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[Syaoran Li]

RPG.net is the cancer that is killing the online tabletop RPG fandom.

 

[AnOminous]

K but how does that not describe most Kiwi mods too tho?

It is a strange irony that a lolcow forum full of lolcows and modded by lolcows has some of the best moderation I've seen.

 

[robobobo]

the type of people who this kind of talk attracts would rather see Trump supporters shot than be allowed to express their opinions because "muh fascism".

No, these are the people who are cognizant that it looks really bad if they openly espouse violence, so will still claim that violence is bad! Except you'll see they give lifetime bans for Drumpf-lovers, and weeklong bans for people writing a paragraph about their desire to rape and murder a conservative. There is not any sort of real enforcement against violence, that just gets a slap on the wrist.

 

[Wallace]

CrazyIvan has recently joined the mod team on RPGNet. Here comes the accusations of ableism.

 

[Emperor Julian]

Ossifax is potentially trolling, they cannot prove it so have to take him seriously.

This is the Hell they've built. I have no sympathy.

 

[anti SJW]

Funny years ago I made a post there using the term "Japs", having no idea it could be considered a slur and disrespectful. I was told it was and I changed it and said I was sorry there.

Now someone else tells a mod her finds something that's offensive there and the mods say it's ok. Go figure.

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

It's a fucking doomed endevour. If you go back far enough, most of our derogatory language was once specifically something-ist. Ableist, racist, sexist, whatever. As soon as you clear one hurdle, someone is going to dig up a new one, until all you have left is a language with neutral and positive terminology.

Which is the end goal, I think. Control by linguistic manipulation. Of some people, in any event, probably not the RPG.net mods, who I think are more on the order of useful idiots than grand masterminds. They actually, surprisingly, made the correct call on this particular issue. Although I think it was more the thin purple line coming into play than any actual conviction, but I could be wrong. Zeea is not my first choice for a reasoned and considered response on anything, but it's what we have.

 

[Boss Bass]

So they’re aware of how “ablest” spending all fucking day posting on a video game forum is, right?

 

[Doctor Doom]

CrazyIvan has recently joined the mod team on RPGNet. Here comes the accusations of ableism.

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He should really stop using such ableist language towards people with Dysarthria.

 

[The Great Chandler]

It's a fucking doomed endevour. If you go back far enough, most of our derogatory language was once specifically something-ist. Ableist, racist, sexist, whatever. As soon as you clear one hurdle, someone is going to dig up a new one, until all you have left is a language with neutral and positive terminology.

So Newspeak then?

 

[Emperor Julian]

So Newspeak then?

Yes but on the bright side newspeak is probably unviable since it still requires negative terms and language is incredably mutable.

"big brother is double plus ungood."

"rpg forums is problematic, safespace is shitlord."

 

[Feline Darkmage]

Make a joke, fucking threadbanned, you shitlord.

Project ResetPG forums is coming along nicely.

 

[BlueArmedDevil]

Not sure if troll.

 

[Emperor Julian]

Genuinely tempted to start doing this sort of thing myself, I've had a long term viewer account so it's not like I'm just showing up.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

You can tell how poorly a forum's rules were thought out by how easy it is to concern troll, and how much any individual rule enforcement depends on the complaint being made in good faith.

I cannot imagine an effective way to concern troll here in a way to get moderator action on anyone except myself.

That's, of course, the issue with any system that says "Something is offensive and bad if someone is actually offended by it". There's no way to enforce that except completely arbitrarily, even if you were interested in being as fair as possible.

 

[BlueArmedDevil]

 

[AnOminous]

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Talk about colossal lack of self-awareness from a forum that literally only exists at this point to call people fascists for liking things they don't.

 

[Chancroid]

lol, the RPG.net equivalent of suicide by cop

 

[Feline Darkmage]

lol someone had that sock laying in wait for a very very long time. they make a good argument, wonder why they were too pussy to do it on main though?

 

[KimCoppolaAficionado]

lol, the RPG.net equivalent of suicide by cop

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Lol I own the book and besides the weirdly gendered stuff the rest of the problems don't exist. Like half the fucking Imperial provinces have been full of huns and swarthoids since the early 90's.