RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)

[Abbo1993]

Apparently the purple cunts decided to hide their degeneracy by forcing everybody to log in to see the infraction tickets, a shame, I was quite entertained by their fuckery.

[Chris24601]

Apparently the purple cunts decided to hide their degeneracy by forcing everybody to log in to see the infraction tickets, a shame, I was quite entertained by their fuckery.

I theoretically still have an active account there (I stopped posting c. 2014 and only posted on D&D mechanical threads before that, so it should have avoided any ban hammers), so I might have to go look and repost for others.

[Ghostmaker]

There's already pushback on it in Trouble Tickets. This might be interesting.

[wmarshal]

They seem to have screwed up the implementation. Some users are reporting being unable to see the Infractions sub-forum despite being logged in, and having the requisite number of posts that is supposed to allow them to view it.

No good explanation has been provided. I suspect they're trying to further obscure the standards they seem to enforce/inflict on their members. Making it difficult to understand where the enticement lines are, makes it easier for the mods to rule by fear. If multiple posters are infracted for the same incident they can't be aware of each other getting infracted. They also can't be aware of posters who maybe should have been infracted, but were allowed to skate for whatever reason.

Every few months it seems the admins take stock of TBP and determine the next steps they need to take to better emulate a dystopia.

[Valatar]

I suspect that with the Israel/Palestine war going on, they've been infracting people over it and are afraid of being visibly on The Wrong Side of History if whichever side they've been punishing turns out to be the victor in the court of public opinion.  If, say, they banned a bunch of people for complaining about Hamas and Hamas goes and gasses a town next week, well yikes.  Oof even.  Suuuure would be a bad look for them.  So they're making it harder to see what all they're doing.

[BadApple]

IT's really sad to me that people can't explore difficult issues, be wrong, grow,learn, and forgive anymore.  The thing I miss most the left has taken is our ability to be flawed and still have value in our humanity.

[Valatar]

Unfortunately thanks to Internet cretins, everyone to the right of Current Year twitter is a fascist Nazi whose continued existence is deeply harmful to everyone, and they must be removed at all costs.  Simply disagreeing with people is passe.

[wmarshal]

This is their explanation:

Here's why we're trying this:
1. We've had issues with offsite people skimming Infractions to help target harassment.
2. It's often done through zero post sockpuppet accounts.
3. We've had requests from former users to remove their infractions from Google. (I know robots.txt is an option, but it's not fine-grained enough.)
4. At the same time, we want to maintain visibility for members of the community.

We haven't had a recorded e-mail bounce from the forums for at least 120 days. If it starts happening again, we'll change what we're doing.

[GeekyBugle]

This is their explanation:

Here's why we're trying this:
1. We've had issues with offsite people skimming Infractions to help target harassment.
2. It's often done through zero post sockpuppet accounts.
3. We've had requests from former users to remove their infractions from Google. (I know robots.txt is an option, but it's not fine-grained enough.)
4. At the same time, we want to maintain visibility for members of the community.

We haven't had a recorded e-mail bounce from the forums for at least 120 days. If it starts happening again, we'll change what we're doing.

Let's be honest, some asshole from here went there with the tale about how we ROTFLMAO about their idiocy.

[Ratman_tf]

Abusers like to keep their abuse under the radar. Can't have people peeping in the windows to see them smacking users around the place.

[I]

Let's be honest, some asshole from here went there with the tale about how we ROTFLMAO about their idiocy.

That's it exactly.  You'd think since they "are better than that," "on the right side of history" etc. etc., they'd be proud of their censorious behavior and want the whole world to see what guardians of purity they are.

[Ghostmaker]

This is their explanation:

Here's why we're trying this:
1. We've had issues with offsite people skimming Infractions to help target harassment.
2. It's often done through zero post sockpuppet accounts.
3. We've had requests from former users to remove their infractions from Google. (I know robots.txt is an option, but it's not fine-grained enough.)
4. At the same time, we want to maintain visibility for members of the community.

We haven't had a recorded e-mail bounce from the forums for at least 120 days. If it starts happening again, we'll change what we're doing.

1. Exactly how? For what? At this point, being banned from TBP should be considered a point in your favor.
2. And? Their point is?
3. I'm sorry, what? Unless you're posting under your given name or something, why the hell should that be an issue?
4. No, they don't, and they're fucking liars.

Their email system has been documented as being utter shit (people trying to get password resets, for example) for a while. So the last bit is garbage too.

What a bunch of morons.

[Trond]

I also wonder what happens over there if someone openly criticizes BLM now? Are they still pretending they're the bees knees?

[David Johansen]

Let's be honest, some asshole from here went there with the tale about how we ROTFLMAO about their idiocy.

I'm pretty sure they used to watch this forum quite closely.  If I had to guess, it's to protect themselves from future lawsuits.

[Ghostmaker]

Let's be honest, some asshole from here went there with the tale about how we ROTFLMAO about their idiocy.

I'm pretty sure they used to watch this forum quite closely.  If I had to guess, it's to protect themselves from future lawsuits.

I doubt it's that complex. They probably just hate being mocked.