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I have plenty of thoughts but the only one I really care to share is that the climate thread is horribly moderated to such an extent that it has shut down all useful/interesting climate posting (most of which has moved to the CSPAM climate threads). The climate thread was one that I followed religiously for quite some time as it was one of the best resources on the internet for consolidated posting of new/interest climate related news, studies, etc. and actual, realistic discussion of such items. But now the moderation in the thread is essentially climate denialism because you can't post in there unless it's all sunshine and rainbows on the horizon, nuclear is going to save us, etc. Anyone that posts a less optimistic take on the future of our planet is shut down and run out as a "doomer." I get that low-info "everything is hosed" or whatever posts are not interesting or useful. But shutting down good-faith, actually good posts that talk about the reality of how bad the climate is and how little is being done to address it is really dumb and just willful ignorance. It should speak volumes that the D&D climate thread basically died over the last several months compared to what it used to be.
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CommieGIR posted:Is anybody not in agreement that the mass incarceration of black Americans is basically genocide? I mean given that the US Justice system in general is steeped in White Supremacy oriented towards doing oppressive, genocide like things? lmao if this is your position then surely anyone that advocates for one of the chief architects of this genocidal system should be forum-banned, right? my mod feedback is to demod this guy because he absolutely should not have access to buttons. i don't think he's particularly mean-spirited (thats ralph, who should also be de-modded) he's just really not suited to being a mod as he's basically the posting equivalent of a golden retriever. golden retrievers are great, everyone loves them. but theyre dumb as hell and absolutely should not be in charge of anything at all.
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Oct 27, 2021 03:10
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make me a mod i will clear all my reports in record time and probate none
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Oct 28, 2021 01:42
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fool of sound posted:Denying atrocities will get you in trouble in much the same will that denying accusers will. I don’t really care that much about the Xinjiang discourse personally (and in fact I don’t think I’ve ever posted in any of the China/Eurasia threads), but I do think there is a difference in saying you expect to be presented with solid evidence of something like genocide, which by definition is happening to an entire group of people on a mass scale. As opposed to rape which almost as a rule is going to be an event that happens where there is no documentation or third party witnesses. Casting aspersions on a person claiming they were raped, which is essentially an unfalsifiable claim, is not analogous to questioning the credibility/source of accusations for something that is allegedly happening to a group of people en masse. And furthermore genocide is a pretty nebulous term that encompasses all kinds of behaviors from the straight up holocaust to much less severe types of oppression/discrimination. I think it should be fair to argue whether certain actions qualify as genocide - a flat rule against that type of argument being deemed genocide denial only serves to let ~~genocide denial~~ be used as a cudgel against posters I don’t like.
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Oct 29, 2021 22:51
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Jaxyon posted:I too, would like to know what the hive mind that people are always referring to thinks on matters. And seconding that this type of post is perfectly emblematic of the condescension that is rife within D&D and makes it a toxic place to post. Comments like this regularly go unchecked and then someone that understandably (at least in my mind) responds negatively ends up being the one that gets probed. If you really want to improve D&D then crackdown and ramp posters that are condescending assholes. It’s just as much aggro posting as coming in hot to call someone a rape apologist or whatever.
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Oct 29, 2021 22:57
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Deteriorata posted:Just to go full D&D for a moment, this is an excellent demonstration of the Tu Quoque logical fallacy. It gets used a lot around here these days. I mean, it's not at all, because TIH wasn't trying to claim that accusations of Chinese Genocide in Xinjiang are false - he's claiming that if we're forum banning people for Chinese Genocide Denial then that same standard should be applied to American Genocide Denial.
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permaban everyone that posts 10 paragraphs when 2 would more than suffice imo
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