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
KIA2 is currently the online community that I spend the most time on (albeit as a lurker), aside from being an active member & mod at FCW.
As a somewhat outsider, here are my observations on the issue.
There seems to be a stalemate here between the mod & much of the community.
There are two goals many of the members here have in regards to modding:
(1) quicker bans of the pedo troll and other trolls like him, and,
(2) more hands-off modding in regards to actual political discussion
From the previous thread on this topic, Dom agreed that (1) is important.
The stalemate seems to boil down to a difference of opinions on (2), unless I'm missing something.
Dom seems reluctant to bring on more mods, and taking a guess based on what he said in a prior thread, perhaps that's because the new mod(s) might act counter to how he wants the community modded (e.g., potential abuse of power by the new mods, potential difference of opinions on what ought to be removed, etc.).
In one of the threads about this a while back, someone had offered to take on a mod role and use their mod power to only address (1), but from Dom's perspective perhaps that could still serve to open the door for someone to act against his wishes once they have mod powers.
Those wanting Dom to be replaced by the Scored admins aren't likely to have much success. We went through that with Ham on Omega, and it's why FCW was created instead.
Some ways this could play out:
(a) Dom himself could decide that he no longer wants to be here and leave,
(b) Dom & the community find a way to peacefully co-exist (at minimum this would probably require at least one new mod being appointed whom is mostly hands-off),
(c) the community slowly dwindles in membership, or,
(d) the members create a new community.
I could be misjudging the situation, but from my perspective, if things remain as they currently are, then (c) seems most likely, followed by (d).
As a side note, I don't think continuously making new threads about this is going to have the desired effect, and without anything else happening to resolve the issue, these threads will probably serve to accelerate outcome (c).
Perhaps an alternative would be to come up with a list of potential mods whom are willing and are agreeable to both most of the community along with Dom.
Also what is fcw?
freecanada.win
Not hosted by Scored, though when we initially started that was the intent, hence the ".win" domain.
Ahh I see. I am not on a lot of these boards, just kia2 and conpro. Used to frequent no new normal but the userbase was small and overly lolbertarian. T_d I've been banned forever lol.
Gotcha.
I liked NNN as well, haven't been there lately.
Same with GAW, but I didn't have time to keep up with their abundant content anymore & I've become more cynical over the years which is a mismatch with their outlook.