Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

Outside of an emergency requiring another admin step in, I am personally going to moderate this thread, please read the whole OP before posting

The issue of FYAD's existence has been hanging over our community like a bad odor and it is time to clear the air. I would like to attempt to have an honest conversation about what happened with FYAD in December, in hopes that we can move forward and fix this rift that has formed within this community. In this thread I hope to explain what happened from my perspective, discuss steps moving forward, and provide a place for people on either side to share their sincere concerns without being dogpiled or screamed at.

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Accusations were flying like crazy, some of them signal-boosted by moderators. Exaggeration and hearsay ruled the day

I wish I could say that the mod team stuck to the facts here, but it's sadly not true. Most of the moderators who looked at the issue acted in good faith, but many of them also had bad or incomplete information, and trusted the words of grudge-holders when they should not have

However, they were also used as an excuse, by users and mods alike, for a referendum on FYAD as a whole

Most of the mods who believed these things were acting in good faith, but I feel obligated to state plainly that not all of them were. Some members of the team and some regular users had their own agenda here, and sought to use this crisis as a mean to gain website power for themselves and their friends.

Suddenly, in addition to the harmful and untrue claims that FYAD was doxxing and harassing trans posters, they were all bigots, and hell, nazis. Somehow the anger at FYAD was so high that writing a fake letter from hitler talking about how much better his game consoles were back in the 40s was enabling Nazism

I will say that, unequivocally, it is not true that FYAD was doxxing and harassing trans posters. It is not true that it was full of bigots and nazis.

ilmucche posted:

I would imagine it's actually pretty easily to avoid combat footage while following the war. I guess I'm not a war expert but I don't see how a 30 second clip of an unamed individual in a non-specific field dying helps with understanding how the war is going

Kagaya Homoraisan posted:

theres fun gaming dad stories interspersed throughout. find and enjoy them.

Violen posted:

RyokoTK posted:

assuredly nothing interesting has happened lmao

e: the gamer dad stories were alright.

some plague rats posted:

he will see multiple giraffes. I guarantee it

Kagaya Homoraisan posted:

theyre gonna see your hogwarts posts and destroy you my man lmao.

Neurolimal posted:

My only other Mom Gaming story is that she really liked Resident Evil 1 & 2 but also had to pass the controller to me when something spooky happened (especially the dogs jumping through the windows), nearly two decades later she was backseat gaming my stepdad playing RE7 to the point that they'd start drunkenly bickering, which was cute.

copy posted:

lol that your mom has a secret double life as a fighting game champion

pentyne posted:

in literally 4 pages

*citation needed

Kagaya Homoraisan posted:

practicing the street fighter alpha 3 crouch cancel infinites so that if she ever challenges me again i will destroy her

MarcusSA posted:

I'd love to know how many dick pussies reported this post lol

Antivehicular posted:

Now I'm remembering a time I was at a crappy local zoo and a big lizard (monitor?) charged me and threat-displayed through the glass. I guess I looked at it funny?

That zoo also had an albino raccoon, which really made me realize how much I recognize raccoons by markings, because a solid white one just looks like a misshapen cat

pentyne posted:

it is very funny that there's some sort of terminal poster brain where have to mispell things on purpose as some kind of own

Feels Villeneuve posted:

I always like the local zoo because apparently peacocks are chill enough that they can just let them loose and they'll just walk around the grounds showing off their feathers to people.

Antivehicular posted:

Now I'm remembering a time I was at a crappy local zoo and a big lizard (monitor?) charged me and threat-displayed through the glass. I guess I looked at it funny?

That zoo also had an albino raccoon, which really made me realize how much I recognize raccoons by markings, because a solid white one just looks like a misshapen cat

Mr Hootington posted:

We took the grandkid to the zoo yesterday. In her words "I liked the fish and the dolphins and the penguins and the fox and the horse and the crab."

Violen posted:

LMAO a gaggle of oliver twists grasping at chobes' coattails for a tuppence of leaks

Violen posted:

LMAO a gaggle of oliver twists grasping at chobes' coattails for a tuppence of leaks

Feels Villeneuve posted:

from my vast zoo experience I can say that kids absolutely love seeing otters. they frankly can't get enough of them

Ibram Gaunt posted:

That's cool....But hey I noticed you have a blue star....Going to need you to post the complaining going on in the Mod forum, mmkay?