General Moderation Topic

FGD135 has been given a timeout for directly attacking other users.

Seriously, don’t so that. If your only response is to lob an insult, do not post it here. If there’s an issue with a post, flag it. Otherwise, it’s the internet. People are going to have opinions you disagree with. That’s not an excuse to turn to name-calling, and it does nothing to further the conversation here.

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7 posts were split to a new topic: Good- vs Bad-faith posting

John_Bau Has been banned after making it clear they are more interested in throwing barbs at Boing Boing, the Authors, and countries they are not fans of, while offering nothing else of substance and participating in good-faith.

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Weasel-Rah has been suspended forever. Rape is a terrible crime and not to be fantasized about in our forums.

This was one of the most seriously, wtf? things I have seen on this or any other forum.

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G_r_ld_z_n_r has been given a timeout for engaging in a classical example of the “debate me” sign: Decare a post as irrelevant, then belittle or attack all comers in a post, as if it was your own (and sadly, not for the first time).

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10 posts were merged into an existing topic: Griping about moderation, bias, et cetera

user teetwo has been given a timeout for referring to a sold-out, incredibly popular event as “cancelled” while also belittling criticism of the said event.

If you want to be critical of consequence culture, that’s fine, but trying to use “cancelled” to describe anything you like that receives criticism, especially when those things in question are sold-out, trendy events, is a move right out of the right-wing troll playbook and not welcome here. We’re sorry that some people take issue with the things you love. That’s our Mutants, and we love them for it.

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Holy shit, this is some TOP-LEVEL wisdom. /S is for serious.

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User mdavis has been banned for repeatedly throwing shade at Authors as his primary post subject, despite having been moderated for this behaviour in the past.

Criticism is one thing. Making it your mission to disparage the site or its contributors (or fellow mutants!) is not welcome here.

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This ban is now permanent, as this user has tried multiple times to circumvent moderation to make sure they could make a point about the moderation system and our decision to disallow some of the more egregious misogynistic slang from being a part of the conversation on the BBS.

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User petzl has been banned for repeatedly berating the community for disagreeing with him, while also adopting a devil’s advocate position on so many topics it is difficult to imagine there ultimately is nothing here in this users posts than edgelord shitposting. His last suspension appears to have not corrected that behaviour.

In addition UnBoingBoing has been given a timeout for the junior version of this same behaviour.

Pro tip: if you start your post with a slight against the community to begin with, you are not only failing to post in good faith, but you are also inviting a derail. Don’t do that, and please flag when someone does do that so we can prune at the root of the tree.

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13 posts were merged into an existing topic: Never hit 17 when you play against the moderator

Update!

Aside from deleting a low quality shitposting account created after this ban, poor opsec also let me realize that deltaecho was also sockpuppet of petzl. This persona has also been banned.

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Nice detective work!

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Wow. This story gets more and more pathetic, starting from the hill he chose to die on. It’s now clearer why he made the strange decision to go all in defending a crybaby sore loser bro.

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Happy Joe Biden GIF by The Democrats

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One of the best “two for one” deals ever.

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