Cheesesteaks
A true son of Philadelphia
There is a bunch of drama that has occurred over the last 24 or so hours and so far as I can tell every possible place where it would be on-topic to comment on it has been locked. So a few statements:
The only reason I am still here is the fact that there remain sane people on your staff and in the userbase, but so far as I can tell there is a lot of deception involved in the moderation of this community and it flows from the very top of it. At the minimum until this whole debacle is satisfactorily addressed I'm going to walk my participation here far back from where I was planning to, if it fails to be so... well you've taught me a lesson on freely trusting people on the internet.
P.S. this should have been a chan.
- There needs to be a place for open commentary on this subject that doesn't require me to go somewhere else.
- It is going to be real freaking odd to juxtapose "An Appeal to the Sietch for our shared stand against Totalitarianism" and not allow discussion on the topic on the forum. Rather the shit we are here to get away from innit?
- Fascism is a really spicy ideology in any of its forms with many many definitions and very few of them I consider palatable, while I'm OK with coexisting in the same discussion sphere as fascists and ultratraditionalists, really I find that their opinions liven up the debate field, I need quite a bit more buy in to enjoy having them over me in a community. Same deal with commies.
- I recommend we have a 'Fascism discussion thread' sometime in the near future from the relative jump in importance exactly what fascism means has had to the forum.
- Deleting the Punch Card Girl account and making no mention of it being a secret mod alt and then editing the posts post-deletion without mentioning the edit is bullshit, no matter the contents of the edit.
- I'm going to state that my major issues with fascism stem more from "Everything Within the State, Nothing Against the State, Nothing Outside the State" more so than the racism side, through both give me issues.
- The presence of secret mod-alts is an issue in itself and the stated reasoning of 'not intimidating users in debates' is also bullshit because it does nothing to solve that issue unless your are relying on the deception, and deception written innately into how the board works is a bigger red flag than you'd find at a red army march.
- If you were concerned about your own privacy the solution would have not to create a name associated with yours in the first place, not some two tiered system.
The only reason I am still here is the fact that there remain sane people on your staff and in the userbase, but so far as I can tell there is a lot of deception involved in the moderation of this community and it flows from the very top of it. At the minimum until this whole debacle is satisfactorily addressed I'm going to walk my participation here far back from where I was planning to, if it fails to be so... well you've taught me a lesson on freely trusting people on the internet.
P.S. this should have been a chan.