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Author Topic: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)  (Read 306828 times)

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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #345 on: October 06, 2021, 01:03:42 PM »
They handed out 6 infractions in less than 2.5 hours. I think the mods must have had a meeting/pep rally early this morning before going forth to find posters to punish.

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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #346 on: October 06, 2021, 03:32:35 PM »

  They banned Deepthaw under Rule 0 without even linking to the offending post ... probably because it hit too close to home.

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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #347 on: October 06, 2021, 03:36:42 PM »

  They banned Deepthaw under Rule 0 without even linking to the offending post ... probably because it hit too close to home.
Wow. Damn.

For those who don't care to visit TBP, I reproduce his finale:
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There is no forum in which this kind of moderation is acceptable.

The forum rules appear to be:
You will agree with us on a litany of political-social issues.
If you do not agree sufficiently, you will have ill motives ascribed to you.
You will receive disciplinary action for these ill motives and it is against the rules of the forum to reply to these actions in public, even though the disciplinary actions themselves are public.
The beliefs of the moderation team are sacrosanct and they will win all discussions by default by being able to literally have the last word on anything they wish, and they will do this frequently.
Anyone who finds this to be an abusive or dishonest way to interact with users is morally inferior and probably a racist and not a good fit.
The person never said "There's a wrong here, what are you gonna do? Genocide? No? Then do nothing!" they pointed out why addressing the wrongs of colonialism in the real world has proven so challenging.

Looking through past infraction reports, it has become abundantly clear that putting words in the mouths of users, claiming a stock fallacy that offends a series of rules increasingly more concerned with thought-policing people's beliefs than running a forum for RPGs, and then punishing them for the words you put in their mouth - and not allowing them to defend themselves publicly is simply standard operating procedure for this place. It's one long, escalating purity test.

This raises a number of red flags, and I'm afraid I can no longer visit this place under my personal rule 0 - you're clearly not a good fit for me. I'm giving RPG.net a lifetime ban for ceaseless thought-policing and virtue signaling through armband activism. It's disappointing because I am actually very heavily aligned with the politics of this place. It's the intellectually dishonest way in which it is wielded as a weapon to stifle discussion that bothers me so much.

I'll be back in the real world where I work with actual marginalized and disadvantaged peoples of diverse backgrounds on a daily basis, in person no less, while reeling from the actual damage places like this cause by painting progressive activism in the very worst possible light.

Sincerely, an individual who volunteered twice for Bernie Sanders' campaigns, got physically hauled out of a Trump rally by secret service, is a vocal advocate for diversity-based hiring practices with their employer, has attended multiple LGBTQ+ support rallies (in person), physically visited trans friends and to show support after hate crimes were committed against them, loudly argued against discriminatory legislation before city council, and serves with local advocacy groups for child and adults with special needs but still isn't fucking woke enough for the tin-pot dictators running this place into the ground.


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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #348 on: October 06, 2021, 04:10:45 PM »

  They banned Deepthaw under Rule 0 without even linking to the offending post ... probably because it hit too close to home.

Holy shitake mushroom. I am impressed with Deepthaw. Wow
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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #349 on: October 06, 2021, 04:12:02 PM »
Wow even the crazies are starting to see the craziness.
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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #350 on: October 06, 2021, 04:14:40 PM »
Well TBH RPG.net admins behaviour definitely can be considered abusive and authoritarian to the level that should ESPECIALLY bother honest leftists.
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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #351 on: October 06, 2021, 04:22:05 PM »
They banned Deepthaw under Rule 0 without even linking to the offending post ... probably because it hit too close to home.
Ouch! That's gonna leave a mark. I wonder if the author will come to realize that a large portion of the political "right" is made up of classical liberals like him who weren't pure enough for today's zealotry. Maybe being un-personed like this will be the wake-up call he needs.

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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #352 on: October 06, 2021, 05:09:19 PM »
Why do all these woketards always have so much drama and bad stuff happen to them?

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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #353 on: October 06, 2021, 05:53:25 PM »
Why do all these woketards always have so much drama and bad stuff happen to them?

I believe that is a feature.  If you accumulate enough oppression points then you get to go to heaven.
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wmarshal

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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #354 on: October 06, 2021, 05:58:30 PM »
It looks like they got all jazzed up to hand out infractions this morning, and in their zealotry they got so out of hand that Deep Thaw basically did a self ban. The mods couldn’t reference the offending post because getting called out like that is “just…so…much…emotional…labor” to deal with. It wouldn’t surprise me if they delete the original as well.

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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #355 on: October 06, 2021, 06:10:47 PM »
"Rule 0" is "Because I felt like it, Fuck You! Lawl!".
Change my mind.

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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #356 on: October 06, 2021, 06:18:40 PM »

  They banned Deepthaw under Rule 0 without even linking to the offending post ... probably because it hit too close to home.

That might be the most epic, accurate, takedown I have ever read. Legendary. He invoked his own rule 0.

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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #357 on: October 06, 2021, 07:18:26 PM »

  They banned Deepthaw under Rule 0 without even linking to the offending post ... probably because it hit too close to home.

That might be the most epic, accurate, takedown I have ever read. Legendary. He invoked his own rule 0.
And of course, "You can't quit! No one quits! You're fired! You're banned! Get out of my office!". 🤣🤣

I'll bet we're all preemptively permabanned for posting here, as one of them seethes behind zhier screen. But I'd have to make an account over there to know, and it's not worth it.

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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #358 on: October 06, 2021, 09:15:07 PM »
That might be the most epic middle finger I've ever seen lobbed at the mods of TBP. Wow.

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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #359 on: October 06, 2021, 11:57:39 PM »
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There is no forum in which this kind of moderation is acceptable.

The forum rules appear to be:
You will agree with us on a litany of political-social issues.
If you do not agree sufficiently, you will have ill motives ascribed to you.
You will receive disciplinary action for these ill motives and it is against the rules of the forum to reply to these actions in public, even though the disciplinary actions themselves are public.
The beliefs of the moderation team are sacrosanct and they will win all discussions by default by being able to literally have the last word on anything they wish, and they will do this frequently.
Anyone who finds this to be an abusive or dishonest way to interact with users is morally inferior and probably a racist and not a good fit.
The person never said "There's a wrong here, what are you gonna do? Genocide? No? Then do nothing!" they pointed out why addressing the wrongs of colonialism in the real world has proven so challenging.

Looking through past infraction reports, it has become abundantly clear that putting words in the mouths of users, claiming a stock fallacy that offends a series of rules increasingly more concerned with thought-policing people's beliefs than running a forum for RPGs, and then punishing them for the words you put in their mouth - and not allowing them to defend themselves publicly is simply standard operating procedure for this place. It's one long, escalating purity test.

This raises a number of red flags, and I'm afraid I can no longer visit this place under my personal rule 0 - you're clearly not a good fit for me. I'm giving RPG.net a lifetime ban for ceaseless thought-policing and virtue signaling through armband activism. It's disappointing because I am actually very heavily aligned with the politics of this place. It's the intellectually dishonest way in which it is wielded as a weapon to stifle discussion that bothers me so much.

I'll be back in the real world where I work with actual marginalized and disadvantaged peoples of diverse backgrounds on a daily basis, in person no less, while reeling from the actual damage places like this cause by painting progressive activism in the very worst possible light.

Sincerely, an individual who volunteered twice for Bernie Sanders' campaigns, got physically hauled out of a Trump rally by secret service, is a vocal advocate for diversity-based hiring practices with their employer, has attended multiple LGBTQ+ support rallies (in person), physically visited trans friends and to show support after hate crimes were committed against them, loudly argued against discriminatory legislation before city council, and serves with local advocacy groups for child and adults with special needs but still isn't fucking woke enough for the tin-pot dictators running this place into the ground.

Good for him. I detest how regressives parade their "concern" for native americans instead of actually putting forth much effort to actually help them out as human beings.
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