PSA: Hate Speech

[LadyForCamus]

Correct, nobody believes AF is a democracy because we don’t hold elections. And if you can show me an objective decision tree that:

- deals with ephemeral toxicity
- deals with bad faith abuse from both new and old members
- deals with sudden attrition/loss of one subset of members due to hostile conduct from another

Then we’ll talk about installing such if it passes the smell test.

Such doesn’t exist because we don’t have access to all the information, can’t be inside your head and even if we could, a sufficiently smart troll can bend any set of strict requirements with simply well practiced sophistry.

Can we hold a vote on whether AF is a democracy?  

Boru

I think we’d need to vote on that. 😁

[LastPoet]

I'm unaware of any pretense that this place is either democratic or objective.  No one's ever held that out to me.  Privately held entities are rarely if ever democracies and, given the nature of a message board, subjectivity is going to happen regardless. 

This is a GOOD thing.

Boru

Oh really? I guess things change. You are not a good liar, Boru.

[onlinebiker]

A forum is like visiting someone' s house.

You live by their rules.

If they are willing to discuss said rules - great.


If not - tough - your attendance is not manditory.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I'm unaware of any pretense that this place is either democratic or objective.  No one's ever held that out to me.  Privately held entities are rarely if ever democracies and, given the nature of a message board, subjectivity is going to happen regardless. 

This is a GOOD thing.

Boru

Oh really? I guess things change. You are not a good liar, Boru.

Can you point out where anyone's told me AF is democratic and/or objective?  I must have missed it.

On the other hand, maybe you have a deep desire that this place has those qualities, a desire so profound that you imagine a pretense to that effect exists and it compels you to call other people liars. 

Boru

[Jackalope]

I've been on staff since 2012, and I'm unaware of any claims of objectivity or that AF is a democracy. We attempt to filter out individual subjectivity through quorum but that's not the same thing as objectivity, and so far as I am concerned, AF has always been a benevolent dictatorship.

[Shell B]

The problem here is that said owners should drop the pretenses that it's a democracy and objective. Nobody believes that.

This is neither the time nor the place, LP.

[Losty]

Honestly, I mean if I’m going to be really really truthful with you, I think you and everyone else who keeps pretending like they can’t tell the difference between an average insult and the n word are complete fucking liars. I call bullshit.

If you like to jerk off over your keyboard whilst giving us a coy smile “teehee, I think calling someone ugly and calling someone a n*gger is exactly the same”, well whatever blows your skirt up, but I think you’re lying.

I dunno what you mean here - but it sure sounds like " if you don' t just shut up and agree- you'te an idiot or a liar"..

Sorry you feel that way.

Just keep pretending you don’t know anything. It’s adorable

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The problem here is that said owners should drop the pretenses that it's a democracy and objective. Nobody believes that.

This is neither the time nor the place, LP.

Was ever thus.

[onlinebiker]

I dunno what you mean here - but it sure sounds like " if you don' t just shut up and agree- you'te an idiot or a liar"..

Sorry you feel that way.

Just keep pretending you don’t know anything. It’s adorable

Did you learn that in church?

" quit pretending you don' t believe in god".

I' m not pretending. - I don' t agree with you.

..

[Losty]

Just keep pretending you don’t know anything. It’s adorable

Did you learn that in church?

" quit pretending you don' t believe in god".

I' m not pretending. - I don' t agree with you.

..

I still think you’re lying, just to be an ass about this whole situation just like everyone else on team “I don’t understand why the N-word is any worse than calling someone fancy, or insulting someone’s political beliefs”. I’m not buying that shit.

But I suppose there’s a small chance that you’re not lying and you’re actually just a shit person.