Is slack a private social club and other issues my sorry ass has landed itself in

[Angrboda]

Saying fresa is not a slur of any kind in the same way as me calling you a whiny titty baby isn’t a slur. Sure it’s an insult, but it was never used in systematically oppressing an entire group of people.

Nor was it used in that manner here, either, a point you seem to want to ignore.

And again, this appears, at least in your case, to be an example of political correctness run amok, that specific words, regardless of how they are used, are simply too offensive to be allowed.

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You were put on pause from slack. You weren't banned permanently. The very fact that you'd compare fresa or boujee to the n word is telling.

It's not the forum. It absolutely is a private club where there are different guidelines. I'm not sure why you'd expect it to be under some proprietorship of the forum itself. It isn't.

The way to get into our elitist club is:
1) Be a member of the forum for 60 days.
2) Don't have been a dick.
3) Don't be a dick.
4) Don't be a creep.

The only people who have been removed from slack permanently are those that have requested their accounts disabled, and those who violated one of the above (stringent and elitist as they are) rules.

I didn't respond to your PM because I am recused from making any decisions. If you want to have a discussion with the rest of staff about the length of your Slack pause, make a QFS thread.

Thank you, Steel. I appreciate your response, and I will do as you suggest, but in the meantime I have raised issues which I think are germane to the forum as a whole. I understand that you are recused from the matter, but I'm not asking for an official opinion on the matter, I just want to understand how and why you viewed it as something that required such action. I am still at a loss as to understanding your specific reasons and given your silence on the matter can only speculate and suggest that my banning was a result of a misunderstanding.

(ETA: There will be a delay in my opening that thread as I've been at this for a substantial part of the morning and am going to turn my attention away from such matters for a while. Your response to me may be private if you wish. I won't consider it official.)

(ETA2: If it is indeed a private, elitist club which is only available to select members, then I would suggest that it is inappropriate to use forum resources to promote it. If y'all want to form private social clubs, you can do that through PM, just as Catholic_lady and the theists essentially did prior to their departure. I find this use of resources highly questionable, and it puts your contention that it is or has been used as such in doubt. Obviously it has not been promoted as such, for very obvious reasons. If that is all it is, then I request that all references to it be removed from AF, and perhaps that Tiberius, you, and other interested parties want to form a private social club, that the slack channels as such are irreparably stained by this misuse, and that it should be shut down and the lot of you who are so interested can create your social clubs independently, through PM or whatever.)