So this rant is about the mtg proxying community. I know MTG has fallen out of favor here for a long time after Wizards of the Coast went as woke as possible. Still, I like the game and have a good play group that doesnt care about the politics and just like to play. We all pretty much agreed that the best cards are ludicrously expensive and began proxying 50 to 80% of our decks.
Well the best group for proxying is undoubtedly MakePlayingCards. I wont link anything but their reddit was a fantastic community and everyone was excited to just make cards and play the game. It's height was reached when a community member made an amazing tool to create orders of proxies in minutes versus hours. Everyone loved it and it became synonymous with the group.
Welp, that was the straw that broke the camel's back. Within a few months, some twitter "artists" who sold overpriced furry artwork on magic cards decided that this group was cutting into their profits and began messaging the major players of the group that they were going to DMCA the site and inform WOTC of their behavior. One "girl" in particular was already part of the group and led the charge to effectively pull the group apart. It worked. The site went down, reddit died, the survivors moved to discord.
Fast forward to now. The old site has been mirrored. The community is growing again and the same fucking tranny is trying to pull it all down AGAIN. Why the hell did they not ban this asshole? Why do people refuse to call out the blatant bad behavior and narcisissm? What's worse, is that even though most of the group dislikes that one busy body, they still act like you are a nazi for saying we need to ban this meddling discord tranny.
When did it become impolite to call a cigar, a cigar??
rant over
Everywhere you look a tranny is destroying something. This problem will only end when they're all dead, but locking them out of the communities they try to infest is the next best option. Have you considered setting up a new site that gatekeeps the troon and anyone who defends him? You're gonna get called a Nazi regardless, so you might as well try to set something up where you can do your thing in peace. It may divide the community at first, but people will see the value in participating something where the tranny isn't allowed to run around and wreck everything.
required loyalty oath checkbox to register:
I believe there are only two sexes, people can't change their sex, and trannies belong in a nutouse [ ]
So it's a problem that solves itself?
This case looks pretty open-and-shut. I do not agree with banning people for their identity, or feigned identity. But if someone tries to attack the community, he needs to be banned regardless of who he is. This goes so much without saying that KiA2 does not have a rule for it.
That's fair, but realistically it's a distinction without a difference when you're dealing with troons. Note that I didn't advocate banning him for being a troon, but for constantly attacking the community. The tranny in this case is just doing what trannies do: infesting everything they're able to and destroying them from within. Waiting until they inevitably do something destructive is a reasonable tactic, if only to cut down on the bitching from observers. But in the end any functional community is going to be troon free regardless of how it gets there.
I agree with you that they are generally bad news. But there are at least four that I can think of on our subreddit, who contribute positively. There are people with serious issues who then become persuaded that the problem is their 'gender'. As opposed to transtrenders who attempt to use their identity to wield power over other people.
There is a wide diversity in any group.
I do not agree with banning people for their identity, or feigned identity ---- This is the weakness right here that allows this stuff to go on. Ban the transsexual and this type or you'll lose your stuff every time.
This here was your first and biggest mistake.
Every single pastime, hobby, property, or community that has fallen to SJWs started with the average user in that group having that kind of mindset.
The, "If it doesn't directly bother us we'll ignore it and keep doing our thing."
Little did you (or they) know that they were NEVER going to leave you alone. They were never going to let you be. They were and will never let you live peacefully.
Most people who were warned about the parasitic SJW invasion scoffed it off as "conspiracy theories" and "paranoia", and constantly used the strawman fallacy that "both sides are bad". At this point there's really nothing more that can be done.
SJWs/Lefties/Rainbow Reich/Globalists have invaded just about everything everywhere now, and even normies who tirelessly tried ignoring the political usurpation of their pastimes are being forced to suck the girl-dick, or else.
Not sure what else to say but this was inevitable, and it's not going to end here. Expect the modding, emulation, and second-hand communities to eventually get hit hard, too, because SJWs won't want normies engaging with fun old things instead of consooming their brand new degenerate propaganda.
Me; She has?
Me; Wrong MTG
Never has been. Call out the slippery slope, call the first fraudster a fraudster; and you're called insane or a conspiracy theorist. Some majority of people will simply choose to let it all fall apart around them just so they don't feel like they're attacking someone.
I was unaware. Most of the mtg players I hear from seem to despise the proxy thing. I assume it's a result of them taking the speculative market too seriously.
I can't say much about the failures of that reddit group, it's an old tale for most of us here for sabotage to be permitted where it shouldn't be. Communities that hold outcasts misunderstand the nature of inclusivity. Hopefully you don't need to participate in their crap to get your proxies.
For a little while, I just made my own proxies - bad quality ones, usually sharpie on spare basic lands. I stopped bothering to play after a while because I became bored with the game. Even wotc seems bored with the game now, with how hard they push this highlander whatever format.
The only people who can fight back against this shit is those of us with fuck you levels of money. Unfortunately I'm busy engaged in real world shit against local government and COVID bullshit mandates.
It's the traitors within, and the weak ones who won't call them out, or attack those who do call them out, that keep getting stuff like this ruined. It's painful. But really, the traitors are the deciding factor, in this, in the West at large, not the outside threats. Sorry you lost your community. You have to pick up and build anew and not let in any of the same troublesome people and always, but always, be on your guard and boot anyone who starts agitating.