(Reposted at catsfive's request in the main thread)
This post is a great opportunity to once again state that the way you are handling this is in general terrible.
You guys conveniently ignore your own rules when it suits you and that's not cool.
For the fiftieth time in case you want to ree at me, I'm good with banning people for being egregious with that.
An unmoderated forum becomes Voat and that was a total cesspool.
But we don't need snarky posts attacking people, we don't need straw mans or ad hominems when we tell you we don't like it, and we don't need the attitude that you guys have shown.
I agreed with you on separating those conspiracy theories from this and relegating them to the conspiracy win. However, you broke the rules you set up for everyone else by calling everyone who believed in those "retards" -- I did not agree with that.
The post that sparked all this was a virtue signalling post that was poorly handled, attacking people in this community and trying to act like the people who were upset were the people doing it.
The mod hid behind statements of "I think they're shills", yet still continued in the comments section accusing other people of being the ones to do it.
When people bring how bad this is being handled up, yet another mod comes out and says "don't be dramatic" when it has totally distracted the community and created a divide that did not exist before the virtue signalling.
I will give you props for finally stickying something that isn't inflammatory towards users but I'm not sure the divide is going to be fixable if this behavior continues.
Exactly! I believe in free speech and that I can say that word, but I'm not upset I can't say it here. I never could. But this leftist mod drama about this word, that you've been removing the whole time the site has existed, is just like the sleeper mods who ruin other alternative communities. If you have such distain upon the people you moderate, you need to fucking leave. We don't need passive aggressive liberals in positions of power, especially here.
(Reposted at catsfive's request in the main thread)
This post is a great opportunity to once again state that the way you are handling this is in general terrible.
You guys conveniently ignore your own rules when it suits you and that's not cool.
For the fiftieth time in case you want to ree at me, I'm good with banning people for being egregious with that.
An unmoderated forum becomes Voat and that was a total cesspool.
But we don't need snarky posts attacking people, we don't need straw mans or ad hominems when we tell you we don't like it, and we don't need the attitude that you guys have shown.
I agreed with you on separating those conspiracy theories from this and relegating them to the conspiracy win. However, you broke the rules you set up for everyone else by calling everyone who believed in those "retards" -- I did not agree with that.
The post that sparked all this was a virtue signalling post that was poorly handled, attacking people in this community and trying to act like the people who were upset were the people doing it.
The mod hid behind statements of "I think they're shills", yet still continued in the comments section accusing other people of being the ones to do it.
When people bring how bad this is being handled up, yet another mod comes out and says "don't be dramatic" when it has totally distracted the community and created a divide that did not exist before the virtue signalling.
I will give you props for finally stickying something that isn't inflammatory towards users but I'm not sure the divide is going to be fixable if this behavior continues.
If this doesn't get resolved, there's going to be another fucking board made 100%. We don't want power tripping leftist mods HERE of all places
Catsfive reacted positively to my criticism. I believe that the point has been made. Bridging the gap isn't going to be easy though.
Most people weren't upset about the banning of the word -- we already knew it was against the rules.
We are just frustrated with the virtue signalling and how it was handled.
Exactly! I believe in free speech and that I can say that word, but I'm not upset I can't say it here. I never could. But this leftist mod drama about this word, that you've been removing the whole time the site has existed, is just like the sleeper mods who ruin other alternative communities. If you have such distain upon the people you moderate, you need to fucking leave. We don't need passive aggressive liberals in positions of power, especially here.