RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)

[APN]

I'll look on the big purple for a new thread...

RPGPundit's decay (RPGsite madness)?

It does seem rather heavy handed. Banned (forever) or not.

[jhkim]

SHARK does not know what Mommy Porn is and Pundit decided that was a banning offense.

It wasn't the topic, it was posting in a thread from which he had been banned. In this particular case I strongly suspect it was sheer forgetfulness: the initial threadban warning was given on May 9, and SHARK's threadban-breaker post was made July 24, nearly three months later. Moreover, it was clearly the kind of idle-curiosity impulse post you do within thirty seconds of reading the post you're responding to, and I strongly doubt there was any intent to push boundaries behind it.

I support Pundit in rigorously upholding his rules, but I think there has to be at least a little room for distinguishing between deliberate violations and simple lapses of memory. I've put in a request to un-ban SHARK at the Help Desk.

There is a help desk?

https://www.therpgsite.com/help-desk/

[Armchair Gamer]

If we're going to be doing permanent bans for threadbans that rely on the users' memory and honor system, I think we'll need to make threads a lot shorter and more tightly controlled.

[Nephil]

Can someone who is close to Pundit tell him to stop fucking banning people for fuck all.

Jesus fuck.

First Pat and now SHARK.

Even RPGnet has a setting between not banned and banned.

Hey, Pundit! This is the last straw for me, ban me now or I will speak your precious truename! Fuck this place, it used to be good before the piss rose into your head.

[Crawford Tillinghast]

..(n)or will stifling open discussion make racism go away.

TBP announces astounding reversal of their earlier position!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mv09BwHGayM

[Crawford Tillinghast]

Eventually we'll all run afoul of the banhammer, and the site will just be Pundit talking to himself.

<snicker>
I see what you did there...

[Ghostmaker]

Back to the topic at hand.

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/wilx-receives-a-%F0%9F%92%80-permanent-ban.900109/

I can't figure this one out. Oh, I know exactly why wilx got the boot -- the 'tolerance' of the intolerant, after all -- but they've been on TBP since 2003. They had to know how TBP's culture had metastasized like cancer. It's not like they hadn't posted for an extended period -- looking at their history, seems like they'd post every few years, but they had to see this shit playing out.

Very strange.

[The Spaniard]

Lol!  "your brand of intolerance is not welcome here" only their's is welcome.  How typical.

[wmarshal]

Back to the topic at hand.

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/wilx-receives-a-%F0%9F%92%80-permanent-ban.900109/

I can't figure this one out. Oh, I know exactly why wilx got the boot -- the 'tolerance' of the intolerant, after all -- but they've been on TBP since 2003. They had to know how TBP's culture had metastasized like cancer. It's not like they hadn't posted for an extended period -- looking at their history, seems like they'd post every few years, but they had to see this shit playing out.

Very strange.

You will be made to care about politics, and made to care correctly. To say that you refuse to care is to admit to a heinous crime against the right side of history. TBP mod culture is clearly a totalitarian cult (all cults are essentially totalitarian), but how the poster, a long time member and not a brand new troll account, missed that is indeed bizarre.

[The Spaniard]

double post

[Reckall]

Lol!  "your brand of intolerance is not welcome here" only theirs is welcome.  How typical.

Should I be asked to choose a single ban that proves how TBP is irremediably insane, I would choose this. It is fascist in the purest sense of the word.

[Mistwell]

Truly stunning that the guy says he welcomes all views as long as you respect the views of others, and that's a banworthy intolerant offense. THAT was him restating what "liberalism" meant up until this decade.

[Armchair Gamer]

I think TBP needs to take all those little notices they've been posting at the top, expand and add to them, and put them front and center as "This is our creed. If you cannot affirm this and at least offer the proverbial pinch of incense to our idols, you are not welcome here."

[Reckall]

Truly stunning that the guy says he welcomes all views as long as you respect the views of others, and that's a banworthy intolerant offense. THAT was him restating what "liberalism" meant up until this decade.

Which is one of the reasons why I mentioned fascism. Italian fascism opposed liberalism, especially classical liberalism, which was denounced as "the debacle of individualism". This when Italian fascism was internationally acclaimed for all the good that it was doing for Italy. Think about it.

[Bunch]

I think the ban for the guy who isn't making long enough sentences or responding in less than 24 hours is odd one.  I mean if English isn't your first language or your very young I can see trying to keep sentences short.  And the thread he was banned in he was responding in.  Wierd.