CruelBuffalo posted...
Im just worried about a mod going rogue and warning someone for lets say calling a politician a bigot. I got warned back in the day for calling John McCain a bigot back in the day for trying to prevent gays from openly serving in the military.
This was also when McCain was alive and was around the time DADT was removed
This was still going on on 261 last year. People were getting modded for the following asinine reasons under "abuse":
--Calling a racist poster a racist (to be fair, I am sure there are plenty of instances where some of the more toxic 261ers abused the term) with the apparent mod excuse being that ad-hominems of other community members is a zero tolerance offense.
--Calling a racist/white nationalist politician, a member of the Proud Boys, or some other
not-a-member-of-the-Gamefaqs-community
public figure a racist (seriously) For abuse (or maybe I'm remembering incorrectly and it was modded for trolling) Though looking at the report abuse options, I do see that "Abusive Behavior" does not specify that the target has to be a community member. This is not how the rule was enforced for the majority of Gamefaqs history, which instead split the abusive category into "Flaming" (personal attacks/insults to other board members) and "Sexual Preference Insult" Whereas hate speech-type attacks towards other users fell under "Offensive"
Modded under "Offensive":
--There were literally instances where someone
posted a topic about white supremacists, white nationalists, or literal Neonazi public figures
or "activist" groups,
and posters would get modded for referring to said assholes as Nazis, with the mod essentially telling them that it's not okay to Godwin.
(Godwin's law actually refers to playing the Nazi/Hitler/holocaust card in online discussions when it is not appropriate.)
Now, I can imagine that some of the mods would have argued "white nationalists are not the same thing as NeoNazis", but most users-- as well as many other mods-- would argue that this is distinction without a difference.