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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.
Quality Contributions to the Main Motte
Contributions for the week of March 30, 2026
Contributions for the week of April 6, 2026
- "I think Terry Pratchett is the atheist version of C. S. Lewis or J. R. R. Tolkien."
- "But Halo... Halo was magic."
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It's a shame I didn't see Amadan's comment while it was fresh. I'm almost tempted to AAQC it again, I think it's that good.
The one thing that we ask of Mottizens is the ability to engage in civil discourse, including on controversial topics. Especially on controversial topics. We make allowances for the fact that this is a rather big ask, especially by wider internet standards, but it's also the whole fucking point of this place. You can say just about anything, as long as you say it politely, and back up inflammatory claims proactively. What counts as inflammatory? Now isn't that a debate for the ages? I'd like to use the "reasonable member of the public" doctrine, but that's got more loopholes than the factory where they make basketball hoops.
This is fine. It really is. To channel Sam Altman (hiss hiss), the Motte is nothing without its users. The users wouldn't be here if us mods didn't do the unpleasant job of occasionally cracking a few skulls. I don't like doing that. I doubt any of us do, and that's in part because we were negatively selected for that tendency. We do it because even the clearest, easiest-going set of rules on the planet won't stand up and defend themselves. Entropy is a bitch.
Does anyone think I like the anti-Indian stereotypes floating around on the web, or that surfaces even here on occasion? Hah. You wish. I console myself with the (true) fact that I am very, very far from the modal Indian, and that the complaints usually lobbed against them aren't applicable to me (assuming we're talking about something with more merit than generic accusations of shitting on streets. And when the criticism does encompass me? Including for characteristics I really can't change? Well, the Indian Subcontinent probably selected for thick skin, for protection against malaria if nothing else.
Very few things written here are truly worth getting heated about, I say, even acknowledging that I've lost my cool in the past (albeit for other reasons, anti-Indian sentiment is rather low on the list of things that reliably rile me up). And well, on the flip side, getting a warning or ban on a niche internet forum is not the end of the world. Go read a book. Touch grass. Feed your kids, or go make kids.
Digression aside: something that more people should know is that if you are genuinely uncertain if a planned post of yours clears the bar, you can just... DM us. The mod mail exists. You can ping the mods and ask, "hey, is this okay to share?" Almost nobody does this. More people should. We should probably put this next to the rules.
For what it's worth, as one of our resident Indian dislikers, I like you. You're "one of the good ones" if that matters to you. I disagree with you on plenty of your opinions, but I'd say you seem like a smart guy generally. And you have respect for your host culture in the UK, that says a lot more to me about your character than your intelligence and other capabilities ever would.
In the ending of The Camp of the Saints, I'd like to imagine you'd be like the character Hamadura, a westernized Indian taking a last stand against the destruction of western civilization together with the Frenchies (or in your case, the Brits).
Thank you. Whenever I feel the need to go tut at Count (more often than I wish or like), the usual culprit is that he's sneering at the locals and asking for them to be replaced. I can't even imagine doing something along those lines, my right to reside in a Western country is clearly a privilege, and I refuse to bite the hand that feeds. I don't think the West is perfect, but it has my loyalties not just because it offers me a higher standard of living (in some ways).
Unfortunately, the phone call was always coming from inside the house.
I regret to inform you that Count is, in that respect, just trying to be more English than the English. While there's a lot wrong with rural Scotland, you're also quite lucky to have avoided the English-class-system-hits-diaspora collision directly.
I think you have a point. English snobbery is something I've only looked at second-hand, and I hope it stays that way.
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