Yes, yes, meta posts are gay, I know.
I do think it's important to hold mods accountable, though, remain aware of what is going on, and also to remind people that mod logs are, in fact, public.
Fuckery #1, #2, and #3:
Dom banned u/btbw for 256 days for "conniving merchants and cultists that manipulate all sides behind the scenes" in the context of Legend of the Galactic Heroes. Without comment or explanation directly to the person he was banning. He banned him because someone else responded with "Cool it with antisemitic remarks" (which I've seen reported repeatedly, someone really doesn't like that meme), and said the parent comment did break the rules.
Now, that parent could have also been reported, but it is funny that Dom has said he can't hunt down parent comments before, here:
When I click on your comment from my feed, I only see your comment, not it's parent.
Now, here's where it gets really fucky. He unbanned btbw, admitting his mistake...then immediately bans him again for...no reason.
You know what, fair enough. I'll restore the comment...approved a comment by btbw...unbanned btbw...banned btbw - 128 days with reason: Previous ban rescinded. Ban reduced to 128 days.
Excuse me, but what the fuck? He was previously not banned, obviously, since he could comment. His only offending comment was found to not be rule-breaking. His ban was rescinded. Then he was banned again (also with no direct communication), with the reason apparently being that he was unbanned? What's this "ban reduced" nonsense?
This is like being arrested for resisting arrest.
Fuckeries #4-8:
Dom claims to always leave comments when he removes comments, with why it broke the rules. He removed the following four comments with no explanation:
https://unscored.arete.network/c/KotakuInAction2/p/199hNv1Ent/x/c/4ZGS2oYQNoe/
https://unscored.arete.network/c/KotakuInAction2/p/199OdDkqgy/x/c/4ZFCcbXztx3/
https://unscored.arete.network/c/KotakuInAction2/p/199Ohxq6ar/x/c/4ZGRjlEQg2S/
https://unscored.arete.network/c/KotakuInAction2/p/199OdKaan6/x/c/4ZGRjpqZAQy/
I don't even think any of that is explicitly rule-breaking, and it was removed without comment. Looks like Dom got up on the wrong side of the bed again.
Dom is a reddit jannie at heart, tbh he should go back there, permanently.
With this, he'll comment, make a excuse, maybe shit the blame onto the community instead of himself and then back to business as usual.
Yup, that's my prediction, and I haven't been wrong yet on this.
That's really funny because I actually got the same type of ban fuckery on reddit recently. On a post about disability finances I commented about not buying avocado toast, got banned. I appealed, linking to the common meme, and they told me they would "take my word at face value that it was sarcastic" but only reduced the ban by half. Is this some new psychological theory some idiots dreamed up recently because they can't possibly interact with the world directly and honestly?
As usual, go fuck yourself Dom. You are the one single blight on this community that is keeping it a graveyard on the front page and in the comment sections of almost every post that actually does get made. You are worse than Imp. You are worse than any of the "Nazis" you have permabanned. You are even worse than the pedo pajeet.
You are every bit as myopic and out of touch as the faggots like shaddist and bane that we left behind on reddit. They may be faggots, but you are a power bottom in comparison. I don't know why people even try to get through to you with these posts anymore. You won't listen anyway. And even if you did, you are so convinced that your actions are righteous that nothing will ever change.
If this election has told us anything, it's that we are fed up with you boot licking teacher's pets trying to control what we are allowed to think and what to say. Just fuck off and leave us alone already.
Oh, I didn't know he removed that comment. All I was doing was quoting Gazerbeam (an actual honest-to-god fed) back to himself. Just shows how much of a double standard DoM has.
Especially since he has said:
Of course when Hellsdenizen00 does worse to me, posting his spergy libel on most of my comments, DoM says:
Something something double standards, something something standards at all. It's all so tiresome.
I removed you and Hell's comments in the hopes you would stop screeching at each other. But if you'd like, I can just have you both agree not to respond to each other.
I don't care which you choose, but you have to choose one. Either you ban HB00 from harassing me, or I continue posting Gazerbeam's archived retardation.
I will continue holding you to your standards, because every time you do an enforcement action, you turn everyone here a little more against everything you love. You make everyone a little more anti-semitic.
I don't think u/Hellsdenizen00 is spelled right. Can you confirm it?No need, you meant Hellsbells00
Are you being serious, or is this a terrible joke? This is one of those “bare minimum knowledge of the community” checks that you just keep failing….
Give me a wrong name, and then shit on me for using it. Nice.
Right, but the point is that u/Hellsbells00 (which I am typing from memory, mind you) is a forum regular who frequently argues, stridently, with u/CatoTheElder. It should be immensely obvious to anyone who browses the forum with any regularity exactly who is being talked about here, and yet you, despite being a mod, despite being particularly likely to intervene in exactly the topic these guys argue about, despite literally responding to a comment about him elsewhere in the thread defending your moderation decision in an argument between those two… can’t remember the name well enough to figure it out.
It’s like if I mentioned that “Tony” and “Imp” fight a lot and then you actually tagged u/ Tony and u/ Imp and went “I don’t think those are real people.” You only engage with this community by looking at your report feed, and when you do that, you don’t even read the context of what you’re removing. “Shit on me for using the wrong name”… yeah, because recognizing that that name was wrong and understanding what it should have been is bare-minimum level engagement in the community. Fuck off with your victim act.
It's taken me literal years to start remembering who that goon is, I really only started recognizing him after he sperged out defending "Patriot" Front. Dom is probably an oldfag that doesn't pay much attention to usernames. Given this is an offshoot from a chan movement, that shouldn't be all that surprising.
Hell I only even notice specific users regularly now because the board is so fucking dead, thanks to the conpro faggots drowning it in brain-dead fedposts.
I genuinely don't try to monitor local beefs between users until they make it my issue.
He cries out in pain as he strikes you.
But it was the wrong name, it's still the wrong name in the parent comment of this chain!
That's not the correct person!
Congrats, you've gone full sperg and now instead of being the one who would type "Don't make me Defend Dom", others now have to because you're being hyperbolic and posting shit that's not only wrong but as per the other comment I made with made up context which again you used to call people out for!
Not even a strike, not that it would matter.
Yeah, yeah, "I hate you, kill yourself you fucking kike", got it. Anyways, the answer to my inquiry seems to be that you would like it if neither of you responded to each other.
/u/Hellsbells00 - Please do not reply to u/CatoTheElder 's posts or comments any further on this forum otherwise it will result in a removal or ban.
/u/CatoTheElder - Please do not reply to u/Hellsbells00 's posts or comments any further on this forum otherwise it will result in a removal or ban.
Hey you said it; don't ban yourself.
You really have to invent shit to be mad about?
Comment Reported for: Rule 3 - Harassment (x2)
Comment Removed for: Rule 3 - Harassment
What was the reasoning behind removing HirudineaFC's comment.
Hes a regular over on freecanada, the forums that just got shut down by the canadian government (is my guess).
One of the more respectful ones and his comments are pretty innocent. He doesnt like indians either but at least he wasnt actively ripping the native members of the board.
Still scratching my head on this, and if anyone has info on why freecanada got shut down, please post in the old thread, or make a new one. There has to be some "official" explanation.
The telegram account is flooded with diagolon nonsense and a picture that says its over lmao.
Its only over if the members give up.
He had no history in this forum and there's a auto-filter that auto-removes comments from new users.
My concern was that he was some troll coming over from one forum to another to start shit. But if he's okay, I'll approve his comments.
The number of pedo handshake accounts we see on a weekly basis suggests otherwise. That or the filter is poorly implemented.
How many times does this need repeated, a handshake do not automatically equal new account. In the case of that spammer it's been brought up by multiple users that the actual accounts are often over a year old. That's not a new account, it's just one that hasn't been on this particular board before, THAT'S what a handshake means. And to put the obvious two and two together that keeps getting missed or simply ignored, yes a freshly created "new" account on the entire site will have a handshake, but not because it's freshly created!
Apparently a few more because this is the first I've ever heard of that. Then again I only frequent this board so I have no reason to have encountered that knowledge.
They're not typically handshakes as he has about a bajillion accounts, though some of them are which is insanely confusing.
I didn't agree to shit. That's not how a public forum works. If he's going to vomit fed propaganda I will keep calling him out so he doesn't get to pretend he's actually unopposed or speaking for right wing interests. Protecting him from opposition kills actual discourse.
You refuse to do anything about the conpro brigaders and now you step in to defend the hypocritical goblin. His faggoted twist of my username is even hypocrisy, as he's a raging anti-theist that hates Christ and christians. What are you even doing here? This place is very nearly a corpse with more conpro faggots than actual legitimate posters at this point.
I'm not a bitchy little girl that constantly brings him up in unrelated threads - he's the one that does so. When I engage with his bullshit I do so directly. And you want to stop me from actually addressing hypocrisy, lies and propaganda from an obvious goon.
dom needs to go
Mods gay, more at 11.
The fuck? That LoGH comment that was responding to ME got him suspended, but jack shit was done to me, where I made almost the same comment? What?
But, you see, btbw is a Bad Person.
If btbw had said the exact same thing you had (which is pretty much what happened), he gets banned for a year.
Just how it goes.
He'll mark you as an anti jew poster and start harassing you I'm sure.
Dom might not have seen it. There was a thread here a few weeks back where someone was asking about a mod removal and provided a screenshot showing that the parent of their removed comment was breaking the same rule, but more flagrantly. Dom’s response was “whoops, I didn’t see that,” and then he went and removed the parent as well. When I said elsewhere in the thread that he only interacts with the community by reading his report feed, and that he doesn’t even look at the context around things he removes, I wasn’t pulling that out of thin air.
Thank you for your service.
A correction, as I did miss some mod activity, and thus get a few details wrong...but I also found more fuckery.
First correction: Dom did leave a comment on btbw's comment, and it didn't show up in my view. Doesn't change things too much, but is worth pointing out.
I missed the earlier interaction with btbw, because I had sorted by comments.
This whole post was removed, presumably for the "crying out in pain" title, which resulted in the initial 128 ban. This was the linked content.
Dom deemed this "debatable" (lol, double standards much?), and stated that btbw "asserted that hooliganism is an inherent aspect of jews."
Also, a bunch more comments removed with no explanation. Here's three of many:
https://scored.co/c/KotakuInAction2/p/199hXCeNY0/x/c/4ZGSMAoNzpw/
https://unscored.arete.network/c/KotakuInAction2/p/199hXCeef9/x/c/4ZGSMAm8aVc/
https://unscored.arete.network/c/KotakuInAction2/p/199hSgCxke/x/c/4ZGSMAhaj72/
So, yeah, I wanted to be fair and accurate...but this doesn't make Dom's behavior any better. Arguably it makes it even worse.
Even on Kotakuinaction the mods are faggots. I thought it was just Reddit. It's amazing, the job must attract the gayest and saddest people on earth.
When this joint is inevitably swarmed under and Redditized I hope there's some someplace that lets you subscribe to moderators. Or disable all moderation and just see everything.
Or, pie in the sky best case, Elon digs a few billion out from under his couch cushions and buys Reddit. Then he puts the Grok AI in charge with a clearly defined and transparent set of rules.
Imagine the wailing and lamentations of all the former moderators over there.
Curation lists sounds like a dream that.
I've said before that journalists needs to die in favor of tastemakers and mods seems to be the same way
Yeah that sounds messed up. Though I don't know about the "resisting arrest" analogy. That would imply that btbw actually resisted somehow. This sounds more like that Kafka story where you get arrested without knowing why and then punished for being late to the court hearing you weren't told about.
To play devil's advocate, it's possible there could have been private messages between them we don't know about. Did you already talk to those other users you mentioned?
I did post an update in the comments; I did in fact miss his first ban, because I'd sorted by comments, and it was a post.
In my opinion it doesn't make it any better, since it was still a classic Dom spergout, and he claimed btbw saying "crying out in pain" meant that he "asserted that hooliganism is an inherent aspect of jews."
Absolute fucking nonsense. I've said worse, as have many people here.
When new forum?
I feel violated.
Pretty sure that didn't get my comment deleted as I've used that language here and elsewhere a bunch of times. Idk if it gets deleted regularly, and I don't particularly care. I really hate the karen, whales, niggers, faggots, and retards in the videogame industry.
Is saying "the same group" not allowed here? Or should I refer to them as tiny hat faggots instead? The Synagogue of Satan? The hook-nosed clan? The Gringotts banker bastards? Hoof-footed tip-chewing goblins?
...Khazars?
I’ve been banned at least once on every site here. lol
That's not what he said there, and going by your own past comments about people taking things out of context you've done that precisely with this.
I'm all for keeping an eye on how things are run here but don't go becoming the very thing you call out by staring into the abyss too much.
That was far from my main point; I just found it funny.
I also even gave a potential reason: "Now, that parent could have also been reported"
I don't think I did anything close to that, but I'm always willing to be corrected.
It's clear we need new leadership and it's clear Dom isn't going to step down, so a KiA3 seems pertinent. I'd do it myself but I have neither the clout nor the technical knowhow to do so. The biggest impediment to this though is obviously just that people are faggots who don't want to migrate and switch one (1) bookmark.
I'm not on enough to know people by usernames yet but I've only been banned for 1 day by Dom and next time I logged on it had already expired. Looking back it was something that he'd misinterpreted IMO but big meh.
Why do people spend so much time and energy bitching about the only mod we have?
You've got this a bit backwards. I banned him for 128 days for the initial conniving merchants comment. Then for 256 days for the "cry out as they strike you" post.
It was brought to my attention that the first ban was illegitimate, so I went searching for the parent comments to see if he was talking about a story. Meh, he kinda was, but I know what he was trying to do, but I decided to let it slide. Thus, I removed the ban he got for his "conniving merchants" comment.
That reduces his ban length from 256 days down to 128 days. These are two separate instances.
How about you stop banning people for making comments the community here doesn't give a shit about, faggot? You said to me yourself you do this to try and force a narrative, and it's clearly not working. So fuck off with it already.
Exactly, we left reddit behind for a reason. There is no reason to try to shape this place back into reddit other than malicious intent. Dom is a malicious actor.
No, you've got it backwards, dumbass.
"Cries out in pain," 4:53 AM.
"Conniving merchants," 5:05 AM
And the other guy's "Cool it" comment, 5:04 AM, then edited four hours later.
Those are your comment times, but you can see the removal times as well. Same as the comments, but one minute later each. "Cries out" was banned first. It's right there in the logs.
Not sure why you'd lie. Especially when it doesn't even matter. Neither ban was justified, and you're acting a fool again.
How had he "asserted that hooliganism is an inherent aspect of jews," because he pointed out additional context to some whiny Jews saying they were attacked for being Jews?
Where did he say anything was "inherent?"
Kienan. Stop. Look at the times of my actions before screaming that I'm a dumbass and that I'm lying.
You:
Now...also you:
Yeah. You're a dumbass.
You're now saying the opposite, while agreeing with what I said, while saying I'm wrong.
The actual fuck is wrong with you?
This is laughably ridiculous, even by your standards.
Look: apparently I misremembered it initially, and I didn't insult you about it. The timeline is there. Ban for 128, then a ban of 256, then a reduction to 128. Those are two separate rule violations.
That's all there is to this.
For like the fourth time...
How had btbw "asserted that hooliganism is an inherent aspect of jews?"
See the answer I gave you to one of your other replies.
Well played, I got distracted by your absolute retardation.
Now answer the actual question:
How had btbw "asserted that hooliganism is an inherent aspect of jews?"
That wasn't your actual question. But here's your answer. The post is explicitly invoking the stereotype that it is the inherent trait of jews that they will always claim to be victims while attacking others. He insinuates that this incident is an extension of that with the Twitter post alleging that there is a jewish media campaign to protect jewish violence. That that hooliganism is the attack, where the jews will claim they are the victims.
Yes, I understand intent and context. Yes, you understand intent and context. You demand that I refuse understand intent and context while I enforce the rules. You assert my intent and invent context for me and everyone else whenever you read other people's comments or complain about my actions. Your issue is exclusively to moderation: under no circumstance should intent or context be considered relevant to any enforcement action, this includes all possible forms additional meaning including but not limited to: coded language, inuendo, abstraction, patterns of behavior, previously stated intentions, vague threats, etc.
We're not going to get passed this block. You will continue to berate and insult me because you do not believe that moderation should ever consider intent and context. I believe moderation should consider intent and context. I believe that evidence exists which allows moderators to determine intent and context. There is no middle-ground on this. There is no reason for further discussion on it, because this is the same conversation we've been having for several years. I do not accept your position because I see it as completely irrational and intentionally building holes into rules so that they effectively cease to exist. I do not believe that you, or anyone else, would ever hold to such a standard because it is utterly counter-productive to having a rule exist in the first place. I also recognize that your position will never change on this. Thus, there is no further point to this line of conversation.
Some rules are just utterly retarded.
Yeah, because that's exactly what happened here; Jews did attack others, then claim to be victims.
Again, that's what seemed to be happening.
And you're the one saying 'inherent.'
See, I just stated all those things openly, that some Jews did exactly that. That's not against the rules. I'm not saying all Jews. Neither was btbw; you chose to read it that way.
Not exactly, but rules/laws do need clear and equal enforcement. If you're always trying to glean intent, that's naturally going to bias you. There are people you don't like; they'll get banned, while people saying the exact same things won't. Exact thing happened in this instance. btbw's comment was essentially a mirror of the one right before that, on which no action was taken. You go out of your way to ban btbw and others.
Up until rather recently, I've been nothing but polite to you; I just disagreed with you. I've disagreed with you from the very, very start, because our rules are retarded and no one wants them. I've always been polite. And I started this post off polite as well.
You've said I'm your enemy, and that I essentially want you dead. You've said others here want you did in much more explicit terms.
You just always want to turn it into you being the victim, when the vast majority of people disagree with you, and tell you as such.
Whereas you do the exact opposite; your haphazard enforcement of the rules is barely distinguishable from just banning whoever you want. People you don't like have worse "intent" and thus get ridiculous year long bans for posting basic comments or posts.
My "letter of the law" approach would work infinitely better than your "feels" approach.
One stormfag banned for a while, good riddance to trash.
Dom is still a fag for banning someone that didn't deserve to get banned (for those comments specifically).