Confusing

rujitra·12/1/2019, 10:57:52 PM·4 votes·3,365 views

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Then don't play a multiplayer game.

You seem to want the "best of both worlds" - you want a multiplayer game where you have to deal with people, but you don't want others to know or see anything about you. I recommend Disney+ - I think Hannah Montana is on that, so you can get the "best of both worlds" without making others adapt to your own desires.

Nowhere here does it question someone's intelligence. I'm presuming that the "Hannah Montana" reference was what was considered... somehow "belittling" or "disrespectful"? None of this comment was untrue. It was a completely valid explanation of the poster's beliefs - they made clear that they wanted to play a multiplayer game but they didn't want other players to see/do anything about their prior history of play. As such, they wanted the "best of both worlds" - which is well known as the theme song to Hannah Montana.

Looking forward to how this gets twisted to be against the rules and how mods will continue to justify having voting on the boards and doing absolutely nothing about obvious and clear manipulation because "we're too overworked", nor will they just, idk, onboard more moderators to help them?

Look, I get that this obviously sounds heated and frustrated. I used to have great respect for the moderation team, and I still do have great respect for a select few individuals. However, some actions that have been taken and the lack of action on other topics/areas on the boards simply aren't indicative of a team that cares about the boards. I understand you're limited in the types of change/actions you can take. But when the excuses given are "because we say so" and "because we aren't professionals", that doesn't fly. Simply not being paid does not mean you should not take pride in your position and that there should not be rules for the conduct of the individuals on the team. Nor should "meming" be an excuse for treating a boards user like crap - period.

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AeroWaffle12/2/2019, 12:40:55 AM5 votes

Here's how I see that particular removal;

Telling people to instead go on Disney+ and Hanna Montana is really just a recommendation intended to belittle the other person. To liken it to an opposing viewpoint, it would be like telling someone who believes it's fair to punish others for poor behavior to go play Hello Kitty.

ModThe Djinn12/2/2019, 1:53:07 AM5 votes

I recommend Disney+ - I think Hannah Montana is on that, so you can get the "best of both worlds" without making others adapt to your own desires.

If you don't know the theme song to Hannah Montana (and I did not until I saw this post) this comes off very much like "what you want doesn't exist, so go watch Disney+ instead of gaming." I don't believe it is reasonable to expect other posters -- or the moderation team for that matter -- to know every bit of pop culture or analyze your postings carefully for things to research to see if there even are any jokes, and it is for reasons like this that we moderate based on what is written and how it could reasonably be interpreted rather than based on what the writer specifically intended.

In this instance I would be amenable to restoring the post provided that you edit it to make the joke clearer and the post more clearly non-condescending.

Arcade Lulu12/1/2019, 11:27:20 PM3 votes

**Conspiracy theory time: **The mods are actually the ones downvoting you, because you're right and they don't want to accept it

That's why they don't want to fix the vote manipulation problem, because then they couldn't continue doing this Mods have free time to meme around etc, but they are too busy to fix the vote manipulation problem

[sg-zephyr] Probably not true. But i wouldn't be surprised if it was true Came up with that in the heat of the moment when i saw a mod being negative in a discussion a few minutes ago

This comment is going to get removed to, imma call it rn

GreenKnight12/1/2019, 11:26:35 PM1 votes

Hah, even Rujitra is complaining now.