I honestly don't understand this. At no point in our interactions have you been anything other than ironic and dismissive. Did you ever entertain for even a moment that my criticisms had merit? Do you think uses on this forum should be able to post explicit 100% disprovable lies about another? Even if they are mod? I am being 100% sincere here. I have no fucking clue why not a single person on the mod team has even for a moment treated me with anything other than complete contempt for making, what I think, are pretty simple good faith criticisms. Enjoy your ever shrinking circle of members. Following in the proud tradition of every left group ever.

A perfect encapsulation of how seriously you have taken any criticism of the mods team

I decided to post this here, as it should be crystal fucking clear at this point that I have no trust of DMs with Mods, as so far they have only been used to lie and hide awful behavior. I wanted there to be a public record of this.

First, I still do not believe you read through this and the linked thread because you deleted this post almost immediately after I made it, citing reasons of "dragging out." A reason that is obviously false to anyone who had read it. Either you lied about reading it or lied about the reason you deleted it. Further, based on our DM interaction it is clear that you had no intention of ever operating in good faith as from moment-1 your interactions with me were dripping with disdain. You were far more interested in protected and hiding the bad behavior of another mod than you were spending a single second entertaining the idea that I might be correct. For these reasons I am responding to this here, and not in DMs, as I will be having no more private interactions with mods where they can be dishonest about what is said in them.

I made 3 specific allegations against Quartz of lying (1-3) above. (1) &(2) Are easily fucking checked by looking at the modlog of /main. Search my name and see what quartz claimed I said in my posts they deleted is 100% absolutely fucking false.

It is pretty fucking telling that you want to stick on asking about point (3), a point which I repeatedly told you was my most minor complaint. But so it is here for posterity, here is a screenshot from my DMs with quartz - https://ibb.co/gmgqV2J . In it I am pretty fucking explicit that plenty of the comments are fine, but I was upset only about the ones lying about me.

Again, to make our DMs public, you refuse to do the tiniest fucking work to check on my points (1) or (2), insisting to only talk about (3). I can only glean from this that you have absolutely 0 interest in rooting out toxic behavior from other mods, and just want to sweep things under the rug. Feel free to post our entire DM exchange if you feel like it.

At this point I have 0 faith that anyone on the mod team cares, or has the slightest interest in taking corrective action or even changing behavior in the future. However, I want to leave this as public information to other forum members.

I do not think I will be returning here.

This is not dragging out a personal beef. This us addressing specific new toxic behavior, specifically gaslighting from a mod. This is not about the original posts being deleted, it is about explicit lies told by a mod defending their behavior. Something that would be clear if you had bothered to read the post

This is again an inaccurate description of what happened in the thread. This is literal gas-lighting.

This is an inaccurate description of our interaction AND what I had posted in the now deleted thread. Feel free to post our DMs

I honestly wanted to ignore this whole thing as it really depressed me as yet another leftist space being consumed from within because of the most minor disagreements.

However, because I was tagged here, along with some of the other comments, I feel like I need to add my 2 cents.

First off, as of this moment, I do not believe anything I said at any point was inappropriate, especially in the context of a silly post about the Red Scare podcast. I was calm and respectful and serious until I was treated rudely. I did not ignore the OP's point, I did not even disagree that some (perhaps most) of the criticisms of vocal fry came from conscious or unconscious sexism. The only point at which I think anything I wrote could be described as inappropriate was sarcastic posts after I had already been responded to extremely rudely and lied to/about. Because this was a post about a stupid podcast, I did not think it merited trying to get any mods involved at all, especially since I believed then, as I do now, that anyone reading the thread would see context and I had no problem with that.

Furthermore, I was never given any reason why any of the posts rose to the level of needed to be deleted other than there were "reports." Reports of what, I was not told. To my mind these were probably report brigades by the same people making posts lying about what I had said in the comments. Even if this were the case, there are posts of mine that were deleted that under no circumstance could be described as "inappropriate." For example, the (I think polite and good faith) response I made analogizing to racists "hating" Jazz music - a post in which I explicitly stated that I could have phrased my previous question in a better way. To my mind there is nothing objectionable in here, other than the lack of 100% obsequious agreement with the mod who called me sexist to begin with.

I also would not have thought to describe the interaction I had with @quartz242 , despite the fact that I found it completely useless and insulting. However, as I feel their description of our interaction posted here is inaccurate I feel again I most put in my piece.

I did contact them, as I felt that deleted my comments while leaving up replies to me that lie about what I had said, falsely describing me (implicitly and/or explicitly) as a misogynist or a harasser, was entirely unfair and painted a pretty clear and inaccurate picture of me. I was explicit that leaving these comments up made them complicit in the lying smears, and quite honestly I felt gas-lit by the situation. I was essentially told that the comments were not going to be restored (fine, whatever, this was a post about Red Scare after all), but I said in that case the replies to me lying about me should be deleted as well. I did not ask for the entire post to be deleted, just the ones which, without context, painted me as a harasser. I feel as if this was pretty explicit on my part and I give @quartz242 complete permission to post quotes from our DMs if they wish.

Honestly, deleting the entire thread with the modlog reasoning that threads "devolved into misogyny" is worse in my point of view, as it turns the implicit argument that I am a misogynist into an explicit one.

Edit: I now see in quartz's other comments here they are explicitly lying about what I had said and done in the now deleted thread, claiming explicitly that I was harassing a marginalized person. This is entirely unacceptable.

Totally cool that all the comments here got deleted, but not the responses lying about why I said in them. Totally a cool thing to do.

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This is a serious question, without a trace of irony: Do you think it is possible to dislike vocal fry (in any person) without it being rooted in conscious or unconscious misogyny? Roughly speaking what percentage would you estimate is due to benign preference vs. some sort of misogyny? 50:50, 25:75, 5:95? If, for the sake of argument, mine is just benign preference, are you saying I should change my preference, or just not vocalize my preference?

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This will be totally awesome. It's gonna mean:

(A) QAnon people adding citations like "Hillary does mainline adrenachrome"

And

(B) The CIA adding citations like "Iraq does have WMD" or "There is no evidence this far right coup in the global south was backed by Langley "

Partisans 1941 was a pretty fun squad tactics game, and one of the few games that lets you play as Soviets in ww2. Only real game criticism is that it's too short

My wife used to be an adjunct professor of English lit at a wealthy private university in southern california, and used to teach this story.

All the students would say " of course I would leave Omelas." It's amazing how dumb you can be and still get an expensive education.