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naraburns  nihil supernum  1yr ago (text post)   Edited 1yr ago   5724 thread views

Quality Contributions Report for October 2022

Y'all must be trying to kill me. The sheer volume of quality contribution reports, combined with the outrageous volume of text you maniacs generate every week, made this an astonishing month to be sorting through the hopper. By far the busiest month for AAQCs since I took over the task. This made winnowing them down especially challenging, and some very good posts simply didn't make the cut simply because the competition was so fierce.

Good job, everyone.

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These are mostly chronologically ordered, but I have in some cases tried to cluster comments by topic so if there is something you are looking for (or trying to avoid), this might be helpful. Here we go:

Quality Contributions in Culture Peace

@problem_redditor:

Contributions for the week of September 26, 2022

@PmMeClassicMemes:

@KulakRevolt:

Battle of the Sexes

@Tanista:

@problem_redditor:

@Ben___Garrison:

Contributions for the week of October 3, 2022

@Primaprimaprima:

@FiveHourMarathon:

@FCfromSSC:

@urquan:

Identity Politics

@Stefferi:

@urquan:

Contributions for the week of October 10, 2022

@urquan:

@Amadan:

@Chrisprattalpharaptor:

Battle of the Sexes

@VelveteenAmbush:

@sodiummuffin:

@JTarrou:

@bsbbtnh:

Identity Politics

@georgioz:

@gattsuru:

Contributions for the week of October 17, 2022

@MadMonzer:

@Minotaur:

@faceh:

@Butlerian:

@FCfromSSC:

@hydroacetylene:

@urquan:

@Eetan:

Identity Politics

@Hoffmeister25:

Contributions for the week of October 24, 2022

@urquan:

@johnfabian:

@LacklustreFriend:

@FCfromSSC:

@DaseindustriesLtd:

Battle of the Sexes

@cae_jones:

@SSCReader:

@Hoffmeister25:

Identity Politics

@FCfromSSC:

@Tanista:

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@urquan:

My apologies for never responding to your comments on politicized moderation. I think you’re absolutely correct about the conflation of slur-spamming and genuine right-wing posts. Most places aren’t the Motte, and I am keenly aware that our moderation is particularly unusual.

I was trying to argue apologetics for how this conflation comes about. It is popular on this board [citation needed] to assert leftists coordinate such takeovers. That’s obviously a thing that actually happens, I.e. the RPGnet example. The OP was specifically theorizing that leftist activism is memetically fit because it encourages takeovers.

That seemed less likely, to me, than a more organic approach. I think the initial impulse for hobbyist communities sliding left is usually “sane” moderation: banning obvious slurs. Insofar as the right wing is more likely to value free speech, this is more likely to cause evaporative cooling on the right. The runaway slide starts with a couple guys saying “xyz was a dick, but he didn’t deserve a ban...” and then leaving.

Now, lots of the responses gave examples of left-coded slurs. If these are being ignored from the start, then either they’re not as severe, or the moderation starts out captured—which would be evidence for the takeover theory. I’m not sure how common this is, or how commensurate those examples are to race-baiting or fedposting. I remember a guy on [small video game discord] deciding to monopolize the funny pictures channel for “America will never be tried for war crimes!1!!!” He got muted, not banned, and I’m not confident if it was leftist bias or just...less threatening.

Unrelated, but I encountered that multimc drama around the same time as you. I was picking a launcher to try out Valhelsia 5, which only released in mid-October. (It’s quite good, though.) The Val install guide hadn’t caught up to the news, so clicking through was a complete surprise. It was like looking out on the Mad Max wasteland, except with discarded commits.

I have to wonder if they ever decided where to fork.

the multimc fork is https://github.com/PrismLauncher/PrismLauncher i think

There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth over whether reverting to the Technic launcher was worthwhile.

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