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Culture War Roundup for the week of March 11, 2024

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As of this time @HlynkaCG has been permabanned. I'm posting this message at the top of the thread, because its not really for Hlynka, its for the community to know. There were a few different posts I could have chosen in the modqueue, and many of them were too buried to be visible. The mod team has given him repeated warnings and bans. And I personally reached out to him last ban to warn him that a permaban was likely coming if this behavior continued.

I mostly do not feel this is a good thing, but it is a necessary thing. Hlynka had quite a few quality contributions, and I don't think I was alone in appreciating his often unique (for themotte) perspective. But he repeatedly did it in a way that just wasn't acceptable for the rules around here.

I would like people to have a few takeaways:

  1. No one on this forum is infinitely excused of bad behavior. Having quality contributions and providing a unique viewpoint might get you some additional leeway, but our patience isn't unlimited.
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Please keep any discussion civil.

It’s a shame he was simply unable to follow the rules. He made some very good posts, but then would have occasional outbursts at random people. Who can forget the time he was randomly racist to @self_made_human and accused him of not being able to understand English because he was Indian or something?

this is the most Jewish contribution I've ever seen you make

'shame he was simply unable to follow the rules' lmao okay, fair point. Shame you killed Jesus and His blood is on you and your people

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Is the Motte supposed to be funny?

This is the funniest shit I've read all morning

And by the time this discussion is done, Zorba will come in and find that everyone has banned everyone and he's all alone on the Motte.

There definitely needs to be a day where absurdist comedy is allowed, maybe we can unban Hlynka on it

I think if Hlynka should be unbanned if he does “The Hock”, with photographic evidence to back up his claim. Trial by ordeal.

I’m not even remotely kidding.

That might be the funniest deep cut mashup of internet niche humor ever produced. It would be a scream come true.

I would kill myself if this happened.

Then again, Hlynka probably has a much higher chance of surviving the Hock than Skookum does.

Place your bets people, military training and oppositional defiant personality disorder versus medical training and weapons-grade autism. Who can weather the wastes first?

I am on standby to make the rdrama thread if that ever happens.

Much as I realise it's suicide to do so and that consciously I can not condone it, deep down a part of me very much wants someone from here to do The Hock (and hopefully live to tell us the tale) because the memes it will generate will be fire.

You know, and I had been meaning to ask in the fun thread this week, what happened to Mr Hock?

He was banned for only ever posting about the Hock. His reddit account is still active, so clearly he hasn't gone into the woods to his death.

I asked the same question about a month ago. Apparently he chickened out came to his senses and realized it was a suicide mission. He went on a big mountain climbing trip instead, which is less fun but more sensible.

Easter seems like the obvious choice for a resurrection.

As an Easter treat can we have a Skookum vs hlynka debate, ‘are some races doomed to die out because their men are short?’

Having everyone unbanned for 24hrs before being rebanned on April Fools would be absolutely wild.

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