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CaptainSarcastic posted:oval office gets most of the attention, but people complain about "wordfilter" moderation for other words, too. I have not seen anyone mount a defense of using the n-word, or fag, or transphobic words, but oval office and the r-word still have their defenders.
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Seth Pecksniff posted:Dude that sucks! Take care of yourself Oh I don't want anyone to get the perma goodbye unless they're terminally unfunny and punching down/just being an rear end in a top hat instead of trying to be funny or constructive. I'm also not against gimmick posters at all if they're good. Some of the most beloved posters of all time are pure gimmick. Except driftingmouse, please permanently ban them immediately. They post the laziest death threads with a link and maybe 1 line if that. Worthless disrespectful to the dead poster. To the person saying I don't like gbs, yeah maybe that's what's it's turned into? It's been my default for things to read, joke about, laugh at, etc for longer than I've been alive. Dunno, the overly modded first half of gbs' life is pretty universally decried as the nadir of gbs, but it also had the most and best posters of that era who have all long gone. Am I an old that doesn't like the change, I dunno. It hasn't been the same since Lowtax killed it and made gbs 3.0 a decade ago. Maybe we should have some fun posting or content creation contests. Ms paint thread!
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Mar 17, 2023 22:13
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I like the moda
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Mar 17, 2023 22:26
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Smugworth posted:I like the moda wtf
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Mar 17, 2023 22:28
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Auto probe Methanar anytime he posts
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Mar 17, 2023 22:35
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How about using oval office when used for trump and putin gets a carte blanche because they are loving cunts e - and when people talk about me
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Mar 17, 2023 22:38
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Charles Bukowski posted:Oh I don't want anyone to get the perma goodbye unless they're terminally unfunny and punching down/just being an rear end in a top hat instead of trying to be funny or constructive. I'm also not against gimmick posters at all if they're good. Some of the most beloved posters of all time are pure gimmick. Except driftingmouse, please permanently ban them immediately. They post the laziest death threads with a link and maybe 1 line if that. Worthless disrespectful to the dead poster. I had been considering coming up with some creativity contest threads but I'm not sure what to do. During lockdown we ran a Bake Off contest which went down pretty well and I'd love to see more of that. 
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Charles Bukowski posted:
I get it. I’ve been on the site (front page reader) since the beginning but I didn’t get involved with the forums until much later and don’t have the same nostalgia for the old days so I don’t mind current GBS although it’s definitely seem better days. I “blame” phone posting more than anything else…and I say this as a phone poster. It’s easier to do one liners from a phone rather than actual creative effort posts.
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Mar 17, 2023 22:47
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Nooner posted:Maybe the best solution is just to give everyone mod buttons and ability to give a hot 6 to whoever they like 
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Mar 17, 2023 23:07
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Nooner posted:Maybe the best solution is just to give everyone mod buttons and ability to give a hot 6 to whoever they like 
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Mar 17, 2023 23:16
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Charles Bukowski posted:Maybe we should have some fun posting or content creation contests. Ms paint thread! Be the change you want to see, an MS Paint thread would probably be pretty successful in current GBS
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Mar 17, 2023 23:17
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Saalkin posted:Auto probe Methanar anytime he posts Good proposal imo
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Mar 17, 2023 23:22
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MrQwerty posted:Be the change you want to see, an MS Paint thread would probably be pretty successful in current GBS Yeah nowadays there are apps you can draw with pretty easily. If anything is probably easier to do it on a phone anymore.
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Mar 17, 2023 23:31
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I will enthusiastically draw many mspaint penises for any thread that comes up
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bagmonkey posted:Good proposal imo ya this one too
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Mar 17, 2023 23:32
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We should probably just free Chinatown he's been gone long enough I think he learned his lesson
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Mar 17, 2023 23:49
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Smugworth posted:We should probably just free Chinatown he's been gone long enough I think he learned his lesson Chinatown will return in: gently caress da mods
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Mar 17, 2023 23:56
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how do you buy someone else plat, im worried if he doesnt get an email or pm he will never know he got unbanned 
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Mar 18, 2023 00:10
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Nooner posted:how do you buy someone else plat, im worried if he doesnt get an email or pm he will never know he got unbanned you need the username on the account and the email address tied to the account
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Mar 18, 2023 00:12
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Yeah because you know I just keep a goddamn rolodex of every users email address 
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Mar 18, 2023 00:13
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Nooner posted:Yeah because you know I just keep a goddamn rolodex of every users email address yeah the systems regarding purchasing upgrades and avatars are pretty wanting and 20 years out of date
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Nooner posted:Yeah because you know I just keep a goddamn rolodex of every users email address Of course not, that'd be silly. You would use a Palm Pilot.
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MrQwerty posted:yeah the systems regarding purchasing upgrades and avatars are pretty wanting and 20 years out of date  to send a message over the internet seemed more reasonable back when it cost a quarter to shoot your friend a text
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Just try Chinatown@ various domains until he replies
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CaptainSarcastic posted:oval office gets most of the attention, but people complain about "wordfilter" moderation for other words, too. I have not seen anyone mount a defense of using the n-word, or fag, or transphobic words, but oval office and the r-word still have their defenders. This is feedback from a former gbs mod: you're a dumbass
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Mar 18, 2023 00:26
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MrQwerty posted:you need the username on the account and the email address tied to the account For a gift certificate, you just need some way to contact the person you're trying to give it to. Which, in the absence of them having PMs gets way more difficult. If a situation like this arises we could request the person be given plat in order to receive the gift certificate, Rube Goldbergian as that is. Jose posted:This is feedback from a former gbs mod: you're a dumbass Well, yeah, obviously.
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Mar 18, 2023 00:32
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You should switch out more often too. Gbs is gbs just swap mods often. I know I was guilty of getting lazy
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I'm an Australian and despite what people seem to sometimes get from my posts I don't think there's anything wrong with banning the word. My problem is a lot of other poo poo floating by randomly because it "isn't as harmful" or some poo poo. That mods apparently get together and collectively ban one specific word because it harms people but you get to see people unironically describing things they don't like as "aids" is kind of hosed up. Say the "c-word"? Instant probe. Call someone the "r-word"? Maybe something will happen if it gets reported. Say someone's opinions are "aids"? Eh, who cares. A lot of people say a lot of horrible poo poo with no recourse, including directed slurs, but it's only words that are milquetoast outside the US that y'all care about? loving weird.
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syntaxfunction posted:I'm an Australian and despite what people seem to sometimes get from my posts I don't think there's anything wrong with banning the word. My problem is a lot of other poo poo floating by randomly because it "isn't as harmful" or some poo poo. It's been more than 20 years so AIDS is funny now south park said it's okay now
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Mar 18, 2023 01:02
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syntaxfunction posted:people unironically describing things they don't like as "aids" is kind of hosed up. are there a lot of aids fans?
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Jose posted:You should switch out more often too. Gbs is gbs just swap mods often. I know I was guilty of getting lazy You also brutalized meggido into the mod position!!!
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Jose posted:You should switch out more often too. Gbs is gbs just swap mods often. I know I was guilty of getting lazy Yea you were the worst the mods we have now are the best
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Jose posted:You should switch out more often too. Gbs is gbs just swap mods often. I know I was guilty of getting lazy There ain't a brigade of posters trampling down the doors to be mod my friend
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syntaxfunction posted:I'm an Australian and despite what people seem to sometimes get from my posts I don't think there's anything wrong with banning the word. My problem is a lot of other poo poo floating by randomly because it "isn't as harmful" or some poo poo. agreed that the double standard is dumb and that only certain words being kill on sight is bad policy rather than punishing actually hosed up posts. what's the deal with aids though. i thought it was like calling something cancer
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CaptainSarcastic posted:As far as I'm concerned, allowing oval office in the Commonwealth threads is allowing for context. The usage of the word is different in those places, so it is allowed there. In non-explicitly Commonwealth threads it is banned. Could not disagree more with this. Allowing a word in certain threads while blanket banning it in all others isn't taking context into consideration, it's a shortcut designed to avoid context. Now if someone uses the word in a bigoted way in one of the whitelisted threads it's liable to go unpunished, while if someone uses it in an obviously benign way anywhere else they get probed for it. I'd argue it's worse than choosing either extreme of just allowing it everywhere or nowhere. If you can't be hosed to actually read the posts that get reported and try to make an informed decision, then just drop the ban completely or set it to autoban.
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So aids was a horrific thing and is still used as a homophobic slur particularly towards gay men. Literally being pushed away or ostracised and mocked because "we don't want aids" still happens, a lot, to a lot of people. I've seen it a bunch in the gaming subforums which I get isn't GBS but since y'all seem happy to basically make the "c-word" probatable site-wide you can figure it out. Having known people who were outed and beaten while being mocked for being "an aids having human being" (I will laugh my rear end off if I get probed for that) it becomes pretty hosed up seeing people using it casually for a loving game or movie. "Oh wow that movie is so aids" cool go hate crime it I guess. This is a specific example of something that happens both *in America* (which is apparently the important part) as well as elsewhere. Again, make the "c-word" probatable, but don't pretend you're performing actions against slurs just because it offends American women while everything else is fine. And if your moderation rule is "we only care if enough people complain" well that's kind of hosed that you won't listen to minorities by definition.
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ah. am i good to call things cancer still or does that have a secret dark history too
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Also why isn't "twat" banned? Why isn't "bitch" banned? What's different about these words? I'm honestly not trying to be an internet debate lord. As far as I can tell those words get used just as much if not more to disparage women, and people absolutely should catch probes/bans for using them that way. But for some reason context is taken into account with these but not the other one.
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MrQwerty posted:you need the username on the account and the email address tied to the account Lol, if you had their email you could just email them in the first place instead of pm. How silly
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:ah. am i good to call things cancer still or does that have a secret dark history too I mean people that have experienced loss from cancer probably don't like it! I think the problem is it makes you sound like an reddit poster than anything 
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