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PaperclipPerfector  3mo ago (text post)   2095 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 31, 2025

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>impute racist motivations

>get (somewhat understandably) upset response

>reach straight for the banhammer

Outstanding move. This is not your first mod decision I consider objectionable, but it's definitely the most naked flex so far. I don't mind the blogposting myself, it's entertaining if nothing else, but when the volume reaches several posts per week (from the same posters, on roughly the same themes) people are absolutely allowed to complain. At no point is race required to enter the consideration.

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We both thought it was odd that he grouped the two Indian posters together like that in such an unrelated fashion.

Maybe because they are the two posters who liberally blogpost as of late? If I'd made @iprayiam3's point they would've been my go-to examples as well, no Nooticing required.

Ctrl-F'ing the first 5 pages of @iprayiam3's post history turned up 0 mentions of Indians specifically and one direct mention of immigrants. What, respectfully, are you on about? How does race even factor in here, why does your theory of mind go straight to race-based motivations? I held my tongue last time I got warned for off-handedly mentioning "jewish tricks" without a meme disclaimer (point taken) but here I'll say it - I understand janitorial duties take their toll but you really gotta fix your racism/antisemitism detector, the false positives are visibly stacking up.

I agree that @iprayiam was factually correct about the frequency of blogposting by specific mottizens, and that racism seemed to play no role in it, and that the mods read too much into it.

But his reaction was also clearly out of bounds and did deserve punishment.

I agree it was out of bounds, but considering the circumstances of @Amadan (I think undisputably) firing the first proverbial shot here it would be more prudent to warn first, and tempban after if he does not chill.

IMO it's hard to find a sweet spot here. For the language used by @iprayiam, a mere warning seems too light, even given the circumstances. And it is only a 3-day ban. I just hope it won't be held against him in future mod decisions.

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