New Blog.
By monetarydread 1 Comments
Well, unfortunately the mods came in and froze my blog before I could post a reply. I admit that the original post was a little rushed and not as thought out as I would have liked. Unfortunately I lost the progress on this post so i am not going to rewrite. I will just say this though. My intention was to create a blog not about insulting the people that died nine years ago, but for people to vent their opinions on the effects that came out of the incident.
The mod said that people are sad and this isn't the time nor the place to do it in. Well, I don't understand? This is the perfect time and place to talk about things of this nature. It's nine-f'n-eleven, and a topic about someones opinion about the ramifications of 9-11 and the americans reaction to it is a relevant topic. Plus, It's not like I immediately jumped into a thread and started blasting people like a troll. I knew that would be wrong, so I decided to form some opinions and present them in a blog post and when I was asked where it wanted to go, I chose "off-topic," because it isn't about games. If you had a differing opinion to me, then great. I would have loved to have discussed it in length... and I tried to do that until the blog was locked.
On another post MattyFTM said that, " What I am moderating is content that is liable to cause offence, and/or start unnecessary bashing and flame wars." Well, you know what? That is every differing opinion on the internet. For example, if I was to write a blog post about how I thought that Half Life 2 was crap would that be removed as well? That would offend some people, and start unnecessary bashing and flame wars, yet if you remove that then what is the point of even having a space on the internet where you can post your opinions on things. Sure, there was an anti-american sentiment to my blog, but it wasn't directed at an individual user. I was stating opinion and one that had value to be discussed and since it was my blog post it isn't like I was derailing a topic. I've read the Forum Rules and maybe I am just a bad person for having opinions that aren't sympathetic to the masses, but I am not going to hide my opinions because of other peoples feelings.
If anybody wants to challenge my opinions on anything that I have said. I say, go for it! I'm ready willing and able, and please mods, this isn't meant as a flame bait topic. I will close this blog with a quote from the Giantbomb user @ChristOnIce because he is a much better writer than me:
That's precisely my point. You don't want to moderate what's inappropriate, so you just declare everything you don't like as inherently inappropriate. This is lazy at best. That you or others are overly sensitive to some opinions does nothing to de-value those opinions. You didn't merely recommend that people phrase their positions appropriately; you listed specific opinions as being disallowed in discussion and threatened punishment. Balls to that, I say. Topics can be considered appropriate or inappropriate for the site, certainly. But within those topics, opinions should be given equal treatment. Your little warning was exactly as idiotic as a warning in a political thread that only praise for Obama, Cameron, what have you shall be allowed and that any dissent from this arbitrarily correct position will be punished. Fucking lunacy. Again, moderate how ideas are expressed, not what ideas are expressed. Sanctimonious declaration of one opinion being acceptable and all others being offensive is goddamned ridiculous and fosters only a community of unintelligent prats. Is that your aim, or is it possible that you're overreacting and throwing the baby out with the bathwater? "