Here’s my honest take since I haven’t done anything other than the above post, and the popcorn.gif.
You know how much s**t has been posted here over the years? People with literal garbage takes (like people just outright saying that they hope somebody gets injured), or other inflammatory remarks. People saying some of the dumbest things… People actually just being completely ridiculous or outright inappropriate and borderline immoral with some of the comments which have been made.
I see a bunch of people whining because they can’t place Strenuus on their ignore list, because apparently you can’t ignore mods… Or can you? Can you just tell yourself “oh I don’t agree with that guy” and keep scrolling?
Out of the very few people I’ve ever placed on ignore here (maybe like 2 people) Ive never felt like things would be horrible if I couldn’t actually make it so that their posts aren’t visible at all… Even when on ignore I still saw the “show ignored content” and sometimes my curiosity would still have me reading their posts, afterwards being like “oh yeah, this is why I ignore them”.
Further to my personal feelings…
It’s ultimately the decision of the administrative staff to determine the forum moderation team, and let’s not forget that it is a community led by a team of individuals which have at once cared about this place. I feel like there is a much better way to handle this than starting a thread publicly calling someone out with the intention of gaining enough support from the forum to convince the administrative staff. Like really as if your poll is the determining factor…
Strenuus’ posts may come across as pessimistic at times, and perhaps some of you feel like the way he disagrees with others’ opinions is done in a blunt or straightforward way, and I could understand how this would bother people. But I don’t believe Stenuus is intending to be mean towards anybody personally, and I don’t think that he’s posting with the intention of attacking anybody. I honestly don’t even think he’s posting with the intention of making others upset with what he says.
Realistically in his posting, he is breaking no rules. He could be the evil basketball hating villain of the message boards if he wants to be. His opinion, is his opinion. His difference in opinion on the subject of sports can’t hurt you, it’s his opinion, and not yours.
