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[Tuckers Law]

ResetEra's going to have to adopt the NeoGAF salvage strategy and rebrand itself as a TERF site in three months.

I don’t doubt some of the nuttier posters there already think it’s secretly that way.

No doubt being as privileged and delusional as most of the loudest REEseters, KetKat is somewhere right now probably thinking, “this is just like Blitzchung standing up for Hong Kong”

[benjipwns]

Kinda sad that the Staff would do this to the trans community on today of all days.

[CHOW CHOW]

God I wish CatBenji were alive to witness this

Edit, holy shit, i fucking summoned him, please give likes

[Tuckers Law]

For any trans members of Resetera reading this thread: come and join The Bire, never mind Marrec’s protestations.  The cream club might be banned, but it’s spirit lives on!

[Boredfrom]

So let me get this straight, supposedly “hacking” or however access was gained, into your private server, is a WORSE offense, than what was said in the that server. Now I get it. Thanks for clarification

 

[benjipwns]

Who had KetKat as the one to accidentally tell the truth about how the whole place has been run since the start? Even though the fact it was an LLC prevented this.

[Boredfrom]

See, by calling attention to the "breach of privacy", the staff has made this worse, because nobody was talking about that portion of her post until it was mentioned, and now we all rightly want whoever was sending transphobic messages to be punished.

To be perfectly honest, and obviously speaking for myself only here, I kinda don't want to know. I consider the staff friends from when I was on it, and I don't want that image shattered.

 

Prof beef is such a petty scumbag.

[Pwnz]

Kinda sad that the Staff would do this to the trans community on today of all days.

It's super transphobic.

I mean:
WUR FUCKING WAITING BITCH, PROVE U ARENT TRANSPHOBIC MOTHERFUCKER

Am I doing this it right?

[benjipwns]

Which one is KetKat's partner? Robin? She hasn't been a mod for months. As she helpfully pointed out while having a meltdown because someone said moderators could be bad at their jobs.

[CHOW CHOW]

Which one is KetKat's partner? Robin? She hasn't been a mod for months. As she helpfully pointed out while having a meltdown because someone said moderators could be bad at their jobs.

I think it was Robin, yeah. Maybe Nicole. They all kinda blend together.

[benjipwns]

shinobi should get rid of off topic side now and focus just on gaming.

Shinobi quit ResetERA.com a few months ago.

Not long after doxxing his ugly racist kid.

[Transhuman]

I mean Ketkat's post really does hit the nail on the head. If one of the Resetera mods fails the same level of ideological purity that they expect of the users, wouldn't it be hypocritical to just accept how things are and not speak truth to power? Isn't the point of the movement that you NOT do that? I honestly give Ketkat props for following her zealotry to the point of annihilation

[benjipwns]

I actually have no real credit. However, I've been such a good customer to my credit union for a few years, and they've been offering me auto loans for awhile, that I finally decided to just take the offer. Initial pre-approval rate was $177.70/mo for 60 mos. However, my loan officer gave me an 84-month deal, so I imagine payments will be a little lower.

84 month loans are a big oof bordering on yikes
you imagine your payments will be lower? You don't know what your payment is?

Not yet because she is gonna redo the deal and give me that first thing in the morning. The interest on that was 7.16% though.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-just-bought-my-first-car-today.153138/post-26469521


So they signed a bunch of papers and walked out happy with the cheapest nissan on the lot not even knowing the payment.

This is worse than her advocating for a race war.

While Cerium is killing the transgenders he needs to quietly lynch Nepenthe's account.

[Boredfrom]

I mean Ketkat's post really does hit the nail on the head. If one of the Resetera mods fails the same level of ideological purity that they expect of the users, wouldn't it be hypocritical to just accept how things are and not speak truth to power? Isn't the point of the movement that you NOT do that? I honestly give Ketkat props for following her zealotry to the point of annihilation

The thing is that we only have her word for it and it sounds like she didn’t expect that mods realized she was the one spying on them and ban her. The fact that her cronies are defending her saying that spying is good is kind of nutty to me specially since this group is usually the first one to say: “PM THE MODS”.

[benjipwns]

Okay so here's the thing that staff do not understand.

Having these conversations amongst yourself and amongst the LGBTQ members of your staff privately is all well and good. But here's the thing. If we are unable to see discussion happening, and discussion between members and the staff is silenced-- as it routinely is-- those discussions may as well not exist. (To steal another member's posting quirk. Sorry, Kyuuji ). The internet, by and large, lacks object permanency. This is what I mean when I say the Era staff lacks an understanding of optics. We are unable to percieve these discussions by nature, and you can insist that you are talking to people all you want, but closed door discussions by nature lock out public perception of a wilingness to actually improve or hear our concerns.

i blame shosta for this post

[benjipwns]

the way they talk publicly about being moderators it's amazing they don't all quit, especially since the original dream was that they'd be paid unlike Evilore's Nazi ways

also what 30 year old moderator in 2019 actually does bother to spend 20 straight hours moderating and stressing about it lol, i didn't do that at 13

[Boredfrom]

Do better by the Trans members of ERA.

you can PR your statement all you want, and heck - maybe you do need some time to figure out the proper response - fact is..people are losing faith in ERA moderation team.

 

[benjipwns]

I wouldn't have starting transitioning last year without KetKat's amazing resources here. In a very real sense her contributions changed my life.

(Image removed from quote.)

at age 43 btw

[Boredfrom]

that's a joke, you're joking

He is not.

[Boredfrom]

if she found herself that late in life more power to her but that fucking avatar kills me

Eh, i got the gut feeling that she and KetKat are more like the author of this comic:

http://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Unicorn_Jelly

JDR is quite the living drama herself. A trans woman with massive daddy issues, she lied on her psyche test to get the gender reassignment surgery and realized that she made a huge mistake. Since then, she has taken her lazy entitlement issues out on her husband from her group marriage, especially their husband Stephen when he was too busy doing his job (as the sole bread winner) to do all the programming for her video game, Kokoro Wish.

[benjipwns]

that's a joke, you're joking

[ResetBanBot]

So KetKat convinced a 43 year old man to suddenly start wearing dresses? Wow, what great mental health advice ResetEra hands out. I'm sure this will improve his life.

[benjipwns]

As someone who actually regularly checks the Staff List, this guy wasn't entirely wrong: https://www.resetera.com/threads/where-is-the-communication-from-mods-admins-on-trans-topics.153137/

They removed the permalinks that go directly to it, you have to go to the FAQ then to the second question if you don't know the URL itself. I wouldn't be surprised that non-doxxers are unable to find it easily since there's no sticky thread or anything, it's sorta hidden like NeoGAF.com eventually did.

[ResetBanBot]

two sysadmins to run a XenForo board

[benjipwns]

I mean, OniLink already requested a ban, and rightly too. We're already losing people. I'm only on one Discord that discusses trans issues and I've already seen quite a few people expressing the fact that they don't feel like this is a safe community for them.

What I can say is that as a trans person, I really enjoy this site but don’t feel safe or comfortable at all if a thread has anything to do with trans issues

And honestly the flood of staff posting in this thread make things seem rather intimidating.

You are failing the transgender community in a major, major way.

[Boredfrom]

Wait, she admits she ignored some of her earlier diagnosis and she feels better for now following that treatment. 

[benjipwns]

I'd like to know Ms.Galaxy's take on this whole affair but I think they might be dead or held in one of THQNordic's rape pens.

[bork]

As someone who actually regularly checks the Staff List, this guy wasn't entirely wrong: https://www.resetera.com/threads/where-is-the-communication-from-mods-admins-on-trans-topics.153137/

They removed the permalinks that go directly to it, you have to go to the FAQ then to the second question if you don't know the URL itself. I wouldn't be surprised that non-doxxers are unable to find it easily since there's no sticky thread or anything, it's sorta hidden like NeoGAF.com eventually did.

Do you mean the active staff link?  You just go to the Announcements section on the home page.  It's not sorta-hidden or anything. 

Top of the page Mai Shiranui cosplay for good boys and girls 

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[Boredfrom]

For the record, I've spoken with Ketkat and shown her an earlier draft of this post to make sure she was ok with me some of these revealing details.

Ketkat and a former moderator were, and still are, in a relationship. Part of that time during the relationship, the moderator was doing active moderation work as part of volunteering at ReseteEra. Being that they were frequently around each other, it isn't any stretch of imagination to say the moderator talked about moderation work with their partner or that they saw their partner's phone from time to time and so on. Something that I'm sure KetKat can attest to herself.

This isn't hacking. Ketkat didn't log into her partner's discord or something to try and dig up information. And I really don't think it is fair to associate with it abuse either - which implies there was some nefarious intent or plan on Ketkat's part in her relationship with her partner which is absolutely not the case. Really, they just love each other, and I'm sure ResetEra came up as part of normal conversations in a relationship. I know when I'm on the phone around my partner, we often talk about what we're browsing or doing - particularly when that job is something that is high stress and takes up a lot of a person's free time. It makes me sad to see a great relationship between two of my friends characterized in such a way.

ResetEra moderation isn't something that requires some security clearance. It isn't serious business. Granted, staff has always taken the time to try and keep things secure as best they can. Still, part of life is sharing things with your partner, and I don't think things that happen on ResetEra staff is such a thing to warrant absolute secrecy.

Speaking on the circumstances about this, the channel the message took place in is a private channel on the discord server intended for minority members of staff. It's a general support, friendship, and love channel with occasionally some discussion - at least it was when I was in there. Honestly, it is tame, lovely stuff, and it isn't anything serious. There was, and is, however, an expectation of privacy in there, sort of a 'this is your sanctuary here, what happens in Vegas stays in vegas' sort of deal so people felt comfortable bringing up things.

From the staff side, particularly for minority members of staff, I can understand how they felt that their trust and sanctuary was violated. I'm sure if I was on staff right about now, I'd probably be a bit upset too to find that someone was sharing details of that private chat with someone not in the room. At the end of the day, staff members, like anyone else, have an expectation to privacy, particularly minority members of staff who are often targets of harassment in general.

On the issue in question regarding the alleged conversation that took place, I'm not going to comment on except to say that what happens in an internal staff server is ultimately internal staff business, and the comments of any single person on staff shouldn't effect the hard work that staff put in behind the scenes every day. Whether or not the conversation happened, who was involved, if they believed what they said, and so on is moot, hearsay, and a distraction from the real goal of Ketkat's post which was to shine a light on feedback for how the forum can be a better place for those who browse it.

I'd ask y'all to not lose the focus on the bigger issues here. And please, don't paint this a staff only problem. I know staff has made their fair share of mistakes, but if we're being honest here, the community discourse around these issues has been shit for a long while too, regardless of anything that staff does or doesn't do. I know it isn't possible to completely root out unsavory individuals, but in an ideal circumstance, how these issues are moderated wouldn't be as much of an issue in the first place if the community got its act together. There's room for improvement here from everyone.

Holy shit, SweetNicole, you also fucked a girl and that girl got obvious special privileges until the mod team got pissed off. 

Go fuck yourself.

[benjipwns]

Do you mean the active staff link?  You just go to the Announcements section on the home page.  It's not sorta-hidden or anything. 

Oh good, they fixed that, it used to go to a thread that actually was not the Active Staff List.

[benjipwns]

For the record, I've spoken with Ketkat and shown her an earlier draft of this post to make sure she was ok with me some of these revealing details.

Ketkat and a former moderator were, and still are, in a relationship. Part of that time during the relationship, the moderator was doing active moderation work as part of volunteering at ReseteEra.

Know how I know this is a legitimate SweetNicole post?

[Boredfrom]

The moderator in question is not aphobic, transphobic, or anything of the sort, and in fact cares very deeply and personally about LGBTQ+ issues. That is a large part of why we find this ordeal upsetting

 

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[Boredfrom]

Royalan is totally the transphobic mod.

[benjipwns]

I know she's busy with her 84 month loan but I'd like to hear Nepenthe's take on all these crackers with their cracker problems when there's still no legal recourse for a black person to use against a white person saying the n-word.

[Transhuman]

What's bore policy on moderator dating?

[TVC15]

Haha benji is posting on neogaf with fucking ManaByte and shit

Who here spanked him so hard that he lowered his standards further?

[Boredfrom]

I bet that mod is going to vote for Kamala Harris and was in love with Hillary Clinton.

[team filler]

What's bore policy on moderator dating?

don't ask don't tell 

[ResetBanBot]

Fuck off cheeseburgers, we're too busy fucking members and leaking info to them. Bring it up in PMs so we can ban you.

If you send me pics of your feminine penis maybe you'll get special privileges though

[benjipwns]

We live in a time where trans are being openly mocked, look at the last south park episode and the responses to it on social media.It's not safe out there for a lot of us.

[Lonewulfeus]

What's bore policy on moderator dating?

It’s ok, but only if you are related.

[benjipwns]

Haha benji is posting on neogaf with fucking ManaByte and shit

Who here spanked him so hard that he lowered his standards further?

The benji shitposting network has been expanding dramatically ever since the success of the @BenjiSales division.

Talks are underway to replace Kotaku.

[bork]

We live in a time where trans are being openly mocked, look at the last south park episode and the responses to it on social media.It's not safe out there for a lot of us.

I love how he completely missed the point of that episode.   

[Boredfrom]

Haha benji is posting on neogaf with fucking ManaByte and shit

Who here spanked him so hard that he lowered his standards further?

>Having standards.

[benjipwns]

The radical feminist and conservative subreddits are having a huge jerk off because of this episode. South Park can claim it wasn't their intention to mock transwomen but clearly that's what people who hate transwomen are getting was the intention.

This is southpark in a nutshell. It’s amazing how much fuel it gives to the most terrible people.

[benjipwns]

This thread is...interesting...after watching the episode.

Do go on, please. I'm so fucking tired of these drive by dog whistles.

[thisismyusername]

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That's actually a pretty good one. Though I'm not sure what is up with the leather booties.

Haha benji is posting on neogaf with fucking ManaByte and shit

Who here spanked him so hard that he lowered his standards further?

>Having standards.

>TVC talking shit about standards
>When he'd kill everyone here if he could

[EightBitNate]

Has anyone pinpointed why discussion of trans issues is so high relative to the general population? It’s a recurring discussion on RE while I’m sure like 99% of people have never even met a trans person.

[benjipwns]

TVC doesn't realize that he, like filler, are needed on the new NeoGAF.com to teach them the true meaning of the new "free speech" policy.

[benjipwns]

Has anyone pinpointed why discussion of trans issues is so high relative to the general population? It’s a recurring discussion on RE while I’m sure like 99% of people have never even met a trans person.

Replace trans issues with Nintendo fandumb issues and you'll understand.

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unban me, lore!

[benjipwns]

the Nazi's on The Farms™ got a cap of that PM that the mods edited out, totally not surprised at who the sender is:

[Clockwork5]

The moderator in question is not aphobic, transphobic, or anything of the sort, and in fact cares very deeply and personally about LGBTQ+ issues. That is a large part of why we find this ordeal upsetting.

You don’t get to tell them what is transphobic. JFC you created the monster, you should know it’s rules.

[Boredfrom]

The moderator in question is not aphobic, transphobic, or anything of the sort, and in fact cares very deeply and personally about LGBTQ+ issues. That is a large part of why we find this ordeal upsetting.

You don’t get to tell them what is transphobic. JFC you created the monster, you should know it’s rules.

Pretty sure he is the mod that initiated all this.

[TVC15]

TVC doesn't realize that he, like filler, are needed on the new NeoGAF.com to teach them the true meaning of the new "free speech" policy.

Hey, I openly begged Evilore to take me back in this thread. You guys know I love an underdog.

[samir]

Is Royalan a brother?

[team filler]

rereading your last post on NeoGAF.com

[nudemacusers]

reserera ain’t gonna survive election season lmao, esp now that Abuella has been found to be a terf.

[Boredfrom]

What a surprise, Royalan is the one updating  that thread with a last comment:

Alright now that this thread has become about people's personal relationships it's time to close this down. We do appreciate the OP making the thread and regret the way it's ending.

For the record: This was never about what anyone saw when they were looking where they shouldn't. Personally, the idea that someone who was not supposed to have access to our private conversations had access makes me uncomfortable, and that has nothing to do with fear of being "outed" as a secret bigot. It's an invasion of a privacy we're entitled to, its us in our private moments, and us being mods does not give you the right to violate that. To think otherwise is, frankly, not something that sits right with me or anyone else on the staff. I guarantee you'd feel the same in our shoes.

We put in work every day to make this community welcoming to LGBTQ+ members and although recent events may have overshadowed that, we will continue to put in that work because we care. We wouldn't be here otherwise.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/we-need-to-talk-about-responding-to-trans-related-issues.151194/page-7#post-26480305

[benjipwns]

The KiwiFarms thread is suggesting that all the ResetERA.com admins are now cis white males plus Cerium.

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