So this complete mess up of a website got even more problematic, and at the worst time too. I'll be including some quotes from the moderator form posts and my opinions on their overall statements on things.
"Staff have been discussing how to address the community needs in relation to the BLM movement for the past week. We didn’t wish to make an insincere statement just to jump on the bandwagon."- tess, june 14 2020.
this wasn't the right way to go about it in my opinio. I feel like they should've stated their thoughts and their opinions sooner. the movement isn't a fucking bandwagon. God.
"Forum threads with the sole purpose of ranting or venting, even if about people or events in real life, or threads created only to discuss a negative topic (example: disliking a band). Staff maintains the Comfort Corner thread as the only exception to this rule. If you need more support please reach out to resources such as family, friends, counselors, or mental health professionals. “Vent art” is allowed as long as it follows all of our other rules and the topic of the vent is not CS or CS users." - Simon Aug 24th, 2020.
I feel like this rule is not called for. the internet is about expressing ourselves and if we are feeling down we often seek help online. Plus, the comfort corner isn't that great it's too positve like when someone said their cat died someone was like "their in a better place now don't worry." like that's gonna make them feel better when it Won't. I don't know man I feel like people should just be allowed vent.
“Anti-” statements in user profiles or as a thread topic. Statements may break this rule even if they do not include the prefix “anti-” if they are intended to be negative. Please express your interests in a positive manner." - Simon, 24th of august 2020
i have something against this again, they really want to seem like their websites clean when really the mods are terrible.
"Due to the nature of such conversations, we do not allow debates about real world topics (especially of a political nature). However, discussion threads for support and education are allowed in a limited capacity about such topics. These should be created in the Adults Discussion forum. Such topics will be moderated closely and if the discussion is deemed too inflammatory or trends toward debate the topic may be closed.Your profile should not contain information about your political affiliation, support of political candidates, or stance on divisive political issues such as abortion or firearms that have no relevance to Chicken Smoothie. Your own gender identity, sexual orientation, or religious affiliation and broad statements supporting human rights (such as stating Black lives matter) are exempt from this. Please be aware that some statements (such as All Lives Matter) are inherently anti-human rights and will be moderated accordingly. Oekaki drawings may contain political or religious themes in non-editable boards only with no discussion of those themes on the Oekaki thread. Depictions of the Confederate flag are not allowed."- Simon, 24th of August 2020
this rule only came around after the ACAB movement. can you see where this is going? this isn't political anymore. This is peoples lives. They still treat aborttion and the blm movement like it's all political when it's not.
"Innocent images and content from media that contains elements that are not child-friendly are acceptable as long as the media is mainstream and widely known (example: Game of Thrones). Content from lesser-known media may be moderated more heavily. Content from media where adult content is the main/sole focus is not allowed." - Simon, 24th august 2020.
wow.. this is basically saying "mods, monitor everyone 24/7 and make sure all images are good and if you don't recognise where it's from it's bad" basically if it's not mainstream, your gone.
I'll make more rants later,, I'm kinda done with the websites bs right now.
