Question on ban announcements

[sledger]

yes, this is correct, because some opinions are so bad they need to be called out every time they're expressed. penile dysentry was a fascist and weld one was anti-semetic and was chasing after uppercut out of nowhere. **** them.

Yeah, another problem with er... "certain posters" (not naming any names lol) is that when their obviously flawed reasoning was pointed out, rather than saying "yeah ok" or "fair enough but how about...", they would double down and become insulting, resorting to the "you are obviously too stupid to debate with me" tactics. Piling on people for doing such things (i.e. behaving like a total mook) is absolutely ok so far as I am concerned.

 

[OverratedSanity]

. Weldone and SS weren't likeable, but fundamentally it seems their crimes were having bad opinions and being stubbornly adamant about them.

Weldone literally highjacked this thread to feud with random people out of nowhere.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Think some are a bit hung up on labelling this as bullying when it's really just a bunch of people calling out bad and dumb opinions. Like if someone expresses a horrendous political stance do you expect everyone to just have a polite debate about it. It's also massively ironic that both those guys loved to complain about people being politically correct snowflakes.

 

[sledger]

Think some are a bit hung up on labelling this as bullying when it's really just a bunch of people calling out bad and dumb opinions. Like if someone expresses a horrendous political stance do you expect everyone to just have a polite debate about it. It's also massively ironic that both those guys loved to complain about people being politically correct snowflakes.

It's not even that tbh. It's calling out someone for behaving like a total asshole.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

True but I don't want to be a hypocrite since I also post like a total asshole, under the protection of the Intellectual Messiah.

 

[GIMH]

Like if someone expresses a horrendous political stance do you expect everyone to just have a polite debate about it.

I don't think it's quite this, though, is it? I mean you probably think at least half of my political stances are horrendous but when we've had actual debates e.g. discussions on lockdown, they've largely been conducted in good faith. I think so anyway.

But I guess you're more pointing towards bigoted views that manifest as political stances rather than just ideology.

 

[Daemon]

He also randomly accused Shri (?) of sucking up to white people or something odd.

If you ragequit from cricsim, that's fine. But if you go on to do the same in multiple Mafia games, CW, Drafts and even the ****ing Desi whatsapp chat, something's probably wrong with you and not everyone else.

 

[Bijed]

Think some are a bit hung up on labelling this as bullying when it's really just a bunch of people calling out bad and dumb opinions. Like if someone expresses a horrendous political stance do you expect everyone to just have a polite debate about it. It's also massively ironic that both those guys loved to complain about people being politically correct snowflakes.

This, really. There have been times in the past when I've felt like the line has been crossed wrt bullying, but these recent cases aren't examples of that imo.

Although I guess it could look like it without having the full picture

 

[weldone]

Thought the previous post would be my last, but I couldn't resist signing off with the PM I got last night from a regular member who will not be named by me:

 

[GIMH]

Sharing a PM probably not cool tbf.

 

[sledger]

Sharing a PM probably not cool tbf.

It's ok if you wrote it and sent it to yourself imo.

 

[Uppercut]

People: banning weldone will make the forum a less pleasant and welcoming place

Weldone:

Thought the previous post would be my last, but I couldn't resist signing off with the PM I got last night from a regular member who will not be named by me:

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[RossTaylorsBox]

I don't think it's quite this, though, is it? I mean you probably think at least half of my political stances are horrendous but when we've had actual debates e.g. discussions on lockdown, they've largely been conducted in good faith. I think so anyway.

But I guess you're more pointing towards bigoted views that manifest as political stances rather than just ideology.

I guess that being extremely online for 25 years means you get a handle on who is likely to be an actual bigot, and yeah it's really easy to spot. You post about other things and can actually laugh at yourself, so I've never got that vibe from you.

You're still wrong though.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Thought the previous post would be my last, but I couldn't resist signing off with the PM I got last night from a regular member who will not be named by me:

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Why doesn't bambino just post it in the thread

 

[honestbharani]

Not cool to share PMs.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

This, really. There have been times in the past when I've felt like the line has been crossed wrt bullying, but these recent cases aren't examples of that imo.

Although I guess it could look like it without having the full picture

I think it's really hard to convince people who don't go into the political forum that we're not being dicks for the sake of it.

 

[OverratedSanity]

I think it's really hard to convince people who don't go into the political forum that we're not being dicks for the sake of it.

Or the mafia subforum

 

[morgieb]

Or the mafia subforum

Or were CricSim members (with the caveat that weldone really was the victim of some racist bullying at times there)

 

[GIMH]

Any community with longevity like this one will naturally have cliques and at times seem a little insular. But this is also an incredibly supportive community. There's always things we can improve and maybe there should be constructive discussions around that, but I don't think it's fair to say it's intolerant.

 

[srbhkshk]

[I don't actually disagree, but couldn't resist]