Why was Don Salieri banned?

[ERYFKRAD]

and sometimes you'll discover that some retard who you've had your eye on for a while really isn't worth keeping around anymore when you see him chimping out in such threads. Not because you specifically want to defend the dev's feelings, but because it just helps you arrive at the realization that "OK wow, now that I've had time to think about it, this guy really is an asshole. Fuck him".

Goddammit dude.

 

[Twiglard]

He called me a mutt, but I do not think that's ground for a banning. I prefer to think of myself as a Fine Blend of the Human Races

He was pretty edgy, Anti-Semitic, racist and every single post of him contains at least one ethnic slur but did he break any Codex official rule?

Edgy, Anti-Semitic, racist, every post has at least one ethnic slur?
I love this post, because it perfectly encapsulates the Codex.
In 99% of the internet, everything before the "but" would already answer the question.
Here in Glorious Codexia, that just means a pretty average poster.
Now, if you were an outsider, this would make you feel repelled by the Codex.
But it is the fact we can be "Edgy, Anti-Semitic, racists whose every post has at least one ethnic slur" which shows why the Codex is great.
RPGCodex: Where you can be you.

Look at Don Salieri's post history. I can understand the reasoning you're using here when applied in The Wall's case but this guy's posts didn't have any content beyond randomly sperging against niggers and kikes outside GD.

 

[BanEvader]

As for the videos, this is another case of mistaking happenstance for conspiracy.

Nothing to see here goyim: The Post.

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

He called me a mutt, but I do not think that's ground for a banning. I prefer to think of myself as a Fine Blend of the Human Races

He was pretty edgy, Anti-Semitic, racist and every single post of him contains at least one ethnic slur but did he break any Codex official rule?

Edgy, Anti-Semitic, racist, every post has at least one ethnic slur?
I love this post, because it perfectly encapsulates the Codex.
In 99% of the internet, everything before the "but" would already answer the question.
Here in Glorious Codexia, that just means a pretty average poster.
Now, if you were an outsider, this would make you feel repelled by the Codex.
But it is the fact we can be "Edgy, Anti-Semitic, racists whose every post has at least one ethnic slur" which shows why the Codex is great.
RPGCodex: Where you can be you.

Look at Don Salieri's post history. I can understand the reasoning you're using here when applied in The Wall's case but this guy's posts didn't have any content beyond randomly sperging against niggers and kikes outside GD.

who gives a fuck put him on ignore if it hurts your limp wrist so much

 

[HeroMarine]

I miss Don Salieri.

 

[Utfärd]

Good guy. Kike gon kike. This is what you wanted.

 

[agris]

As for the videos, this is another case of mistaking happenstance for conspiracy. I subscribe to the YouTube channel of every turn-based RPG I find and post every video that shows up on my feed, which takes zero effort on my part. Not my fault Firaxis produce so many videos. Clearly, seeing threads for games they don't like get bumped offends some people, but I don't have to accept that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ You should know that in general, my activity in gaming threads doesn't represent my "agenda" as a news poster. That's what the front page is for.

"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence"
- words I should remember, even if approximate

There's a lot to unpack here.

1. No one ever said you are working too hard spamming dead threads with marketing content. It's that they're dead, because the community isn't interested in them, and you continue to keep them alive with rote copypasta of marketing material. Just because it's easy for you to do doesn't mean you should do it. (This goes for banning people too) Firaxis isn't holding a gun to Netanyahu's head threatening to pull the trigger if you don't dump their content into that zombie thread. You have agency, you're deciding to do that.
2. Being offended that threads are getting bumped that they don't like is literally some mod's criteria for moving and deleting posts.
3. "seeing threads for games they don't like get bumped offends some people" is really missing the point. The point is: no one is interested in it, you're providing a ventilator and life support for something no one wants. It's not like the BG3 thread where you're dropping video turds on the shit fire and they're being voraciously consumed. The interest is not there, why keep pushing it? Because it's easy? GOTO 1.

Maybe I'm wrong about the whole protecting your privileged access thing, see the quote above. Still, it doesn't seem like you have the right judgment to be able to ban people. You seem disinterested in the reasons why some may have issue with what appears to be arbitrary and capricious decision making that results in less voices bringing their perspectives to the table. Yes, that means there's going to be a lot of racism and hate, but the precedent you're setting can be used by others to justify more censorship.

The forum rules are fine, we ban illegal content, we don't need you arbitrarily banning people though.

Also, anime avatar users should get the gas. That includes you ElectricOtter

Have a nice day,
agris

 

[ElectricOtter]

we don't need you arbitrarily banning people though

Also, anime avatar users should get the gas

how 2 be a retard that owned himself any % speedrun :333

 

[Melcar]

The Codex is going down the anal drain.

 

[procrastinator]

The Codex is going down the anal drain.

 

[LostHisMarbles]

Over a decade ago by now, am playing LOTR. Am just doing some festival shit outside Bree and i see a toon named "Don Salieri"
Instantly i'm thinking of cheesy 90s porn, right? Then i see the fucking kinship's name..:
"Dunedain Mature Productions"

Dunno if it's the same 'Don Salieri' or a coincidence, but i saw the name here and smiled. If he comes back i'll ask him.

 

[Infinitron]

"seeing threads for games they don't like get bumped offends some people" is really missing the point. The point is: no one is interested in it

I want you to think very carefully about why it would be a bad idea for "no one is interested in it" to be the criteria for whether people should be posting in a thread on RPG Codex!

In my view, this is a forum for aggregating turn-based RPG information, big and small. Nothing is too minor. If we don't post it, who will?

you're providing a ventilator and life support for something no one wants.

I think this is a twisted understanding of the point of posting in a forum. "Providing life support?" Good god man, why should anybody even be thinking about that? I keep things very simple: if it's RPG news, you can post it on the Codex.

 

[Tacgnol]

I do have my disagreements with Infinitron, and I disagreed with The Wall being banned as I generally found him entertaining and fairly insightful at times (nor do I think Smejki particularly worthy of defence).

That said, I don't think I've actually seen Don Salieri do anything but shit post.

 

[Alex]

He called me a mutt, but I do not think that's ground for a banning. I prefer to think of myself as a Fine Blend of the Human Races

He was pretty edgy, Anti-Semitic, racist and every single post of him contains at least one ethnic slur but did he break any Codex official rule?

Edgy, Anti-Semitic, racist, every post has at least one ethnic slur?
I love this post, because it perfectly encapsulates the Codex.
In 99% of the internet, everything before the "but" would already answer the question.
Here in Glorious Codexia, that just means a pretty average poster.
Now, if you were an outsider, this would make you feel repelled by the Codex.
But it is the fact we can be "Edgy, Anti-Semitic, racists whose every post has at least one ethnic slur" which shows why the Codex is great.
RPGCodex: Where you can be you.

Look at Don Salieri's post history. I can understand the reasoning you're using here when applied in The Wall's case but this guy's posts didn't have any content beyond randomly sperging against niggers and kikes outside GD.

And this is supposed to be bad now?

 

[Melcar]

He called me a mutt, but I do not think that's ground for a banning. I prefer to think of myself as a Fine Blend of the Human Races

He was pretty edgy, Anti-Semitic, racist and every single post of him contains at least one ethnic slur but did he break any Codex official rule?

Edgy, Anti-Semitic, racist, every post has at least one ethnic slur?
I love this post, because it perfectly encapsulates the Codex.
In 99% of the internet, everything before the "but" would already answer the question.
Here in Glorious Codexia, that just means a pretty average poster.
Now, if you were an outsider, this would make you feel repelled by the Codex.
But it is the fact we can be "Edgy, Anti-Semitic, racists whose every post has at least one ethnic slur" which shows why the Codex is great.
RPGCodex: Where you can be you.

Look at Don Salieri's post history. I can understand the reasoning you're using here when applied in The Wall's case but this guy's posts didn't have any content beyond randomly sperging against niggers and kikes outside GD.

And this is supposed to be bad now?

We all need certified and approved content Bro. It's all specified in the new manual. Page 565.

 

[Saduj]

The surest way to get banned has always been to shitpost in gaming forums, particularly general RPG. The moderators are much less aggressive about policing this stuff than they were years ago, causing confusion among newfags when some humorless edgelord manages to draw their attention.

 

[HeroMarine]

humorless

 

[d1r]

I appreciate that, I think infinitron does himself a disservice by not actually engaging in these questions. He just mashed buttons and goes back to posting marvel update videos.

I actually do appreciate the shit out of what he does, but his tendency to shill things that the community has no prolonged interest in *combined* with an apparent self-interested motivation in banning some posters who contribute to the free flow of ideas here… idk man, the codex is kinda unique for 2022. I hate to see it degraded beyond what just the influx of new users do to it.

I don't engage because there's not much to say. I don't really care about devs posting here as such, and contrary to your belief I rarely interact with them. However, I do read their posts when they choose to post here, and sometimes you'll discover that some retard who you've had your eye on for a while really isn't worth keeping around anymore when you see him chimping out in such threads. Not because you specifically want to defend the dev's feelings, but because it just helps you arrive at the realization that "OK wow, now that I've had time to think about it, this guy really is an asshole. Fuck him".

How much time does FedoraMaster have left then?

 

[LostHisMarbles]

Infinitron assuming you can elaborate publicly, how come you don't care about developers posting here?
Would have thought it was the opposite.

(which btw i agree with as it muddies the waters; especially with smaller devs coming here to shill their game, understandable as it may be. You can't --easily-- have a forum where harsh critique and official PR hype coexist within the very same page)

 

[Gastrick]

I wonder whether he is smart enough to know, that you can just create an alt after being banned and continue posting.

 

[Blaine]

This is 100% correct of anyone gaming forum rules for their own amusement or agenda. It also applies to administrators. In the case of the Codex, political radicals working inside of the industry have besieged our hobby, and are destroying it.

I'm sorry to be the one to have to tell you this, but it has already been destroyed. The horse is long since out of the barn on that count.

There is no longer any point in fighting the good fight, because there's nothing left to fight for. There are occasional embers of incline that shine through the ashes from time to time, but they grow fewer by the year.

Personally, I haven't really played a computer game (or any kind of game) in a month or more, other than a little Demon's Tilt (a pinball game). I've spent my free time hiking, fishing, kayaking, and harvesting. When I do fire up a game, it will likely be a game that was developed years or decades ago.

 

[Fedora Master]

Again: Infinitron should dump his news crap in the News forum, not GRPG. Let the "real" forum decide via popular vote what gets bumped and what dies in silence. He's currently spite-bumping the Marvel thread - which doesn't belong in GRPG in the first place, any more than a thread about XCOM - because people specifically told him not to.

 

[†††]

Infinitron? more like Shill-a-ton

 

[Mortmal]

This is 100% correct of anyone gaming forum rules for their own amusement or agenda. It also applies to administrators. In the case of the Codex, political radicals working inside of the industry have besieged our hobby, and are destroying it.

I'm sorry to be the one to have to tell you this, but it has already been destroyed. The horse is long since out of the barn on that count.

There is no longer any point in fighting the good fight, because there's nothing left to fight for. There are occasional embers of incline that shine through the ashes from time to time, but they grow fewer by the year.

Personally, I haven't really played a computer game (or any kind of game) in a month or more, other than a little Demon's Tilt (a pinball game). I've spent my free time hiking, fishing, kayaking, and harvesting. When I do fire up a game, it will likely be a game that was developed years or decades ago.

Virtual tabletops if you want to play any real RPG , there's too few releases once every few years. Also look on rpgwatch news page, it's ton worse than here.

 

[Humbaba]

I figured he was someone's troll alt and ignored him basically immediately. You guys think he was a unique poster?