Doom community happenings

I thought she used to be ok. I've noticed when people elevate their positions in communities, some take it upon themselves, think they are very important and will push whatever ideologies happen to be in their mind. I don't take seriously the "why aren't more women in gaming". It's overplayed by now. Most women were simply not interested for certain hobbies. It had nothing to do with being a woman. You know, harassment or ridicule would happen to male nerds back in the 80s and that didn't prevent a lot of them to continue focusing on their special interests. And I am not too focused to see specifically women in our communities (I mean I don't care about not meeting the numbers). If you like Doom and can participate in the community then it's fine, I am not going to look at you differently because you are a woman. Now, since the internet has exploded and people will write nasty comments especially during the cultural wars where people (including myself) will recognize SJWism, that's normal. But some ideologues would start crying toxic spaces that need to be cleaned up. You know, the communities became more toxic when these ideologues came and tried to control them. They weren't truly toxic before. You had few flamewars and maybe one thinks of some things in games or from gamers that would be too edgy, but the community was going on and nobody bothered except from micro flamewars (for other things than edginess). It's only when Gamergate happened that we have phenomena that are like civil war. The schism in the gaming community, that was big and couldn't have happened back in 90s when the community was smaller and nobody cared in the outside world. Now, it's mainstream and what happens? These ideologues come and scream sexism/racism and push scenarios of the community being toxic and need to clean up, bringing reaction and we have that shit (accelerated by the social media and mainstream news who want to push this feminist agenda). Effectively trying to prove their point "See, I told ya!!!! I just had an opinion and someone called me a feminazi" to perpetuate the cycle of being relevant. They open the pandora's box, I sometimes even wish semi-ironically the community was more exclusive (why is exclusivity bad? shouldn't one protect their own space from invaders?) even though it truly was never exclusive as if you could do a Doom map or play Doom or discuss your love of the game, it didn't matter what was your race or gender. Now, the focus is pushed there pretending to be fighting the evils of gamers, so what do you expect?

Lol a lot of simping in those replies but I agree, those comments are quite disgusting

Fuck cliques and the weak-spined people who suck up to them. I never liked people who act differently because they are hanging around with some person or group since I was kid. Either be yourself, or go into the grinder.

40oz You're forgetting the whole plagiarism that Tormentor has done, and his clickbait series of farewell notes where he didn't leave the community in the end, Torm has a record of lying, and now he's making a concentration camp themed map, it's like he's begging for controversy at this point.

I haven't seen the video (and can't, since it's private now) but what do you have to do with BoA?

I know this thread is really for drama but I'm going to make a positive post, because I see there's been a number of megarad developments since I disappeared (I could make a new thread but my dumb observations don't seem quite important enough for that)

Woof! went from a useless project taking precious time away from Crispy development to being TOTALLY AWESOME -- there was room in the port space for a more user-friendly, up-to-date prBoom and now we have one, with demo compatibility and complevels and everything.
DEHEXTRA has been implemented more widely and is TOTALLY AWESOME! (I think my compilation vanity project was the first WAD to use it, for what that's worth)
A new, cross port mapping standard has appeared, MBF21, and it's TOTALLY AWESOME!
DECOHACK allows user-friendly, cross platform DEHACKED development using nothing but a text editor and it's TOTALLY AWESOME! Nothing against WHackED4 of course but as a Linux user having to boot up a virtual machine just to update a DEH was a pain.

I'm really happy to see that some development has been happening in the vanilla/demo-compatible space that enlarges the options available to mappers AND allows the players to choose what port they wanna use instead of locking them in to eg. GZDoom or Eternity. Actually speaking of and as a long-time Eternity fan, these new developments have really eaten its lunch -- advanced mapping and gameplay options plus demo comp was what Eternity offered and, well, given the slow pace of dev, I think it's now RIP Eternity. sad

I can respect that.

To elaborate more, it's specifically rd that we should compliment on doing the act in good faith. Also from reading the thread I reckon only admins can set a custom title, but mods can only remove them but not set a new one. Not necessarily true but this is my theory.

To those who think this only happened because both moderator and the person affected were transgendered women, I think what's more is that this can set the precedent of ugly custom titles being removed for all members, and this is what I feel is more important, than the bias we might read into here. I think this evolution can happen because a lot of public seems to agree the title was unwarranted, and that times changed for the better if no new ones like this are issued anymore (whether that actually true or not, the public opinion here is clear).

40oz, she is not sure if she can act upon it without permission, because apparently only admin can set a new custom title. So by removing it she undoes what an admin has done, if my theory is correct. Undoing what admin has done en masse can be anticipated to be problematic. For now I am presuming mods can only remove custom title but can't assign it.

She also said she will petition the admins to remove more such titles. Maybe they can give her a clear pass to remove all of them.

Hint: this would also be consistent with their disdain for doomer boards because some members do have custom titles here xD

xeepeep, grow a pair and be an asshole in real-life. Of course you'll get in prison a few times, but some consciously choose that career path and are not afraid of it.

And the gift finally gave. On Doomworld,:
Third Member: And that's why you always keep a quality control for moderators, i received 2 Rudeness points by now, one justified and accepted, other because of i was "Mean" for some reason, what's this ¿the my little pony forum?
rd: This is not the place to opportunistically sneak in unrelated grievances about whatever minor infractions you got but disagree with. Comparing these is trivializing the OP's concerns, which current staff really care about.

The fuck with rd having only half-brain which enables her to realize mockery custom titles are bad, but doesn't enable her to realize that opportunistic moderation is equally bad as well. I allocate rd 2 rudeness points per this exchange. I thus not sorry for calling her a whore and a bitch earlier in another thread. It's too early to acquit this character, they are only right in some things but wrong in a whole lot of others.

To clarify: while custom title sticking around for years is surely a worse thing, a minor misfortune cannot be ignored just because a greater one exists, in the same way a criminal is not acquitted of a petty crime because more serious crimes are done by other people. Since that Third Member (it's not their actual nickname at all, I just used it to signify it's neither OP nor a mod I mentioned earlier) also did compliment OP, his opinion is not in any way rude. In real-life there are ways to appeal the court decisions, yet somehow this doesn't translate to a fucking moderation. Play your little government all the hell you want, Doomworld, but you are missing quite a lot of jurisprudence study.

Also, forums where you can't post off-topic at all deserve to die.

If people backed out of DW already, this shit wouldn't have existed. But it does, because some people won't go to a better place, and some who want to do so still stay there because it's the only doom place where they have an account on, and they want to stay in touch with the good people there. Monopoly abuse.