Subj : Re: Computer Kits
To   : Jeff
From : Arelor
Date : Sat Jan 29 2022 12:35:36

  Re: Re: Computer Kits
  By: Jeff to boraxman on Fri Jan 28 2022 09:18 am

 > 
 > Regulation and control... like banning people who refuse to follow the rules
 > Remember when I said to hold that thought about people being cut off from
 > friends and family by being banned? Here we are. People don't just get
 > randomly banned. They get banned because the platforms are exercising the
 > regulation and control that you believe they should have.
 > 

Some platforms are better at keeping order than others.

The RPG.net forums directly ban certain opinions. There are tons of stories
online talking about people getting randomly banned from there for petty or
unexplained reasons.

RPG.net used to be THE forum you visited for RPG related discussion. It is no
small site. It is not an insignificant piece of the Internet. It is (well,
actually "was", because it comitted suicide) the goto place for people
interested in a certain hobby.

And, in the most RPGish tradition, thy exercise their control by rolling a die
in order to decide whether somebody gets banned, apparently. Heck, they have a
public thread in which they display bans as trophies.

Of course they have the right to do as they please but that turns the service
into a bad service.

And a whole lot of services are just like that. So yeah, I think the
ideological or random banhammer is something that exists even in big platforms
and is something to be concerned off.


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