I'm inclined to think that if one knowingly decides to "stoop down to being a piece of shit", they shouldn't be surprised to have their posts moderated accordingly. "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes", like ERA folk would put it.
You know, the longer i post here, the more i start to wonder if people
genuinely feel that way. I can't imagine too many situations in which someone who isn't a piece of shit calls someone else a retard for sharing an opinion in a public forum.
I've noticed
alot of tag-play around here regarding "opinions". People can say whatever they want and nobody is able to take issue with it, until they do, at which point they're the victim, and you're an asshole for "assuming" things....Which is comical when the original comment is usually a very broad, very negative assumption about not a single person but entire groups and sometimes cultures of people.
People have this strange idea that fair freedom is the ability to say asshole things to anyone, yet cosmic law is supposed to protect them from people having anything to say about it....Cry and cry about how left-wing people are unnecessarily accusatory and hastily judgmental, yet choose to be unnecessarily inflammatory....and hastily judgmental. And then have the audacity to call people "Snowflakes". It's the most bitch-made philosophy i've interacted with.
if that's the case, I could get behind that because ERA's warning/banning policy seems to be an arbitrary shitshow more often than not. Not something any community should strive for tbh.
There's a double-edged sword here, because lack of any real rules means it's really easy for topics to turn shitshow and never recover for it. But that's just up to what you perceive as a "shitshow".
I can and will not be the judge over if that's true or not, but also it's completely besides my argument. My point is that stuff that gets you banned on ERA would not get anyone banned on most boards on the internet that are being run competently. So if anything, ERA is the completely opposite tip of that scale and in that sense no less problematic than what you are criticising about GAF. And if I have to choose between one board that has the fault of allowing too little opinions, which breeds lynch-mob mentality, and one board that has the fault of allowing too many opinions, I will logically choose the one that cultivates less of an echo chamber.
That's just the thing though. GAF is no less of an echo chamber than Era is. Not by virtue of its moderation, but by it's lack of it.
I mean seriously lol,
just look at how Era was formed. The far-left wingers got enraged over an issue, account-suicided, and left. There are left-wing people on this board but the forum is
very clearly right leaning, at times very far right leaning.
It's because the counter-balance to GAF's political community all left. And now it's composed of people who literally just shit on Era and left-wing politics all day. It's literally the Anti-Era in here.
It's not that people with sensibilities opposite of GAF's aren't allowed to post.....
it's that they're never gonna post here to begin with. GAF has already been labeled, and if they didn't know before they got here, it becomes EXTREMELY obvious within a few days of posting. I myself came back expecting a more central environment, but that is
not what GAF is. It's identity is intrinsically linked with Era at this point and so is it's community.
If you think this place cultivates (or even embraces) opposing opinions
just because you don't get expelled for having them, then i'm sorry to disappoint you. Lol communities don't work like that in real life, and they most certainly don't work like that on the internet with anonymity and lack of consequences.
Edit:
Regarding that game of tag i was referring to:
Yes, generic vague nebulous accusations will heighten your credibility.
I sure can imagine how you'd misrepresent them.
Your feelings are evidence for nothing else than your own state of mind.
"Oh, I clearly know who you are enough to talk about your "consistent politics", so i'm present for all these conversations"
"but I don't see anything? People don't say mean shit to you, you just "interpret it wong " because of your "feelings" and "state of mind".
See? This is what i mean lol.
At least on Era when someone decides to call someone a piece of shit, they just fucking own it. The amount of timid tap dancing here is fucking ridiculous.
If nothing else, at least i can respect people like Brap or Tesseract for just being direct lol
