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i swear to god i don't login for a weekend because i have a life outside this stupid ass website and every time i do this i come back to some 500+ comment thread about the dumbest shit i've ever seen in my life.
time and time again it is the usual suspects too
allow the damn emote and unban whoever was banned for it. tell Nakoichi to calm the fuck down and ban all the fucking zionist owls (sorry it has to be this way)
also i like how this discussion post provides very little context as to what is driving the discussion. can't believe i had to scroll until i found a comment linking the recent arguments/bans SMH (this is not a complaint towards our beloved emoji csar but just a complaint in general because i've sat here for 30 minutes trying to figure out what the fuck was going on)
Because the original intent was to discuss the Emoji. Not the mod actions
this discussion of the emoji is a result of mod actions though and to act like it was not is annoying but ok. I'm not saying 'oh this post should've had a detailed timeline of the last 72 hours' but I think it is incredibly disingenuous to go 'yeah we're open to discussion about the emote' and avoid providing any detail as to what really prompted the discussion to begin with
Ysf says it though, that she was blocking it partially due to being busy and since she was the person doing the emojis we didn't go around her. The post body explains her thoughts on it.
The mod actions against Zposter are ultimately for repeating the same behavior that got their previous 10+ accounts banned and wasn't in the purview of the original post
I completely agree. There were 100+ comments when I got to it and none of them had a link or an explanation or anything.
Somebody shared a link when I asked but then it got pushed down as new comments came.
If you'd stop logging out on weekends none of this would happen
I agree, this is all @abc's fault