Quote from: Pat;1089788https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/account-deletion.845158/post-22563184

Yeah, I saw that from them. They're sadly very wrong about what is PI and what is not. The cited law actually spells it out. It includes your user name. And other things.

Honestly, they're going to get sued by someone who wants to make a point.

But it seems like on TBP there's this mandate that "If ____ posts ____, put your foot down."

It's sociological. Like mind-games. Like they want a certain 'attitude' there and if you don't 'fit', harassment ensues.

It felt like Reaching with an SJW slant.

It's going to be interesting when this moratorium ends tomorrow. I suspect political talk will be scant (Both from fear of bans the desire to no tax their prot... the Mods fragile psyches) and there will still be allot Banhammering.

Quote from: Theory of Games;1090291But it seems like on TBP there's this mandate that "If ____ posts ____, put your foot down."

It's sociological. Like mind-games. Like they want a certain 'attitude' there and if you don't 'fit', harassment ensues.

It felt like Reaching with an SJW slant.

They seem to want Tangency to be a place of 'lighthearted' and fluffy chatter except when someone (often a mod) want to grandstand about on their pet issues and read their own opinions repeated back at them by different user names. There was increasing nagging about anyone that wasn't happy happy There's no way the Left can lose! in the political thread getting poo pooed and "Warned" by Mods. His rampant thread cop-ism and scolding will continue until morale improves is the big reason what I think Crinos will be mod soon.

Quote from: Michele;1089845I have never been a moderator or admin, and I've never had an exhausting job.
But I do know a joung woman who's routinely doing 12-hour shifts as a physician in a pediatric ER ward, often with the senior physician being unavailable for some reason or other. I also used to know an old man who had commanded a paratrooper company in WWII.
I tend to see forum moderation as an activity based on the premise that nobody will die or suffer permanent bodily impairment as a result of your choices.

Quote from: CarlD.;1089865As far as I can tell, Omega has a different definition of emotionally exhausting than I do too. I've never found similar positions to forum mod as emotionally exhausting or even heard people with them describes them as such before. If I did  find a position as Mod/Admin 'emotionally exhaustion' I would have resigned as its a non critical, unpaid entirely voluntary position. *shrug* I will respect his life experiences and word and agree to disagree on the topic.

More like you just havent gotten stuck in the middle moderating some of this stuff. Or where your decision could mean someone has to be banned from an area. That can wear you out sometimes really fast if the matter is a heated one or someones account is on the line. Especially if you get a bunch of those close together. But the real exhausting ones are the flat out trouble makers. The aforementioned stalkers, and especially the covert hate group. Those were messes I had to handle pretty much on my own.

Usually though its not a hassle. I just look at the report log and parse out who did what to who. And a few times I've had to reprimand the person filing the complaint because it turned out THEY were the one who started it. Not the accused. Sometimes its just really annoying. About any given IC abuser trying to demand their 'rights' was that.

But I've had times where it was pretty trying and "God would you people just fucking stop fucking with eachother for 5 fucking minutes! argh!"

Quote from: Tanin Wulf;1089900Yeah, I saw that from them. They're sadly very wrong about what is PI and what is not. The cited law actually spells it out. It includes your user name. And other things.

Where did you find user names mentioned in the law?

Quote from: Eisenmann;1089889Yup. Same. Grubman is another name that springs to mind - back when exploring and playing games was a thing.

Grubman was a good poster. What happened?

Quote from: Aglondir;1091119Grubman was a good poster. What happened?

Nothing in particular. Just lamenting days gone by.

I've just been permabanned for suggesting that an election with a high (10 times more than previously) proportion of postal votes warranted an investigation by the electoral commission. This apparently is racist dogwhistling. The fact that this behaviour is most often associated with the Britisish Pakistani community is a matter of historical fact.

I really cannot be arsed with that place anymore, I occupy the British centre-left position most of the time but this lot really do take the piss. I've had local councilors arrested for fiddling votes by registering lots of postal voters (20 in a 1 bedroom flat for instance) so I know it happens. I like the phrase Generation X Liberal, that probably does describe me.

Maybe I should have appealed with the phrase "Denying my lived experience".

The only thing I'll miss will be the tangency forum, but I can live without it.

Quote from: Altheus;1091299I've just been permabanned for suggesting that an election with a high (10 times more than previously) proportion of postal votes warranted an investigation by the electoral commission. This apparently is racist dogwhistling. The fact that this behaviour is most often associated with the Britisish Pakistani community is a matter of historical fact.

I liked that one of the supporting pieces of evidence proving you were a bad fit is that you had the temerity to suggest that electric razors might be a better deal over the long run, compared to expensive cartridges. That's racist!

Quote from: Altheus;1091299I've just been permabanned for suggesting that an election with a high (10 times more than previously) proportion of postal votes warranted an investigation by the electoral commission. This apparently is racist dogwhistling. The fact that this behaviour is most often associated with the Britisish Pakistani community is a matter of historical fact.

I really cannot be arsed with that place anymore, I occupy the British centre-left position most of the time but this lot really do take the piss. I've had local councilors arrested for fiddling votes by registering lots of postal voters (20 in a 1 bedroom flat for instance) so I know it happens. I like the phrase Generation X Liberal, that probably does describe me.

Maybe I should have appealed with the phrase "Denying my lived experience".

The only thing I'll miss will be the tangency forum, but I can live without it.

Man I'm learning a lot of bullshit terms recently.  "dogwhistling", "sealioning", "catfishing".  Jesus Christ.

Quote from: zagreus;1091360Man I'm learning a lot of bullshit terms recently.  "dogwhistling", "sealioning", "catfishing".  Jesus Christ.

what the fuck is catfishing???

Quote from: SavageSchemer;1091366what the fuck is catfishing???

Dude pretending to be a chick online to get attention and/or money. I suppose it's become a sore topic if someone accuses a trans person of being a catfish, but that's just a guess.

[video=youtube_share;cjcVJsHF3Cw]https://youtu.be/cjcVJsHF3Cw[/youtube]

Quote from: Aglondir;1089350The mods are deleting posts they don't like.

Are they now?

well that's good to know.

Quote from: myleftnut;1089365The best part is seeing the red banned logo on the members in support of the policy.  Maybe their Trump hate wasn't rabid enough?

They truly eat their own.

Quote from: myleftnut;1089378Do you guys think these people smell their own hypocrisy or are they so deluded that they're blind to it?

I'm sure the sociopaths are well aware.

Quote from: myleftnut;1089378This behavior kind of reminds me of post colonial theory.  Where the once oppressed take on the behavior of their once oppressors but end up just directing the oppression at their own people.

They're the kind of people who continually miss the point of Animal Farm.

Quote from: Tanin Wulf;1089783I really do wonder how they're going to handle the change in California law which will require them to allow people to delete their records with RPG.net. Move their HQ and officers (of the underlying company) out of California?

I've looked into this, and this doesn't apply to them unless they do one of the following:

• Earn annual gross revenues in excess of $25 million.
• Receive or disclose the personal information of 50,000 or more California residents, households or devices on an annual basis.
• Derive 50 percent or more of their annual revenues from selling California residents' personal information.

Quote from: Tanin Wulf;1089900Honestly, they're going to get sued by someone who wants to make a point.

One can only hope.

Quote from: Altheus;1091299I've just been permabanned for suggesting that an election with a high (10 times more than previously) proportion of postal votes warranted an investigation by the electoral commission. This apparently is racist dogwhistling. The fact that this behaviour is most often associated with the Britisish Pakistani community is a matter of historical fact.

If there's one thing they hate, it's facts.

Quote from: Pat;1091307I liked that one of the supporting pieces of evidence proving you were a bad fit is that you had the temerity to suggest that electric razors might be a better deal over the long run, compared to expensive cartridges. That's racist!

So here's the infraction.
Here's the first piece of evidence cited.
Here's the second piece of evidence cited.
And here's the thir... well that's weird, seems you have to be logged in to see it, and The Wayback Machine claims "This page is not available on the web because access is forbidden".

Is that the one where they claim advocating for the economic superiority of electric razors is racist? I wonder why they'd hide that.

QuoteIs that the one where they claim advocating for the economic superiority of electric razors is racist? I wonder why they'd hide that.

Probably a Tangency discussion, which is always hidden from the outcasts, hoi polloi and uninitiated.