Apr
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So Tittysparkles copped a ban for posting political content in her blogs · 1:06pm Apr 21st, 2021
Activating that "we can do whatever the fuck we want" clause. It's a 24 hour ban but she's been instructed not to make any further politically oriented blogs. Apparently her opinions aren't "constructive". Now if this new standard was going to be applied evenly then I'd tell you to expect a sharp drop in blogs since her blogs were scarce different from the hundreds of others but... well, it's not going to be applied evenly.
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so question dose that mean forum groups are bad now or are we leaning more right or left in terms of what we are allowed to post on this site ?
5502956
A prolific writer and blogger on the site.
5502957
We'll see. The precedent has been set now.
5502958
Gotcha
Orly? Sounds suspiciously like they got suspended for “wrong think” to me. Have the thought police infiltrated the fimfic mods?
5502982
Yeah, we saw the first signs of that a year ago with the automatic closing of comments on "controversial" stories. I had hoped it wasn't the case but once again I'm forced to learn the folly of hope.
Clown Torres also created a post criticizing the Chauvin verdict, and he hasn't been banned because he hasn't created a shitstorm in which people started advocating for murder and other violence.
Possibly because that isn't what he meant to do.
5503031
I hardly think it's fair to punish a blogger or writer for what people say in their comment sections.
Wtf....
Well she gets banned, how much do you bet that I can go look for political posts from the other side and no one gets banned.
She has a moderation problem in the comment sections of her posts.
5503032
Your blog, your responsibility.
If you want to host a fistfight in your living room, it's your business, but if the noise wakes up the neighbors you'll get shut down.
5503041
Well A) this isn't in physical space where sound carries into other people's yards and B) by that standard I should be able to shit up your page while you're away and get you banned.
5503042
From what I get, hasn't this gal been hosting hobo fistfights on her blog for quite some time now?
Maybe it's not the what, but the consistency. Maybe the mods got tired of having to clean up the room after the whole party is over.
5503042
No, because if you tried that I would delete your posts, then if that didn't work I'd block you, then finally report you to the mods. In other words, I'd take responsibility for my own space, and I would do it deliberately, proportionately and on-record.
You know, like a grown-up.
5503049
It may shock you to know that the site indicates when you're offline, as she was.
5503046
Possibly. Though given that some of the mods weren't averse to getting in on the action, and have been all too happy to ignore calls for outright violence and harassment of other users in far more hostile blogs, they can hardly (reasonably) call people coming into a blog of their own accord to argue with each other the breaking point.
5503056
She starts a fight and leaves the room. Sounds like an abdication of responsibility to me. Plus pretty chicken-shit.
So no, doesn't surprise me at all. TittySparkles is an attention whore and she's very good at it. She knew what she was doing.
5503060
You do know that human beings have to sleep, right? Also it's arguing on the internet. Not a fist fight.
5503061
You should know not to start a fight just before bedtime.
I sympathize with your belief that the Internet has nothing to do with real life. Like you, I miss the 90's. Unlike you, I realize they're over.
5503057
This isn't what I exactly meant. Let's assume you and me make daily blogs. You cause an uprising every once in a blue moon. I do so once per week. The details might differ; we might have different number of followers, we might use different spectrums of controversiality, or we might be balancing our moderation and how extreme we're in our comment section and in general in different measures.
But the point remains that a mod might have to come and pick up the pieces (deal with reporting, mediate exchanges, talk to people, etc, etc) in different frequencies. He has to do that with me every week, he has to do that with you every six months. So he sends me a ban to stop doing this type of blogs because he's had it up to here with me, but not you because he has to deal so rarely with you and it's much less of a hassle.
Then it's not a matter of censoring or political leaning, but simply a matter of resources. A guy/gal with followers in the thousands might be absorbing more time from a mod than one in the hundreds; especially when they repeatedly focus on creating such situations.
Get the drift of my say?
5503073
This is a lovely comment, and I totally agree with all of it.
I like the fact it's really not that bad in her blogs. Like, people are acting like it's a horrible, angry discussion being had, but it's pretty chill most of the time. Most of the hate and vitriol comes from those that disagree with her. But no, ban her instead.
When I went to sleep last night the only dudes talking any insane shit were down voted into oblivion.
Oh well, more thought policing. Hooray?
5503074
I get'cha, yeah.
5503036
Sorry, what moderation problem? Out of 100+ posts, there was ONE idiot who wrote 'let's kill, the judges and the jury!' The rest of the discussion was civilized for the most part.
And you wanna know the fun fact? The guy that wrote the death threat? As I am wring this, he is NOT banned:
https://www.fimfiction.net/user/267886/TheUndeadEmpire
So, to summarize, TT makes a blog for people to talk about the verdict - she gets banned. The guy who made the post saying people should kill the jury and the judges - he doesn't get banned.
5503046
No, she wasn't hosting any 'hobo fights,' nor did she do anything that goes against site rules. Unless, of course, I missed something, and there is a rule 'don't talk about controversial topics that can make people angry,' but the last time I checked, nothing of the sort was in there.
And read what I wrote above - the guy who threw death threats is A-Fucking-OK while TT got banned. Draw your own conclusions.
5503076
To be fair, if someone came on a group I was modding, and started up shit especially by trying to use the "how can you be convicted of manslaugher and murder of the same person," idiocy, as if that exact question hasn't been asked and answered a thousand times already on reddit, twitter, and other social media (or just a google search), I'd be performing a quick lock at once. If they did it often, then yes, a ban. You can't say that this wasn't meant to start shit, especially when coming in with armed and ready with untruth and already used inflammatory "this was fake" propaganda. Forget it being whatever leaning. If they came in with similar bullshit from the opposite direction, that would still be bullshit.
Which is why I think the reason is what I explained to Officer Hotpants. Personal experience says that people who pull that, pull it often.
Or I might be completely wrong. But it's not the first time I see panic rising over "censorship of opinions" coming, and the predicted waves simply failed to appear.
5503085
Have other people made blogs about the verdict yet or is it too soon? I'd be quite surprised if TT was the only one. Any news on them?
If it happens/happened to others, then we're closer to what this really was for.
5503085
Then I stand corrected. I might have not seen that comment because the thing got pulled off like 5 minutes after I saw the blogpost.
Also yes that dude should be banned faster than you can say Quidditch.
So posting political opinions gets you an immediate ban, but Knighty still hasn't responded to my three week old PM about the guy pressuring 12 year old girls into giving him child porn videos on here...
What the fuck happened?
5503085
Okay, in that case that IS on the mods. The guy inciting violence should be banned.
I still agree with their call on TittySparkles. You aren't innocent just because someone else is more guilty.
5503097
Excuse me, what?
5503097
Hol up the phone, what in the fucking what?
5503121
That's what I said! Except, you know, mine was in red.
5503118
5503121
What I talked about in my blog here: https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/943189/psa-user-tried-to-solicit-child-porn-not-an-april-fools
The dude is still on the site, and I haven't gotten a response yet from Knighty after PMing them.
5503093
Yes, I have observed blog posts critical of the decision. They still there. No shitstorms involved.
5503088
Exactly.
Tittysparkles is an attention whore. Thing about whores is, Authority will look the other way if you're reasonably clean and discrete.
Tittysparkles was spreading the clap and watching the winos fight, so they shut her down.
5503088
Bruh even after having lawyers explain it, I still don't get how you can purposefully, accidently, AND through negligence kill the same dude.
Many people don't use reddit, so that has nothing to do with the discussion here.
Apparently Minnesota has a some weird law where it works like that there. Which was brought up in the discussion on that blog. We looked at that, then we all went "oh, that's wierd." Then went back to talking about people reactions to the trial.
5503097
Yo what the fuck?
5503133
Then that's your issue, not the law's. If I don't get quantum theory it doesn't mean it's wrong.
It does because that's a copy-paste of the exact argument people use on reddit before they start going la-la-la and ignoring answers. I don't believe for a second she came up with that on her own rather than the most obvious answer she goes on other popular social media as well.
I don't know what happened in the comments. The blog's gone. I'm talking about what I would refer to as the Original Post.
5503097
i thought he stoped going to this site a while ago and stepped down?
5503123
LOL
5503146
If it's an accident, its not on purpose. If it's on purpose, it's not an accident. These are mutually exclusive XD. We can criticize laws that make no sense.
And the idea doesn't need to come from somewhere else. Anyone can look at that, and just think "how the hell does that make sense?"
I did. Why couldn't she?
5503031
One Guy said anything about gettin violent, and was told to fuck off. Stop trying to paint the entire discussion as your fantasy, just because it's not there to prove you wrong.
5503167
Excuse me but is English not your native language? I only ask because your last post did not make much sense.
Nothing bad on you if it isn't: I'm sure your English is much better than my...whatever it is.
5503175
People keep saying she started a violent conversation, yet the only person in the comments of that blog that spoke of violence against the jury was told to fuck off by most everyone else. Everyone was pretty civilized and chill.
The majority of the conversation that happened in there was about the rioters, stupid politicians, ect.
Hell, plenty agreed with the manslaughter charge.
There was very little raging, most of it was irritation at how violence is more and more becoming the way of things.
5503088
You really don't see a difference between making a private BLOG and going into an unrelated group and doing the same?
Maybe it will shock you, but most people started asking themselves this question only AFTER the verdict. I sure didn't read a single one out of the thousands of alleged answers to that on Reddit, Twitter, or whatever. Only after one of the users explained how weird Minnesota's system is, did I understand it. Judging by the fact that TT made her blog about 30 minutes after the verdict, I bet she didn't know the answer before posting either and had every right to be confused.
Just because you know the answer doesn't make the question stupid or inappropriate
The few I saw were still up and A-OK, which is saying a lot.
5503097
Knighty doesn't seem to be on the site that much lately so I don't think he had any pull in this - probably one of the other mods did it (I have a powerful feeling about exactly which one).
About that case - I don't think I ever asked, but... did you try contacting other mods besides him?
5503116
... wait a second. Aren't you that guy who went on TT blog yesterday calling her an 'attention whore', among other things, and looking for a fight?
5503178
The guy who used threatening language should've been shut down by the forum owner, regardless of how much "blowback" he received. He wasn't. The mods stepped in.
Why threats-boy wasn't banned, I dunno. It may be his first offense, or the mods may be investigating further. Not a good look for them, though, so it's on them to explain it and I think they should.
No post that blows up to 400 replies in a couple hours is "chill." You're just upset because one of your own got a time-out. Yah, sure, gulags are next.
5503180
If I was intent on fighting, I would have used VERY different language.
I called her out on her original position, and on her posturing. I did use the words "ass" in "you are an ass," and "whore" in "attention whore."
Go ahead, report me.
5503180
But when you had that question you probably did look for an answer. Looked deeper into the thread, and failing that you would have googled it. I know enough from you to expect that the most minimum of searches would be done. But TS didn't. She came in armed and ready. She didn't care for the answer. Not even enough to go a single google search. Just took the grenade and pulled the pin.
As a group admin, I would care for the group.
As a site admin, I would care for the site. And I explained my position and probable cause I suspect, didn't I?
Then it wasn't for the leaning or for opinions but because of something else TS might have done? Or something else?
5503160
Why didn't you or she complain about this law before this, then?
Because of my bullshit meter going off.
5503192
Did it suddenly get 300 more replies in the 5 hours I was asleep? Kinda a weird time to suddenly get flooded.
Unless all the Australians suddenly hopped in?
And yes, considering I was very active in the discussion, and didn't pop in just to claim she's an attention whore, it was very chill, especially for such a politically charged conversation. Most of the discussions in her blogs are after the morons get it out of their system in that first hour.
Most of the anger was from people there just to call us nazis. And those 3 or 4 people were gone pretty fast. Then it was just regular people agreeing or disagreeing on the topics.
What does one of my own even entail?
What are you attempting to imply with that?
Someone else with thoughts on current events that I sort of agree with? Sure.
If the mods stepped in for the violence, that one guy should have been banned. Not her. And especially not them telling her she can't post political stuff on her blog anymore.
But other people can, apparently.