I just got back from my 16 day ban. I missed the ban thread and wanted to paste my comment to see if anyone cared to respond. Dom has a hard on for me and a few other users because we keep busting his balls for censorship and we like railing against jewish supremacists.
But to my point: Dom isn't that bad. Hes not insane (probably) nor a jidf (probably). And he's actually gone enough so we actually get some free speech discussion. I imagine it's because he has a life and is not a tranny online only redditor.
But his issue is that he's trying to curate this board into his own idea of what we should be instead of what the userbase actually is. We are a bunch of gamers, christians, right wingers, autists and historians, and we all argue about these things, which includes a lot of hot button politics. But thats this community, not some reddit tier safe space. The whole internet is becoming a safe space, we dont need another. I myself migrated here from conpro and kia2 on reddit after the banning of t_d and its way better here having real discussions.
He is trying to direct this community towards what he thinks we should be. The community is the community. A mod coming along and telling us we need to be something else is not his place. He needs to keep illegal shit off the board and beyond that stfu about the direction it is going.
My issue is this: kia2 is a hotbed of based discussion and if he keeps stomping the community's free speech people will just abandon this place completely and he can hang out with Imp1, gizortnik, and himself. I dont want to see that happen to this place.
My advice to Dom: clean up pedo shit/illegal shit/porn spam and leave the discussion to the users. You are a moderator, not a King. We are a text board community, not your acolytes.
-Happy
We know gatekeeping works. Because we've seen what the alternative is.
Personally I am not a fan of the recent direction the board has gone, and it is indicative of Dom's light touch.
It's like a twisted anti-reddit with critical thinking thrown to the way side in favor of contrarianism and memes. Doesn't help that sanity demands being contrarian to the current mainstream discourse, but without nuance there is no point.
Why should the userbase here conform to your wishes? You would rather dom enforce the SAME rules that were on reddit? Why even be here to discuss things if every thread is nuked of truth because it's uncomfortable.
Kia2 is way better now that the userbase is free of reddit. The reddit era rules must go too. It makes no sense to align our community with the rules of reddit when we aren't even hosted there. Fuck reddit.
The userbase doesn't have to conform to my wishes. They conform to the gatekeeper's. That is literally the gatekeeper's job.
I agree we seem to have too many rules, but again, if anything, they are applied lightly.
I say this as someone perma banned from reddit, with them nuking every alt I had. So yes, fuck reddit.
Gatekeeping is important. But if rule 16 is to be applied, then every single comment or thread slandering white women is to be nuked. Every thread mentioning white women be treated the same as every thread mentioning jews.
These rules detract from the intellectual capacity to even have a conversation. If rule 16 is applied we wouldnt be able to even discuss Sweet baby inc and their industry connections. Nor could we even talk about culture groups because noticing tribal affiliations is not okay.
This community has moved well beyond these rules. The rules on the side bar are for a bunch of normie NPCs and if enforced will reduce this place to a boring dead forum because it doesn't allow anything real to be discussed. I can go to reddit if I want to be banned or chided for discussing race, sex, and ethnicity with any intellectual honesty.