Here is a post I recently wrote about a laughable strike given to Floral.
If I'm understanding this correctly, Floral has been given a strike for a sentence in a post that made a "negative generalisation". The rules say no "negative generalisations" can be made about either trans people or GC feminists.
The subject of this sentence was the monitors. This is a term used hereabouts for a small group of extreme Woke activists (some of whom are trans, some of whom are not trans) who keep up a constant monitoring of FWR for perceived wrongthink. They organise to report such instances to the mod team. We know this to be true because not only do they boast about it on Twitter, they also write blogs about it.
I am, therefore, at a loss as to why a strike has been issued. I can only think of two possible scenarios:
A: one or more members of the mod team are unable to identify the subject of a sentence written in English.
B: the monitors now form a third group about whom negative generalisations are strikeable offences on FWR but the rules have not been updated to reflect this.
Oh, there's a third!
C: we're in the Upside Down.
MNHQ - what on earth is going on?! This is a thread about the safeguarding of children on a parenting website! Sort it out!
It then transpired that the mods had no idea to whom "the monitors" referred and had fucked up. So I said:
Without wishing to be ungracious, Hebe, I am going to have to say that if you don't recognise or understand the common lingo used on your boards, how can you successfully moderate them?
I think the team does need some remedial work in this regard - Justine keeps telling us how much resource you expend on this part of the site so it's somewhat concerning when things you say illustrate that you're still entirely unaware of the dynamics, the external players involved and the various nicknames and slang terms frequently used.
Sorry - but y'know. Please take this on board. It's knackering, all this having to have endless threads pointing out the basics.
Justine - this isn't an isolated incident. It's happening on this board every single bloody day. Why else do you think threads like this one show up over and over again? And why else do you think you get such a poor response when you show up and act as though the same ground hasn't been repeatedly trodden? At some point, surely, you're going to have accept there is an actual issue here. You don't honestly see us as a load of feral bigots whose views about child protection and women's rights are beyond the pale, do you?
Or do you?