Btw when can we expect your next hysterical meltdown? I missed you while you were banned for your last one.
You confuse a willingness to see an exchange through to its end with a "hysterical meltdown."
It's not my fault you can only interpret someone caring about an issue as hysteria, and it's not my fault you read anything disagreeing with you in an angry, shrieking voice rather than just... Normal human conversation.
Besides, my overarching point was that this place has slid to a weird, aggressive "Right" place in a contrarian reaction to the split off with ERA, and the ban directed me to read the Trump Rally thread to "learn how to argue."
I don't think anything could be my Exhibit A more perfectly than the moderation staff basically saying "Participate in our political pep rallies or there might be trouble."
I mean, look at this:
Tracker warning: Sporadic poster, who returns purely to drop hot takes into topics then circle strafe away from engagement. Suggest removal of community if they persist (
https://www.neogaf.com/reports/16234/)
So, I'm "under surveillance?" "On probation?"
Isn't this basically just a description of how a message beard is used? I don't look at GAF everyday; I pop in, browse, and respond to things that catch my attention.
Apparently the staff's mental image of me is someone who shows up out the the blue randomly to disagree just to cause upset? You think I'm trying to "troll" or bait you into some sort of text-based internet masochism fetish of mine? What does "circle strafe away from engagement" even mean? It totally ignores the fact that it's impossible to engage with
everyone and once someone has a dissenting enough opinion suddenly everyone's dogpiling on that one person causing them to try to basically have several discrete, subtly different conversations in parallel, should they actually be getting thought provoking responses and not just memes and
sick burns. It's also definitely hard to "engage" when you're forcibly silenced in the midst of it all.
"Suggest removal of community if they persist."
What does this even mean? I assume you meant if I keep daring to argue points while coming from a different direction I'll have my ability to post in the non-Gaming forums revoked?
There's absolutely no methodology there. There's no rubric to gauge situations by. It's entirely subjective.
Basically I'm being told that, if I want to continue to associate with this community I've been a part of for quite a while, I can't post "sporadically," it's not believed that anyone could actually have the beliefs and values that I speak from, and it's frowned upon to ask questions or expect an attempt at explaining a thought process on a political thread in the Politics-specific section of the site. Why even
have a politics section, then? If going against the local grain isn't allowed and you're not permitted to argue different methods or play Devil's Advocate, it's not a
discussion forum at all - it's an
agreement forum. Just GIFs and drive-by one liners and an orobourous of patting each other on the back for vanquishing the "other" that has different ideas or wants an explanation of why someone has theirs.
See, I typed this on the side while fiddling with some of my hydroponics and doing medical paperwork and research.
31 days from now I get to travel to see a neuro-oncology specialist and see just how much of me we're going to have to amputate.
If anything, I was
bored typing this. I get the feeling people equate "effort" to histrionic shrieking, but I'm just a dude who types relatively quickly enough to keep up with his stream of consciousness.
EDIT: And the site owner shows up with impeccable comedic timing to respond with a sarcastic emoji. I mean, c'mon; Exhibit B.
I don't know what this place is anymore. It's bizarro time. Feels less like a place to post thoughts and reactions and more like an elaborate inside joke.
