I agree. I've submitted several common-sense suggestions to improve the moderation system over there and make it more transparent and consistent and I've never gotten a word back or seen them try to implement any of them.
See, this is a
dangerous assumption you are making here, namely that
The Names actually give a rat's ass about their community. Their self-made feedback thread is living (well,
hidden) proof that they don't care about you or me or anyone that isnt a
Little Helper. Even when such
Little Helpers are doing acts of mutiny.
And some
Little Helpers just play suck up and eventually become
The Names moderators. I know of one recent instance and to this day it actually geniunely annoys me that this user was
promoted. Like, you could have picked anyone more
stable for that job but
The Names chose to pick someone who finds the Alexa Skyrim joke
problematic.
I'm convinced "admin review" is simply a label they throw onto things to pretend there's something approaching an impartial process.
For instance, I suggested months ago that the names of the moderators that are involved in a warning/banning should be visible on the moderation banner.
Ofcourse. Its a recent addition to
The Names default array of ban answers. This little group of
superiors take
every little thing at face value online because IRL you will never run into the kind of situation they are so painstakingly are
offended over.
But, i gotta hand it to them - They are supremely
consistent in the values they hold dearly. Ofcourse, those values are pretty much abhorrent to anyone who has one of the following skills:
Empathy, tolerance, outside-of-the-box thinking and loving cats, but they are pretty exceptional in that regard.
"History of infractions" is another good one. I'd love to see the history. They can ban a first time offender and say "history of infractions", and who's going to verify? I'm willing to bet that almost none of the people have histories, but that the mods say it anyway because it makes it sound more legitimate
There are ofcourse a few folks that actually do have an actual history of infractions - But consider this: With the banbot in place since June, which tracks till March, some of these
histories of infractions must have been
before the banbot started tracking, so from March onward. After all, the banbot can
see the history of an user since that time. What strikes me as interesting is that a lot of those users don't have any infractions since March, so the whole
history of infractions part has to reference things a user did before that time in order for that argument to be valid.*
If not, then its just a blanket reason (Which, lets be honest, it most likely is.)
*Unless Crunk (Hiya) enhanced the bot to backtrack postings from the start, that is.
Also
Important shit:
For once ill drop my umbrella terming of users to mention this. Remember Cream? The user who has been banned on every site under the sun? Well, he was briefly on The Bore today using a new alt, and he mentioned some exciting news:
There is a growing group of users currently working on a new splinter site to branch off of ERA. Take that with a massive grain of salt, ofcourse. Apparently it will focus on women acceptance and a different tone to bigotry issues. People are just waiting it out on Discord, but the lighter that lit this fuel was the feedback thread. So it may very well be that a new splinter site (
Restart???) will arise in the close future...
...unless Cream is full of... Cream. In that case, disregard the PSA.
Except in those cases, disagreeing with the status quo meant certain death upon you and your family, here you just get banned and that's it.
