Tough topic, but I feel that a woman should have the right to abort as it is her body.
Here’s your chance to agree with Dwalk31, everyone. Enjoy it while it lasts.
Methodical Management
is a better man than me.
If I were the owner of a forum hosting this discussion, I’d incinerate the servers and redeploy the bandwidth charges to a vacation in the Maldives.
Granted, for all anyone knows, I could be in the Maldives
right now, and I’ve been subjected to accusations to that effect ever since we first began running ads and donating the revenue to charities in 2006.
Thank you for at least acknowledging that I would have that
right.
I’m also appreciative of the empathy shown towards those who are expected to insert themselves between disputants in situations such as this to absorb and deflect toxicity to minimize end users’ exposure. As you might imagine, people who perform this type of work are routinely subjected to lobbying, abuse, threats, and harassment.
The problem is, you can sell or shut down a website to opt out of some unpleasant discussions, but opting out of
oppression is far more difficult. It's not a fun time to moderate a platform, but it's a very important time to
own one, so that its policies need not align with those of big businesses, which may be providing travel and relocation perks but are not, by and large, owning up to their role in financing and enabling these zealots to evade taxes and regulatory burdens.
I happen to know some people in top corporate community management roles right now who are really going through it, partly because the conversations can be so difficult and toxic, but also because they are, in some cases, being forced to accept an extremely biased framing of “neutrality” that essentially amounts to “let’s not take sides on matters of fundamental human rights.”
We have the “luxury” of rejecting that premise.
Some community managers/platform holders attempt to sidestep all of this by prohibiting the discussion of politics in general. These tend to be White cishet men.
We reject this premise, too, and on similar grounds.
We’re a sports-oriented community, so let’s say that we’re all having a conversation about high school basketball. It is fundamentally unjust to act as though, when most of us talk about high school basketball, we’re not talking about anything political - but when a trans woman explains why she’s
not allowed to play high school basketball,
that is political.
Neutrality, in this context, is not the absence of bias. It is a bias in favor of an unjust status quo.
If they are to mean anything at all, “diversity” and “inclusion” cannot be value-neutral.
I don’t agree with your politics but where’s the admin in all this? Insults/name calling/threatening posts are still left standing, a thread he follows very closely too.
1. We have an active staff of over a dozen people and multiple administrators. Referring to me as “the admin” is an insult to our other administrators and moderators, as well as Nelson C, who originally founded and named NikeTalk.
2. I hate to break it to you, but I’m not on NikeTalk 24 hours per day, let alone
in this thread 24 hours per day. If you go back through the last few pages, you’ll see that dblplay expressed as desire to avoid “another warning.”
I performed a moderation pass of this thread earlier this afternoon, but I then had appointments/meetings to attend.
This is why we advise members to use the report feature in these situations, as it generates a report accessible to the entire moderation team. We cannot read every post added to the forums in a given day, due to our community’s size, but we can and do read every single report that comes in.
If you encounter something that you suspect to be in violation of our forum rules, submitting a report to our team is vastly more helpful than doing absolutely nothing and then complaining after the fact.
NikeTalk was founded on the premise that it’s better to light a candle than curse the darkness. Everyone can play a role in making our community better.
