Phew, had to catch up a lot of reading. Much going on in the extended NeoGAF cinematic universe.
Proof that she's crazy. Long essay incoming (because she can't ever help herself even though nobody fucking cares) so just read bolded parts if you desire.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/regals-women-of-era-ot-episode-i-the-female-menace.337/page-39#post-2578288
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I appreciate everything you do, I really do, but I very strongly believe that we are not 'going to get there' with current moderation policies.
I've seen people get second chances that they absolutely did not deserve based on the offending post and / or their post history. There are a fair few posters that consistently post shitty things or are shitty to others, but because they never have that one single post that would be considered 'actionable' on its own, they're allowed to get away with it. There have been several posts that I would view as clearly over the line, yet when reported either nothing happens or I get told that it is 'unactionable' - one of the more recent of these was a poster continuing behavior in one thread that he was told to stop by a member from the mod/admin team and then warned for for continuing anyway in another (now locked) thread.
An example that I feel comfortable giving here because the person in question is perma-banned now anyway;
In the Jim Sterling thread, someone called Jim an 'obese cuck'. The user got a perma-ban, not for that insult, but for being an alt account. Why wasn't the content of the post itself enough for a perma-ban? Why should someone who makes an unprovoked direct attack on another member of this forum, using alt-right terminology, be welcomed back at any point? Why should I feel comfortable posting in a thread where they are posting too? This wasn't a heated debate about something controversial - it was an unprovoked hateful attack. That they would've been allowed to come back at any point if they hadn't been an alt-account just sends me a message that unprovoked hateful attacks like that are OK so long as you 'don't do it again'. I know that that isn't the message you want to send, but it is the message that I receive.
I get the desire to give people a second chance. I really do. I understand why it is important. But you should also be able to recognize that some people just clearly do not deserve a second chance, let alone a third or fourth.
One user on this site has gotten a warning, a 1-week ban, a 48-hour ban, and has several questionable posts in between. He decided to continue his trollish and shitty behavior this past weekend. I would have assumed his chances were more than spent at this point - he had been repeatedly warned / banned for the same behavior and consistently returned to that behavior after returning from those bans, something that already should've provoked a much harsher response when he did it again after his first ban.
Yet he was just given another chance - another temporary 1-week ban. Why?
I reported that member through their profile with the request to make their current ban permanent. I was told that it had been discussed by the moderation team, who passed it on to the admin team, and now an admin told me that the mod team captains will look at it. At this point I have very little faith that anything will actually happen before the current temporary ban expires. And the pessimist in me says that when it expires I'll probably get told that they now can't 'just ban him outright' and that I'll just have to wait until he inevitably resumes his shitty posting behavior.
All of this just pushes me away because I just don't know anymore. I'm hesitant to report things because I simply do not know where the line is for the mod team to consider something 'actionable' - I only know that that line clearly isn't where it should be. I'm posting less, because I don't feel like putting energy into this forum when people can just be shitty and get away with it with the frequency they do now - because I just don't feel that current moderation policies are in the long run going to create a community that I want to be part of.
I mean THERE WAS LITERALLY MOD AND ADMIN CONSENSUS that her perspective of what was bannable was INCORRECT relative to the values of the forum, but because she's friends with Sweet Nicole... it's so Kafkaesque.
The problem is that there's 2 Resetera's. The public forum that we all see and love and the discords and yes, on the discords the crazy people yell at the mods. There's also the report buttons being punched all the time.
There's no other possible outcome. If they don't make the insane people mods, the other insane people will call them out as racists, sexists and bigots. The people that run Resetera have created their own monsters.
It wasn't like this before, they tried to bring back people like me into the community. But they have to make a decision, appeal to their insane base or offer a balanced place of discussion. And they've doubled down on their base.
Because it's much easier to click: "BAN!" than to try and reason with the crazies.
In the Dave Chapelle thread, I had to explain how humor and comedy works to those people. They're lunatics.
