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Author Topic: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again  (Read 118819 times)

Reckall

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #450 on: March 25, 2021, 04:20:16 PM »
The Infractions forum would be a goldmine for a psychology student looking to do a PhD thesis on the exercise of authority in social media. I expect it would be easy for anyone trained in the field to identify the various pathologies of  the moderators.
Even more interesting would be to compare the "Infractions" of today with was considered an "infraction" ten years ago (that forum goes back to 2012). Mapping a descent into insanity could be, very ironically, quite Lovecraftian...
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #451 on: March 25, 2021, 06:48:07 PM »
The Infractions forum would be a goldmine for a psychology student looking to do a PhD thesis on the exercise of authority in social media. I expect it would be easy for anyone trained in the field to identify the various pathologies of  the moderators.
Even more interesting would be to compare the "Infractions" of today with was considered an "infraction" ten years ago (that forum goes back to 2012). Mapping a descent into insanity could be, very ironically, quite Lovecraftian...

That could make for an interesting modern day COC scenario.

People being ritually 'canceled' for past social media discretions in order to summon some GOO, because some people slowly descended into madness...maybe 'overworked' forum mods as the cultists...

I may have to think about that one for a bit

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #452 on: March 25, 2021, 08:25:01 PM »

That could make for an interesting modern day COC scenario.

People being ritually 'canceled' for past social media discretions in order to summon some GOO, because some people slowly descended into madness...maybe 'overworked' forum mods as the cultists...

I may have to think about that one for a bit

Thanks

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #453 on: March 26, 2021, 07:29:11 AM »

That could make for an interesting modern day COC scenario.

People being ritually 'canceled' for past social media discretions in order to summon some GOO, because some people slowly descended into madness...maybe 'overworked' forum mods as the cultists...

I may have to think about that one for a bit

Thanks

The great god Twi'taaar hungers.  You are no longer a good fit for...existence.

Too realistic for my tastes.  I like my games more fantastically hopeful. 

Reckall

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #454 on: March 26, 2021, 08:27:30 AM »

That could make for an interesting modern day COC scenario.

People being ritually 'canceled' for past social media discretions in order to summon some GOO, because some people slowly descended into madness...maybe 'overworked' forum mods as the cultists...

I may have to think about that one for a bit

Thanks

The great god Twi'taaar hungers.  You are no longer a good fit for...existence.

Too realistic for my tastes.  I like my games more fantastically hopeful.
You could start the game with the discovery that a current moderator was banned for something he posted, as a user, ten years ago...
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #455 on: April 01, 2021, 11:13:18 AM »
So TBP is handing out fake permabans for 'bein' too awesome' today (April Fool's).

I guess it would be more amusing if they didn't have the hair trigger habit of tossing bans for stupid reasons.

EDIT: I wandered over to Trouble Tickets and saw this:
https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/welcome-your-new-moderator.879444/

For fuck's sake... do they ever get tired of licking prog ass?
« Last Edit: April 01, 2021, 11:17:13 AM by Ghostmaker »

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #456 on: April 01, 2021, 03:32:53 PM »
They should have went with "After careful consideration backstage, we've decided to shutdown Tangency" for 4/1. Most of them would have fallen for it.


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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #457 on: April 01, 2021, 04:23:03 PM »
I thought the "Bein' too awesome" bans were for newbie moderators to practice handing out infractions.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #458 on: April 01, 2021, 05:09:07 PM »
I thought the "Bein' too awesome" bans were for newbie moderators to practice handing out infractions.

Don't forget that they handed out a ban for "disrespecting Chicken McNuggets" - an April's Fool literally everywhere else but a serious thing there.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #459 on: April 05, 2021, 05:39:55 PM »
So, uh, anybody know what a "Redneck Valkyrie" looks like?

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #460 on: April 05, 2021, 09:19:30 PM »
What it all boils down to is that those are too lazy to refute things, so they just censor it. They don't have anything with freedom. Instead of debunking another opinion which might be incorrect, they rather rubber stamp it as unsavory. Enabling racism, normalizing hatred etc. I rather be the judge of that myself. It's not freedom of speech, but freedom of listening
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #461 on: April 05, 2021, 09:55:03 PM »
They should have went with "After careful consideration backstage, we've decided to shutdown Tangency" for 4/1. Most of them would have fallen for it.
They'd need trigger warnings, and they'd have to put all the furries on suicide watch.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #462 on: April 06, 2021, 12:04:59 AM »
They should have went with "After careful consideration backstage, we've decided to shutdown Tangency" for 4/1. Most of them would have fallen for it.

I agitated long and hard for that back in the day whenI was a member.  I still think it might have saved the site.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #463 on: April 06, 2021, 12:18:33 AM »
So, uh, anybody know what a "Redneck Valkyrie" looks like?
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #464 on: April 06, 2021, 02:00:42 AM »
How many years of concentrated seethe is the forum at now?
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