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
I have been an active member on this board for 4+ years now, and came back even when I lost my old account (u/undecidedmask if you want proof) . This has transitioned to be my primary board as ConPro has slowly become just angry people calling each other slurs with no substance like it had pre 2023. I don't have anything personal against Dom, aside from him deleting my Sam Hyde posts every time something happens that meme is applicable to.
My main concern is how long the pedo spam stuff stays up. Leftists are known to brigade, and to my knowledge have used underhanded tactics on reddit to shut down places they don't like. One of the tactics I've heard of is having an admin delete all the mod accounts while leftist brigaders spam CP to the board, giving the site legal reason to shut it down permanently. I'm concerned something like that will happen here, with leftists abusing his seeming lack of activity aside from random spurts once every few days to blast the board with CP. We can send an alert to the c/meta crowd to get a site admin to take it down for us, but I'd prefer to not risk the forum being shut down by the meta guys for a lack of moderation.
If Dom wants to keep his sole moderator status, that's okay, he just needs to accept that anything that happens here is his responsibility an thus needs to be way more active in deleting obvious bait and trolls in a timely manner. If he doesn't want to be lording over an internet forum for all hours of the day, then just get more mods! Give maybe 2 active people post deletion powers, and then another 5 or active members that have comment deletion powers only. The mod log is public, so if anyone goes off the rails we will all know who it was and action can be taken.
Aside from that, rule 16 is gay (the banning of Imp for trivial stuff is stupid IMO) and should be removed, as user should not be dissuaded for pointing out patterns. Rule 2 covers endorsing violence because of any patterns, thus 16 is just there as an excuse to delete things that Dom may not personally agree with.
Well said. You and I are on the exact same page.
You make the case for more mods. It's becoming the only way to keep the community going.
Conpro has its moments for sure, but it's a lot of low effort shit posts and attacking each other for fun. I think it's a by-product of the most productive users taking the improvement advice and focusing on real life. It only leaves the perpetually online people.
You're probably right. I don't remember a lot of the names but there were several high profile accounts on Conpro that have dipped in the last few years (the only ones I remember are RightSideFunding and the goat guy that always posted updates on his homestead). It is just sad to see the slow decay basically since the Kanye saga to the mess it is nowadays. KIA2 seems to be keeping the quality up at least, I think the 5 post limit really helps.
Just saw goatman post a comment the other day actually. Usually a few threads there have good engagement still.
A lot of us had og accounts that have been banned or unrecoverable so you wont see us post anymore. This is like my 9th account on this site.
Good to see! It is unfortunate to not see some of the longtime faces still. I'm nowhere near the biggest name here but even I felt it would be a little strange to essentially start over as a brand new account, but maybe that's just my own personal feelings.