WampaLord posted:

An entire QCS thread I started that prompted some decent discussion about the unjust and unfair punishments black posters got.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3796594

WampaLord posted:

Any other poster is wrong about something - discussion ensues

A black poster is wrong about something - banned and Lowtax himself shows up to refute him. I wanted to post this in the BWM thread but I figure I'd get probated/banned for saying it.

WampaLord posted:

Look, I'm just some goon who likes these forums and would like them to improve.

I made a suggestion once that we add a black mod to D&D. That suggestion got a prominent thread gassed. I don't know how to help and every time I reply to you I'm terrified of getting banned because of the situation.

Obviously you'd probably rather do anything else, but please read or at least skim that thread I linked.

Fluffdaddy posted:

This thread was created because white posters of D&D could not handle black posters posting about the black perspective on America and its politics, so we got shuffled off to our little hood.

I don't care about Negromancer's ban because he was being dumb about CCs, but why do we have to be shuffled away for posting while black.

the white hand posted:

have you ever had a real job

Koalas March posted:

It's this. We are, in exmarx's own words, contained here, yet we are still deumanized and bombarded with racism.

A white poster even started a qcs thread to address it, because it was that bad. Literally started a thread that black posters had nothing to do with, because it became so blatant. We are even punished harder than other posters for calling out racism.

I report racists in here and the misogynoir thread and at worst they get sixers, yet if one of us gets "uppity" we get 3 days at the very least. And on top of it you have posters running around mad because they want tocall people niggers saying we can't take a joke. It's not a joke.

signalnoise posted:

The fact that the sentiment exists should be reason enough to address it in my opinion.

Who What Now posted:

Lowtax, what are you hoping the end result is going to be here?

the white hand posted:

poo poo, it almost sounded like a principle when you said that you weren't going to look into ethnicity, no surprise you walked it back I guess

(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

WampaLord posted:

Hey, thank you.

I know you hate dealing with poo poo like this and I get it. You have a family you'd rather be spending time with.

But this helps. Maybe only a little, but it helps.

WampaLord posted:

I know, right? I thought for sure I was gonna get banned.

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

Its not that race should be a determining factor in and of itself, it's that race has an impact on a person's life experiences and necessarily gives them a different view on the world. If a large enough group of posters feel like that view is marginalized, and it's not insane or unreasonable to accommodate them, you should maybe try to make it represented among the mod staff if for no other reason than because it will help remove the idea that the mods are institutionally against them.

The Insect Court posted:

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/26/apples-cash-hoard-shrinks-for-the-first-time-in-seven-quarters.html
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cash-hoard.asp
http://fortune.com/2016/07/13/wealthy-cash-investors/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/25/business/dealbook/as-europe-and-asia-hoard-cash-economists-see-echoes-of-crisis.html?_r=0
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-cash-hoarders-1457049503

'Hoarding cash' is a well established financial term of art, not a racial pejorative.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

DrPaper posted:

Also Lowtax, when are the other races gonna get their own mods for D&D?

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

He's telling a lot of lies in QCS so I would like to reiterate that he demodded five people because they made jokes while explaining a joke to him. He demanded they spend days explaining that image, and they weren't groveling 100% of the time, so now they're gone.

A few months from now forums lore is going to be that KM was a "black supremacist" who kept white boys chained up to whip for fun. Remember that whenever you hear rumors about how awful any other non whitedude mod was. This is how it works.

Koalas March posted:

I would like to add we were all very respectful to Lowtax when trying to explain things like context and punching down and how reverse racism is not a thing and black people are not a monolith.

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

My life is happier than yours in every possible way

biracial bear for uncut posted:

This is all very confusing, how are you making tone arguments with any degree of sincerity given the long history of being sarcastic and disrespectful any time you want to post about something?

420 Gank Mid posted:

Maybe instead of lashing out you could ask yourself why it isnt obvious to everyone else that you feel this way?

seiferguy posted:

I'm still confused... is the real reason really over that satirical image that even most white people find funny? Or was there an issue with how KM modded? The only real thing I would see people having an issue with was her mass probation in the feminism thread, for all the people who wouldn't stop talking about watching smut on a bus which was a real dumb and creepy derail. Orprobating people that were asked multiple times to leave either the misogynoir / negrotown threads. I'm trying to assume good faith here and not jump to the conclusion of "she made white people feel uncomfortable", because I hadn't really seen any "opinion silencing" probations.

Dexo posted:

I dunno, I think you saying stuff about if a mod should be posting a meme and obvious joke as proof of a massive bias in modding rather than her probating drive by poo poo posters(at least here I can't speak to her other probations) that are obviously just driveby trolling the thread.

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

If you want proof that it was really all about the image, just look at how several other low-key mods were demodded at the same time. Who was complaining about their moderating style? They were so chill I'd never even heard of most of them, yet they get sent down coincidentally at the exact same time they help KM explain a joke to the comedy forum administrator.

Koalas March posted:

TB

BROCK LESBIAN posted:

Is an Activist Mod like an Activist Judge?

Also unban Negromancer and make him admin.

Edit: resurrect Malcolm X

quote:

Karl Zimmerman

We definitely appreciate the information and will certainly be in touch with him. He has not worked here in years and I can assure you our hiring practices now are much more stringent.

Then I wanted to assure you that we have documentation and policies to control all of the activity he is mentioning and go through extensive auditing for HIPAA, SOC, and SSAE16, which include a lot on customer data security. Data security is extremely important to us and we’re always reviewing and updating our policies and procedures.

Karl Zimmerman
Founder & CEO, Steadfast

420 Gank Mid posted:

You getting mad at KM for giving you a brief primer on race

Koalas March posted:

How did you feel I was representing the forum?

Trabisnikof posted:

And yet you just banned TB

botany posted:

*she

Kurr de la Cruz posted:

Isn't "I don't see skin color" right up there with "I'm not racist, but..."?

BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:

FYI that person never posts here and was just trolling you

WeAreTheRomans posted:

But also, banning TB was pretty weak. We're not in a recession right now, you can't be hurting for that bad

Fluffdaddy posted:

no wait.

This is just going to blow up into more stupid forum drama later.

botany posted:

i'm just absolutely loving the fact that the great solution to the problems within these forums is to literally segregate the black posters

Fluffdaddy posted:

This is a really bad idea, but hey, you're the boss.