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[benji]

Alternate take: people in that thread have lost their minds just because one single person got banned.

Like fuck, almost 2,000 people lost their jobs today - that's 2,000 families that are potentially struggling to pay rent/mortgages and put food on the table. And that's in a games industry job market that is clearly absolutely brutal right now so where are they supposed to find new employment? And fine, even if you lack empathy and don't care about these people, how about this: the brain drain this will lead to, as those people seek employment outside the industry, will absolutely make the games you play worse. So this impacts you too.

And yet the community and that thread has taken it upon itself to turn that news story into creating a conspiracy theory about the forum's mods and a commentary on how the forum is run. Its such a bizarre thing to see posts about how awful the mods are in a thread about 1,900 people losing their jobs.

Honestly, I don't know or care whether that ban was warranted or not, but maybe lets focus on the important story just for today?

Seriously. It's like we've lost all perspective on the real impact of the breaking news and the thread has instead warped into people demanding to express themselves in a particular way when expressing themselves within the lines of the rules is more than reasonable and has been demonstrated by other people throughout the thread. Forget the 2,000 people that lost their jobs today, there's a conspiracy theory to unearth about the moderation staff suppressing opinions or something. Like if you feel the person's ban should be lifted, then that's fine. Report the post and express that. The moderation staff looks at everything that comes their way and have told us this countless times. But seriously, it's insulting to see how much that one post has become the dominating focal point in a thread that's about 2,000 games industry people being put out of work.

 

What is there to discuss about people losing their jobs?

You're not going to allow points of view like "good fuck em they work for Microsoft" or "good fuck em more money for artists" or "good fuck em they probably love Elon" or whatever else. So what is there to discuss other then circle jerking each other off about how much you hate it but you're not going to do anything at all about it? Blah blah blah I hate this industry as if this is the only one where it happens and as if you're going to drop the hobby as if that would change anything. Blah blah blah blah capitalism as if slave labor is superior because the slaves don't lose their jobs.

Try to be less transparent bootlickers who want to "focus" the community on anything but local immediate wrongdoing.