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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 24, 2022

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Honestly, I'd fully endorse right wingers not being welcome in a community that seemingly exists to waste people's time with video games in the most useless ways possible. Maybe they could get off discords run by shut-ins and do something real.

But the worrying thing is the way petty conflicts like this work as training wheels for leftist takeovers of organizations that actually matter.

It breeds mindless no-life zealots and trains them to follow party procedures for crushing opposition, rewarding them with a taste of power when they're allowed to summon the might of corporations to hurt people they hate; the pack has already been banned by Microsoft. And a lack of victories means there's no effective training for humans to oppose them, even In Minecraft.

Edit: I offer my deepest apologies to the gamer community for the offense and hurt this poorly considered post caused. It was a heated non-gaming moment that does not represent who I am. As such, I promise to Do The Work and fund a scholarship for children to compete for the prestigious "100% achievement no-keyboard" Minecraft Speedrun category. Their bravery and commitment to this valuable skill is an inspiration to us all.

Trad macho posturing bullshit like this is always so laughable being posted on a community that is an even less productive use of time than some Minecraft open source project. Say, MeinNameistBernd, shouldn’t you be teaching Sunday School, bodybuilding or reciting Greek poetry right now?

Trad macho posturing bullshit like this is always so laughable being posted on a community that is an even less productive use of time than some Minecraft open source project.

This antagonism gets you banned for a week. Please think of it as my personal contribution to the productive use of your time.

Can't say I agree with the discrepancy in time between the two posters ban lengths. It gives the impression that being antagonistic first is less against the rules than being antagonistic toward someone being antagonistic. Also, your flippant antagonism toward the person you're banning should get you banned as well if we were all playing on the same field.

Not to defend the mod decisions too much, but I'd imagine that they would've banned the replier for a longer length if the replier had more of a history of antagonizing people in this way than the original poster. Though, I'm not a mod and don't have access to the notes they have on each user, so I can't say for sure that's why they banned Westerly for longer than MeinNameistBerd.

It's possible, they usually specify if that's the case. I don't care that they were banned or even the lengths they chose I just think the discrepancy is too disproportionate all else being equal. To be honest this just seems like playful banter being interpreted as much harsher than either user meant it to be but maybe I'm wrong. nara's little poke with a stick to the user after the ban reminded me of what Hlynka would do with bans and why they bothered me so much (though I think they're both excellent contributors in general).