thehunter said:
In light of pi guy posting the clear proof that there were death threats on vgchartz against an entire group of Americans who make up roughly 45% of the US citizenry in a given year, I think we need to go back to his fellow moderator Shadow1980s's "hold your ground" moment earlier in this thread and take stalk of what we're seeing happen here: - The original post in this discussion was about a legitimate concern, now echoed by others, that the moderators here are heavy-handed towards right-of-center (or just center) users while giving hall passes galore to those on the left and even far left (see also, below: supporter Leynos).
- Shadow1980s made it clear that expressing views which are orthodox doctrine for major religious groups (Christians, Jews, Muslims) on the nature of human sexuality will get one banned here on the forum. To wit, from earlier today: "This was the user deliberately misgendering a game dev"
- Shadow1980s continues to give similar woke-sympathetic arguments for why others got banned here, before ending with: "This isn't 4Chan, GAF, or any of the other places where it's cool to go around openly hating on marginalized groups. Not one bit of that flies here. We will shut that shit down, no exceptions." (emphasis added)
- And then we have this...
Leynos is still posting as of 12 hours ago from the time of my post here. There have been numerous radical left wing activists, including many alphabet activists, who have murdered Americans from young Christian school kids in Tennessee to conservative activist Charlie Kirk in September 2025.
In other words, a reasonable person would conclude that conservatives, Christians and others who Shadow1980s likes to attack here are indeed, to use the vgchartz's rules, marginalized insofar as Leynos both felt comfortable to post what he did, and none of the moderators banned him for death threats.
- So, as others have pointed out, the rules as not clear as Shadow is saying, both in definition and in enforcement consistency...in fact, when I read him stating that you can get banned here for calling someone who says they're a girl a guy, but pi-guy frets about a death threat from a still-active user with "I don't know what the right answer should have been", we have a problem that goes way beyond the typical "rules for thee, but not for me" hypocrisy many of us on the outside have come to expect from the modern Left (see also: Paris, as it burns today)
So my questions to both Shadow and pi-guy are:
1. Do we need to get the FBI involved at this point? Seriously.
We've had way too many cases of posts threatening to kill people like us in online forums by these activists who follow through with their murderous hatred for those who don't think like they do and no one did anything about it in recent US history.
2. If you're going to host political discussions here either in the politics area or elsewhere, have you taken reasonable steps - such as having a legitimately conservative moderator or two - to balance your own policing and ensure that the rules are enforced in a balanced and defendable manner? It looks like there are some well-spoken candidates earlier in this thread you could bring on to ensure this doesn't happen again.
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I'm grateful that pi-guy had the integrity to post the link to the original threats and think that Shadow, in particular, owes us an explanation the next time he's online as to when Leynos will be banned given his other stated banning activity in the last year and what he will personally do to curb the culture he has helped foster here.
If this doesn't get resolved justly and swiftly, I don't it would be unreasonable for someone to pass this situation onto the FBI tips line. It's that serious.
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