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[PanzerAzel]

Don’t want to triple post, but I just saw this gem from eras new fav mod and felt it deserved to be shared.

We need to have a discussion about how members treat other members on this site and among other issues.

First off, I wanted to say that I am sorry for the experiences you've been through, both on the site and in real life, that have caused you such pain. Also, I wanted to thank you for making this thread; it is incredibly well thought out and you make many good points. Now, to address your...

www.resetera.com

*Unless you are a Cis White Male.

I don't understand how ERA can even keep this up. I feel for this guy, if legit, and others like him, but these people want the impossible. How can a safe environment exist for everyone when people have differing values, experiences, and needs in life? There's no quarter at ERA to even be human, because being so is to inevitably give offense even when not intending to through such distinctions. The real irony of ERA that fails them is that by attempting to make the site safer and more inclusive for everyone, it's making it safer and more inclusive for absolutely no one.

If they truly desire to create a safe space on the net, they should introduce "offense/trigger tags" in line with spoiler tags that people could use while posting if they're at all dubious about how what they say may be construed, hence explicitly shifting the responsibility of the offense taken into the lap of the one who deems to click on it. Because I honestly don't see any other way this forum can operate as it does into the foreseeable future when the moderation is getting to the point where simply being human is a bannable offense. Since these people are utterly incapable of taking responsibility for their own feelings and must run to the mods, make them take responsibility for their own actions that lead to them instead.

 

[Tesseract]

safe spaces are for losers

sensory bombardment is the only path forward, the literature on this is clear

i neither empathize nor sympathize, fuck 'em

 

[Musky_Cheese]

None of the LGBT friends I have avoid Chick Fil A.

I doubt many in general do. A few people on the internet, regardless of how loud, don’t speak for the larger group.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

So to summarize, in the last few hours, Resetera has competed in an Autism Olympics, gotten date raped, and politicized chicken.

Cool.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

None of the LGBT friends I have avoid Chick Fil A.

I doubt many in general do. A few people on the internet, regardless of how loud, don’t speak for the larger group.

Well, duh. They're there to eat, not shove it up their ass.

 

[Musky_Cheese]

Well, duh. They're there to eat, not shove it up their ass.

Why would anyone put chicken up their ass?

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

Why would anyone put chicken up their ass?

Sorry, was that not what KFC meant by "$5 fill up?"

 

[ManaByte]

Why would anyone put chicken up their ass?

 

[James Holden]

The chickens being slaughtered by the millions for Chick-Fil-A as well as all other chain restaurants:

"Era, we need to have a talk"

 

[Crash Station]

I'm not even against the concept of safe spaces. They're just not meant to totally isolate you from the rest of reality like what these people want. They should also be labeled as such.

A message board about video games SHOULD NOT be a safe space unless that is its proposed purpose. I'd have no issues with super harsh moderation on a forum called "LGBT Gaming" or something. But Era bills itself as an all-encompassing gaming forum before it bills itself as a safe space for marginalized groups. Having basic rules against bigotry is not the same as expecting everyone to be on the exact same page as you in your bubble.

 

[James Holden]

I'm not even against the concept of safe spaces. They're just not meant to totally isolate you from the rest of reality like what these people want. They should also be labeled as such.

A message board about video games SHOULD NOT be a safe space unless that is its proposed purpose. I'd have no issues with super harsh moderation on a forum called "LGBT Gaming" or something. But Era bills itself as an all-encompassing gaming forum before it bills itself as a safe space for marginalized groups. Having basic rules against bigotry is not the same as expecting everyone to be on the exact same page as you in your bubble.

Amen.

 

[Musky_Cheese]

The chickens being slaughtered by the millions for Chick-Fil-A as well as all other chain restaurants:

Well, yes... they are food

 

[TrainedRage]

May Have Been Roofied? Please Help. [UP: Not Roofied; Knowingly Consumed Edibles] (READ STAFF POST)

Self explanatory. Please send jnfo.

www.resetera.com

Bwahahahahahah OMG this is just too much!

Op drank 2 drinks and took edibles (for the first time EVER) then thought they got roofied! HONK FUCKING HONK

These are children. Small brain, dumbass children.

 

[ManaByte]

May Have Been Roofied? Please Help. [UP: Not Roofied; Knowingly Consumed Edibles] (READ STAFF POST)

Self explanatory. Please send jnfo.

www.resetera.com

Bwahahahahahah OMG this is just too much!

Op drank 2 drinks and took edibles (for the first time EVER) then thought they got roofied! HONK FUCKING HONK

These are children. Small brain, dumbass children.

I would pay paper money to see a Ree on acid thread.

 

[Saber]

Well, yes... they are food

Somehow I feel like the chicken would answer with something like that:

"I'm still tastier than you ever gonna be in life, they."

 

[Katsura]

May Have Been Roofied? Please Help. [UP: Not Roofied; Knowingly Consumed Edibles] (READ STAFF POST)

Self explanatory. Please send jnfo.

www.resetera.com

Bwahahahahahah OMG this is just too much!

Op drank 2 drinks and took edibles (for the first time EVER) then thought they got roofied! HONK FUCKING HONK

These are children. Small brain, dumbass children.

 

[Xaero Gravity]

So to summarize, in the last few hours, Resetera has competed in an Autism Olympics, gotten date raped, and politicized chicken.

Cool.

Sounds like a Saturday for them.

 

[DeepEnigma]

None of the LGBT friends I have avoid Chick Fil A.

I doubt many in general do. A few people on the internet, regardless of how loud, don’t speak for the larger group.

After finding out all the shit behind it, it just shows how easily manipulated people are to have “outrage”.

There would be far greater reasons to boycott a Chick-fil-A, not the false oppression they claim they hold over them.

Selfish frauds.

 

[ManaByte]

Chick-fil-A

Speaking of that, I finally tried that Popeyes sandwich and Chick-Fil-A is better by far.

 

[Katsura]

Speaking of that, I finally tried that Popeyes sandwich and Chick-Fil-A is better by far.

Maybe but what are your odds of watching a full on brawl between employees and customers at Chick-Fil-A?

 

[ManaByte]

Maybe but what are your odds of watching a full on brawl between employees and customers at Chick-Fil-A?

I'll go to Popeyes on Saturday nights because it's cheaper than a UFC PPV.

 

[nush]

Speaking of that, I finally tried that Popeyes sandwich and Chick-Fil-A is better by far.

I take it you finally won fight to get that sandwich then?

 

[Corrik]

They have learned they can dogpile moderators on that site also. Granted the mod post was pretty incredible, but users are just going to town on the moderator also.

 

[Tesseract]

2020 should be fun

 

[KingdomHeartsFan]

May Have Been Roofied? Please Help. [UP: Not Roofied; Knowingly Consumed Edibles] (READ STAFF POST)

Self explanatory. Please send jnfo.

www.resetera.com

Have potentially been roofied, first point of action: post on era asking for help

What a fucking retard, ate some edibles and then went to Era to say he was roofied. Just another loser desperate for attention.

 

[nush]

"And YOU get to be offended, and YOU get to be offended, and YOU, yes YOU ALSO get to be offended by anything! Everybody gets to be offendeeeeeed!"

 

[Days like these...]

Popeyes is better and I don't even hate Jesus Chicken

 

[nush]

These kids take their chicken sandwiches too seriously

I'm not sure what to do about my mom & sister regarding the topic of Chick-fil-A

Just today, my dad offered to get me Chick-fil-A. When I asked him if there were any other options, he mentioned what was in the area, I said Whataburger, & he went along with it. Normally that should be the end of it. But when my mom & sister got into the mix, the topic of Chick-fil-A's bigoted...

www.resetera.com

He never learns, this is from a topic where his girlfriend broke up with him because she was "Wrong" about the official start of fall.

 

[teacupcopter]

May Have Been Roofied? Please Help. [UP: Not Roofied; Knowingly Consumed Edibles] (READ STAFF POST)

Self explanatory. Please send jnfo.

www.resetera.com

Bwahahahahahah OMG this is just too much!

Op drank 2 drinks and took edibles (for the first time EVER) then thought they got roofied! HONK FUCKING HONK

These are children. Small brain, dumbass children.

It looks like he drank, took edibles and drove home. What a fucking idiot. Now a mod has come in and said “continued criticism will be moderated”. I’m sorry we can’t criticise someone who broke the law knowingly and could have killed him self or others? Is an Uber that hard?

 

[SeanTron]

When you're so woke you invent a DUI Defense Force

 

[Crash Station]

I know I've said it before, but Nepenthe being a mod truly baffles me. She repeats hotep rhetoric, encourages or dismisses unjustified violence, has all kinds of weird things with cars including misunderstanding DUIs, etc. Like, even for the space she's in, it's way too much. Does she have something on Cerium? Virtually every other staff member seems pretty in line with what we know about Cerium, but not her. Like, she's clearly a liability and could lead to the site getting in trouble at some point down the line, but few people seem to really see it that way. It's just bizarre.

 

[nush]

It looks like he drank, took edibles and drove home. What a fucking idiot. Now a mod has come in and said “continued criticism will be moderated”. I’m sorry we can’t criticise someone who broke the law knowingly and could have killed him self or others? Is an Uber that hard?

The topics still going, the mods are getting roasted. I'm liking this user revolt, mods have lost their balls as predicted.

They should know damn well that ERA is seriously anti-drink driving and I'm sure they have banned people just for admitting to doing it in the past. There are users there that have lost friends and family to drunk drivers, but in this case unlike the trans member they are not allowed to get angry at other users.

You can see EXACTLY what's really happened, OP is black then Nepenthe comes in and starts dishing out the bans. Then like the chicken shit she really is (Nobody buys the Angry Carlton act) runs away and lets JayC3 take all the flack.

 

[Kev Kev]

It looks like he drank, took edibles and drove home. What a fucking idiot. Now a mod has come in and said “continued criticism will be moderated”. I’m sorry we can’t criticise someone who broke the law knowingly and could have killed him self or others? Is an Uber that hard?

Lmao how are these people getting banned for calling OP a POS when he clearly was being a POS

Mind blowing when it is and isn’t okay to call someone a POS over there

 

[nush]

I know I've said it before, but Nepenthe being a mod truly baffles me. She repeats hotep rhetoric, encourages or dismisses unjustified violence, has all kinds of weird things with cars including misunderstanding DUIs, etc. Like, even for the space she's in, it's way too much. Does she have something on Cerium? Virtually every other staff member seems pretty in line with what we know about Cerium, but not her. Like, she's clearly a liability and could lead to the site getting in trouble at some point down the line, but few people seem to really see it that way. It's just bizarre.

Diversity hire in action.

 

[Deleted member 17706]

I know I've said it before, but Nepenthe being a mod truly baffles me. She repeats hotep rhetoric, encourages or dismisses unjustified violence, has all kinds of weird things with cars including misunderstanding DUIs, etc. Like, even for the space she's in, it's way too much. Does she have something on Cerium? Virtually every other staff member seems pretty in line with what we know about Cerium, but not her. Like, she's clearly a liability and could lead to the site getting in trouble at some point down the line, but few people seem to really see it that way. It's just bizarre.

Just peeked in at that thread. Fucking wow. Nepenthe going berserk and banning people for rightfully lashing out at her friend from the Black Culture Community engaging in incredibly dangerous behavior and putting other people's lives at risk. What a horrible abuse of mod powers. NeoGAF has always had pretty much zero tolerance towards people driving under the influence and that culture carried over to Era at first, too. I guess it doesn't matter anymore, or at least not when the person who fucked up is a mod's buddy.

 

[nush]

Lmao how are these people getting banned for calling OP a POS when he clearly was being a POS

Mind blowing when it is and isn’t okay to call someone a POS over there

Perfectly fine unmodderated post. I wonder why

There's more I've seen but I scored a hit on the first search.

 

[SeanTron]

Perfectly fine unmodderated post. I wonder why

There's more I've seen but I scored a hit on the first search.

That's a protected member right there. Can say or do anything they want, and if you so much as quote them you'll get an instant ban.

 

[Deleted member 17706]

FeistyBoots and Kyuuji in particular have more power than anyone on that forum right now. More than mods.

 

[SeanTron]

FeistyBoots and Kyuuji in particular have more power than anyone on that forum right now. More than mods.

Kyuuji is such a fucking loser. The mob would love to make them a mod too.

 

[Crash Station]

I do have to wonder if there's some resentment bubbling under the surface among the mods. At least a few openly called the reaction to Ketkat's ban ridiculous and it wasn't until later that they piped up. Morrigan's post even explicitly mentioned it was consensus among the whole team.

Surely not everyone on the team would admit that their initial reaction was wrong, right?

 

[pulga]

The inmates are revolting again in that roofie thread

Nepenthe is genuinely one of the biggest dumbasses on that forum.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

ERA bout to go full Space Jam in the next few weeks. I am still holding out hope that the forum stays together / public-viewable into the 2020 elections.

 

[Deleted member 17706]

So what ever happened to the transparency that era was founded upon?

The relationship between staff and users on this site is at a all time low. I think one of the reasons why the lack of open transparency that this site was kind of sold upon. I think it time there serious discussion on what happened to transparency and how this site can become more transparent.

www.resetera.com

Lol... that promise for transparency most likely died in the Slack channel while they were building the site. If not that, it certainly didn't survive into 2018.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

So what ever happened to the transparency that era was founded upon?

The relationship between staff and users on this site is at a all time low. I think one of the reasons why the lack of open transparency that this site was kind of sold upon. I think it time there serious discussion on what happened to transparency and how this site can become more transparent.

www.resetera.com

Lol... that promise for transparency most likely died in the Slack channel while they were building the site. If not that, it certainly didn't survive into 2018.

Get out your tiki torches, ERA. Chant with me "Mods will not replace us!"

unsure if Foxashel is serious or trolling, but this post sums the self-important paranoia over there right now:

EDIT: oh goodness...

 

[JORMBO]

So what ever happened to the transparency that era was founded upon?

The relationship between staff and users on this site is at a all time low. I think one of the reasons why the lack of open transparency that this site was kind of sold upon. I think it time there serious discussion on what happened to transparency and how this site can become more transparent.

www.resetera.com

Lol... that promise for transparency most likely died in the Slack channel while they were building the site. If not that, it certainly didn't survive into 2018.

this reply...lol

So what ever happened to the transparency that era was founded upon?

I personally think the moderation is going above and beyond the call of duty. Where else can you get online BAC tests done?

www.resetera.com

 

[SeanTron]

EDIT: fuck

 

[pulga]

So what ever happened to the transparency that era was founded upon?

The relationship between staff and users on this site is at a all time low. I think one of the reasons why the lack of open transparency that this site was kind of sold upon. I think it time there serious discussion on what happened to transparency and how this site can become more transparent.

www.resetera.com

Lol... that promise for transparency most likely died in the Slack channel while they were building the site. If not that, it certainly didn't survive into 2018.

lmao which one of you scumbags did this hahaha

 

[JORMBO]

We all pointed out that same post within the same minute.

 

[nush]

Get out your tiki torches, ERA. Chant with me "Mods will not replace us!"

unsure if Foxashel is serious or trolling, but this post sums the self-important paranoia over there right now:

EDIT: oh goodness...

Where have we heard this before?

 

[nush]

He's continuing the Hobbes burn!