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
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.