What is your guys deal with Era anyways? How would you guys feel if Era had a thread on you guys monitoring everything you post. Wouldn't that make you guys uncomfortable? It makes me a little uncomfortable when you have Kiwi Farms, ReseteraTakes, 4chan and others watching us and im sure that puts staff on the edge.
Dude, you aren’t that naive. People on Era have threads about EVERY. SINGLE. SENTENCE uttered by people who they deem “problematic” or worse. Trump can’t take a sip without someone opening a thread about it on Era, and you can’t deny that a good 30+% of EtcetEra is threads about something said or tweeted by people on any other side of the political spectrum, or by “allies” at risk of becoming the latest milkshake duck.
The only reason this doesn’t apply to GAF is that GAF is a forbidden topic on Era. That’s it. Some of the hatred for GAF sometimes seeps through the curtain but it’s occasional enough to be conveniently ignored, and if it has the potential to get bigger it’s immediately shut down as “cross-forum drama”.
Era also recently manifested the classic Mussolini “lots of enemies, lots of honour” mentality in that thread where the OP found out one of their posts on Era was screencapped and exposed publicly over the Internet. I’d wager that having lots of outlets watching the forum and making fun of it should be an honour for Era staff and members, not a reason to be on the edge.
Lets face it though guys, if/when Ree collapses no doubt they place the blame on "infiltration by alt-right trolls" and such, because there's no way they, and their buddies in the woke media, will ever cop to the fact that there are serious issues within their own ideological bubble.
The reality is that Ree is a perfect example of how despite their lofty championing of empathy and inclusion, creating that "better world" seems to have created a maelstrom of hatred, exclusion and tyranny over thought and speech.
They brought this upon themselves with their very own hands.
There was a time when Era began, when they had the choice to call out and question the most egregious posts as trolling and create a very different environment. But so many of those (supposed) troll posts were usually from protected people or in favour of what Era would call “the right side of history”, so they banned the people who rightfully questioned those posts instead and it all snowballed from there. By allowing the trolls and the real crazies to run (mostly) scot-free they created a rule based on protecting the most outlandish comments, even when they go against the TOS, as they so often do, as long as they’re “on the right side of history”. And they put in place mods who double down on the craziness instead of people who could bring in some veneer of order.
They were so scared of reprimanding even a single, actually oppressed person with a slap on the wrist and a temporary ban that they lost almost any power to do so, even when the situation would actually require it.
Unfortunately for them, they felt there was something wrong with the board when the first reports of women leaving the forum because they felt “unsafe” started coming in. Which is ironic because, if some women and minorities really felt “unsafe” in early 2018 Era, then they were probably too frail to go anywhere on the Internet but private chats. But the forum paid a big price for that by quickly making the place “unsafe” for
everyone but the people most committed to the “cause”, not a few of which could very well be trolls.
Let’s face it, things were probably going to go like this considering the whos, whens and hows of the board’s creation, but worse choices have been made since then than most could imagine.
