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This is the forum for Debate and Discussion! Current events, regional political discussions, general political discussions, and controversial issues are all welcome here. All general forums rules apply. The purpose of D&D is educational. Posters are encouraged to ask questions, share knowledge, learn new things, and speculate, discuss, and argue interpretations and ideas. The hope is that participation here will make posters better informed, develop more refined personal ideologies, be better able to argue their positions in real life, and find ways to put their positions into practice with real world activism. The purpose of D&D is NOT to win arguments. Something Awful is one small corner of the internet, and debating here should not be confused for activism. Posting does not affect real world politics, but it does affect posters themselves and the sort of community we maintain. 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If you need to contact a mod or IK, you can do so via forums PM. If you don't have forums PMs, you can join this discord server to be able to PM us. You won't be able to post in this server; it's just to facilitate PMs. Main Paineframe stopped checking the mod email account they made ages ago.
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The mods are not online constantly. We all check reports one or twice a day but this isn't our full time job, and you're not necessarily going to get a response within the hour, or even six. Unless something is a true emergency: doxxing, actionable threads of violence, suicide threats, or posting illegal material, it can wait a bit. Moderation has not failed if a bad poster continues to post for a few hours, and decided it has and starting a dumb riot in the thread might get you punished as well.
fool of sound fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Aug 21, 2020 |
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I'm stepping down as a D&D mod. I've been wanting to for a while but hung on longer than I should to try to help the newer mods get settled in, but I've gone as long as I can.
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