Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Rendle]

I guess Left Twitter bullied this guy for the inflammatory comparison, he deleted all his bangers about this:

What's hilarious to me is how somehow no one can really explain what was actually offensive about the SNL joke. A guy having a band called "Hamas" not realizing it's offensive really mocks no one but Hamas

They're offended because he's Jewish and apolitical and he didn't apologise on behalf of the Jewish people for the war, basically.

[Chudder Barbarity]

Speaking of recruiting from other forums, I found this fine forum through fellow notorious hate site kiwifarms. I never had any interest in Neofag and I only really became aware of REE during the Goemon controversy (soured me on fan translations too lol). This black hole of misery provides endless entertainment. 

Looking forward to providing some much needed cultural enrichment to this insular community.

Oh, and Europapa is excellent.

[Nintex]

Speaking of recruiting from other forums, I found this fine forum through fellow notorious hate site kiwifarms. I never had any interest in Neofag and I only really became aware of REE during the Goemon controversy (soured me on fan translations too lol). This black hole of misery provides endless entertainment. 

Looking forward to providing some much needed cultural enrichment to this insular community.

Oh, and Europapa is excellent.

Provide evidence that you are not a Russian bot. We know a ChatGPT prompt when we see one bruv. 

[Chudder Barbarity]

Speaking of recruiting from other forums, I found this fine forum through fellow notorious hate site kiwifarms. I never had any interest in Neofag and I only really became aware of REE during the Goemon controversy (soured me on fan translations too lol). This black hole of misery provides endless entertainment. 

Looking forward to providing some much needed cultural enrichment to this insular community.

Oh, and Europapa is excellent.

Provide evidence that you are not a Russian bot. We know a ChatGPT prompt when we see one bruv. 

When did I claim I'm not a bot? And if I am, so what? I thought this was an inclusive community, unlike Resetera.com. 

And people wonder why Russian bots are leaving this forum in droves.

[killamajig]

Speaking of recruiting from other forums, I found this fine forum through fellow notorious hate site kiwifarms. I never had any interest in Neofag and I only really became aware of REE during the Goemon controversy (soured me on fan translations too lol). This black hole of misery provides endless entertainment. 

Looking forward to providing some much needed cultural enrichment to this insular community.

Oh, and Europapa is excellent.

Provide evidence that you are not a Russian bot. We know a ChatGPT prompt when we see one bruv. 

When did I claim I'm not a bot? And if I am, so what? I thought this was an inclusive community, unlike Resetera.com. 

And people wonder why Russian bots are leaving this forum in droves.

FYI, if benji sees you writing in Cyrillic script selling boner pills you might get banned.

[Potato]

Provide evidence that you are not a Russian bot. We know a ChatGPT prompt when we see one bruv. 

When did I claim I'm not a bot? And if I am, so what? I thought this was an inclusive community, unlike Resetera.com. 

And people wonder why Russian bots are leaving this forum in droves.

FYI, if benji sees you writing in Cyrillic script selling boner pills you might get banned.

But only in Cyrillic. Advertise in English and Benji might buy them. 

Also, this ain't Kiwi Farms. We have (very low) standards here, but we have standards. Keep the slurs out of it and don't interact with the exhibits. That's about it. Now get to hitting that like button, unlike ZeroVAG I don't post for free and likes keep thebore going round.

[Eric Cartman]

I've heard of a kit man getting promoted to head coach

[Uncle]

What's hilarious to me is how somehow no one can really explain what was actually offensive about the SNL joke. A guy having a band called "Hamas" not realizing it's offensive really mocks no one but Hamas

also, do guests write their own material? or is the issue that he did not sufficiently reject that script and decry its hatefulness?

[Cheststrongwell]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-hunt-for-nefertiti-where-in-the-world-did-she-go.868578/

What's up with this dude constantly posting full articles with little to no commentary? You'd think with reeeeeeee's rabid anti-intellectual theft leanings that they would dogpile his ass. I adblock 24/7, so it doesn't morally bother me, but I just find it odd. 

Excellent post.

Is it really?

[Nintex]

 so where did Nefertiti go

 we don't know Joe, some say John Titor picked her up during one of this time travels. But we know that she was modest and didn't have melons

 but she could have right, I mean back then Egypt had trees and shit

 I'm talking about her flat chest Joe

 Never Titty .... that's crazy man

[Shecky Fragbaum]

When I look at:

- 99% of Palestinian discussion is relegated to this one thread that is easily ignored by most members
- Unusually strict rules about sourcing in this thread that prioritize traditionally pro-Israel MSM over pro-Palestinian voices on social media
- Site rules being selectively applied and regular overreactions by moderation that result in bannings of pro-Palestinian posters and Palestinians themselves (including getting upset about NYT criticism of all things)
- The few threads related to Palestine that get created get locked to review reports and never reopened
- Genocide discussion being treated as off limits in any Biden/Democrat thread that isn't specifically about the genocide (in my opinion ongoing genocides that the subject of a thread are contributing to should always be relevant until the genocide stops)

It feels that the whole topic is being moderated in such a way to make it as easy to avoid as possible. We're basically creating a safe space for liberals so they don't have to confront what is happening in Palestine.
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all of this. also want to add how certain communities/posters seem to have a much longer leash than we do.

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[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marvel-rivals-alpha-test-contract-explicitly-prohibits-negative-reviews-of-the-game.868551/?post=122868738#post-122868738

this explains the first impressions on social media of marvel movies

lol, I wonder if ZeroVAG will respond to this, let me just scroll down a litt…

Well, the vast majority of them are good so probably not.

[Daffy Duck]

Kinda sad that JK let her enemies get to her like that, to write a tweet like that. It had nothing to do with policy or healthcare or rewriting language, all she did is stoop to the level of the people who attack her and make fun of a stranger in order to make a zinger, and not even a very good one at that

Yeah JK is out of order with that tweet and really fucks her crusade because it’s just so unfair to do that, it’s literally all they ask for is to be left alone and live their lives and she goes and does that.

Fuck off Joanne

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-hunt-for-nefertiti-where-in-the-world-did-she-go.868578/

What's up with this dude constantly posting full articles with little to no commentary? You'd think with reeeeeeee's rabid anti-intellectual theft leanings that they would dogpile his ass. I adblock 24/7, so it doesn't morally bother me, but I just find it odd. 

Excellent post.

Is it really?

I think he's Dr.Forester's alt.

[Eric Cartman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marvel-rivals-alpha-test-contract-explicitly-prohibits-negative-reviews-of-the-game.868551/?post=122868738#post-122868738

this explains the first impressions on social media of marvel movies

lol, I wonder if ZeroVAG will respond to this, let me just scroll down a litt…

Well, the vast majority of them are good so probably not.

How can a clause preventing negative first impressions exist, when all the first impressions are always positive?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-321?post=122857542#post-122857542

What the fuck... How many times does this need to happen?

I get it, I'm not fucking blind like I didn't see the pro-genocide (yeah, I'll call them that because it's an accurate description) posters brigading the constructive criticism thread and like I don't know they're mass reporting posters one by one until they're either perm-banned or get sick and finally leave on their own.

If y'all can't take the pressure and tell those people to fuck off, or you're too scared of what horrific label they'll place on you, just ban this thread and all of us and call it a day. This song and dance is getting tiring.

How the heck is that ban worthy? They've sourced everything from what I can see.

And pointing out that NYT has been making embarrassing propaganda articles on the genocide is common knowledge nowadays. Their BS right wing propaganda has been debunked time and time again. It's not inflammatory at all.

The fact that NYT still isn't banned as a source here is the baffling thing.

I guess you can't criticise anything that goes against imperialist mindset.

It's no surprise many members, especially Palestinians have left this place for good. Heck, some have been banned here.

I mainly just lurk, but this is my favorite place for Palestine news on the internet and I feel bad moderation keeps losing useful posters.

Unfortunately, the cooling effect when it comes to any conversation around the Palestinian genocide has been far-reaching. If you don't support the slaughter of Palestinians then you need to be extra careful about how you word every sentence, as people are looking for a way to frame your sentiment as antisemitic. Unfortunately, that has even been true in traditionally progressive spaces.

This has always been a highly problematic element of moderation on this site. If the mods ungenerously interpret something you say then that is further justification to not give you the benefit of the doubt in the future. Meanwhile, certain people are always interpreted as acting in good faith, so they rarely face any consequences for the things they write. It creates a tiered structure which is never a good thing.

I hope the moderation team can see how highly troubling their behavior is here, but I sincerely doubt they will. In the past their response has always been to dig in their heels and then vaguely gesture at the idea of being better in the future.

This whole thing just feel like the mods are waiting for any "solid" excuses to close this thread, from the tone policing to the disingenuous and outright gaslighting of posters who rightfully point the hypocrisy of so called progressists and the banning/driving Palestinians from this forum
i mean they let the McLemore thread get derailed on purpose, just so that they could close it (that's how it felt from my lurking window)

It's still kinda crazy we didn't even get an apology for chasing one of the last Palestinians off the forum here mid genocide

Richter used zionist in a negative way, it hurt people's feelings. I'm sure some folks are glad he requested to nuke his account, at least he said everything he wanted to say.

Excellent post Micael, when I saw Nola's ban I started digesting how to make a similar argument here and I'm glad you managed to do it in such a thorough way.

Nola is a great member of this forum, one of the few ones that actually still have the patience to continuously push back against the reactionary consensus that forms in practically every political post in this forum. Every time someone like them gets banned or gets driven away, this forum becomes more like Reddit, which, other than this and a couple other threads, it's already indistinguishable from (exception on LGBT issues, thankfully)

This is not an accident: it's what happens when you repeatedly drive away any type of slightly more to the left post in the forum by overmoderating them for a variety of bullshit reasons. All that will eventually be left will be the centrist and right-wing folks with either extremely milquetoast, useless, shallow commentary, or the ones spouting the type of reactionary drivel that aligns with the very narrow and limited political understanding and imagination of the admin of the website. Leaving two or three great moderators (e.g. Nepenthe) to have to endless push back on their own against this bullshit every day to what I can only assume is a fucking nightmare routine.

I'll also add one thing to Micael's point, this one targetted to Israeli or folks with Israeli connections in the forum. I see a lot in this thread and elsewhere the frequent reaction to Israel population criticism of the conflict with reactions "we actually want peace, we are against the war, we are against Netanyahu and he is the problem"

While I'm absolutely glad most people who post here feel like that, if you really want peace and change, instead of trying to diminish valid and accurate criticism, the first thing you have to do is concretely realize the context you are immersed on. Unless you can concretely provide data disproving the pool after pool showing overwhelming support for this concrete war that is happening right now, you need to reach the realization, like Americans, Brazilians and many other people had to over the years, that a lot of your countrymen are temporarily or permanently pieces of shit.

You need to go fight them (either by changing their minds, or by other means), not the people laying out criticism at them. And if you're using your limited energy for the latter instead of the former, you are also part of the problem, despite your noble intentions.

When I look at:

- 99% of Palestinian discussion is relegated to this one thread that is easily ignored by most members
- Unusually strict rules about sourcing in this thread that prioritize traditionally pro-Israel MSM over pro-Palestinian voices on social media
- Site rules being selectively applied and regular overreactions by moderation that result in bannings of pro-Palestinian posters and Palestinians themselves (including getting upset about NYT criticism of all things)
- The few threads related to Palestine that get created get locked to review reports and never reopened
- Genocide discussion being treated as off limits in any Biden/Democrat thread that isn't specifically about the genocide (in my opinion ongoing genocides that the subject of a thread are contributing to should always be relevant until the genocide stops)

It feels that the whole topic is being moderated in such a way to make it as easy to avoid as possible. We're basically creating a safe space for liberals so they don't have to confront what is happening in Palestine.
Click to shrink...

all of this. also want to add how certain communities/posters seem to have a much longer leash than we do.

The whole NYT ban wave thing and all the following stuff is especially sad, since not even 2 whole weeks later we had the politico article clearly showing that the NYT was not above manufacturing bullshit due to some pettiness from not being granted an interview, something they didn't even bother to deny.

So yeah less than 2 weeks later from Nola getting a warning, and several users getting bans and what not that were reverted, a thing that resulted in a Palestinian being driven off the forum, you had the very journal that was rightly criticized being exposed for doing this kind of dumb stuff.

Yup. I also don't doubt for a second there are other users watching this thread and reporting any perceived rule violation in a bad faith attempt to silence certain people, especially anything discussing Biden and the election.

[HaughtyFrank]

One thing you can always bet on is that the RE mods will always piss off everyone. Poli-era left because people got way too comfortable talking about wiping out Israel and the guys who want to wipe out Israel are at the same time upset they're not giving enough leeway.

[Boredfrom]

One thing you can always bet on is that the RE mods will always piss off everyone. Poli-era left because people got way too comfortable talking about wiping out Israel and the guys who want to wipe out Israel are at the same time upset they're not giving enough leeway.

B Dubs is a true centrist.

[Besticus Maximus]

Maybe you all just hate jews and should be banned for being nutters? 

[Eric Cartman]

I mainly just lurk, but this is my favorite place for Palestine news on the internet and I feel bad moderation keeps losing useful posters.

He's right you know

[Jonsey]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marvel-rivals-alpha-test-contract-explicitly-prohibits-negative-reviews-of-the-game.868551/?post=122868738#post-122868738

this explains the first impressions on social media of marvel movies

lol, I wonder if ZeroVAG will respond to this, let me just scroll down a litt…

Well, the vast majority of them are good so probably not.

He’s more intolerable than Hitler

[books]

If they want a safe space to talk about exterminating "zionists," maybe they should go colonize some other space on the internet.

[Steven Snell]

It's funny with that JK Rowling tweet they're all up in arms about. They only focus on the trans aspect as usual, but ignores the fact Rowling actually is quite progressive in wanting more women and different ethnicities as football managers.

[Nintex]

So is Egypt going to hold to their word that they will nullify the peace treaty now that Rafah is being invaded?

Unlikely. Or at least I'd be genuinely shocked. The US can just bribe Sisi with whatever he likes in exchange for his cooperation.

Though I wonder if other elements within the army might have had their long dorment Nasserism awaken over the past few months...

Two places in the world that are hoping for a conflict between Egypt and Israel.

Iran and ResetEra

[HaughtyFrank]

"I can't believe the mods treat us so badly for just being peace advocates. Anyway, I hope Egypt has a military coup and starts a war with Israel."

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/eurovision-song-contest-2024-ot-not-a-political-event.867738/page-44?post=122871594#post-122871594

User Banned (1 Month): Downplaying misogynistic violence across multiple posts, transphobic rhetoric, account in junior phase

You don't see why a woman could feel genuinely threatened by man engaging in a "threatening movement" towards her? You don't see how gender is relevant here?

No, please explain why a "threatening movement towards the camera" is so much worse depending on what gender the camera person identifies as.

Alright, I take back by law a backstage is not considered a public space. Thanks for the clarification.

No problem, I'm glad that you're open to learn and revise your perspective.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/eurovision-song-contest-2024-ot-not-a-political-event.867738/page-44?post=122881698#post-122881698

User Banned (Duration Pending Admin Review): Downplaying systemic misogyny across multiple posts, downplaying systemic racism, previous severe infractions

"Happen to be of a different gender" ??
Yeah, if we ignore the inherent power-dynamics that make men assaulting women problematic, AND the history of men feeling they have the physical right to assault or be threatening towards women in ways they would never to a man AND that women are much more likely to feel threatened from a man being physical or threatening towards them because of this history etc. etc. - Then SURE, these are just two people who happen to be "different genders".
This is "reverse racism" logic that kind of boggles my mind.

I'm not, but like racism, if everything is racism, then nothing is. If it's categorically always gender based violence if the threatening situation is between a man and a woman, then you're arguing that men and women shouldn't be equal in the eyes of the law. This to me is a much worse situation than what you're trying to solve.

Anyway, wildly off topic at this point, so I'll take your cue and not pursue this any further, and focus back on Eurovision.

Or on this new information, lol.

[Besticus Maximus]

Nearly every single discussion on that stupid fucking website is some kind of moralism yugioh

[Uncle]

"I can't believe the mods treat us so badly for just being peace advocates. Anyway, I hope Egypt has a military coup and starts a war with Israel."

[Snoopy]

It's funny with that JK Rowling tweet they're all up in arms about. They only focus on the trans aspect as usual, but ignores the fact Rowling actually is quite progressive in wanting more women and different ethnicities as football managers.

You can get to fuck with that. I have never once seen her championing any women’s football teams, or trying to get players promoted into management. She claimed she was Spurs once which tells you all you need to know. It’s lolz when she’s having slap fights with the nutters, but having a go at this manager was well out of order. She’s opened a floodgate of shit on someone who’s done nothing wrong.

[Steven Snell]

You can get to fuck with that. I have never once seen her championing any women’s football teams, or trying to get players promoted into management. She claimed she was Spurs once which tells you all you need to know. It’s lolz when she’s having slap fights with the nutters, but having a go at this manager was well out of order. She’s opened a floodgate of shit on someone who’s done nothing wrong.

I agree that it's shitty of her to have a go at this person absolutely. But just what the JK Rowling thread on Era decided to focus on, like I don't understand where they're coming from when they say she's putting down all women with that tweet.