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[sd_admin]

First an announcement: While modbot seemed like a good idea at the time, it's proved to be unpopular with members. From now on we'll be using it only for admin posts, so that they can be edited by all members of the mod team.


We know that some members have had issues with the community and the mod team, and felt like they couldn't bring them to our attention. Here is your chance. If you've got a question, concern or suggestion about Scans Daily, here's where you can post it.

This post will be linked to in our profile, and checked regularly by the mods. Comments won't be screened, so you can suggest amongst yourselves.

Comments

[skalja]

And I say to you what I said to Zoom: It is perfectly fair and natural to want to take care of yourself first and foremost, both physically and emotionally. What is not fair is to complain about a hypothetical harm that might in an extremely unlikely scenario happen to you at the expense of attention to actual, present harm that has already happened to other people. That's not taking care of yourself, that's being selfish.

[foxhack]

Selfish... perhaps.

But I spent many of my child years being bullied by people who abused the rules to their own benefit... and now I'm living in a country where that sort of behavior is the norm within people of power all across the board.

It just makes me feel tense and wary of saying something I shouldn't. And that's not something I enjoy.

[recognitions]

Right, because no one else in this community was ever bullied as a kid.

I know you're not saying that the mods should change the rules of the community just to accommodate your own unhappy childhood. So...what exactly are you saying?

[moneyless_jew]

Why not? They change to accommodate everyone else.

[recognitions]

You're just flinging around the baseless accusations today, aren't you?

[moneyless_jew]

You're not dealing with the question. What makes his issues with bullying and the comm's current atmosphere less valid than your issues or mine?

[recognitions]

The fact that...nobody in this comm is bullying him? What in the hell are you talking about.

[moneyless_jew]

Nobody's being bullied because you say so, then?

And what if somebody were to say that you or someone else had never been oppressed or insulted in an oppressive way around here? What makes your take right and his wrong?

[recognitions]

Okay, again, you could just point out where this has happened.

Man, this is just bizarre. You keep coming up with these hypotheticals and all they're doing is distracting from the topic at hand.

[moneyless_jew]

The topic at hand is the above poster's bullying issues vis a vis the new comm. You're saying, in effect, that he shouldn't complain because lots of people here have been bullied and his feelings aren't valid. Why aren't they valid? Or am I wrong? Are they valid?

[recognitions]

Bzzt, misread. We were talking about being bullied as a kid. Not seeing the connection with the community.

[moneyless_jew]

What he's talking about is how that experience relates to what's going on here. You immediately dismissed him by talking about how everybody gets bullied, get over it. Would you take that from anybody else talking about a personal issue from your own life or on the board?

[recognitions]

If I was trying to make my own personal issues a reason why everyone else should change things around to accommodate me, of course.

[moneyless_jew]

And you see no connection between that and saying that you can treat anyone however you want based on your own perception of events in a thread.

That is changing things to accommodate you, too.

[recognitions]

Yeaaaahhh, that never happened.

[foxhack]

Is that what you think I was trying to do?

... seriously?

[recognitions]

Man, I'm still not sure what you were saying. You said that you don't feel safe here and related it back to your government and being bullied as a kid. I'm just not sure what the community as a whole is supposed to do about that.

[foxhack]

I wanted to give you an answer to the best of my abilities, but...

Right, because no one else in this community was ever bullied as a kid.

I do not believe that replying with sarcasm right off the bat, when I'm trying to be serious about something, is the proper way to go about asking these things.

There is a time and a place. And it isn't now.

[recognitions]

Ahahahahaa you have to be kidding me. What, is there a funeral going on in this thread that I don't know about?

[foxhack]

... Um.

Well, not today, no.

Under the current rules, I could probably call you out on this, verbally, but I won't.

I'll just let that feeling of "Oh shit" sink in.

[recognitions]

I didn't know. I'm sorry about your dad.

[foxhack]

It's okay. It was just a poor choice of words on your part.

Apology accepted.

[mad]

Dude, I appreciate a lot of the comments you've made in this post, but this comment is out of line. Please stop.

[recognitions]

Ok. Sorry about that.

[kingrockwell]

Oh, dude. No no no no.