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At least it's not meant to be a rant, when I started typing.
If this belongs in MPSIMS, I don't object to it being moved there.
I have known for well over a year now that the moderators at RPG.net are actual fascists. I mean, that they have rules that basically amount to them being able to ban anyone they want for whatever they want and that they have a private forum where they suck each others' dicks about it. Possibly literally.
I would ask and not rhetorically who here has not (yet) been banned from the Big Purple cesspool (it's technically a matter of public record that I collected my "walking papers for life" from RPG.net in October of '15 for an opinion I expressed in a private message when the person I was having the "private" conversation with tattled to the mods: yes, seriously). The closest thing to an "occasion" for me bringing this up now is it's coming up on the one year anniversary of my ban. I've appealed it politely every few months, but I think I know for a fact that there appeals email account goes directly to a printer, which then prints directly into a shredder.
I am starting to see that there are essentially three kinds of TTRPG enthusiasts online. The 30% who have already been (permanently) banned from the Big Purple, the 30% who will be (permanently) banned eventually, they just don't know it yet, the 20% who don't bother posting there for a variety of reasons, such as that they'll just get banned if they say anything the brownshirts don't agree with, and the 20% who are capable of toeing the line and virtue-signalling correctly 100% of the time. That last 20% can swim in the big purple cesspool forever for all I care.
But what I do wonder is...how long can a system built entirely and openly on fascism hold? How long can RPG.net continue to be an authoritarian oligarchy completely high on a fucked up power trip before there is some kind of uprising or diaspora or fucking something?
And how does one have a conversation with the site's nominal and actual OWNER, Shannon Applecline about this or about literally anything that isn't giving him advertising dollars for banner impressions?