Okay let me see if I understand the situation a few months ago they banned saying anything in support of and by extension anything positive about trump. A few days ago they put a temp ban on Us politics because so much of it on there forums is negative.

 Now I'm no expert but pretty sure a lot of Us poltics is gonna involve talking about Trump that your not allowed to say anything positive about......gee I wonder how they ended up in this situation

Quote from: Antiquation!;1088577Holy shit. They've finally built it; a literal hugbox safespace moderator pity zone. Now finally you can be banned for even an implication of looking at the moderation sideways, and it's been made explicit! The goosestepping has never been quite so cacophonous.

"It's not the end of the world, but I can see it from here."

This isn't what we wanted
This isn't what we meant
When our great rebellion began.
We hoped to make a farm where
All animals were free
Of hunger, whips and man.

You must be strong to grow Animalism
Rake out the stones
Rip out the weeds.
We'll reap the harvest of Animalism
Marching wherever
Napoleon leads.

Remember when theRPGsite had a banner ad running on TBP?

I think that it is time to do that again.

Quote from: Lurtch;1088580That dude is a dude and married to a woman and he's calling himself a lesbian? White people be crazy!

LMAO.  Post of the year.  What the fuck is going on on TBP?  It's positively ridiculous at this point.

Why exactly is RPG.net banning politics now?

What's gonna happen when the Democrat primary really heats up and pits their various liberal factions against each other?

If Trump wins 2020, I can only imagine the fireworks!

Quote from: CarlD.;1088574Modding a forum is "Emotionally exhausting"? Are you fucking kidding me...

Being the Thought Police requires spending a lot of Psi points!

Quote from: Lurtch;1088580That dude is a dude and married to a woman and he's calling himself a lesbian? White people be crazy!

Lurtch wins the thread!

Quote from: Doc Sammy;1088584As a bisexual man who deliberately kept himself in the closet until he was of drinking age because of bullshit that was fed to him by Protestant rednecks in Bible Belt Appalachia,

Well, if you're going to apologize for those LGBT individuals who also happen to be a-holes, the least I can do is apologize for the Christian a-holes who were so sh***y to you. Lots of us (and I include myself here) find it very easy to forget that "speaking the truth in love" has to involve a good deal of actual, well, love first before it's at all likely to be of any use to anyone. That God loves everyone is no excuse for us to slack off and leave that to Him.

The tone of the whole thing is creepy and manipulative as Hell. "Remember, Board Citizens, We are the only thing keeping you from the tyranny of rampant -isms, your only protection. Only we Mods can keep you safe and you want to be safe don't you? We only abuse you to protect you!"

And allot of them eat it up.

I find reading too much crap about a crappy forum called rpgnet very emotionally exhausting.

Quote from: Stephen Tannhauser;1088630Well, if you're going to apologize for those LGBT individuals who also happen to be a-holes, the least I can do is apologize for the Christian a-holes who were so sh***y to you. Lots of us (and I include myself here) find it very easy to forget that "speaking the truth in love" has to involve a good deal of actual, well, love first before it's at all likely to be of any use to anyone. That God loves everyone is no excuse for us to slack off and leave that to Him.

I really do appreciate the sentiment and thanks for your apology.

Honestly, with the demise of the Christian Right in national politics, I think the biggest threats to the LGBT community is from within the community itself in the form of radfem dangerhairs and transtrenders

I think both the Christians and the LGBT community need to bury the hatchet as a whole.

Quote from: Spinachcat;1088616Why exactly is RPG.net banning politics now?

It's only temporary.

QuoteRight now, things have been extremely tense in terms of US politics, and additionally threads have proliferated enormously. But at the same time, there is no specific thing that is dramatically happening right now - it's just the same old same old and generalized stress.

So, from May 20 through June 3rd, there is to be no discussion of US politics. All existing threads on the subject will be closed. People can start new ones once the hiatus is over.

For these purposes, US politics means anything said or done by a US (federal or state) politician, anything done by any branch of US government, anything relating to US elections in any way.

If something drastic happens, the mods might choose to end the hiatus early. We will do so only if we decide to - don't start a thread in Trouble Tickets because Trump said something vacuous.

And just so we're clear, stuff like "some person was the victim of sexism/racism/homophobia/etc" does not count as politics unless US politicians or government are involved.

(And please, don't fill this thread with "But if I stand on one foot and hum the Flumphlandian National Anthem, then I can still talk about US politics, right?" Don't search for edge cases and excuses.)

Quote from: rgalex;1088643It's only temporary.

But the bans of those taking offense to the mod-mocking of those who disagree are permanent.

Quote from: Estrecca;1088548Which has apparently been followed by permabans.

Howdy new member! Welcome.

Regarding the current hiatus TBP is taking from US politics I'm of two minds. I think I'd like TBP to be less political, but it seems they're only taking this step in regards to partisan/electoral politics, and only doing so to recharge their batteries to double-down on their moderation when they open that subject matter back up.

On the plus side it was interesting to see TBP push back against the "silence=agreement" complainers. Sometimes you just want to talk about gaming.

Quote from: Doc Sammy;1088642I think the biggest threats to the LGBT community is from within the community itself in the form of radfem dangerhairs and transtrenders.

It's the curse of any successful advocacy movement that it inevitably succumbs to internal factionalism.

Quote from: Kevin197;1088587Okay let me see if I understand the situation a few months ago they banned saying anything in support of and by extension anything positive about trump. A few days ago they put a temp ban on Us politics because so much of it on there forums is negative.

 Now I'm no expert but pretty sure a lot of Us poltics is gonna involve talking about Trump that your not allowed to say anything positive about......gee I wonder how they ended up in this situation

That really hit my Virtue Signalling button. A public display of an absolutely consquenceless action meant to look like some kind of moral stand. It wasn't as if there was some flood of pro Trump posting they had to contend with particularly given that site political leanings. Personally, I didn't care not being a Trump supporter but it was kind of eye roll inducing... .like making a big deal out of forming an Anti-Kitten kicking coalition on PETA forum and acting like it qualifies you for sainthood.

Quote from: Lurtch;1088580That dude is a dude and married to a woman and he's calling himself a lesbian? White people be crazy!

I'm not a psychologist or neurologist and given the confirmed existence of conditions like  congenital physical intersexuality and gender dysphoria  by  such medical professionals there must be something to it, but the propensity particularly online of "I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body, that's why I have an erection, honey..." and other facets of the "Transgender" phenomena do make me raise a brow...

I mean just because other diseases exist doesn't mean there's no such thing as hypocondriacs and cons and men pretending to be women because the think it will result in better treatment or some reason isn't exactly unhead of.

Quote from: Opaopajr;1088647Howdy new member! Welcome.

I expect there will be a few more in the wake of the recent rpg.net purge. Though there might other sites that are getting the rpg.net refugees. Whatever happened to that site that was formed when Tangency wasn't Tangency enough? IIRC, it had a pink background...?