Current Events > It's officially become moddable to post with conservative views on GameFAQs

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GATTJT posted...

TC got rekt and is crying now. I'm gonna laugh when this topic gets modded too.

I got modded for posting "lol" at images of twitter people praying that north korea would nuke the whitehouse after the kavanaugh debacle. Apparently it's wrong to lol at someones anguish even if that anguish includes wishing for nuclear assault.
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X-Pac_Heat posted...

It's better to just double down on your beliefs tbqh

It's never a heavy mod, and even if it is it's not like it takes more that two days to get a new account

Are you the carpenter from Indiana?
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

TC you won't find much sympathy or understanding for nuance here. CE is basically 95% far-left at this point. (With more than 10 active users being outright self-proclaimed revolutionary Marxists)

This stinks of victimization.
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

CE is basically 95% far-left at this point

lolno
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MC_BatCommander posted...

no fucking way I'm reading all of that

don't like it don't post here, it's that simple

Ayyyyyyy
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I'll never stop talking about how I was called a dumbass hillbilly by one of the usual suspects, but I got modded for saying "calm down hoss" because the mod thought it was slang for horse and that's a name

He didn't get nodded till I bitched but then everyone cries melty

So now I just don't give a fuck.
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Solid Sonic posted...

FLUFFYGERM posted...

TC you won't find much sympathy or understanding for nuance here. CE is basically 95% far-left at this point. (With more than 10 active users being outright self-proclaimed revolutionary Marxists)

This stinks of victimization.

best not to take anything he posts seriously
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JustMyOpinion posted...

Mods on this site are p bad. They're not consistent, some of them don't seem to know the rules, and they'll generally band together and support someone else's ruling if there's any viewpoint they can twist it into that would allow them to uphold. That said, this is not worth melting down over.

I know a couple of the mods and get on well on discord with some of them, and there's definitely a spread of good people. I don't know how large the moderation staff is in its entirely but just by virtue of it being a volunteer position you're bound to have some unqualified people within the wings. But that's just life. I think as long as the top level remains consistent and knows what they're doing, that value will over time continue on the trend.
I hope this doesn't read like a meltdown LOL
But if it does, i'll take it on the chin.

@CocteauTwins the problem with debating a communist is that even if you win, they think that victory is collective.
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Conservatives playing victim for holding socially unacceptable views? You don't say

Solid Sonic posted...

FLUFFYGERM posted...

TC you won't find much sympathy or understanding for nuance here. CE is basically 95% far-left at this point. (With more than 10 active users being outright self-proclaimed revolutionary Marxists)

This stinks of victimization.

It's Proudclad. He can only see communism everywhere he goes.
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X-Pac_Heat posted...

I'll never stop talking about how I was called a dumbass hillbilly by one of the usual suspects, but I got modded for saying "calm down hoss" because the mod thought it was slang for horse and that's a name

He didn't get nodded till I bitched but then everyone cries melty

So now I just don't give a fuck.

Hahaha

I thought you were leaving gamefaqs? Guess you rolled a 0 willpower stat
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Rexdragon125 posted...

Conservatives playing victim for holding socially unacceptable views? You don't say

Careful, your views may one day be deemed "socially unacceptable" by the censorship brigade you're empowering. You won't be enjoying the Twitter hot takes then.
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eggcorn posted...

I got modded for posting "lol" at images of twitter people praying that north korea would nuke the whitehouse after the kavanaugh debacle. Apparently it's wrong to lol at someones anguish even if that anguish includes wishing for nuclear assault.

Oof

X-Pac_Heat posted...

I'll never stop talking about how I was called a dumbass hillbilly by one of the usual suspects, but I got modded for saying "calm down hoss" because the mod thought it was slang for horse and that's a name

He didn't get nodded till I bitched but then everyone cries melty

So now I just don't give a fuck.

Also oof

M_Live posted...

I'm still 100% convinced that antifa is a tiny fringe subsection of people with no real organization and it's just thrown out as angry label from buttmad alrighters who are buttmad that people don't agree with their unabashed support of Nazis. They literally had to come up with something to counter Nazis.

I mean, define tiny. It's not like Antifa is a large political entity that always travels in an organized unit, but they have city-based factions in major areas like New York and San Francisco. They get together, they hold regular meetings, and they actively recruit to protest at events. Heck, on many occasions there are far more Antifa members protesting an event the right holds than there are people on the right actually there.
And in almost all cases, they begin and escalate violent situations.

Who exactly do you consider to be supporting Nazis?
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Jorep posted...

I appreciate the response, mate.
Regarding the topic header in the original post I'll agree that it's intentionally provocative, but I think in general the blanket that "trolling" falls under is far too broad and vague. It works as a catch-all in many cases, but I think it's a hard sell to find that point between what is true (at the time) information that will bother others versus information designed specifically to rile people up, i.e. arrest statistics and the debate around that.

Regarding this topic, it's not that I want to just run a hit job on the GameFAQs moderation staff, but this is one among a string of moderations I've taken over the past few months while discussing conservative views on GameFAQs, and at some point the dam just breaks and it's like, hey, am I even allowed to discuss my opinion any longer?
There have been fair moderations to be sure (such as when I claimed that while open carrying I would shoot an Antifa member coming at me in self defense, albeit in more colorful language), but plenty of ones I consider very unfair, as well.

Regardless, I appreciate the response.

I'll just post some general comments regarding the trolling rule since I don't know enough about the concrete topic at hand to properly comment.
Trolling is sometimes difficult to determine and it's very hard to specify what exactly classifies as trolling, so it has an inherent subjective bias; however, that is why we allow users to dispute messages amongst other things.
One way to circumvent this would be to have a clear "everything remotely related to trolling will be moderated rule" similar to our current "no tolerance for flaming rule", but that would (exactly like the flaming changes) not go down well with the community.
If you do post about a controversial (which conservative topics often tend to be) topic (especially if you decide to go for a somewhat provocative title), I would suggest citing clear sources in the first post, otherwise it is sometimes difficult to understand the user's intentions from just one (which in this case also seems provocative) sentence.
This is pretty much all I can say about that without loss of generality and hope that it somewhat helps you understand why we moderate some things.

The Dell Dude got arrested.

Thats been official for years.
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TC is absolutely right - my last few political moderations were for posting Breitbart links without commentary. A moderator took it down because he didn't agree with the stats that were in the article, or they "don't like the source" (they've played this game before: I even link to the government statistics directly to "fix" the topic, and they moderate it again anyway).

People should also be aware that we have a mod active on the politics board who has said at least 3 times via social media that he uses his accounts for trolling.
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To be fair though racism has always been moddable here.
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@MabusIncarnate

Hit em with the moddie woddie
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P4wn4g3 posted...

To be fair though racism has always been moddable here.

Yep, fake news as well. These two reasons are why conservatives have a hard time here
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Awwwww TC did the mods hurt your feewings? Did you get a widdle moddie woddie? Are you all misty eyed from the mean old moddies?

Where does it hurt honey? Show me on the bear where they hurt your widdle feewings.

:*(
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I have never seen DifferentialEquation get moderated. Ever.

The next time someone wants to go on a rant about how right wing posts are always moderated, I'd like you to address why it's okay for DifferentialEquation to post it.
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

TC you won't find much sympathy or understanding for nuance here. CE is basically 95% far-left at this point. (With more than 10 active users being outright self-proclaimed revolutionary Marxists)

What the hell happened to you man

I remember you used to be fairly chill
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Video evidence that Antifa threw the first punch (glass bottle)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmE--CNJZaQ" data-time="
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Wait I recognize TC's account name
Did you get hijacked bro
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Lmao at TCs whining

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P4wn4g3 posted...

Wait I recognize TC's account name
Did you get hijacked bro

Check his YouTube

Hes went off the deep end since his CE interviewing days
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DezDroppedFreak posted...

P4wn4g3 posted...

Wait I recognize TC's account name
Did you get hijacked bro

Check his YouTube

Hes went off the deep end since his CE interviewing days

Wrong; I've been appearing on his podcast. I daresay the golden age of Jorep is dawning.
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DezDroppedFreak posted...

P4wn4g3 posted...

Wait I recognize TC's account name
Did you get hijacked bro

Check his YouTube

Hes went off the deep end since his CE interviewing days

He was the CE interviewer guy?
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HashtagTartarus posted...

DezDroppedFreak posted...

P4wn4g3 posted...

Wait I recognize TC's account name
Did you get hijacked bro

Check his YouTube

Hes went off the deep end since his CE interviewing days

Wrong; I've been appearing on his podcast. I daresay the golden age of Jorep is dawning.

people are going to just say that confirms it
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P4wn4g3 posted...

DezDroppedFreak posted...

P4wn4g3 posted...

Wait I recognize TC's account name
Did you get hijacked bro

Check his YouTube

Hes went off the deep end since his CE interviewing days

He was the CE interviewer guy?

Yep
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i skimmed it and saw proud boys. proud boys brag about the fact that they go out and look for fights. to say this is self-defense is untruthful.
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DezDroppedFreak posted...

P4wn4g3 posted...

Wait I recognize TC's account name
Did you get hijacked bro

Check his YouTube

Hes went off the deep end since his CE interviewing days

I've actually expressed how iffy I felt about him back when people were praising his CE interviews because he always used to be like this. I guess either I was right all along and he's a good hider or he went back to his old ways after.
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Sucks when the good posters all go crazy.
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dreamvoid posted...

i skimmed it and saw proud boys. proud boys brag about the fact that they go out and look for fights.

And then shove dildos up their asses.
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GiftedACIII posted...

DezDroppedFreak posted...

P4wn4g3 posted...

Wait I recognize TC's account name
Did you get hijacked bro

Check his YouTube

Hes went off the deep end since his CE interviewing days

I've actually expressed how iffy I felt about him back when people were praising his CE interviews because he always used to be like this. I guess either I was right all along and he's a good hider or he went back to his old ways after.

I guess I just never knew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6nieWLXp8k" data-time="

Like this is just lunacy
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Tyranthraxus posted...

dreamvoid posted...

i skimmed it and saw proud boys. proud boys brag about the fact that they go out and look for fights.

And then shove dildos up their asses.

is this an initiation ritual that was revealed?
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@GiftedACIII is being intentionally disingenuous. Not only do I not recognize his username (perhaps he's changed it?) I also don't recall him ever interacting with or raising questions about me.

To drive that further home, I was a hardcore liberal for much of my early 20s, and relatively left-leaning during my CE interview days. You can say what you like about me, sir, but don't be a biter and try to pretend you know me just because you're in the topic. That's bad form.

To everyone else discussing that, I'm still the same me. I'm just more conservative leaning and I stand behind what I say. Regarding the most recent video and the bomb scare, there's a lot of unanswered questions, and to the point of lunacy, I think blindly blaming one side or the other with no question to motive or reasoning when, to my knowledge there are no suspects in custody, is the true lunacy.
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@GiftedACIII is just a tattler anyway

Tyranthraxus posted...

dreamvoid posted...

i skimmed it and saw proud boys. proud boys brag about the fact that they go out and look for fights.

And then shove dildos up their asses.

Homophobia. You should be ashamed.
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dreamvoid posted...

Tyranthraxus posted...

dreamvoid posted...

i skimmed it and saw proud boys. proud boys brag about the fact that they go out and look for fights.

And then shove dildos up their asses.

is this an initiation ritual that was revealed?

No it's just something Gavin McInnes did to "own" the liberals.
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Funbazooka posted...

Tyranthraxus posted...

dreamvoid posted...

i skimmed it and saw proud boys. proud boys brag about the fact that they go out and look for fights.

And then shove dildos up their asses.

Homophobia. You should be ashamed.

I'm so shook right now. Please don't shove a dildo up your ass too that'll really expose how I really feel.
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DezDroppedFreak posted...

GiftedACIII posted...

DezDroppedFreak posted...

P4wn4g3 posted...

Wait I recognize TC's account name
Did you get hijacked bro

Check his YouTube

Hes went off the deep end since his CE interviewing days

I've actually expressed how iffy I felt about him back when people were praising his CE interviews because he always used to be like this. I guess either I was right all along and he's a good hider or he went back to his old ways after.

I guess I just never knew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6nieWLXp8k" data-time="

Like this is just lunacy

oh....oh, wow. is this who made the topic? how can he justify the bomb for soros? that's just horrible. conspiracy theories such as this are what causes extremists to act.
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dreamvoid posted...

DezDroppedFreak posted...

GiftedACIII posted...

DezDroppedFreak posted...

P4wn4g3 posted...

Wait I recognize TC's account name
Did you get hijacked bro

Check his YouTube

Hes went off the deep end since his CE interviewing days

I've actually expressed how iffy I felt about him back when people were praising his CE interviews because he always used to be like this. I guess either I was right all along and he's a good hider or he went back to his old ways after.

I guess I just never knew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6nieWLXp8k" data-time="

Like this is just lunacy

oh....oh, wow. is this who made the topic? how can he justify the bomb for soros? that's just horrible. conspiracy theories such as this are what causes extremists to act.

Yeah thats tc

His youtube is in his sig
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DezDroppedFreak posted...

dreamvoid posted...

DezDroppedFreak posted...

GiftedACIII posted...

DezDroppedFreak posted...

P4wn4g3 posted...

Wait I recognize TC's account name
Did you get hijacked bro

Check his YouTube

Hes went off the deep end since his CE interviewing days

I've actually expressed how iffy I felt about him back when people were praising his CE interviews because he always used to be like this. I guess either I was right all along and he's a good hider or he went back to his old ways after.

I guess I just never knew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6nieWLXp8k" data-time="

Like this is just lunacy

oh....oh, wow. is this who made the topic? how can he justify the bomb for soros? that's just horrible. conspiracy theories such as this are what causes extremists to act.

Yeah thats tc

His youtube is in his sig

That's me.
You'll have to elaborate, though? What about that do you think causes extremists to act?
Also, to quote directly from the video: "Does that mean I think the Democratic Party is responsible for sending these bombs? Hell no. That would be too easy. Was it orchestrated by Soros? I don't know. Probably not."
I have my own theories about where the bombs might have originated, the leading of those being a rogue actor who identifies with Antifa in a misguided attempt to bolster the Democratic Party, but I'm certainly not accusing Soros or the party itself of acting to mail any bombs.
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Jorep posted...

DezDroppedFreak posted...

dreamvoid posted...

DezDroppedFreak posted...

GiftedACIII posted...

DezDroppedFreak posted...

P4wn4g3 posted...

Wait I recognize TC's account name
Did you get hijacked bro

Check his YouTube

Hes went off the deep end since his CE interviewing days

I've actually expressed how iffy I felt about him back when people were praising his CE interviews because he always used to be like this. I guess either I was right all along and he's a good hider or he went back to his old ways after.

I guess I just never knew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6nieWLXp8k" data-time="

Like this is just lunacy

oh....oh, wow. is this who made the topic? how can he justify the bomb for soros? that's just horrible. conspiracy theories such as this are what causes extremists to act.

Yeah thats tc

His youtube is in his sig

That's me.
You'll have to elaborate, though? What about that do you think causes extremists to act?
Also, to quote directly from the video: "Does that mean I think the Democratic Party is responsible for sending these bombs? Hell no. That would be too easy. Was it orchestrated by Soros? I don't know. Probably not."
I have my own theories about where the bombs might have originated, the leading of those being a rogue actor who identifies with Antifa in a misguided attempt to bolster the Democratic Party, but I'm certainly not accusing Soros or the party itself of acting to mail any bombs.

What are the odds that the bombs turn out to have been sent by a right-leaning conspiracy theorist seeking to fight the deep state? Like, what percentage chance would you say that this turns out to actually be the case?
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the propagation and seemingly normalized conspiracy theories like deep state and soros that are frequently spoken about on fox news and other lesser viewed media is causing people to become even more entrenched in their delusions. crazy has become mainstream. it is inciting people who are already mentally ill into acting on their beliefs.
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@HashtagTartarus I would say that it's definitely a possibility, but relatively unlikely. Even assuming there's just some crazy good ol' boy out there with the drive and wherewithal to send these bombs out, it would only be doing damage to the right. And most people who really buy into those conspiracy theories and spend time researching them are also likely aware of that.
Essentially, why damage your own party doing something that stupid? Unless we're running this as though he's just a complete idiot, which is entirely possible, but I just don't think it's very plausible. I could be wrong.

@dreamvoid I would argue that Fox News is not in any way lesser viewed media these days. If anything, they're much more factual in their reporting than both CNN and the BBC on 9 out of 10 occasions. While the Deep State is still a conspiracy theory there's a lot of weight to it, especially in comparison to other "crackpot ideas," and to the point of inciting people to act, I just don't think an argument like that holds water.

You and I could talk for hours about the deep state and whether or not we think it's a thing, but as rational, well-meaning people, we're not going to act on these ideas or go out and do something crazy. We are also, by extension, not responsible for someone who might listen in or overhear making their own decision to do something. That's on them, and it's not like we should self-censor our own information exchange based on the presupposition that someone might do something down the line.

On the other side of that token, there are mentally ill people on both sides, and the constant violent diatribe pouring out of people like Maxine Waters or Antifa are absolutely inciting people to act in extreme ways. But that doesn't mean I think Maxine Waters should be silenced. She's a village idiot to be sure, but she absolutely has the right to say her piece.
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