Whilst we currently have a massive 1,600 users in this sub lets talk about how awesome Ps2 is...

iSpoon · 1分前

I might explode

I've devoured so much popcorn

Halp

brogdowniard · 8分前

The popcorn is delicious

The lack of perspective (a minor task that would take me half an hour to complete means I am the worst person ever) is amazing

HUDuser · 9分前

I'm reveling in the popcorn

It's delicious

JoshXinYourAss · 20分前

No publicity is bad publicity~

Westy543 · 46分前

Never

IIXianderII · 2日前

MOD ABUSE

Westy543 · 2日前

How about people just, like, not be assholes to each other? What a weird concept.

That said, if you must be jerks to each other, in general, be jerks over choices that are actually relevant to Planetside. Not gonna dive into the idea of fatness being a choice or not, because it's immaterial to the discussion - whether or not it's a choice doesn't change the fact that if it is a choice, it is not a choice that is relevant to Planetside.

Westy543 · 2日前

My generic rule of thumb on things is that if it's something that I could reasonably imagine a murderously violent bigot screaming while beating someone to death for the 'crime' of being who they are, then it's probably not a word that should be permitted in decent company.

In as much as I've thought of it, it doesn't cover any every day words it obviously ought not to, and it covers all the slurs I've thought of. Passing both the false negative and false positive tests makes it a decent rule in my book.

Westy543 · 2日前

Yeah, we actually had someone write something okay. I unbanned them, explained where I thought they missed the mark a little (it was like A for effort, B+ for content), and they wrote some pretty detailed ponderings on the matter after being unbanned and really seemed to get it and grow as a person. Makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.

Of course, I also have a message sitting in my inbox about how I'm awful and have no sense of humor, but that's what popcorn is for :P

Westy543 · 2日前

Already got one today :D

Westy543 · 2日前

Calling trans people traps is gross and awful. Trans suicide attempt rates in America are a bit over 40% - ie nearly half of all trans people in America, at some point in their life, attempt to kill themselves.

Transphobia and the overwhelmingly hostile society that trans people face every day of their lives plays a huge factor in this. Treating trans people as a subject of ridicule and mockery is not okay and contributes to the crushing isolation many of them face, which itself contributes to feelings of hopelessness, despair, and suicidal or self-harming thought patterns.

What you call "white knight PC" I call "showing a little goddamned human empathy"

You might also be interested in the full, unedited conversation that isn't sliced up to make CrestfallenWarrior look like a reasonable person: http://i.imgur.com/xmydAZp.png

Westy543 · 2日前

I understood perfectly, and treating trans people or cross-dressers or anyone else who doesn't conform to "normal" gender standards as a subject of mockery and ridicule is gross and cruel. LGBT people face a horrible amount of violence every day, and treating them as the butt of a joke contributes to it, because it helps dehumanize them.

CrestfallenWarrior has ample opportunity to get unbanned, I've even since relaxed the unbanning requirements to "have a productive conversation with me on the topic of transphobia." And, frankly, as a huge Dark Souls fanboy (I've cleared the entire game at least four or five times, including a Soul Level 1 pyromancer run), banning him for that joke made me hurt inside because of how much I love that game. But transphobia is a vicious, nasty piece of work that I refuse to allow to gain any kind of foothold in this subreddit if I can help it.

Westy543 · 2日前

Aaaaand banned

Westy543 · 2日前

But that's booorriiiing

Tempbanning people for sending stuff to my PM box is, frankly, just tedious.

Westy543 · 2日前

I am a believer in reformative justice, not punitive justice, and I would much rather see someone do the research, learn a little bit, grow as a person, and get unbanned. You are welcome to disagree with my methods, but the alternative would be to just ban people with no real chance to appeal it.

Westy543 · 2日前

I vastly enjoy the reactions when 12 year olds with no perspective decide I am THE WORST PERSON EVER for giving them a task that will take an hour or two, tops, but it's also an attempt to try to reform and educate people. Honestly, my favorite bans are the ones I overturn because people, at least as far as I can tell, reform and become better people for it.

Westy543 · 2日前

Mod questions are things that properly belong in mod mail - general questions about the subreddit, stuff that is questions for me as a moderator instead of me as an individual human being.

Westy543 · 3日前

I may compile them into a trophy wall, one person in particular flew off the handle entirely and it's bouncing between hilarious and O_O

Westy543 · 3日前

No sweat! Sometimes something good even comes of it! As part of the bannings today I was assigning 500 word essays to ban appealers to research transphobia in American society and its impact on lifetime suicide rates among trans Americans (the statistics are, well, staggering and horrifying D:), in an effort to drive home how very goddamned unfunny it is when someone posts "lol trap" or "omg it's a guy" and why I want to scream at them for it, and actually had someone take it fairly seriously and talk it out with us and give a pretty heartfelt apology. I'm hoping it sticks and the internet becomes a slightly better place for it :)

Of course then there's also the one who has spent the entire team spamming mod mail, in all caps, about how I'm a monster for banning them and how they don't have time to write an essay, so you can't win them all. But you can at least break out the industrial grade popcorn :P I think even my notoriously endless thirst for tears may be slaked.

Westy543 · 3日前

The mods aren't omniscient. Report stuff! It helps us find and obliterate neckbeards better, so we can have a happier, less creepy corner of the internet.

Westy543 · 3日前

My primary form of payment is in the form of hilarious meltdowns. There's been some hilarious temper tantrums today. It really helps that I don't have to maintain any kind of professionalism though, openly mocking people for spamming in all caps about what a monster I am for banning them from an internet board never stops being fun.

Really, I don't know how you do it. Having to stay polite when people on the internet are being people on the internet would kill me.

Westy543 · 3日前

Haha your takedown of that was pretty great

Westy543 · 3日前

Ah, you definitely quit before the thread took a nosedive, crashed into the ground, and somehow burrowed through into hell.

Westy543 · 3日前

Westy543 · 3日前

To be fair, I do think that skirt would be absolutely adorable with matching red bootlaces, though I'm sure the comment mentioning bootlaces was creepier than that, knowing the internet.

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