Poll of the Day > So when did GFs turn into a right wing website?

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lihlih
09/25/21 12:49:14 PM
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Some dude was victim blaming the girl that committed suicide because of the Rapetivision sexual assault. So I called him a sexual assault condoner, and I was modded for "offensive material" and the moderation got upheld. I thought GFs was usually pretty decent about people not being shitty, but I guess Trump got to them.

I really don't care about moderations, but this is kind of pissing me off, not because I got modded, but because of the stance on victim blaming and punishing people for calling people out for being shitty. When the fuck did the site turn so drastically like this?
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Blighboy
09/25/21 12:56:15 PM
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The moderation team has been super lax on alt right shit for years now, though they did start to crack down a bit after Jan 6. It keeps the site busy, they don't want to gut their userbase.

I think the userbase itself is becoming more left wing (I remember a CE poll from years ago where the majority of voters "disapproved" of trans people) but I think there's also been an increase in super right wing posters rather than just a couple crazies, it's becoming more polarized as people get into q shit.

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ssj4supervegeta
09/25/21 1:00:56 PM
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This website is insanely left wing. not sure what you're on about.

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Notschmendrake
09/25/21 1:06:27 PM
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Mods for sure have favorites, but i dont think I've ever seen them lean harder to the left or right on who those favorites are. not EVERYTHING is political.
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lihlih
09/25/21 1:09:32 PM
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ssj4supervegeta posted...
This website is insanely left wing. not sure what you're on about.


Notschmendrake posted...
Mods for sure have favorites, but i dont think I've ever seen them lean harder to the left or right on who those favorites are. not EVERYTHING is political.


Approving of vicitm blaming and attacking people for calling out victim blamers is an insanely right wing thing, bruhs.
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DANTE20XX
09/25/21 1:14:19 PM
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ssj4supervegeta posted...
This website is insanely left wing. not sure what you're on about.


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Notschmendrake
09/25/21 1:18:58 PM
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lihlih posted...
Approving of vicitm blaming and attacking people for calling out victim blamers is an insanely right wing thing, bruhs.

I'm saying it's a person by person basis, not a political one. One mod might have a couple righties they coddle, and another might have a couple lefties. They do have favorites but those favorites come from all over the political spectrum.
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lihlih
09/25/21 1:22:49 PM
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Notschmendrake posted...


I'm saying it's a person by person basis, not a political one. One mod might have a couple righties they coddle, and another might have a couple lefties. They do have favorites but those favorites come from all over the political spectrum.


Yeah, but the moderation was upheld, which means an admin or lead moderator saw that and agreed that being a decent human being is worth punishing someone for. So it wasn't just a rogue moderator.
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Judgmenl
09/25/21 1:28:26 PM
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ssj4supervegeta posted...
not sure what you're on about.


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Notschmendrake
09/25/21 1:49:10 PM
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lihlih posted...
Yeah, but the moderation was upheld, which means an admin or lead moderator saw that and agreed that being a decent human being is worth punishing someone for. So it wasn't just a rogue moderator.

They are like cops, and cops back up other cops. Overturning it would have been "going rogue" lmao
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ReturnOfFa
09/25/21 2:00:31 PM
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I always think there's a leftist slant here, then I see a poll on trans people. Instagram and Facebook often ban me for dunking on right wingers. My Insta isn't working, and all indicated was that AfD supporters (Germany) commenting looked halfway through puberty. What's the big deal?

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DirtBasedSoap
09/25/21 2:06:36 PM
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the game boards are full of right wing kids

the social boards are very left leaning

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Smiffwilm
09/25/21 2:07:40 PM
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Someone once said somewhere on here and I'm paraphrasing:

"You're supposed to report and move on, not report and attempt to police it yourself."

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Revelation34
09/25/21 2:20:53 PM
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lihlih posted...
Yeah, but the moderation was upheld, which means an admin or lead moderator saw that and agreed that being a decent human being is worth punishing someone for. So it wasn't just a rogue moderator.


Moderations stopped going to admins like a year or two ago.
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MeteoricBurst
09/25/21 2:23:14 PM
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It didn't turn into anything. This site just used to be a lot more strict on what you were allowed to say.

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CoorsLight
09/25/21 2:33:32 PM
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I think like 2017 or 2018 this site hit the pinnacle of the alt right craze. I don't know if people here have actually gotten more left leaning or if the righties just left/went into hiding. As much as I want to believe the tide is turning, trump got 75 million votes, so...
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Zeus
09/25/21 2:38:49 PM
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ssj4supervegeta posted...
This website is insanely left wing. not sure what you're on about.

This so hard.

lihlih posted...
Approving of vicitm blaming and attacking people for calling out victim blamers is an insanely right wing thing, bruhs.

Except it's not, so you're trolling on top of that.

lihlih posted...
Yeah, but the moderation was upheld, which means an admin or lead moderator saw that and agreed that being a decent human being is worth punishing someone for. So it wasn't just a rogue moderator.

That's literally not even how moderations work. More importantly, name-calling in general is explicitly forbidden, although that's generally not enforced when leftists are doing the name-calling; just like how rules are frequently not enforced when leftists are talking about wanting to kill people or making death threats, which is why a certain guy was able to talk about wanting to kill another poster with his car.

And the fact that you think you should be above the rules because you virtue-signal to the far-left -- because so many who do virtue-signal to the far-left are exempt from rules -- and you were one of the very rare people called to account for your actions says more about you than the site. If you need a case-in-point where the site leans, just keep in mind that people -- including mods -- had been parroting conspiracy theories about Trump cheating to win the election in 2016 for a solid 4 years, yet they came down unimaginably hard on anybody who even raised questions about the 2020 election. Adjl asked a "what if?" hypothetical regarding the outcome if fraud was found, and because I answered it -- without once claiming fraud happened -- I got suspended for a month, and even after seeing the post in question, most people had a hard time believing it happened.

Revelation34 posted...
Moderations stopped going to admins like a year or two ago.

tbh, I think lihlih is working a gimmick at this point because they should know this.

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Kyuubi4269
09/25/21 4:37:18 PM
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Insults someone, is surprised they get modded for insults.
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ParanoidObsessive
09/25/21 5:06:46 PM
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This site's about 90% left and 10% right, but most people only really notice the biases when they contradict their own political alignment.
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Mead
09/25/21 5:08:35 PM
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Its become like this on most of the internet honestly

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DirtBasedSoap
09/25/21 5:12:36 PM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
This site's about 90% left and 10% right, but most people only really notice the biases when they contradict their own political alignment.
go post anything remotely political on the game boards and tell me its 90% left

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hypnox
09/25/21 5:16:36 PM
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As this site probably has zero new users per month on average, they don't do a good job modding one way or another. They have to keep the user base up since odds are there isn't gonna a be a replenishment

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Lokarin
09/25/21 5:18:08 PM
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lulz, calling an alt+right person alt+right counts as an insult and gets modded... now that's some malicious subtext!

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wolfy42
09/25/21 5:41:26 PM
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The world is a bird not an elephant and it wants everyone to get off it's damn wings.

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Red04
09/25/21 5:47:21 PM
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Its definitely left-wing
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lihlih
09/25/21 5:58:43 PM
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Zeus posted...


This so hard.

Except it's not, so you're trolling on top of that.

That's literally not even how moderations work. More importantly, name-calling in general is explicitly forbidden, although that's generally not enforced when leftists are doing the name-calling; just like how rules are frequently not enforced when leftists are talking about wanting to kill people or making death threats, which is why a certain guy was able to talk about wanting to kill another poster with his car.

And the fact that you think you should be above the rules because you virtue-signal to the far-left -- because so many who do virtue-signal to the far-left are exempt from rules -- and you were one of the very rare people called to account for your actions says more about you than the site. If you need a case-in-point where the site leans, just keep in mind that people -- including mods -- had been parroting conspiracy theories about Trump cheating to win the election in 2016 for a solid 4 years, yet they came down unimaginably hard on anybody who even raised questions about the 2020 election. Adjl asked a "what if?" hypothetical regarding the outcome if fraud was found, and because I answered it -- without once claiming fraud happened -- I got suspended for a month, and even after seeing the post in question, most people had a hard time believing it happened.

tbh, I think lihlih is working a gimmick at this point because they should know this.


So victim blaming and punishing people for calling out victims blamers isn't a right wing thing, but calling out victim blamers is virtue signaling for the left? The fuck kind of stupidass contradiction is this?

Kyuubi4269 posted...
Insults someone, is surprised they get modded for insults.


So calling someone a sexual assault condoner because they condoned the act of sexual assault is insulting someone? The fuck kind of dumbass logic is that? Lol
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Zareth
09/25/21 6:08:48 PM
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Left wingers: "GameFAQS is far right, here's some anecdotal evidence!"
Right wingers "GameFAQS is far left, here's some anecdotal evidence!"

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Mead
09/25/21 6:50:56 PM
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Red04 posted...
Its definitely left-wing

almost everywhere is unless its a special echo chamber for the vocal minority

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Rooster_Sucker
09/26/21 7:32:25 AM
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Kyuubi4269 posted...
Insults someone, is surprised they get modded for insults.
This. A smarter person would've realized the moderation was fair;next, accepted it, and moved on.

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11110111011
09/26/21 7:45:14 AM
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Mead
09/26/21 8:00:02 AM
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11110111011 posted...

fuck moderates

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wwinterj25
09/26/21 10:46:55 PM
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Kyuubi4269 posted...
Insults someone, is surprised they get modded for insults.
We have a winner!

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Zareth
09/26/21 11:07:06 PM
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Mead posted...
fuck moderates
I mean "moderates" in the US are right wing so yeah

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Lokarin
09/26/21 11:14:29 PM
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Zareth posted...
I mean "moderates" in the US are right wing so yeah

the goal of moderates isn't to sit in the middle, but to make that white line as thick as possible

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Fierce_Deity_08
09/27/21 12:41:29 AM
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Man, I have never laughed so hard in my life. Thank you! You really have not paid a visit to the political board. Its a freaking cuckoos nest!

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Mead
09/27/21 1:00:15 AM
#37:


Lokarin posted...
the goal of moderates isn't to sit in the middle, but to make that white line as thick as possible

they end up doing a lot of harm by trying to do that

moderates in the US are the reason our healthcare is just so senselessly broken, theyve been convinced that it shouldnt or cant be fixed

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Gaawa_chan
09/27/21 1:12:44 AM
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Depends on the board, I think.

Either way, not exactly a fun site for women users most of the time.

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Revelation34
09/27/21 10:14:20 AM
#39:


Lokarin posted...


the goal of moderates isn't to sit in the middle, but to make that white line as thick as possible


Apparently people think that independents are moderates.
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tonicpalin
09/28/21 7:18:20 AM
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lol since when? people are being banned for saying "both sides" and criticising certain people who set government buildings on fire...

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Wetstew
09/28/21 8:04:43 AM
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DirtBasedSoap posted...
the game boards are full of right wing kids

the social boards are very left leaning

This. Even then 'left leaning' a lot of the time is common decency "let trans people live their lives. Prison reform is probably a smart idea for the stability of the country. Forcing people to carry a fetus to term is kinda f****d" left leaning.

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Nichtcrawler X
09/28/21 10:56:32 AM
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ssj4supervegeta posted...
This website is insanely left wing. not sure what you're on about.

By US standards, yes.

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PunishedOni
09/28/21 11:25:31 AM
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I just block users with right-wing views

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OhhhJa
09/28/21 11:32:50 AM
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Nichtcrawler X posted...
By US standards, yes.
Naw, by any standard really. Most people here skew far left on every issue. I think you're confusing authoritarian left with libertarian left. Just because people here and in Europe don't support straight up stalinism, doesn't mean they aren't far left
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Nichtcrawler X
09/28/21 11:35:40 AM
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OhhhJa posted...
Naw, by any standard really. Most people here skew far left on every issue. I think you're confusing authoritarian left with libertarian left. Just because people here and in Europe don't support straight up stalinism, doesn't mean they aren't far left

I skew far left, most of GF's userbase that readily interacts with me, is firmly to the right of me. Centre-left at most, like most US "leftist" politicians.

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lihlih
09/28/21 3:46:06 PM
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I find it funny that all the alt-righters think that calling out someone for condoning sexual assault is insulting them.
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SaltyAndSweet
09/28/21 4:00:50 PM
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PunishedOni posted...
I just block users with right-wing views


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agesboy
09/28/21 5:05:47 PM
#48:


lihlih posted...
I find it funny that all the alt-righters think that calling out someone for condoning sexual assault is insulting them.
i'm pretty left leaning but if you don't understand why accusing a specific user of condoning sexual assault is moddable i dunno what to tell you

targetting users with vitriolic comments is always going to be moddable whether they deserve it or not, so you either have to keep it in or be passive-aggressive eloquent about it if you don't wanna get modded

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Revelation34
09/29/21 1:47:51 AM
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agesboy posted...
i'm pretty left leaning but if you don't understand why accusing a specific user of condoning sexual assault is moddable i dunno what to tell you

targetting users with vitriolic comments is always going to be moddable whether they deserve it or not, so you either have to keep it in or be passive-aggressive eloquent about it if you don't wanna get modded


If his story is true then by definition it isn't an accusation since the person supposedly directly said it. So it would be the truth.
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agesboy
09/29/21 7:18:53 AM
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Revelation34 posted...
If his story is true then by definition it isn't an accusation since the person supposedly directly said it. So it would be the truth.
unless the other person literally said "i condone sexual assault", tc is definitely reinterpreting their words in a more accusatory manner, and being intentionally antagonistic is mentioned as moddable in the message board rules

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