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To follow up on Ianbolton's post, as well as the ones in the Spammer Report Hotline from today (https://www.qbn.com/reply/40995... https://www.qbn.com/reply/409959…, and https://www.qbn.com/reply/409960…), as well as general community response to racism, misogyny, bigotry, and trolling.
I have questions specifically for you, Wordsworth.
We know you're a mod.
It's unlikely that you haven't seen the flagged posts, and posts in the Spammer thread.
It's also highly, highly unlikely that the myriad negative reactions QBNers have had to shapesalad and his ilk's toxic posts and notes over the last little while (days/weeks/months) have escaped your attention.
As such:
Why is shapesalad permitted to remain here, in the face of mounting and persistant objection on the part of the rest of the community?
Why is QBN giving hate speech a platform, _especially_ in this day and age?
Why are our flagged posts and reports in the Spammer Report Hotline about things like this being seemingly ignored?
Would you be able to enlighten us a bit on QBN's moderation and community management policy, so that we can understand why racists, sexists, homophobes/transphobes, and bigots of all sorts are given voice and platform here?
What's the line these sorts of individual have to cross, before they're ejected?
Is it that you're understaffed, so to speak? If so, I'm sure there would be more than a couple of volunteers to help out.
To put a fine point on it, allowing this stuff to flourish and propegate on QBN make it very much *not fun* to visit, now. And it serves to drive other users to not visit much (or at all) anymore, users who might otherwise have stayed.
Input and clarification from you on this post, Wordsworth, would be very much appreciated.
- What is "Hate Speech?"
Who defines it?
Is it ok to talk about Elon Musk or Donald Trump using hate speech?Morning_star - The UN definition of hate speech: offensive discourse targeting a group or an individual based on inherent characteristics (such as race, religion or gender)BuddhaHat
- ..and that may threaten social peace.
So no, by that definition it's not hate speech when talking about Trump or Musk.BuddhaHat - Because they're largely not targeted for their race, religion or gender. They're targeted for being horrible c*nts.BuddhaHat
- Concerns over "hate speech" from a literal skinhead who lives in Germany.zardoz
- ^ Have a gander at the religion thread, lots of qoobs to be banned there tooGnash
- Is that all you've got zardoz? I'm not the least bit impressed. Try harder, twerp.Continuity
- Thanks Bhudda, appreciate your response.Morning_star
- Vote mono for moderator 2024. MQGAmonospaced
- also, zardoz, fucking lol for not knowing what an actual literal skinhead ismonospaced
- Still waiting for Wordsworth's reply.
Mono for moderator 2024!palimpsest - I agree with Cont. I stopped visiting becauz of the neg energy of a few who seem to live on this site, troll everything, and zealously post hate. Shit gets old!canoe
- It drives engagement. Hate baiting. Just kidding, this is (hopefully) a private platform that doesn't rely on user engagementProjectile
- Still waiting for Wordsworth's reply.palimpsest
- Yup. Would love to know what Wordsworth's input on this is.Continuity
- What is "Hate Speech?"