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1 minute ago, immamac said:

Pretty long con for a 2022 account that doesn't really do the same shit that animal tobacco does... Just saying from looking at the last 3 months if posts. 

Fair enough. Your board. 

Posted
1 minute ago, immamac said:

I can see the merits, but when we have gone mod light in DT it has been overall bad. It's hard to do a full trial run. 

That’s a fair point, but in defense of my point, you have an entire contingent of posters (and yes I understand I may be biased) that immediately refuse to engage and just respond to any point they don’t like with “take it to the CR”. 

 

All the while giving potshots of their own opposing views, and of course, this may be bait, but it works, because they refuse to engage in an actual conversation in the correct place. 

 

I get that it is hard to do a trail run. Might I suggest locking both forums and creating a new trial run all encompassing forum? You and I are just speculating one way or the other will or won’t work, but neither of us know for sure. My assumption is locking both and creating another gives you a somewhat reversible way to switch back if the thunderdome doesn’t work. 

My hope is this allows yall to do less moderating outside a single cesspool, and also does not choke the golden goose that is recruiting. But I’m just suggesting ideas.

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Many of you are under the impression that you have some sort of 1st amendment right to say anything you want here. You don’t. This is imma’s site and he can make the rules.  If you can’t/won’t follow them then either leave or be prepared for the consequences. 

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Posted
8 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

 

I can’t speak for others, but all I’m asking for is some consistency. You’re going to wake up tomorrow and realize how ridiculous your behavior tonight was. You’re acting like Elon in a k-hole trying to moderate Twitter per his fleeting whims.

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The one coming across as a whiny little brat…

Posted

Giving roy a weeklong break for that is pretty silly but honestly, @immamac is not really being all that unreasonable here and we could all stand to be a little more charitable to him considering the amount of shit he has to put up with, me included.

I personally disagree with the stance he and Bob have taken with regard to the DT, and I think that what @UnivTex34 said is essentially correct. There is a lot of shitty disinformation dropped in various DT threads from sources that range from dubious to literal fake news factories, like the numerous OSINT Twitter accounts that are often (completely uncritically) used as sources of credible information that are just posting straight up foreign agitprop. Pointing this out is usually "too CR" for DT posters and gets you reported.

On the flip side, I also understand there's a line and that I personally have stepped over that line a number of times so there's plenty of room for interpretation there. We're never going to get it right 100% of the time (mods and posters alike) and not everyone is going to be happy about it.

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Posted
16 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

There is a lot of shitty disinformation dropped in various DT threads

Does that happen with greater frequency in the DT compared to the CR?

Posted
12 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

Giving roy a weeklong break for that is pretty silly but honestly, @immamac is not really being all that unreasonable here and we could all stand to be a little more charitable to him considering the amount of shit he has to put up with, me included.

I personally disagree with the stance he and Bob have taken with regard to the DT, and I think that what @UnivTex34 said is essentially correct. There is a lot of shitty disinformation dropped in various DT threads from sources that range from dubious to literal fake news factories, like the numerous OSINT Twitter accounts that are often (completely uncritically) used as sources of credible information that are just posting straight up foreign agitprop. Pointing this out is usually "too CR" for DT posters and gets you reported.

On the flip side, I also understand there's a line and that I personally have stepped over that line a number of times so there's plenty of room for interpretation there. We're never going to get it right 100% of the time (mods and posters alike) and not everyone is going to be happy about it.

This is exactly why I disagree with imma's assertion that he doesn't "control the message, [he] doesn't shape the threads". He absofuckinglutely does. He rolled out the red carpet for Pronghorn to blast racist disinformation and known foreign agitprop as a news source, and then the mods swung their dicks around on anyone who points that out. Because "nobody cares if it's lies, it's not against the rules to be an idiot".

Yeah, TOTALLY not shaping the narrative or controlling the message to say that they are above reproach and their dogshit and frequently recanted sourcing smells like shit. It's very literally creating a safe space for disinformation and those who want to disseminate it.

 

And look, I understand that it would just be easier if we like all got along man. But that requires a common set of facts and a single reality. And the way DT is ran, you can simply cry "CR!!!" to paper over any factual vacancies you might have pointed out to you.

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my dungeons and dragons alignment is True Neutral, dead center, so let me try to mediate this shitstorm with a proposal:

1. the forum titles of Daily Texan and Cloak Room and the ostensible purpose of each forum, as named and so defined 19 years ago (!) no longer accurately represent the content posted therein

2. rename them, left/right, red/blue, maybe run a mod thread stickied to the top of each forum asking for nominations of the new name for that forum, then run a poll

3. those on the left upset that DT allows alternative facts news will drop their crusade and accept the double standard - the 'right' gets their forum, the 'left' gets theirs, and there is no longer any attempt to bifurcate "news" and "politics"

Posted
14 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Does that happen with greater frequency in the DT compared to the CR?

I think it does, but probably not to the degree most people might think. DT is the subject here though.

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