But you're still censoring free speech when you shuffle it off to a corner to be ignored.
Like it or not, the discussion of whether a developer is "woke" is relevant to the vast majority of users on this forum.
That's exactly why it
wouldn't be censorship. The majority of people here would simply go there because it's the new hot place to be.
It's a win/win with zero censorship.
It is relevant information to us, whether we wish to purchase a game, or even simply to try it out, and to shuffle it off to a new section is still just hiding the opinions on a forum in which most of us are genuinely curious about that. It's ok if you're not curious about it, but you would be in the minority of that opinion here, so that would be a minority affectation pressed upon the majority, which....is kind of the root of the problem that many of us have with the pushing and support of this woke ideology in our entertainment in the first place. Can you see the irony there? You're using the woke playbook, indeed, the Era playbook to be specific, to shield a minority from the relevant opinions of the majority on a product.
And I would love for the minority of us to be able to discuss video games without constant derails.
Come on man, you know I like you brother, we always get along, but think about that for a second. That might work over at the purple place, but we're not in the business of hiding our dirty laundry over here and silencing dissent. This is the last forum that doesn't do so, and it's what makes this place the last bastion of game criticism and everything that can entail. We can't just silence things when they're not to the liking of a particular demographic of people, we have seen where that leads, we have history to prove it, and it's nowhere I wanna be, and it's nowhere most of the users here wanna be, and I honestly don't think it's where you wanna be either because you're here discussing with us rather than over on the purple forum.
Unlike some here, I don't base my decisions on whether or not the jilted ex (a.k.a. the purple place) does it or doesn't do it.
You can look at my post history for proof.
I have said time and time again years ago that GAF's community and identity should operate on behalf of
GAF-only instead of 'let's not do what those guys do' as people here constantly care about what they say. I stopped years ago and
moved on.
Doing such a thing is simply not a way to find balance within a community. But it never happened so it doesn't matter.
People don't like the woke discussions, fine. Ignore them. They are relevant to much of us, and they will continue to be so, it is what it is.
This
doesn't work because they're being dragged into almost
all threads.
That was my point.
Your solution is a non-solution. I need something better. Any better idea, no matter how small.
I don't want anyone banned for being pro woke
Me neither and that's not my stance.
I don't want anyone banned for being anti woke
Me neither and that's not my stance.
we definitely should not be trying to shuffle off all criticism that happens to touch on a specific cultural issue off to a dark corner to be forgotten about.
How would it be the dark corner if the majority of this site discusses it? It's like I stated above.
In order for us to have an earnest conversation about this you have to stop approaching our conversation thinking I want bans and censorship. I haven't said any such thing, yet I keep being put into that box with the rest of the people who think that way.
Do you truly see
zero middle ground here?
Zero solutions?
Zero compromise? Has everyone even forgotten that this site (which is private by the way) has terms, conditions, and rules?
