River Of Slime |OT| Mission: Impossible

[benjipwns]

"He also enjoys burritos"

well, hold up, I want hear his side of the story first now

[thisismyusername]

and child photography.

Come on, Ars. At least be honest.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/JohnZeal5/status/1137123538245226496

[benjipwns]

so did he use Patreon like he suggested?

[Joe Molotov]

I bet he’s not even a real doctor.

[benjipwns]

someday I hope to get my PhD in Pizza Studies

[counterhit]

https://twitter.com/DrPizza/status/884248336953421824

This is called amir0x syndrome.

[Tripon]

so did he use Patreon like he suggested?

https://www.yelp.com/biz/pizza-patron-los-angeles

It didn't work out.

[benjipwns]

guess you could say Peter wasn't too Bright

 

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/DavidCovucci/status/1137120300171243520

We are already living in a dystopia.

[nudemacusers]

(Image removed from quote.)

https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-bright-charges-attempting-solicit-sex-minors-2019-6

Even his cosplay of Elton John makes him look like a pedo.


https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1137094769757294592

The Verge weighs in.

In all seriousness, Ars Technica did a terrible job on even doing a cursory search on his social profile. Like holy shit, do a background check at least.

Amazingly ars hired him all the while he posted shit like this lol.

[Joe Molotov]

More like Arse Technica

[shosta]

Dr. Cheese Pizza

[benjipwns]

Mod Admiral's Top Favorite Bans (and one warning) For Today:

User Banned (3 Days): Persistent and repeated instances of subtle trolling over a series of posts in this thread

i remember paul pierce being wheelchaired off the court so he could take a shit

this feels passive aggressive

User Warned: Reinforcing Stereotypes

User Banned (1 Week): Inappropriate joke, history of inappropriate commentary

I'd take Global Illumination and 60fps. I might have a 4K tv, but I like my games the same way I like my women, pretty, smooth, and chained in my basement

I reported a guy for doxxing me on their profile for months and they didn't do anything so maybe valve doesn't really care at all

Actually - just to call out "Steam doesn't Moderate" - just the other day, a user here - InquisitorAles, mentioned on discord how someone was plagiarising his long form reviews - it took less than 10 minutes for 6 reports to get the reviews and user banned, and we mused of how this would be a fun example to point out. I'm sure he can verify that for you.

User banned (duration pending): antagonizing another member over their experiences with harassment and doxxing

Good to know that reviews are more important than my deadname and address

Post the steam ticket to prove it. It's super easy to do, as you should know.

Here's what I got:

User Banned (Permanent): Repeated and unrelenting history of inflammatory commentary and trolling; numerous accumulated infractions

Are you guys going post a new thread whenever Huawei sign a new 5G deal in a new country?

The US is not going to stop Huawei from doing business outside of NA and the 5 eyes countries. Both Germany and France have already said they won't ban Huawei.

Of course, they have to defend their masters at every opportunity.

User banned (5 days): Signal-boosting a banned member's post.

[shosta]

top of the page yuka ogura (thanks puppy)

 

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[shosta]

benji, do you like how your long ass post got banished by a new page and a guy posting soft porn

[benjipwns]

engagement metrics on my content are unstoppable, you should see the numbers I'm seeing

[ResetBanBot]

I'm going to take a page out of ResetEra's playbook and start referring to Ars Technica as a "pedophile enthusiast news-blog" whenever possible.'

[benjipwns]

Much like I do ResetERA.com, I will continue to boycott them unless I follow a link to there and also continue pirating their content by blocking their ads.

[benjipwns]

my boycott of ResetERA.com will continue until Cerium releases metrics on the % of referrals that come from the BanBot

balls in your court, Cerium

[benjipwns]

Finale Fireworker officially redeemed, and you guys laughed at him

https://twitter.com/Campster/status/1137105298458591232

https://twitter.com/Campster/status/1137106875734986752

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Maker of Organic, Artisanal Video Essays About Interactive Media | Regret Elemental | (he/him) | Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/errantsignal

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[VomKriege]

Mod Admiral's Top Favorite Bans (and one warning) For Today:

User banned (5 days): Signal-boosting a banned member's post.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/neymar-accused-of-rape.120342/page-14#post-21547469

https://www.resetera.com/threads/neymar-accused-of-rape.120342/page-14#post-21548163

User banned (1 week): endorsing concern trolling, aggressive attacks and accusations towards other members

Quoting banned members is now actionable

[jorma]

Mod Admiral's Top Favorite Bans (and one warning) For Today:

User banned (5 days): Signal-boosting a banned member's post.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/neymar-accused-of-rape.120342/page-14#post-21547469

https://www.resetera.com/threads/neymar-accused-of-rape.120342/page-14#post-21548163

User banned (1 week): endorsing concern trolling, aggressive attacks and accusations towards other members

Quoting banned members is now actionable

you can only signal boost a banned member if it's to tell them how awful they are, those are the rules

[benjipwns]

what if you quote a member and they are banned after you have done so

[VomKriege]

what if you quote a member and they are banned after you have done so

I mean we know that you can get banned for messages posted before a mod post underlining some discussions guidelines...

[VomKriege]

In all seriousness, Ars Technica did a terrible job on even doing a cursory search on his social profile. Like holy shit, do a background check at least.

The guy has been writing in the field for 20 years (please correct me if I misunderstood this - edit : 10 years at Ars, wasn't a pro writer before that but in the digital induatry) and was a "known quantity", before even the social media age, as far as his skill, competence, ability to deliver and probably a friend / acquaintance / part of the social circle in some capacity.

I mean what would a "background check" even turn up ? That he had a bunch of racy / saucy / bad taste tweets (obnoxiously so), a loud online persona and kind of an asshole maybe ? None of it has any bearing on his capacity to work. Being abrasive might even be considered a good thing for an outline outlet, that's a pretty common character that can stoke audience engagement.

Unless there's some shady shit happening at ArsTechnica, there's no link between his employment and the twisted illegal shit he's accused of. I'm a bit mellow at the idea of "background checks" conducted by employers as a panacea.

TLDR Hindsight is 20/20.

[HaughtyFrank]

How to discuss things on RE:

Not downplaying sexual assault since I have been a victim of it several times in my life, but which part of the scene is specifically provocative of sexual assault? In comparison to say Red Sparrow, Outlander or Precious? This just seems like a dirty old man being provocative.

- Before someone gets out the pitchforks and torches and reports this post, I'm merely delving into subjectivity, themes and topics and trying to understand how it can be comparative to significantly stronger and actually shown cases of sexual assault in film. I am in no way condoning sexual assault. I am trying to understand the context.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/toy-story-2-censored-on-new-4k-release.121738/post-21567560

[Nintex]

@DrPizza

 

is this a pedo?

[Cauliflower Of Love]

what happened with ars technica?

e: oh

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/are-you-ok-with-naming-and-shaming-racist-bigots.121360/post-21559156

Because honestly, I don't care about "losing" some internet argument, but I damn sure want to know where you stand on that. Tell me it's wrong to dox them.

 

Concern trolling?  That's a ban.

RedMercury with his dumbshit "It's not what you do, it's who you do it to" legal analysis again.
Where do you draw the line RM? Is it okay to rape a racist?

People aren't saying "You should not conduct yourself in this manner, and the fact they are a bad person does not excuse behaving like that" because there's a 'truce'.

They are saying that because doing bad things to bad people makes you a bad person. Because you are doing bad things.
Thats how you can tell someone is a bad person. They do bad things.

"Oh, I did bad things because they are bad, look double negative, it cancels out my bad things being bad" isn't how ethics work. You're literally just victim blaming.

[Momo]

DrPedo

[Straight Edge]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/religious-gamers-what-is-your-feeling-about-praying-to-deities-in-games.121708/

It disturbs me. Worship is for Allah alone.

 

[VomKriege]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/could-anything-make-you-not-liberal.121762/

[VomKriege]

I think some lessons can be learnt from this.

Not everyone condemning something is secretly guilty of it (i.e. projecting), but if you have suspicions, use some covert strategies to try and uncover if there might be something more significant underneath

https://www.resetera.com/threads/arstechnica-reporter-peter-bright-arrested-for-soliciting-sex-with-children.121677/page-4#post-21571109

[nachobro]

riotous pls

[Momo]

Why can these people not have principled stances on issues instead of buying into their favourite politic sports team's full basket of madness?

[HaughtyFrank]

like, these tweets are highly ironic given what transpired but they're not signs of anything, so what are we supposed to get out of this? this is basically the gamergate/alt-right playbook of searching someone's social media history for bad keywords and posting the results en masse regardless of context.

arguing about the age of consent - legit concerning. dunking on pizzagate? not concerning. his handle was created way before pizzagate existed, there's no connection.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/arstechnica-reporter-peter-bright-arrested-for-soliciting-sex-with-children.121677/post-21567760

[PogiJones]

Left you an Easter Egg there.

Glad RE hasn't succeeded yet

 

[Tripon]

In all seriousness, Ars Technica did a terrible job on even doing a cursory search on his social profile. Like holy shit, do a background check at least.

The guy has been writing in the field for 20 years (please correct me if I misunderstood this - edit : 10 years at Ars, wasn't a pro writer before that but in the digital induatry) and was a "known quantity", before even the social media age, as far as his skill, competence, ability to deliver and probably a friend / acquaintance / part of the social circle in some capacity.

I mean what would a "background check" even turn up ? That he had a bunch of racy / saucy / bad taste tweets (obnoxiously so), a loud online persona and kind of an asshole maybe ? None of it has any bearing on his capacity to work. Being abrasive might even be considered a good thing for an outline outlet, that's a pretty common character that can stoke audience engagement.

Unless there's some shady shit happening at ArsTechnica, there's no link between his employment and the twisted illegal shit he's accused of. I'm a bit mellow at the idea of "background checks" conducted by employers as a panacea.

TLDR Hindsight is 20/20.

I think we'll disagree here, those tweets are terrible and a I realize a personal account shouldn't be a reflection on a company, but just the jailbait tweets alone would should have alerted a company this would have been a risky hire. Bright isn't some shock jock, he's was supposed to be a tech writer.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Left you an Easter Egg there.

Resetera isn't 2 years old dummy

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

I'm disturbed by the posters who say nothing can change their minds. If that's true, they're basically the equivalent of religious zealots.

ding-ding-ding-ding-ding

[PogiJones]

Lol, they went back and banned the pedo guy's account that had... 1 post back in Oct. 2017.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dota2-ot-ti9-battlepass-may-7-august-25.593/page-3#post-63475



Way to flex your power, guys! That will teach him!


Also, low post count accounts implicated yet again 

[Rufus]

To be fair, if they hadn't, they would be criticized for it as well.

At least they won't have to pretend nobody ever knew him.

[PogiJones]

Also, why isn't his arrest thread in Gaming, like all the other people-barely-related-to-games-doing-bad-things threads?

[PogiJones]

To be fair, if they hadn't, they would be criticized for it as well.

At least they won't have to pretend nobody ever knew him.

Yeah, but the limp-dicked show of power is still funny

[nudemacusers]

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=37492141#p37492141

Big yikes at ars for not reading their own forum 

[VomKriege]

Oh yeah the jailbait ones are horrible but they're all from 2009 (everyone I saw was, at least) so around the time he started at Ars. Going on an hypothetical, even if questioned about it he might just have responded "I had a rough patch in my sentimental life and acted dumb, I didn't mean literal jailbait yadda yadda" or somesuch and maybe that would have been enough (not saying it's a valid excuse or anything but heh).

Notions of vetting gets thrown a lot these days with social media and whatnot but except when it is necessary (and perhaps there's a debate that journalists are public figures now) nobody got the time for that*. The US might be more lax on that but it's also sometimes a fine line between vetting and discrimination...

* Beyond the most shallow Google search.

[Mr Gilhaney]

i guess gamergate won him over

[nudemacusers]

He was a prominent poster on ars for a decade before 2009 and was a giant asshole 90% of the time and said creepy vile shit constantly; tho nothing so out there as to suggest this. For some reason the owners of ars really liked him and gave him wiiiide latitude to do whatever.

Kinda like another forum 

[Rufus]

It's just "locker room talk." 

[VomKriege]

He was a prominent poster on ars for a decade before 2009 and was a giant asshole 90% of the time and said creepy vile shit constantly; tho nothing so out there as to suggest this. For some reason the owners of ars really liked him and gave him wiiiide latitude to do whatever.

Kinda like another forum 

I get what you mean, but assholes are a popular niche in forums / 2.0 journalists conversing directly with audiences. Everyone kind of a shock jock these days, people identify as curries on Twitter and fast food companies are competing over the most clever memes.


ArsTechnica (or Condé Nast) is surely gonna review some of their guidelines for employment as a result, with good reason.

[nudemacusers]

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=13753178#p13753178

Either explain how child porn is immoral or unethical or else piss off.

Whole thread did not age well 

[Nintex]

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=13753178#p13753178

Either explain how child porn is immoral or unethical or else piss off.

Whole thread did not age well 

Of the countless thousands of pictures downloaded from usenet with titles suggesting that a fifteen year-old has a starring role, I don't think I've ever come across one with a genuine fifteen year-old.

LMAO this guy

[james]

 

[Transhuman]

Of the countless thousands of pictures downloaded from usenet with titles suggesting that a fifteen year-old has a starring role, I don't think I've ever come across one with a genuine fifteen year-old.

LMAO this guy

You can almost hear the disappointment in his voice

[VomKriege]

Might as well continue to play Devil's advocate : it was just an edgy joke until it turned out it wasn't. One guy on ERA was just banned for "woman chained in basement" joke.
I'm not as familiar with his history as other are here but he had plenty of posts lambasting pedos too.

It's like when we'll find out Benji is a Chinese MSS agent and that all the doxxing talk was 100% real.

That ArsTechnica guy sound like a total prick tho.

[james]

It turns out he’s just offended at drawings of children, he actually was being pretty consistent.

Of course, it's like being upset about imitation crab. You spend the time and effort to download the stuff, you want the real deal

[VomKriege]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-zacian-is-a-poorly-designed-pok%C3%A9mon.121231/

POKEMON CAN'T MELT STEEL BEAMS

[Joe Molotov]

That prayer in games thread is really tripping me out

Jesus Christ is the ultimate trip.

[VomKriege]

There’s definitely some truth to the idea that people who are wrestling with “demons” will project a lot.

It’s just dumb when that’s applied in reverse as if it’s proof some statistically significant percentage of people who are against something are actually secretly part of the problem.

Male feminists aren’t all a bunch of closeted creeps and homophobes don’t all crave dick, etc.

Did you run covert actions tho ?

Agreed. Both myself and my son were like “wtf” when the dog with a sword in its mouth was revealed.

Hate it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-zacian-is-a-poorly-designed-pok%C3%A9mon.121231/post-21482419