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slacker03150 posted...

I think this is the closest thing we have to clarification

And even that doesn't do much, because GameFAQs doesn't have any communities whose "main purpose" is any of those things. There are communities where such subjects come up from time to time and where there's moderate consensus on which position to back, but not communities specifically created to take such sides, so the policy has no basis for being applied in the first place and the fact that they're applying it at all means they've made up some other interpretation. That Timmy's saying "it's not possible to come up with an all-encompassing definition" while justifying a policy that needs an all-encompassing definition to be applied with any sort of consistency doesn't exactly inspire confidence that they have any idea what they want to do with this.

For that matter, that last bit saying "the intent is to use a stringent definition of politics that covers clear trolling and flame wars" means absolutely nothing has actually changed. Clear trolling and flame wars have always been moddable on every board, without any need to say "no politics allowed outside of a board that we've now quarantined." So... I really don't know what to believe, except my expectation that this will largely blow over in a couple weeks and it'll be business as usual because mods won't care enough to actively police social boards to slap down "political" topics.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

A new policy that you admit was announced 2 days ago and was not in effect 9 months ago when the moderation occurred.

Ah, I misunderstood. I thought you were talking about a moderation you got since you returned from your vacation, not the moderation that earned you said vacation. In that case, I still feel pretty comfortable assuming that you've misinterpreted what happened. The most likely issue was that one or more of the examples you gave entailed crossed one of the lines that are not tolerated, such as Covid denialism, Jan 6th denialism, or advocating for the abolition of human rights for some disenfranchised group or other. You probably won't be able to share the details without getting modded again, so I'm afraid you'll have to content yourself with that explanation and take this as an opportunity to reflect on what you did wrong and try to improve (though given that you've sat on "the mods were defending Fox News!" for nine months, I can't say I'm overly hopeful in that regard).