[Forge]

Vegans: Would rather sacrifice a baby to Baal than to enslave a cow for its milk.

[Daedolon]

Life sentence seems pretty harsh, but an eye for an eye, I suppose.

[Inspector Lagomorf]

Daedolon, on 08 May 2016 - 06:23 AM, said:

Life sentence seems pretty harsh, but an eye for an eye, I suppose.

Child abuse and endangerment is taken extremely seriously in the Southern U.S., infanticide doubly so.

[Forge]

Daedolon, on 08 May 2016 - 06:23 AM, said:

Life sentence seems pretty harsh, but an eye for an eye, I suppose.

"At the 2007 trial, prosecutors said the soy milk cartons in their apartment stated that it wasn't to be used as a substitute for baby formula.
...
A jury convicted them of malice murder, felony murder, involuntary manslaughter and cruelty to children."

definitely a misdemeanor

[Inspector Lagomorf]

Forge, on 08 May 2016 - 07:27 AM, said:

A jury convicted them of malice murder, felony murder, involuntary manslaughter and cruelty to children.

Geez. Normally when you have charges like "involuntary manslaughter", it's as a lesser indictment count in case the murder charge doesn't go through. Not this time. The prosecutor had their cake and ate it too.

[Balls of Steel Forever]

Inspector Lagomorf, on 08 May 2016 - 05:02 AM, said:

Thank you so much Balls of Steel for getting my beloved microaggressions thread closed, you asspod. That was not something I wanted to wake up to this morning.

It just further proves that Shakespeare was a product of the times, and therefore an anti Semitic asshole, if alluding to Shylock still provokes such a reaction.
Me talking about Omnicide as if it was something you buy at a candy store, I'm pretty sure was much cruder then that post..
Stereotyping Muslims as rapists I'm pretty sure was cruder then that post
My post was blatantly insensitive to my own ancestors, as it was being used as a joke.
However it ended, and I can't do anything about it, so I'll take all of the blame.
Those were fun times that we had.

Forge, on 08 May 2016 - 04:19 AM, said:

Sixty Five pages into the microaggression experiment and Balls of Steel Forever finally said something crude enough to get the thread locked.
Pretty impressive; especially after all that Culture Shock crap was let go.
also:

Looks like I need to stop projecting myself.

Spoiler

Still taking all of the blame.

[Forge]

Balls Of Steel Forever, on 08 May 2016 - 08:24 AM, said:

However it ended, and I can't do anything about it, so I'll take all of the blame.

Surely we can't blame the moderator that felt that the thread, where nobody was getting belligerent or flaming each other, had gone on long enough. Exchanges of perceptions and ideologies have no place in a game forum when said moderator doesn't want to participate in the discussion because it doesn't suit their taste.

[MusicallyInspired]

Balls of Steel, see what happens when you keep trying to join in on the orgy?

[Robman]

So, that jew picture got the thread shutdown? You know how many times viper has posted those jew memes?
Lunick... flex your junior mod power somewhere else, thread had NOTHING to do with you.
Or just delete the damn picture and unlock.

Just when Hendricks toned down his moderating and made things feel nice and free in here, now we have you? Another millennial moderator, yippeee.

[Balls of Steel Forever]

MusicallyInspired, on 08 May 2016 - 10:09 AM, said:

Balls of Steel, see what happens when you keep trying to join in on the orgy?

I wasn't trying, I was involved.
I just wanted everyone to know I was there.
I didn't want it to end this way.
It ended so very, very, anticlimactically.

Robman, on 08 May 2016 - 10:23 AM, said:

So, that jew picture got the thread shutdown? You know how many times viper has posted those jew memes?

I think Lunick may have gotten tired of the thread,
Another Jew meme/Jew Photo was already posted in that specific thread...
Mine was a significant amount more insensitive in the given context however.

Inspector Lagomorf, on 08 May 2016 - 10:44 AM, said:

The more appropriate response would have been to refactor the offending posts and suspend the posting privileges of the offenders thereof.

I'm fine with that.

[Inspector Lagomorf]

Forge, on 08 May 2016 - 08:31 AM, said:

Surely we can't blame the moderator that felt that the thread, where nobody was getting belligerent or flaming each other, had gone on long enough. Exchanges of perceptions and ideologies have no place in a game forum when said moderator doesn't want to participate in the discussion because it doesn't suit their taste.

Actually, you're absolutely right. Closing the thread and at that point in particular is highly inconsistent with the administration culture of this forum. We're not an authoritarian forum and we never have been. It's unfitting to close a thread simply because one does not want to read it.

Sorry, Lunick, but bad call. At the risk of being a backseat moderator, the more appropriate response would have been to refactor the offending posts and suspend the posting privileges of the offenders thereof.

[Robman]

How about a simple post explaining how you are Jewish and you find it offensive.
Delete the offending portion of the post and say please don't post anymore Jewish memes.

But no, that would be sensible moderating.

Instead you lock the most popular thread with no explanation. This is the type of moderating bullshit that this forum does not need.
You should attend a class on how to moderate if this is how it's going to be.

[Hank]

Robman, on 08 May 2016 - 11:07 AM, said:

Instead you lock the most popular thread with no explanation. This is the type of moderating bullshit that this forum does not need.
You should attend a class on how to moderate if this is how it's going to be.

I usually stay clear of the supreme masters of this here forum; for me it was the one thread I could exchange silly small talk with an actual celebrity of the original 3D Realms staff, aka (Wieder)
Oh, well, considering what one of my old buddy just lost in Fort McMurry, I'll am lucky.

[Robman]

Hehe, everybody seems to lick Wieder's bunghole.
He's a cool guy, indeed was a part of 3dr - but he is still just a person, treat him as such. He'd probably appreciate that more.
Secretly he likes the "fame" but having friends because you are friends instead of starstruck boot lickers is probably preferred.

Yes, Fort McMurray is very much ablaze. No lives have been lost though so that's a bright side. Livestock probably has been lost though so, that's lives.

[Mblackwell]

If you want to bitch about moderating do it via PMs.

Additionally if you want to continue your discussion from the other thread this crappy forum software has one good feature: group private discussions.

[Robman]

Mblackwell, on 08 May 2016 - 11:24 AM, said:

If you want to bitch about moderating do it via PMs.
Additionally if you want to continue your discussion from the other thread this crappy forum software has one good feature: group private discussions.

Are protests against the government held in private?

If a mod does something stupid, it's important to publicly announce it.
Poor moderating will kill this place and it's already on the downward portion of the curve.

The "microaggression" thread thrived because anybody could join in. If it was held in private it would dwindle and die.

[Hank]

Mblackwell, on 08 May 2016 - 11:24 AM, said:

If you want to bitch about moderating do it via PMs.

And how does one do that?
Thread locked with no reasons given? To whom shall one address a polite PM?

But you have a point, real life is more important.

[Mblackwell]

Mods are all in touch with each other so any one will do.

Also the isn't a government run or administered place, it's a private one. The analogy is inapplicable. If you want to have a bunch of meta discussion about administration do it elsewhere.

[Hendricks266]

Robman, on 08 May 2016 - 10:23 AM, said:

Lunick... flex your junior mod power somewhere else, thread had NOTHING to do with you.

Balls Of Steel Forever, on 08 May 2016 - 10:42 AM, said:

I think Lunick may have gotten tired of the thread,

Inspector Lagomorf, on 08 May 2016 - 10:44 AM, said:

Sorry, Lunick, but bad call. At the risk of being a backseat moderator, the more appropriate response would have been to refactor the offending posts and suspend the posting privileges of the offenders thereof.

Mblackwell closed the thread.

[Mblackwell]

Yep

The entire last page was descending into crap territory, and everyone was warned enough in the past and closing the thread was more useful than taking harsher punitive actions against individuals.

And that's all I'll say here on it.

[Robman]

I'm outta here.
Have fun running duke4 into the ground.

[Mblackwell]

Bon voyage!

[Forge]

Robman, on 08 May 2016 - 11:21 AM, said:

Yes, Fort McMurray is very much ablaze. No lives have been lost though so that's a bright side. Livestock probably has been lost though so, that's lives.

After last year, I didn't think Canada had anything left to burn.

[Hank]

Forge, on 08 May 2016 - 12:15 PM, said:

After last year, I didn't think Canada had anything left to burn.

Unfortunately, it ain't so. The entire town in a ghost town.

[Forge]

Mblackwell, on 08 May 2016 - 12:01 PM, said:

The entire last page was descending into crap territory, and everyone was warned enough in the past and closing the thread was more useful than taking harsher punitive actions against individuals.

Your prerogative to arbitrarily do so.

The last page?
3/4 of the page was the typical banter between Wieder and X (in this case, Ronan) about the philosophy of self. The last 1/4 was about gender self identification which is one of the key issues SJW's use to accuse people of microaggression. I personally seen nothing new on that page that wasn't discussed earlier in the thread.

So more like 64 pages ago. Even though there was little hostility through its entirety, I'm surprised it was allowed to go on for as long as it did.

Kudos to your restraint and patience.

[Mblackwell]

Yeah, I honestly don't care much about the discussions themselves. People can kind of talk about whatever, it's only when it starts to become kind of overtly hostile in one way or another that I pay much attention.

Thread is reopened for the moment.

[Lunick]

Hendricks266, on 08 May 2016 - 11:59 AM, said:

Mblackwell closed the thread.

I can't believe they fell for that post of mine

[Forge]

Hank, on 08 May 2016 - 12:16 PM, said:

Unfortunately, it ain't so.

I know last year it was pretty bad as well. I was visiting family in Nebraska at the time and the skies were pretty hazy from the smoke caused by the fires up there.
(then I came home to the northwest just to enjoy more smoke from the fires in washington, oregon, and idaho)

[MusicallyInspired]

I didn't sense any hostility. I also didn't care to read any if there was. I was enjoying the philisophical tounge-in-cheek banter. That's what the thread became about. So yeah, remove the hostility, don't lock the whole thread. Thanks for reopening it.

[Forge]

Lunick, on 08 May 2016 - 01:05 PM, said:

I can't believe they fell for that post of mine

we're impressed
(said nobody)