn't discussion of superheroes (and therefore superhero rpgs) also fall under a ban? Will you be able to discuss rpgs at that site anytime soon?
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #204 on: February 09, 2021, 03:37:15 PM »
My question is twofold
1) When will this end. If anime is so bad, then shouldn't any reference to anime rpg's also be banned?
2) Given similar problematic themes (ie rape) also occurs in other genres, for example superhero comics, shouldn't discussion of superheroes (and therefore superhero rpgs) also fall under a ban? Will you be able to discuss rpgs at that site anytime soon?
My joke has been that they will eventually ban the use of English and then all comprehensible languages because they exclude non-English speakers/the illiterate. Only unintelligible gibberish will be allowed.

I also argue this may have already happened based on the word salad coming from there that I’m reading.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #205 on: February 09, 2021, 04:07:40 PM »
My question is twofold
1) When will this end. If anime is so bad, then shouldn't any reference to anime rpg's also be banned?
2) Given similar problematic themes (ie rape) also occurs in other genres, for example superhero comics, shouldn't discussion of superheroes (and therefore superhero rpgs) also fall under a ban? Will you be able to discuss rpgs at that site anytime soon?
My joke has been that they will eventually ban the use of English and then all comprehensible languages because they exclude non-English speakers/the illiterate. Only unintelligible gibberish will be allowed.

I also argue this may have already happened based on the word salad coming from there that I’m reading.

Nothing that South Park hadn't predicted 25 years ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Hankey,_the_Christmas_Poo
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #206 on: February 09, 2021, 04:19:17 PM »
The sad part is they were and are so used to getting their way that seemed genuinely confused it went over badly. Then again given how the majority of the posters close their eyes on the site for fear of being banned. While going along with the mods decisions why would the mods behave any differently really. Still nice to see even the sheep have some form of minimal standards and what they will tolerate.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #207 on: February 09, 2021, 04:52:11 PM »
The sad part is they were and are so used to getting their way that seemed genuinely confused it went over badly. Then again given how the majority of the posters close their eyes on the site for fear of being banned. While going along with the mods decisions why would the mods behave any differently really. Still nice to see even the sheep have some form of minimal standards and what they will tolerate.

It must have surprised them to get 9 pages of mostly pushback from so many different members in such a short time frame. As it is they’ve closed the thread to stop the pushback, and give themselves time to come up with some sort of framework to re-assert themselves as the righteous after closing the anime went over so poorly.

Another long time user recently asked for a perman for himself (mods didn’t really like him arguing that people have a right to determine what to call themselves…Americans calling themselves Americans is bad, don’t you know.) and the mods tried to talk him out of it. The user saw the dumpster fire going on with the anime thread and said he was even more sure he wanted the permaban for himself. The mods might worry that their users interested in anime might decide to go to an actual anime forum for their discussions. Rpg.net is getting more like a closed religious organization, and less of a place for wide-ranging nerdy discussions.

The last post in the thread a mod/admin seems to be taking on the White Man’s Burden to reform Japanese culture.

It’s amazing that if part of a discussion didn’t generate any reports, the mods reaction isn’t that the users are taking the discussion in stride as mature people might do, but that their users are deficient and worthy of getting their thread taken away. If it didn’t bother any of a large number of participants enough for any to report, maybe the issue is with you, the mod.

I find some of what they were talking about in the anime threads bothersome, but I also realize not every thread has to be there for me, and that I’m no longer current with the anime fandom. They’re not (for the most part) looking to discuss Ghosts in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop or Studio Ghibli films, and I realize that’s ok.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #208 on: February 09, 2021, 05:04:24 PM »
Rpg.net is getting more like a closed religious organization, and less of a place for wide-ranging nerdy discussions.
They banned someone for a post that started with:

I'm maybe stupid, but why was Markov banned at all?

I.e. for asking clarification about how to behave on their forum and why a certain post was wrong. Someone who only wanted to understand what they did deem right. Any religion that wants to go beyond a fad will go above and beyond to proselytise and clarify what is considered right and wrong for them. So... RPG.net right now fails even as a cult.
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The last post in the thread a mod/admin seems to be taking on the White Man’s Burden to reform Japanese culture.
Yup. Stunning, isn't it? How fast "inclusivity" goes out of the window every time it implies acceptance of deeply different cultural values. It would almost seem that for some people "to be inclusive" actually means a pulpit and a megaphone...  ::)
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #209 on: February 09, 2021, 05:20:59 PM »
My question is twofold
1) When will this end. If anime is so bad, then shouldn't any reference to anime rpg's also be banned?
2) Given similar problematic themes (ie rape) also occurs in other genres, for example superhero comics, shouldn't discussion of superheroes (and therefore superhero rpgs) also fall under a ban? Will you be able to discuss rpgs at that site anytime soon?
My joke has been that they will eventually ban the use of English and then all comprehensible languages because they exclude non-English speakers/the illiterate. Only unintelligible gibberish will be allowed.

I also argue this may have already happened based on the word salad coming from there that I’m reading.

W*ite European Colonisers forced the English language upon many indigenous POC, therefore it must be banned.