The Butcher
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CRKrueger has a point — politics fundamentally changes a message board. RPGnet is a prime example of a board that's been completely transformed, and not always in a good way, by the political leanings of its staff. Conversely, theRPGsite's own transformation into a politically aligned board began the day the site owner decided to prop it up as the dissenting alternative to RPGnet and/or his private soapbox.
That being said, I am super iffy on suspending debate on (or at least, as TristramEvans suggests, acknowledgement of) the fact that some of the hobby's most beloved creators may have shown deplorable, Mad Men levels of misogynistic behavior. It is a "topic ban" of the sort that tends to work out disproportionately in favor of those who benefit from silence and from maintenance of the status quo.
My humble proposal us that posters may be allowed to allude to the incident, but that the community as a whole will commit to not passing judgement on either party, or making an extended debate on current gender issues out of it, except maybe over private messaging.
Just my .02.
That being said, I am super iffy on suspending debate on (or at least, as TristramEvans suggests, acknowledgement of) the fact that some of the hobby's most beloved creators may have shown deplorable, Mad Men levels of misogynistic behavior. It is a "topic ban" of the sort that tends to work out disproportionately in favor of those who benefit from silence and from maintenance of the status quo.
My humble proposal us that posters may be allowed to allude to the incident, but that the community as a whole will commit to not passing judgement on either party, or making an extended debate on current gender issues out of it, except maybe over private messaging.
Just my .02.