| Shadow1980 said: Just FYI, being a mod is unpaid volunteer work. We are not omnipresent entities. Also, we have lives of our own. We have jobs. Some of us have families. Some of us are gone for days or even weeks at a time. Some of us are barely active at all. Even in our group chat, sometimes things brought to the team's attention get overlooked. Banning or even warning someone cannot be done unilaterally by a single mod, and requires at least one other to concur. As a result, stuff falls through the cracks. That being said, I brought up the subject of violent rhetoric with the mod team earlier this morning, and suggested it should be dealt with far more harshly than other types of behavior. It may take time for the others to reply, because as I said being a mod isn't a full-time job and we have lives outside this site. User 2 Example A = I need context. It was a complete non-sequitur post in reply to a news story about Shuhei Yoshida being fired from Sony. User 2 Example C = Misgendering shouldn't be a bannable offense. You can't tell people there are five lights when there are really four and then ban them when they say there are four lights. You can't point to a green pen and say that it is black and that anyone who calls it green will be banned. Like I said earlier, forcing someone else's reality on another person is wrong. Might was well ban me for saying God doesn't exist, because that is somehow hurtful/hateful towards religious people. Yeah, it should, in much the same way using racial slurs are banned. It's deliberately transphobic behavior. It's not comparable to disagreeing with someone's religious beliefs. It's more comparable to saying "This demographic group is inherently less human/inherently less deserving of full rights under the law/is inherently a threat to society/etc." Transphobia is a serious problem in society, and trans people are subject to discrimination and governments outright trying to deny their very existence. If you don't think being trans is a valid thing, keep it to yourself. User 2 Example D = I need context. What is sweet baby inc? Some of the statements made could be just factual but without context I don't know the user's intent. IMO right now, without context I see it as a 50/50 chance the user deserved that ban. Sweet Baby Inc is a company that does consultation with game developers and also assists with script writing. They've been a popular punching bag for right-wing gamers for the past couple of years for the typical reasons, such as them hating anything perceived as "woke" or "DEI". Anyway, the fact that the user was complaining about "forced lgbqti+" in video games in the same sentence before even mentioning SBIis obviously a bannable offense, as was his later reply in the same thread. The user clearly hates LGBT+ people and has vocally expressed such sentiment on multiple occasions, which is why he's been banned on multiple occasions. User 4 = The question by itself is a fair question. I don't think it's fair to take a question like that and apply previous banning history to ban said person. Imagine if someone had a history of being banned for racist comments and then said "Wow that actor sure is dark skinned!" in a genuine statement of surprise. And then post history is applied and said mod assumes they can read said users mind and the psy-ops begin It's a common anti-trans dogwhistle, much like how "echoes"/triple parentheses are a common antisemitic dogwhistle. That's why it's against the rules. It has nothing to do with reading people's minds and everything to do with understanding how bigots use coded language and other ways of expressing their bigotry without just flat-out spewing slurs. There. You've gotten the clarification you requested. Now drop it, because I'm not going to have a constant back-and-forth with you over whether we should allow transphobic behavior on the site. It's against the rules. Period. Deal with it. |
Thank you. I do appreciate it. I look forward to seeing where the mod team nets out on their position.
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