All I know is the boycotters made a website so people could find out who was streaming Harry Potter and go harass them. Not the best behaviour to display if you want someone to take you serious.
https://www.dexerto.com/hogwarts-legacy/silvervale-in-tears-over-hogwarts-legacy-twitch-stream-harassment-2064748/
Then you see stuff like this right here, can be hard to like them sometimes, or even take them serious. Anyways, I really don't care, these issues don't affect me, so it ultimately doesn't matter what happens, and the Harry Potter universe is lame.

There is no doubt about a physical advantage.  There was a trans swimmer in college who is shattering all the records that biological females trained their whole lives to set.  Somebody like JK being concerned about this doesn't make her phobic.  But again, it is about assimilation and forcing others to agree to all terms.  Sad state of affairs.  People elect to ignore facts and science.  But compare NBA vs WNBA...  average NBA player is 7 inches taller and 50 pounds heavier....   

I'm a father of two daughters, both black belts.  I would not want my daughters going up against somebody in competition who has a massive physical advantage.  There is nothing phobic about this stance.  I fully want people to be who they are, but safety does matter.  

As for boycotts in general, people are free to do what they want.  The problem is when the boycott is treated like a religion and folks are attempting to force others into alignment. I, and others, shouldn't be viewed as a bad person because we don't agree with the boycott. 

My kids are loving the game.  I plan on playing it tomorrow.  My position should be respected as much as the position of those who want to boycott.

if this were the case what does hogwards legacy have to do with it? this thread is due to how the Original post is worded, baiting for offensive replies

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flaming has been enforced for 16 years

Boycotting anything for whatever reason is all fine and dandy, trying to force it on others isn't.
Even worse are the people who think people who don't boycott the game are transphobic. These same people are the ones who bully those poor streamers.
People like that have issues and need therapy.

I personally think that this whole boycott is pointless. If the game flopped it wouldn't affect Rowling at all. But it would affect many other people who worked hard on it for years. The boycotters just ignore the developers like they don't matter.

Agree with Mummelmann here. This is very sad from a moderation perspective. Moderation is about applying rules in an unbiased fashion. It’s a hard job. Many of us have been mods on this site before. 

But this op comes across awfully biased, and discourages me from being apart of this community. I too am left leaning when it comes to politics and I am not a transphobe. There are many things I disagree with Rowling on and there are some I agree with. These topics are complex and we need strong unbiased mods to navigate it not whatever this thread is. 

guys please rethink the approach. There are many ways to achieve a cohesive community with civil discourse if that is the goal. If the goal is something else masked behind rules then please state it as such so that we can make an informed decision if we want to remain on this site.

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^ Classic example of "intelligent discussion"

Thanks for exposing yourself as a transphobe though.

Have your wish, I haven't banned anyone for a while, Lol.

I have my critique as well, but that was exactly the kind of stuff that needs to be banned, if you ask me. Thank you!

Yeah, I was going to say, not even a lot of the users in here disagreeing with the Mod team would stand by that disgusting transphobia expressed by that user, I've zero tolerance for the bigot stuff, I don't want anyone here who agrees with that. I'd say that a lot of comments have been put forward respectfully despite the initial confusion which was hopefully cleared up.

Personally, I don't mind the critiques, I try to listen to them, I don't Mod much lately though and I'm not really that invested in it as much as I once was, but I have confidence that the Mod team is listening and ultimately we've always just tried to do the right thing to make the site more welcoming. That has been my experience of working with this team over the years, a bunch of great guys.

At least the only user moderated was an actual transphobe and we're now rid of one, Lol. I think the clarifications seem to have helped a little and I've seen the comments about the tone, that is something that can easily be worked on. I've lost my cool a lot over the years infinitely worse over certain touchy subjects but we can always work on framing things better.

I'll just ask for understanding that we aren't perfect or emotionless, a few of these subjects hit closer to home for us, for those that disliked the tone.