I would suggest tracking time of the month too but I don’t think transwomen get periods.
(This is just an edgy joke, calm your tits.)
Not offended, obviously its a word joke. But you know that
some ERA users will take offense at that. Actually, that is the kind of comment that would see you a ban for
transphobia despite the obvious
intent not being to hurt.
Hah that first post example is mine. I was thinking of posting it here but wasn't sure if it was against TOS to post about resetera. At least with my example I feel the mods were being dumbshits about my ban as they literally couldn't rationalize it when I was communicating with them through email. Then they increased the ban time and gave me a warning of there being "severe" consequences for another infraction, so I said fuck it permaban me I'm going back to GAF. Even as a liberal I had to tiptoe in political threads or "Isn't X such a bigot/racist?" threads when I tried to do pushback. It's groupthink with mod reinforcement, just like the old GAF used to be.
The increasing ban times are very much a recent thing (Or well, the
Duration pending remarks). Some get a default week ban and then
after review it gets extended. This is definitely something they didn't do till like 2 months ago (Or atleast not as pronounced)
It is indeed frustrating and rather unhealthy that a user has to
fear his own words when posting. Obviously, truly vile stuff has no place ever, but often i found myself being hesitant. Not because i said anything vile, but, because of other users getting flagged over it, that you are aware that one
The Names member sees your posts and responds with a moderating action. Not out of fairness or balance, or consideration even, but more often than not out of emotion. Just because people get banned often by this
line of thinking by the staff does not make a
The Names moderator a
good moderator: It means that they moderate based on feelings, and not based on weighing judgements.
I respect your opinion dude and you obviously know more about the situation than I do. However, I think power tripping is part of the problem, the bigger problem lies with the culture and while that's something that some mods will deal better than others, it's sad that there appears to be some kind of expectation of the exclusion of dissenting opinions.
Oh, power tripping is absolutely a
big part of the problem. I am just saying that not every staff member (Most of them) don't display this. They interact with the community and are
part of it. The power tripping is solely with the group of staffers that clearly don't moderate out of fairness.
Same goes for the inclusion of transgender people on the mod team for
diversity reasons. I absolutely have no problem with transgenders, but to pick a minority on the staff to appear as diverse as possible is not what i would consider a great demand for a moderator. In my opinion, you pick moderators based on
skill, transparency, friendlyness, and are approachable. Not because you want to have a diverse background. You should not pick mods
just because they represent a minority, you don't pick mods because you want to represent diversity: You pick mods who are good in what they are doing. That they are trans, gay, LGBT
should not be the predominant reason, and i feel that this has been the predominant reason when they were picked in the beginning.* Because, why else are quite few of
The Names and the little helpers people who either are transgender or support the passive-aggressive approach as established by these people?
*This in lesser ways also plays a part in society. You should not pick a female boss as a CEO simply because she is female: You pick her because she has the best overall qualities.
This is a video game forum first and foremost. We're not political commentators with deep understanding about the issues in the world, sometimes people lose focus of that. Maybe those dissenting opinion are not the product of that person being an asshole, but possibly due to him/her lacking proper knowledge about the issues that are being discussed. And then that person is met with ridiculous dog pilings that aren't either helpful or productive. It doesn't accomplish anything.
Agreed. I don't like the insane dogpiling, even more so the baiting that occurs on ERA. This was a problematic thing even on OldGAF and i am glad that (so far) this has been less of an issue. People actually
discuss instead of
baiting/tricking people into a ban. Mostly because the current staff seems far less influential to this kind of thing.
Its a bit like Neymar at the World Cup: Trying to stir shit up and hoping the rev (In this case: The mod) will bite. This can be anything from aggressive posting to making really vague threads where you grade people's replies. That's how i got banned, anyways. That isnt to say people cannot have diverse opinions (By all means!) but when its clear that your
intent isnt on discussion but rather to either spam/bait/draw attention to your behavior, then you aren't properly discussing. And that's how i got banned.
Even if parts of the moderation team aren't as bad as others, if I used a MAGA hat avatar there, how many of those wouldn't ban me on sight? How many wouldn't demand me to change my avatar? Maybe one or two. That right there is a problem.
I agree. Then again i dont equate someone with a MAGA hat to be a nazi. Given that thread the boy in question appearently said some racist stuff and yes, that's deplorable. Still does not mean that the answer you have to give back is one of violence (or advocating as such). Because by doing so you aren't a smidge better than the trash you try to call out as trash.
Cerium, on the other hand, built that community from the start to be a safe space. He had every single reason to believe that perhaps making Sweet Nicole a fucking moderator wasn't a good idea. He tried to boycott a game because a guy he didn't like had 2 lines of dialogue in it. That's the kind of guy you want building a large community, someone that supports actual creators that badly? NeoGAF became something that wasn't good, Resetera was created with the idea of amplifying that. I just don't think it's the same.
That is actually a good observation. But was all this the trigger for Cerium? In the early days i did read a historic post on Cerium's behavior that supports your opinion, so i am not going to ignore that and i definitely agree that ERA was made by Cerium as a safe space.. but, outside of that, i really do believe that Cerium has no clue what
The Names do. How could he, most of his time is in the site.*
*Although the takedown of the banbot by his LLC does imply that he is somehow
aware of it all though..
So yeah. They'll basically do whatever they want. There's no point in having a TOS even. They do whatever they want, and justify it however they want. I used to get angry, but now I generally just laugh. It's the best way to go.
You can even get banned for
offsite reporting towards a mod. See the rather infamous Inferno for that. Granted, it does not happen often, but it does occur.
As for the banbot,
Crunklord gave a graph on the amount of people banned for a specific reason. As with the previous graph: It does not run from November start so these are preliminary and
might not be accurate at all.
Notice how the
Bad Faith reasoning has a sudden spike in around the 2nd week of May.
And on a another note: Ketkat:
''There's a difference between disagreeing with a group of people and completely dismissing anything and everything they say, while talking down to them. You're ignoring the experiences of trans people in this thread while throwing out insults about the people who have spoken up about this quite a few times. If you really want what's best for trans people, then actually listen to us. Listen to our experiences, and listen to why people are upset about this. And then talk WITH us, and not DOWN to us.''
Please follow your own advice for once instead of (once again) taking the moral highground.. So far, i haven't seen you address my post (or anyone else's) in this thread.*
*Taken out of context on purpose to denote the bolded, as this is a repetitive thing ive seen and i wanted to highlight it. Hence why i refrained to use the context in which it was said, as that isn't the
intent of me using that cite. It is to
highlight phrasing, nothing more. I say this as a disclaimer.
Also, by all means the original thread is worth a read:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/sc...rector-for-something-else-ill-conceived.53111
