Fandom bans politics on GameFAQs (outside of Current Events)

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Another thing that just occurred to me - LUE itself

There was no decision made about LUE. Granted it's not very active, but like, if LUE is already walled off like CE, surely political discussion can take place there too? I mean that should be a no-brainer
Not to be confused with XIII_Minerals.
i mean in the topic about it on LUE a mod straight up went "Nah" to whether it's gonna apply to them.
which makes sense, they are de facto cut off from the rest of the site so almost none of the rules should apply.
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KamikazePotato posted...
I feel like this rule is barely going to be enforced outside of the initial Politics topic purge. Like have any of us gotten modded since this went into effect? How does an understaffed mod team even begin to address this when it's so broad it actually INCREASED the scope of their work? Although posts might randomly still get deleted.

I haven't been able to follow everything since last night but I strongly suspect this will be the case and that as long as we don't label topics like "Politics Discussion" nothing will happen. Could be wrong but this is my guess.

I suppose users could more easily shut down a discussion with reports but idk if we'd actually have that problem here.
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XIII_Rocks posted...
I mean that should be a no-brainer
Yes we're talking about Fandom's decisions but what's going to happen to LUE?
Hey man, LlamaGuy did encrypt the passwords.
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Oh good lord the second feedback topic filled up since I went to bed yeah I ain't reading all that.
I didn't do guru this year but azuarc can be in my sig anyways.
such as hornyposting
azuarc wasn't even home. he was playing Magic the Gathering at his buddy's store, which is extremely easy to verify
So this Uta person was coming into the topic saying "all this stuff is political adjacent but not political and you can talk about just causes just fine" and it turns out that was complete bullshit. Not to mention incredibly ignorant of the fact that these discussions often inherently require being political to have any substance.

And this is one of your lead mods with absolutely no grasp on the actual rules that are currently being enforced.

Just pathetic on a level we've never had on GFAQs. Sucks cause we haven't been an independent site for a long time but aside from a failed merger with GameSpot all our corporate overlords were mostly content to leave us alone.

Just makes me angry and bummed out.
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But I can't find how to do that

Meh
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I know it's beating a dead horse but I think it's insane to ban the subject and not the users. Get more moderators I'd that's the issue. If I'm gathering a large group to leave unmarked spoilers everywhere will you ban us, the subject or the board we did it on? There should be a clear and obvious answer.
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Damn rip to the Board 8 Babe Brawl. I'm sure that's considered hornyposting lmao
Wow I just caught up on all this and this is like one of the only places I still come Ive been here since I was a teen. This is ridiculous and infuriating.
-hotdogturtle-- posted...
Yes we're talking about Fandom's decisions but what's going to happen to LUE?
When they shut down the message boards, I doubt they'll make a special exception to leave LUE running just because it's historical
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ffmasterjose posted...
Damn rip to the Board 8 Babe Brawl. I'm sure that's considered hornyposting lmao
No, there is no sexual enjoyment in it. It's purely about enforcing western standards of female beauty in order to fight against globalization by non-white cultural marxists.

So it's considered politics.
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Is this policy left to the users to enforce by marking, or is this something mods are asked to tackle on their own?

Can our local mods N/A the lgbtq discussions, but take down the MAGA/Biden stuff?
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neonreaper posted...
Is this policy left to the users to enforce by marking, or is this something mods are asked to tackle on their own?

Can our local mods N/A the lgbtq discussions, but take down the MAGA/Biden stuff?
The way our moderation system has always worked it's basically always enforced by users marking stuff. (Which is why this policy change doesn't really make sense - if the issue is that things have gotten super toxic... well, that was already probably against the rules. The problem then was that no one was marking it or that the mods weren't modding it. This doesn't really fundamentally change any of that. It's just stating those posts are now breaking n+1 rules... but if no one is marking them then it's not going to change much. Mods don't really roam topics looking to action things, the site is just too big for that to be feasible.)

And technically since all marked messages go into a single site-wide queue the mods that happen to be B8ers couldn't realistically intercept all marks that happen here. A common misconception is that mods have assigned boards/mods that post on a board are the ones who are modding it. Someone like TRE could handle messages here but only in the sense that any mod who happens to open the mod queue has a chance of getting a message from here. It's more likely that mods who don't frequent B8 are handling our messages I would imagine simply as a matter of probability (I dunno how many mods there are in total but far more than the handful who post here I wager.)
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foolm0r0n posted...
No, there is no sexual enjoyment in it. It's purely about enforcing western standards of female beauty in order to fight against globalization by non-white cultural marxists.

So it's considered politics.

I remember one time he was on about respecting women and I called him on being the Babe Brawl guy and he didn't see the issue
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The woke mind virus hasnt reached Bulgaria yet, he doesnt know any better
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foolm0r0n posted...
Every single real Bulgarian person I've met makes it clear why Vlado is forced to spend most of his time hanging out online with nerds halfway around the globe

How many real Bulgarian people have you met?
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ffmasterjose posted...
Damn rip to the Board 8 Babe Brawl. I'm sure that's considered hornyposting lmao
looks like we'll just have to bring back Babar Brawl instead
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Leonhart4 posted...
How many real Bulgarian people have you met?
2 afaik
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So like, I am not allowed to complain about the state of my local roads anymore?
I know it just passed, but Tax Season. Is that off limits as well

I have questions
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am I the only one that likes this? I came to this place to talk about games, not politics.

Yes I had the politics tag blocked, but not every topic that was polticial had the tag.
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Yes you are.

Actually Ulti probably does too, since so many people in the Politics topic blocked him.
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Alanna82 posted...
am I the only one that likes this? I came to this place to talk about games, not politics.

Yes I had the politics tag blocked, but not every topic that was polticial had the tag.
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it sounds nice, until you are the politics
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Alanna82 posted...
am I the only one that likes this? I came to this place to talk about games, not politics.
With who though? You need people to talk to, and people talk about all kinds of things.

The problem with this policy is the idea that CE is full of politics-spewing robots, and the Overwatch board is full of Overwatch-discussing robots, and B8 is full of contest-discussing robots. It doesn't recognize the actual people that make up this forum and the reasons they choose to hang out here and not on twitter, reddit, etc
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UshiromiyaEva posted...
Yes you are.

Actually Ulti probably does too, since so many people in the Politics topic blocked him.

Ulti posted in both of the feedback topics about how good of an idea this was, in fact, lol.

If you want the boards to continue existing, it doesnt really make any sense to be happy about the banning of any topics. If you dont like politicsdont go to the politics topic!

As an example, I literally could not care less about the Contests, and I managed to become a regular on B8 because I just went to the other topics.
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If you don't come here to talk about contests, we should ban you, not contest discussion

Let's discuss 20 year old contests 24/7
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Every time someone says "I don't like to talk about politics" I sigh wistfully and I think, wow, that must be very nice
PerfectChaosZ posted...
Wow I just caught up on all this and this is like one of the only places I still come Ive been here since I was a teen. This is ridiculous and infuriating.
Things have only gotten worse ever since Fandom took over.
Miss what the Current Events board used to be? Then come here to discuss it with us: https://discord.gg/ThGKk5UaK6
politics can definitely derail a topic that has nothing to do with it, that part's fair. and if that's what people get annoyed with, totally get it.

but blocking all of it is just the other extreme when there was a lot of middle ground to work with and now instead stifles discussion. making a politics topic to absorb 90% of it, easy. making the tag auto-blocked by default so you have to opt into that tag, also easy. if you want to limit political talk on a subject, you can also just make the rule of political talk should have the tag, otherwise moderate it. essentially the same rule as this only instead of "ban outright" it's "in a topic with the tag." more complicated and annoying sure but far less egregious than an outright ban.

easy examples would be say somebody wants to talk about gun ownership or about a relative having an abortion. topic could simply be about that without delving into gun control or pro-life/pro-choice arguments. if people wanna talk about that in those terms, just use the tag. if they don't, don't.
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...
As an example, I literally could not care less about the Contests, and I managed to become a regular on B8 because I just went to the other topics.

This board becomes significantly worse during contests lol.
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There are plenty of long running topics and series and things here i dont want to discuss.

I just dont click the topics.
Paratroopa1 posted...
Every time someone says "I don't like to talk about politics" I sigh wistfully and I think, wow, that must be very nice

I mean to be fair I don't LIKE to
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AriaOfBolo posted...
I mean to be fair I don't LIKE to
I know, neither do I
If you enjoy taking about politics then you have no business talking about politics.
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I feel like they could have solved this by having an 'opt in'.

Do you want to see political topics?

Have it set to 'no' by default. Anyone who wants to discuss politics can, and then everyone else doesn't have to worry about it.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the people in charge don't even know that you can block tags. I mean, I didn't know either, but I'm not running the site.
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Paratroopa1 posted...
Every time someone says "I don't like to talk about politics" I sigh wistfully and I think, wow, that must be very nice

~Peaf~
I don't care about save my ffffffffuck topics but i just ignore them and move on because i am an adult and not everything is about me or for my sole enjoyment
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I currently have Contest Discussion, Forum Games, and Mafia blocked. It's easy as pie.

Of course those don't always get tagged properly, but whatever.
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The Contest Discussion tag button should be a secret auto-ban button for people who try to turn it off

Maybe they'll turn the Politics tag into one, so I probably shouldn't be giving Fandom any ideas
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Leonhart4 posted...
If you don't come here to talk about contests, we should ban you, not contest discussion

Let's discuss 20 year old contests 24/7
Honestly a decent rule would be, you can only come to this board if you plan on creating a bracket for the theoretical next contest
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UshiromiyaEva posted...
I currently have Contest Discussion, Forum Games, and Mafia blocked. It's easy as pie.

Of course those don't always get tagged properly, but whatever.

This is Isquen erasure :(
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foolm0r0n posted...
Honestly a decent rule would be, you can only come to this board if you plan on creating a bracket for the theoretical next contest
can i at least guarantee honorary citizenship for as long as i keep my guru sig from eleven years ago
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Wanglicious posted...
making the tag auto-blocked by default so you have to opt into that tag, also easy. if you want to limit political talk on a subject, you can also just make the rule of political talk should have the tag, otherwise moderate it. essentially the same rule as this only instead of "ban outright" it's "in a topic with the tag." more complicated and annoying sure but far less egregious than an outright ban.

Wang this idea makes you objectively smarter than the entirety of Fandom.
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