Looser in the gaming section, stricter in other sections.
I made a non-serious joke about hardcore gamers, not directed at anyone, and not in a serious tone (and several laughed), and I got banned 2 weeks for racism; the moderator identified hardcore gamers as a large identifiable group of people, like people of a specific race, nationality, sexual orientation, or religion. This is the equivalent of getting banned for making a joke about Manchester or Chelsea football fans.
In the non-gaming forums, people say much worse things about Arabs and Chinese in these and do not get banned; (yet people will get banned for criticisizng the US). There is also a HUGE amount of very open prejudice against religion and religious people (I am not talking the philosophical conversations, but rather outright blatant insults), and these users keep going at it and never get banned. These are real identifiable groups of people.
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
