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Krazy_Kirby posted...

I got modded for making a mistake.... I thought it wasn't a crime anymore in CA to knowingly hide the fact you have hiv before sleeping with someone. silly me, they changed it to a misdemeanor (as if that's not basically nothing).

I remember that, and presumably, you were modded for spreading misinformation in a manner that was deliberately intended to insult the entire left. Your wording was not ambiguous; you were attacking everyone who disagreed with your position. That's what you got modded for, not for misinterpreting reality (though you should perhaps take that as an indication that you should better research such matters before jumping to conclusions and disseminating those conclusions as fact). Fair, next.

As for a misdemeanour being pretty minor, it's still very distinct from something not being illegal. Most importantly, though, it brings HIV in line with other STI's, which is reasonable given that modern treatment and prevention options mean it's pretty comparable to them in terms of severity. There's an argument to be made that failing to disclose any STI to a sexual partner should be treated more harshly than it is (really, it's a form of rape, since you're denying your partner the ability to make an informed decision to consent), but there's no reason to put HIV on a pedestal and treat it more harshly than the others. If you think there is, present your reasoning, rather than preemptively insulting anyone that doesn't automatically agree with your unsubstantiated stance.

The_tall_midget posted...

Nope, the mods have OPENLY stated that the rules are not necessary and that all that is needed for a moderation is a consensus of a few individuals that have openly shown and said their bias on many, many occasions.

Because you're you and you have a rather spectacular victim complex and inability to take responsibility for your routine misbehaviour, I'm going to guess that what you actually mean by this is "the mods have said that stuff generally only gets modded if a bunch of people mark it, and sometimes one or more additional mods will have to back up a deletion before it goes through." Which is pretty reasonable, given that policing the entire site proactively is quite the undertaking. That's not a grand conspiracy to keep everyone with dissenting opinions down, it just means that people that deliberately act in a manner that's bound to bother large numbers of users (remember that time that you explicitly announced that you were just going to respond to every issue by taking whichever side would most piss off feminists? Pepperidge Farm remembers.) will find themselves moderated more often than people that grew out of their rebellious teenage edgelord phase before hitting their 20's.

Once again, learn some goddamn manners, and maybe you'll be able to stay out of purg for more than a month. It's really not hard. I figured out how to do it when I was 13, and not because I was an exceptionally intelligent 13-year-old.

kukukupo posted...

The "pronoun problem" exists unless you are someone I interact with every single day I won't know. I can't even recall most people's names unless I see them every day for a month or more.

Because I will never remember, I will call you how you appear. If I call you a dude and you are a chick (or vice versa) I'll probably feel bad and try to correct it. But if you expected to be called something else, I don't really see how that would be my fault since I have no way of knowing.

I know it gets talked about online all of the time, but I've literally never had this 'issue' come up.

Pretty much. As much as people online like to whine about not wanting to be horribly berated for accidentally misgendering strangers, that's really quite rare. The vast majority of genderqueer folks are quite understanding of the fact that people tend to assume based on appearances, and that even among friends, it's easy to forget. What determines whether or not somebody will be treated as an asshole for that mistake is whether or not they act like an asshole: Apologizing and correcting oneself fixes the entire problem. Doubling down on it and blaming "snowflakes" for not lining up with their preconceived expectations is acting like an asshole, and people should expect to be treated accordingly.

Also, I don't think I've ever seen somebody complain about being treated poorly for accidentally misgendering people that I haven't also seen deliberately misgendering people on a regular basis. I'm sure you all like to think you're clever enough to pretend you just made a mistake, but you aren't, and that's why you're being treated poorly.

DocDelicious posted...

So, here's how this conversation would go in my world.

"Where's Anthony?"
"the store"
"What for?
"Getting some candy."

That's pretty weird. People will use sentence fragments commonly enough in casual conversation, but never including a subject outside of specifying a new one is very unusual.

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