His first post back:
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/19Bst56UZ2/x/c/4eVJrWIJWlF
The ban:
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/19Bst7NHP9/x/c/4eVKAH0i30c
The banned comment:
https://unscored.arete.network/c/KotakuInAction2/p/19Bst7NHP9/x/c/4eVJrb6uzIf/
I'm mostly just here to laugh at the drama, but for the record I think this was probably undeserved, and I was hoping for at least a couple more days of Imp shitting up the board with his nonsense, before the inevitable ban.
It's odd that "Blame women or shut up" is the part Dom objected to. Due to the phrasing, that doesn't seem to meet the usual (and retarded) R16 criteria. It seems like you can demand other people believe your theories about who is to blame for every ill in the world, the main focus is on actual personal opinions on those people.
Interestingly, the rest of Imp's comment is closer to a R16 violation:
A class with scientifically proven strong in-group biases will always end up doing the same thing. Women are the worst of these, with the strongest biases.
Anyway, as disappointing as this may be to some (and relieving to others), it really is ultimately Imp's fault. Imp will never be able to get out of his own way, and always makes these big sweeping generalizations that, no matter how we all feel about R16, are clear R16 violations. He would have been banned soon anyway, because he can't fucking help himself.
He could say practically the exact same things, with slightly different phrasing, and it would be fine, but he's so wrapped up in his over the top global female conspiracy that he just has to smash people in the face with his retarded and universal phrasing on the issue.
Anyway, I thought people would be interested to hear Imp got the boot again. 400 days, according to the mod logs. Not sure if that's a permaban or not, as I thought 365 was the max and next one was a perma. So we'll have to wait another year+ to see if Imp comes back to get banned again.
This has been your yearly Imp Update.
IIRC u/Kaarous banned him from c/Gaming recently-ish because Imp just wouldn't stay on topic.
That's why he should be banned. R16 is stupid, but Imp is fucking poison for the forum.
He should be permabanned for the same reason that someone who repeatedly goes to a Teriyaki restaurant and throws an outrageous fit that they don't serve spaghetti and harasses the staff and other customers would get thrown out. Sure, he might initially be an entertaining lolcow, but after the novelty has worn out you just want to eat your lunch in peace.
Also, my prediction of 3 days was overly conservative.
This. The dude picked fights the moment he got back and immediately tried to turn every single conversation into an anti woman conversation. Any even mild criticism of his tribe got his immediate spaz out.
I think I predicted 45 days based off Dom’s monthy appearances. 😂. Way off.
I still dont support a ban. He should just not be responded to
That would only really work if he was shadow-banned and as a mechanism it's never good for a platform to do that.
He should be engaged like a troll. Do not talk about the insincere (or, in Imp's case, psychotically sincere) topics they want to bait you into. Instead make it about them personally and their trolling behavior.
Or maybe just talk to him and entertain yourself and others.
It was a lot of fun to get Imp to justify his belief that the vaccines would kill 90% of the world's population, and that both the virus and the vaccine were "created by women to kill men". A lot of people have conventional views, or views that are indistinguishable from someone else's views. His views are truly unique, and unlike most unique views, they are also entertaining.
The problem is, this is a subjective line that would apply to like half the people here realistically. People just pick on him specifically because he doesn't say things of much value or spergs extra hard about them.
For people who aren't outraged about Jews constantly, some of our more passionate anti-Jew posters are poison for the forum because every other fucking topic is Jews now. Or doomposters. Or MIGA/MAGA posters if you are on the other side of that.
Imps retarded, but any rule made to curb his type of behavior is just ripe for abuse against anyone else if Dom feels like being particularly imbecilic that day. Heck R16 when it came about was half made just for him, if memory serves, and look at how often people are pissed about that.
GG formed in response to Fake News which strongly overrepresents vous-savez-qui.
Yup that's why. He literally refused to actually stay on topic, rather than try to use my sub as a vehicle to launder his pet peeves.
He won't be coming back either. All three of us agreed on that too. We have enough trouble playing whack a mole with the spam bots and the pedophile to bother with him or any other determined wannabe polemicist.