sigh Jesus fucking Christ, what the hell's happened here?
Yes, I understand where the staff are coming from -- or rather their
intentions (except for the 'appeal to SB and SV user-bases' aspect) behind it, especially
@LordSunhawk's and
@Spartan303's views. But, in reality? You're triggering everyone's danger alerts, for reasons already stated.
This may seem minor to you, but you're alienating users and have caused several to just up and walk away already.
For example, in a recent thread
@CarlManvers2019 and a few others made jokes about British people and posh accents -- I, in turn, made a joke about "fucking inbred Yankees"... and it was a clear joke. We were
kidding, and
we all knew it. What, is that type of humour going to get us infracted now? What about genuinely calling people "fucking idiots" for when they're acting like, well, fucking idiots? Calling someone a Leftard because they're a Leftard (note: Leftard does
not equate someone who's on the Left, just the nutters that appear to comprise of the Left now, like on SB)?
See, before there were no doubts. Now, posting that sort of thing? It has doubts whether you're going to get hit from it... all because of this post/topic.
Again, I understand the motivations why, but considering that most people here walked away from SB, SV, and our other sister sites for the very same reasons? Frankly, you screwed up big time, "hurricane in a teacup" or not.