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[benjipwns]

The irony of OP’s ban is that The Dundies isn’t even a season 1 episode.

yikes, this is worse than racism

[Tripon]

We're living in a hellscape that we can't tell if a random poster on Resetera is either being sarcastic or serious because it reads like a parody of the site.

[benjipwns]

I am a bit confused because I think there is a series about spies that has "office" in its title. First time I seriously read about this series because I didn't hear much about it before. So it is a comedy abot a company producing paper...And the boss Michael is racist?

[Clockwork5]

I am a bit confused because I think there is a series about spies that has "office" in its title. First time I seriously read about this series because I didn't hear much about it before. So it is a comedy abot a company producing paper...And the boss Michael is racist?

Are they really going to walk into this thread and start JAQing off?

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot2-i-have-no-pants-and-i-must-scream-read-op.65064/post-27136401

Well that Former Adult Film Star plays a video game thread went exactly as I thought it did...

It was incredibly disheartening to see basic sexist behavior being exhibited by people who very definitely claim to know better in many other situations.

It seems like people want to not consider adult film stars as real people and as such they feel free to engage in total sexist behaviors. It's disgusting.

It's exactly what it is. Objectifying and dehumanizing a human being because said human being was (or is) a sex worker. It reeks of so much misogyny, I'm baffled people engaged in such behavior repeatedly, and were still not seeing the problem when rightfully being called out about it. Basic feminism 101 lessons are flying way over their heads.

Yeah it was straight up awful.

It was really bad. Topics like that show how bad gaming side can be, and in general, this site. I know mods do the bet they can, and I appreciate their effort, but it is really hard to deal with the daily sexism, racism, classicism and more you deal with people that "just want to talk about games without taking into account the damage they might do with their views."

WTH am I reading? And all the "No fun allowed posts"?

Ah I see, yeah that's pretty bad. The whole "of course every GUY knows who she is" attitude of a few posts bugs me. Toxic masculinity at its worst.

I was at work during lunch when I saw and replied on the thread. Now imagine my shock when I returned and saw alle the vile shit people were posting.
You would think ERA of all places wouldn't have this garbage but no, it is even worse than twitch comments.

Glad the ban hammer was used.

Yeah this forum can get toxic when certain discussions come up.

Never go into a thread about dating apps.

Jesus fucking christ, how dehumanizing. Good to see the thread became half a graveyard, but people should know better ffs.

Also:

At what point does something ceases to be just a fun thing made for the pleasure of being shocked, and instead begins to be a gross promotion of misogyny? Because this anonymous confessions thread really is upsetting me right now.

Posts like the 35 yo creep dating a 17 yo?

I noped out of there in like five minutes. Props to people that have the stomach to keep reading that stuff; I don't.

The first one I read (and replied to) was someone saying that he and his wife talked to cats and then "talked back" as them, which is something me and my SO also do (yeah, avatar quote). Let's just say the mood whiplash from the couple next ones was quite something.

Yep, just turned up to that thread and actually was skimming, saw your post about talking through cats, and though, "eh, this isn't bad, there's cute cat stories". Then I went to the next page.

I was not prepared and now feel sick to my stomach. That poster should be banned, fuck anomity, he's confessing to raping his wife (and yeah, forcing someone to get pregnant against their will is rape, and even the way he describes, am pretty sure he raped her via force as well.

I actually didn't read that specific confession you're talking about now (HOLY FUCKING SHIT!). It was other stuff I read (racism was a common thread) that made me nope out. Speaking of pregnancies; I also remember the woman who (allegedly, because I suspect over half of these confessions are blatant lies) got pregnant on purpose to prevent his boyfriend from leaving her. What could possibly go wrong?

Sorry, I guess we should stop bringing that garbage here; the topic of the thread is dark enough as is...

Wait, what did the anonymous confessor thread do this time?

...
...
...What the actual fuck!?! How fucking hard is it to respect women!?! And now he's just going to abandon after claiming to want a large family...that is disgusting and if I say anymore I'll probably get banned.

I figured from the getgo there'd be stuff like this, and I know the second I looked into the thread it'd be a matter of seeing stuff that couldn't be unseen or forgotten (literally a problem for me having OCD/Generalized Anxiety).

Related to your and SchrodingerC 's post and speaking of confessions, I was a moderator and then admin of an FF forum many many years ago. There was a user there who was a very out and proud pedophile. He made journal posts about this young girl he was in love with but was currently just friends with and would talk about his fantasy of running away with her. I brought it up with other mods and admins and they just shrugged it off saying it isn't actually against the rules. I decided to track his IP to the LA area, talked to a detective with the LAPD and faxed him a huge transcript of his posts (about half an inch thick) about his pining for this girl. Never heard back and I left the forum soon after (that and I just haven't been as much of an FF fan as I once was). It was one of things I appreciated about joining GAF and then this place was that unapologetic weeding out of undesirables.

[thisismyusername]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/year-end-policy-updates-and-community-affairs.157629/post-27139962

Will Era ever impose a feature that hides threads from lurker view that are sensitive topics, like trans focused threads?

Would it ever be possible to identify someone who screenshots posts and submits them to hate sites?

"that hides screen shots of my twitter rage quit?"

Like you give a shit about anyone but yourself you sniveling fucking twat.

>implying hate sites can't just register moblin-tier lurker accounts to screenshot and archive to laugh at their sites
OH I'M LAFFIN'.

#NoTNoShade to moblin, bb.

Don't these people know that the hardcore lurkers that clown them offsite have accounts? Heck, some have infiltrated private Discords.

You'd think, but sadly: No.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/era-anonymous-confessions-2019-v3-0-one-version-higher-than-the-giftbot.150087/post-27159291

OFFICIAL STAFF COMMUNICATION

We have some serious concerns about the state of the confessions thread, so we're temp locking it while we do a review. We'll issue a staff post once that has happened.

They deleted three of them from the prior page too.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-is-the-point-of-the-ipad.157811/

Recently Apple released a new version of the basic iPad for only ~$300, and I kind of want one because I've never had an iPad before and I don't own any other Apple products.. but I don't know what I would use it for.

get two then

[Anti-Monitor]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot2-i-have-no-pants-and-i-must-scream-read-op.65064/post-27136401

Well that Former Adult Film Star plays a video game thread went exactly as I thought it did...

It was incredibly disheartening to see basic sexist behavior being exhibited by people who very definitely claim to know better in many other situations.

It seems like people want to not consider adult film stars as real people and as such they feel free to engage in total sexist behaviors. It's disgusting.

It's exactly what it is. Objectifying and dehumanizing a human being because said human being was (or is) a sex worker. It reeks of so much misogyny, I'm baffled people engaged in such behavior repeatedly, and were still not seeing the problem when rightfully being called out about it. Basic feminism 101 lessons are flying way over their heads.

Yeah it was straight up awful.

It was really bad. Topics like that show how bad gaming side can be, and in general, this site. I know mods do the bet they can, and I appreciate their effort, but it is really hard to deal with the daily sexism, racism, classicism and more you deal with people that "just want to talk about games without taking into account the damage they might do with their views."

WTH am I reading? And all the "No fun allowed posts"?

Ah I see, yeah that's pretty bad. The whole "of course every GUY knows who she is" attitude of a few posts bugs me. Toxic masculinity at its worst.

I was at work during lunch when I saw and replied on the thread. Now imagine my shock when I returned and saw alle the vile shit people were posting.
You would think ERA of all places wouldn't have this garbage but no, it is even worse than twitch comments.

Glad the ban hammer was used.

Yeah this forum can get toxic when certain discussions come up.

Never go into a thread about dating apps.

Jesus fucking christ, how dehumanizing. Good to see the thread became half a graveyard, but people should know better ffs.

Also:

At what point does something ceases to be just a fun thing made for the pleasure of being shocked, and instead begins to be a gross promotion of misogyny? Because this anonymous confessions thread really is upsetting me right now.

Posts like the 35 yo creep dating a 17 yo?

I noped out of there in like five minutes. Props to people that have the stomach to keep reading that stuff; I don't.

The first one I read (and replied to) was someone saying that he and his wife talked to cats and then "talked back" as them, which is something me and my SO also do (yeah, avatar quote). Let's just say the mood whiplash from the couple next ones was quite something.

Yep, just turned up to that thread and actually was skimming, saw your post about talking through cats, and though, "eh, this isn't bad, there's cute cat stories". Then I went to the next page.

I was not prepared and now feel sick to my stomach. That poster should be banned, fuck anomity, he's confessing to raping his wife (and yeah, forcing someone to get pregnant against their will is rape, and even the way he describes, am pretty sure he raped her via force as well.

I actually didn't read that specific confession you're talking about now (HOLY FUCKING SHIT!). It was other stuff I read (racism was a common thread) that made me nope out. Speaking of pregnancies; I also remember the woman who (allegedly, because I suspect over half of these confessions are blatant lies) got pregnant on purpose to prevent his boyfriend from leaving her. What could possibly go wrong?

Sorry, I guess we should stop bringing that garbage here; the topic of the thread is dark enough as is...

Wait, what did the anonymous confessor thread do this time?

...
...
...What the actual fuck!?! How fucking hard is it to respect women!?! And now he's just going to abandon after claiming to want a large family...that is disgusting and if I say anymore I'll probably get banned.

I figured from the getgo there'd be stuff like this, and I know the second I looked into the thread it'd be a matter of seeing stuff that couldn't be unseen or forgotten (literally a problem for me having OCD/Generalized Anxiety).

Related to your and SchrodingerC 's post and speaking of confessions, I was a moderator and then admin of an FF forum many many years ago. There was a user there who was a very out and proud pedophile. He made journal posts about this young girl he was in love with but was currently just friends with and would talk about his fantasy of running away with her. I brought it up with other mods and admins and they just shrugged it off saying it isn't actually against the rules. I decided to track his IP to the LA area, talked to a detective with the LAPD and faxed him a huge transcript of his posts (about half an inch thick) about his pining for this girl. Never heard back and I left the forum soon after (that and I just haven't been as much of an FF fan as I once was). It was one of things I appreciated about joining GAF and then this place was that unapologetic weeding out of undesirables.

That fucking thread is my Angry Dome

[benjipwns]

I'm not sure why it's even allowed considering:

Hangout Threads

When a thread has been moved to the Hangouts it will usually have built up a community of regulars. These threads can sometimes develop a culture of their own; for this reason we allow members in those threads a little more leeway in regards to banter and similar behavior with each other. Please be aware however that the rules of the forum still apply and that every thread must be welcoming to newcomers. Do not use community threads to snipe at staff or other members.

If only Cerium didn't have to fight with the ads 193 hours a week so he could be made aware of what's happening.

[EightBitNate]

#FreeKitKat part 2 inbound

[BisMarckie]

The why women criticize... thread is the biggest misnomer on the site after the pics that make you laugh thread,

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/on-another-viewing-of-the-office-and.157721/post-27160789

"oh no please don't ban the serial, contrarian shitposter troll whose historical purpose on this forum was to stir up maximum shit in sensitive threads, all they did was talk about the office!"

[benjipwns]

The why women criticize... thread is the biggest misnomer on the site after the pics that make you laugh thread,

The funny thing to me is back when I started making the joke about it being male posters it had way fewer posters with "male" set as their gender than it does every time I look at it now. Even the thread creator used to be female!

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/era-are-you-overly-sensitive-online.157838/

[thisismyusername]

(((Filler))) continuation of ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS, THEY DESERVE NO DONUTS:

https://www.facebook.com/jenny.hernandez.927/videos/2693310504080418/

Jesus Christ. The kid would've been safer toward the back of the truck instead of trying to crawl out and hold his hands up as a signal that he wasn't a robber.

This makes me irrationally angry.

[benjipwns]

It'll be sad if this is what they use to force the naming of an "anonymous confessor" when Ketkat died without them exposing the acephobic anonymous confessor nor any of the acephobic moderators.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/on-another-viewing-of-the-office-and.157721/post-27160957

Thread is no longer about The Office and is now locked.

Regarding the ban in the OP: Even if the joke is supposed to be at Michael's expense, celebrating how "unfiltered" he is for putting on yellowface has made some Asian members uncomfortable. They're not wrong to feel that way.

[Mr Gilhaney]

Is post-college life supposed to be this boring socially?

.... All in all, I feel like I’ve done a pretty decent job of staying active in my life: helping out around the community, practicing my music, trying to improve my Spanish, and not only completing a 60 hour RPG (Trails of Cold Steel), but moving onto its sequel almost immediately.....

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-post-college-life-supposed-to-be-this-boring-socially.157671/#post-27140550

[team filler]

fillerFillerrellif continuation of ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS, THEY DESERVE NO DONUTS:

https://www.facebook.com/jenny.hernandez.927/videos/2693310504080418/

Jesus Christ. The kid would've been safer toward the back of the truck instead of trying to crawl out and hold his hands up as a signal that he wasn't a robber.

This makes me irrationally angry.

https://twitter.com/ToddHagopian/status/1203467568423428096

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/year-end-policy-updates-and-community-affairs.157629/post-27161132

This ban is absolutely ridiculous and closing the thread with that statement is cowardly.
OP literally got banned for liking The Office, the most watched show on Netflix.

He wasn't banned for liking The Office. He was banned for dismissing the racism in the scene as just "no filter." A thread in which we are discussing how best to handle bigotry isn't the place to talk about how certain kinds of bigotry aren't so bad. Do not hijack the thread over a single ban, given this is not what this thread is about.

Then maybe we should have a thread for that, because there is no place for it currently. Make that a policy. There are like 20 people in that thread not understanding the ban, are you aware of that?

looks like the year end policy update thread has run its course

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/era-anonymous-confessions-2019-v3-0-one-version-higher-than-the-giftbot.150087/post-27161212

OFFICIAL STAFF COMMUNICATION

Given the number of confessions that are breaking both site rules and the OP's own rules, this thread will remain locked until further notice. We are really disappointed by the state of this thread. This is supposed to be for fun, and while shocking confessions are part of that, bigotry and misogyny have to be red lines.

We'll be having conversations with the community and OP to figure out if the thread has a future and what the future should look like.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/asian-era-ot-we-dont-age.519/post-26485700

Reading what’s happening to the Trans community on Era really reminds me of a lot of what we’ve talked about here; a culture of discrimination and dog whistling and a mod team happy to look the other way

Pretty much. Era got the Liebfeld shoulder muscles patting themselves on the back at how some they are.

They're young, and it's all moral grandstanding. I doubt they even believe--let alone practice--what they preach. "There's no ethical consumption under capitalism." "Climate change will kill us all, so stop driving forever." "All religion is always bad." "Science is the only truth, but dinosaurs can't have feathers."

Only ERA users deal in absolutes.

Most of the posters here are white. That's all you really need to know.

They just keep coming like lemmings too.....

It’s just so fucking frustrating that it’s impossible to criticise Era from the left.

Try to do it here, and you’re dancing on fucking eggshells, and no matter how much you neuter your message, you’re still toying with a ban. Try to do it outside of Era, and it’s like shining the fucking bat signal for Gamergate types to co-opt your message into some anti-SJW screed

Whether by accident or intention (and I increasingly suspect it’s the latter), leadership have created a perfect little fiefdom for themselves with no meaningful mechanism for redress

do i even want to know? am i happier in ignorance?

White Lib Shit Era. That's all you need to know.

Have you guys noticed that there's a bit of a scandal/blowup involving the mod team and some segments of the LGBTQIA+ community here?

I made a post referencing it a few days ago. Shit is really bad, but not surprising given our own experiences with moderation here

I've only skimmed various pages of the 2 threads. I noticed that a few posters acknowledged the mod teams shortcoming in dealing with, not just issues affecting the LGBTQIA+ communities, but some POC communities as well - one poster even specifically cited Asian-Era.

I did. Because they are bad at it.

I've been reading about that off and on, and yeah, it's not too different from what we deal with.

Maaaybe they should've listened to minorities and lgbtq+ regarding bad faith posts from the start. 🤔 🤔 🤔

Ya, I'm mostly done posting on OT.

Era is only going to try to address the Trans-Era problem because they fucked that one up real bad. They aren’t gonna do shit for the rest of us.

But fucking solid props to the pointing out that Era has done other communities fucking dirty too.

Guess it's time for Asian Era to make an Exodus.

It is sad but the attitude towards Asians just keep getting worst.

Filipino American here, I don't really engage with a lot of community OTs and after the Trans Awareness week BS it's apparent to me I should be more involved with this stuff.

I guess it's weird for my first post in here to be about asking for a Discord invite, but if you'll have me I'd love to join that.

Anyone still here?

So who complained if they all left in droves weeks ago?

In a move that should surprise no one, white dudes are using “I support Hong Kong” to hit on Asian women, as I got to see at Dim Sum yesterday.

I probably said “Oh you’re fucking kidding me.” At the appropriate volume in which to shame this person.

Hobbes?

[thisismyusername]

fillerFillerrellif continuation of ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS, THEY DESERVE NO DONUTS:

https://www.facebook.com/jenny.hernandez.927/videos/2693310504080418/

Jesus Christ. The kid would've been safer toward the back of the truck instead of trying to crawl out and hold his hands up as a signal that he wasn't a robber.

This makes me irrationally angry.

https://twitter.com/ToddHagopian/status/1203467568423428096

Oh lawd. I thought this was like a TheHardTimes article but it's real.

#ACAB indeed.

[bork]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot2-i-have-no-pants-and-i-must-scream-read-op.65064/post-27136401

So they've become a community-within-a-community and are talking about other threads in there now.  But nothing is going to happen since that's a "protected thread" and even a mod is participating in the chatter. 

[team filler]

fillerFillerrellif continuation of ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS, THEY DESERVE NO DONUTS:

https://www.facebook.com/jenny.hernandez.927/videos/2693310504080418/

Jesus Christ. The kid would've been safer toward the back of the truck instead of trying to crawl out and hold his hands up as a signal that he wasn't a robber.

This makes me irrationally angry.

https://twitter.com/ToddHagopian/status/1203467568423428096

Oh lawd. I thought this was like a TheHardTimes article but it's real.

#ACAB indeed.

Libertarian-In_Chief 

[ldcommando (notthegafone)]

Need more summits

[Tripon]

A summit implies there's an actual discussion that can take place. Resetera isn't even to talk without banning anybody.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot2-i-have-no-pants-and-i-must-scream-read-op.65064/post-27160852

Well that Former Adult Film Star plays a video game thread went exactly as I thought it did...

I was surprised at what I was reading and had to report a bunch of people, glad mods stepped in. For a lot of liberal people, there's a certain section of people they won't see as human. People thought they could get away with it after the thread got locked....

SNITCH

[Transhuman]

fillerFillerrellif continuation of ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS, THEY DESERVE NO DONUTS:

https://www.facebook.com/jenny.hernandez.927/videos/2693310504080418/

Jesus Christ. The kid would've been safer toward the back of the truck instead of trying to crawl out and hold his hands up as a signal that he wasn't a robber.

This makes me irrationally angry.

https://twitter.com/ToddHagopian/status/1203467568423428096

Oh lawd. I thought this was like a TheHardTimes article but it's real.

#ACAB indeed.

Libertarian-In_Chief 

Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took the exam in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent of an IQ of 125. But New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training.

That was the same kind of reasoning that that Japanese medical school gave for changing the scores of women applicants. Nice to know corruption is the same everywhere

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/nthnashma/status/1203290928544440326

 

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/daisy-ridley-denies-privilege-compares-her-experience-to-co-star-john-boyega.157846/

Weird question right before the movie is out.

Something about her words seems out of context.

Reads more like she's on the defensive considering all the attacks she's whethered. I'd give her a little time to think about just what they were asking and see what she thinks.

Ya I’m confused. Everyone jumping on the girl already...

It does feel like a bit of a trap.

It's a very weird question to ask. Interviewer know what he/she was doing.

Most people fail to recognize their privilege but these quotes don't really even make sense. I'd love to see the raw transcript as much of this is paraphrased or injected by the author, including the questions

What was even the point of that question?

Ofcourse. Now the stance has changed like "oh I read it in wikipedia". FUCK OUTTA HERE WITH YOUR WEAK-ASS JOURNALISM.

Where can I apply to be a WEAK-ASS journalism getting opportunities to ask people these WEAK-ASS baited questions?

Also not sure why the question was ever brought up? Author tries to backtrack and saying how they both grew up with privilege and it wasn’t meant to detour the interview, bullshit. That’s the only reason for such a question.

Alright. Time to ask the same question for you fellow white MALE artists who have had that privilege. I'll be waiting for them to do that. Nope, they won't ask and instead praise them for such an exemplary work.

Maybe they should go after Magnusson for getting a role in Aladdin spinoff, but no they fucking won't. They can't, they won't, they never will, because they can measure BALLS to BALLS. They measure TITS to TITS.

I fucking hate how women are treated in the industry, and this is not helping anyone.

But no, let's give a round of applause to the Polanskis of the industry.

I've no idea how her grandfather working at the BCC or her going to a private school have anything to do with how she navigates being trusted in such a massive role. With less privilege she would've handled that position worse?

Messofanego, report these people please.

[ShutUp]

That is some marvelous white knight spinning. ERA has told me all whiteys are privileged so therefore Daisy is too.

[HaughtyFrank]

If Scarlett Johansson had said this they'd tear her apart. Bunch of hypocrites

[team filler]

a mary sue in real life too! 

[ShutUp]

"I hate how women are treated in this industry"

The person who interviewed Daisy is a woman of color.

https://mobile.twitter.com/NosheenIqbal

This is why minorities are leaving ERA in droves.

[Lonewulfeus]

I love all the mouth breathers saying she should be given time to think about the question and her answer.  They want the right answer not the honest one she gave.

[Lonewulfeus]

"I hate how women are treated in this industry"

The person who interviewed Daisy is a woman of color.

Internalized misogyny

We gotta tell those dumb women how to think and act for their own good

[Transhuman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hillary-clinton-visits-the-howard-stern-show-for-her-first-interview.157162/post-27154319

I can never understand how people fell in love with this ghoul.

God, they're insufferable.

Just gonna take the time here to point to more blatant sexism in this thread, are we gonna need another 12 hours for our lovely mod team to decide if 3 days or a warning is good enough

Can you explain how "ghoul" is a sexist term, or are you going to continue to diminish actual sexism?

I'm trying to avoid derailing the thread too much, but if calling her a witch is sexist than moving one step from that should be too. Mocking her voice is apparently a 3 day, and in a previous thread calling her a cunt is worth just a warning, so I'm not sure how the grading in this class works.

Can you explain how "ghoul" is a sexist term, or are you going to continue to diminish actual sexism?

Eh, it could be a dog whistle, a replacement word for something more sexist

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2019-ot9-im-really-glad-im-not-on-twitter-nearly-enough-to-understand-all-the-references.147939/page-188#post-25964629

Missouri GOP are ghouls who should be jailed for life

First result in google search -> resetera+ghoul+republican

Could probably find tons more examples of men being called ghouls, but I don't have an account to search with.

[Hermit]

Yes, let it all unravel. YES!

[Coffee Dog]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/on-another-viewing-of-the-office-and.157721/post-27159281

Dying at this 3 month Tropic Thunder ban.

[Hermit]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/on-another-viewing-of-the-office-and.157721/post-27159281

Dying at this 3 month Tropic Thunder ban.

holy shit the new mods are on a rampage lmao

[Averon]

Its is obvious the mods are super overcompensating and are just blindly banning people for the slimmest instance of perceived bigotry, leaving context and common sense on the wayside (more so than usual). All this does is to encourage people to stick to OTs and generals threads or just peace out all together.

This is even worse than GAF moderation ever was and it's only been a day since this new status quo was implemented.

[Hermit]

100% worse than GAF. Era is a parody at this point. It's absolutely funny watching people constantly question mod choices.

[benjipwns]

YES YES BRING ABOUT YEAR ZERO FINALLY

[benjipwns]

He wasn't banned for liking The Office. He was banned for dismissing the racism in the scene as just "no filter." A thread in which we are discussing how best to handle bigotry isn't the place to talk about how certain kinds of bigotry aren't so bad. Do not hijack the thread over a single ban, given this is not what this thread is about.

Please don't shutdown people over valid concerns regarding ResetEra's ban policy. Of course a big part of what this thread is about is directly co-related to ban reasons and how to (and not to) post here by following this website's guidelines as "safely" as possible. It isn't rocket science to conclude that there's a clear confusion in how moderation works and the linked thread clearly exemplifies that.

On a side note, did you ever think of an official way to allow banned users to reply to a ban reason, even if via PM, to hear from them in a more thoughtful manner? Again - and this has been said here several times before - sometimes bans feel unnecessarily harsh because there's a clear view from most of the user base that the offending user acted out of ignorance, was being naive or joked about sensitive matters when the situation clearly didn't allow it. It could be one way to minimise RE's tarnished "brand" of being overly moderated, often to the point of unfairness.

An just to make sure I don't hit a nerve with the mods or admins, this is absolutely my opinion and feel free to completely disregard it.

[Coffee Dog]

It's so easy to imagine a world where Cerium cracked down, a bunch of people left the forum, but things continued on as normal.

We are fortunate to be in the one where he decided to crowdsource the future of his forum to a group of people who hate him. 

[ldcommando (notthegafone)]

Those woke star wars nerds are really in a pickle now.
Which marginalized group is going to flee era because of it?

[benjipwns]

It was a bullshit interview with baited questions.

Typical media garbage creating something out of nothing for the sake of controversy and web clicks.

I don't know, that whole article feels like some kind of gotcha type move.

I don't think she is saying what the journalist is trying to portray her as saying.

How is she privileged?
She got paid entry level salary in TFA

is this downplaying?

[benjipwns]

As I write this I'm literally breathing smoke, we have bush fires within 15km on each side of us and it's only a matter of time until they reach here. Summer has just started. I fully expect to have to evacuate by Xmas. The fire services are slowing it but have no way of stopping it, they reckon it will continue until it runs out of fuel or until we get sustained rain which is unlikely to happen until next year. Climate change is real and already having very real impacts on communities, flora and fauna. I know people here in Australia who have already lost their homes to fire and I know people back in the UK who lost nearly everything to flood last month. We're fucked and no one in power seems to care.

fires? in Australia? in the summer?

[benjipwns]

I imagine some just think they're so rich they can build any kind of safe zone fortress they need for themselves.

Don't know how they'll survive as social life forms, however, if the rest of the world is killing itself just to survive. Gonna be some Long Night shit. People freezing by their fires, going insane in seclusion, etc...

in all my years of going to the beach, I have never experienced colder water temperatures, as I have this summer. It’s the middle of freaking summer and the water is freezing. Something’s definitely not right.

10s of thousands of years of human history and I get to be born just in time for the mass extinction event.

Humans continue to be the most destructive force this planet has ever seen.

It won't be long until millions of people need to migrate or die.

The idea that everyone is going to die from this anyway greatly alleviates my depression.

Reminder to live as though you're dying, because in this case we might actually be dying soon.

[Tripon]

What I don't get is why Cerium doesn't just open the floodgates and approve every pending application for Ree. Like fuck trying to maintain a community you have no control over anyway. Just enjoy the chaos and makemmoney off of malware ads that you also pretend you have control of.

[benjipwns]

You fucking privileged assholes. The planet is on the brink and millions of people around the world are already suffering and dying due to climate change effects and you have the fucking gall to march up in an informational thread and whine about it because we're not thinking positive thoughts. Pathetic.

[Snoopycat_]

Tyler's plan to cater to the dregs has really paid off -

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/i-hate-society.1514359/

[Tripon]

I don't want to sound like a chest beating Tarzan, but who wants to bet that when it comes to a natural disaster, Men are still going to be required to solve it?

It's always easy to blame Men for everything but never have I actually seen a solution to what happens when you indeed get rid of us.

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/even-greta-admits-climate-change-is-a-socialist-backdoor.1513510/#post-256095628



JordanN graduates from junior status by literally buying himself out with gaf gold.

[benjipwns]

Tyler's plan to cater to the dregs has really paid off -

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/i-hate-society.1514359/

Make an appointment with a therapist and take steps to work through your problems. You've been drowning in bitterness for a long time now, and you radiate all that negativity outward, which changes how people act toward you in return. No matter how you've been wronged in the past, the people you're interacting with now are not those people, yet you treat everyone as if they are.

See a therapist.

The one reply in this thread that even remotely tries to be helpful. Thanks evillore I wish some other people were as considerate as you.

wow at Evilore stealing Ketkat's secret method to Mental Health

[benjipwns]

holy shit

User Banned (3 Days): Inappropriate comment

I can never understand how people fell in love with this ghoul.

God, they're insufferable.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hillary-clinton-visits-the-howard-stern-show-for-her-first-interview.157162/post-27164373

Hey, mods, we're gonna need some clarification here. What exactly is the "inappropriate commentary" in this post? Is it calling Hillary a ghoul, or is it the "they're insufferable" part? Because "ghoul" is not a sexist term and SurrenderDorothy should not have been banned for it. "Ghoul" has nothing to do with Hillary's appearance, it's not specific to women, it's not even unique to her. It's an increasingly common insult thrown around online for politicians that people don't like.

For example:

    Missouri GOP are ghouls who should be jailed for life

    They needed help to unlock a suspect’s account, not one of their own agents, you cousin-fucking ghoul.

(that one's about Giuliani)

    Get fucked, you ghoul. I really hope he gets in trouble again after Trump is out of office.

LOL at the “Steady State”.

 Fuck them all. Useless cowards and self-important ghouls.

    That is just one, ONE, single brick in this monster's heinous legacy. He has done so much harm to so many others. The audacity to try to frame him as anything less than a ghoul is staggering.

(about Reagan)

    Have zero problem with Momentum weaponising Twitter against the ghouls standing for the Conservative party, or the worse end of the Lib Dems.

    Even Nunes had the sense to say he wouldn’t comment. Gym Jordan seriously has no shame. Him and Gaetz are so beyond any sort of redemption, it’s sickening to see, and people keep voting for these soulless ghouls.

So as we can see, it is a term that is widely used and accepted on this forum and for which people do not get banned.

If the issue is that SurrenderDorothy said "they're insufferable", does that mean we can't express frustration at people who vote for candidates we don't like? Because we do that all the time for some other politicians and parties (considering the leanings of the userbase of this site, it's often quite justifiable!). It doesn't seem like any particular posters were being attacked in the post. If that's the reason for the ban, then we need clarity on it so we know what the bounds are.

F for sphagnum for modwhining

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/JournalistEW/status/1203186247604297730

[nudemacusers]

Lmao the mods just can’t win.