Karl wrote:Green Gecko wrote:You see this is why we have highly paid SJWs on our team
I recognise I am probably the only person on GRcade that cares about this stuff which is why I don't enforce it on here. But if I were running a huge site like Era then TBH I'd moderate in exactly the same way they do.
I think that's an important point - although I do care about equality by the way - to consider the community's self-moderating context. There's ultimately little point alienating an entire community or those around or outside of and yet to contribute in a community, because of heavy handed moderator decisions and trying to make a large group of people have correct, inoffensive opinions. On the net, I think we strive a little harder for that kind of utopia, maybe because people feel more at ease being gooseberry fools on the Internet, whereas in public, those people are mostly hidden, sometimes creating damaging undercurrents and strawberry floating gooseberry fool up when the moment arises, but largely kept to themselves. There's a degree of self-silencing going on (I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing, because you end up with situations like public shootings and executions, carefully targeted harassment, etc).
In other words, with online "policing" you kind of have a giant game of whackamole. It's public, yet private (most websites don't have to really honour any idea of "free speech" because it is not a public platform - unless maybe you get as big as Facebook? I'm not sure what any legislature says about that.)
Anyway, good luck to them, they apparently enjoy it.
Ad7 wrote:Why is that offensive?
It's a bit like the term "gay" actually - the tone and defensive/offensive stance is generally pejorative. From the outside, that sounds very presumptuous, because it is. It's protectionist in a way I am describing above. And I'm not sure it's always OK.
My liberal and humanist and pacifist mentalities really conflict with well disguised stigma, oppression and discrimination at times. I guess I simply don't condemn anyone for having "wrong" or "bad" opinions - while being aware of the damage it can, collectively, create.
Edit: Oh god I sound like one of those horrible centrist, please everyone, nothing to see here YouTube/corporate types. Maybe this changed when I started practising meditation?