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[–]Comatoast 10 insightful - 5 fun10 insightful - 4 fun11 insightful - 5 fun -  (2 children)

I've personally never been in an online social atmosphere where the admin was as accessible as Magnora. Moot interacted, but it wasn't the same.

I've also never been part of an online social atmosphere where people were allowed to debate their worthiness of being there after being banned outside of maybe an appeal to the mods. Banned meant banned for whatever period of time, hands dusted. This wasn't an everyone's business thing, outside of chatter over people that actually used usernames or tripcodes. I've always hated Reddit, just followed GC over here because I had just stumbled upon it like a week and a half before the maelstrom of Reddit censorship took over. This place though? We're fucking spoiled.

I like that we're able to interact with the admin, but at the same time this seems to have just made his authority over the site seem a little too equal? He's done something great, created a spot for all of us to interact without the same levels of status quo, brainless criticism that you get in normiespheres. I know there's this whole big to-do about transparency now, but we're not owed that by default. I'm not going to walk into another woman's house and demand to use her lipstick, so why would I ask a site owner/admin to give me all the sweet deets on why he made a decision to ban someone from his own site? We're users here, some contributing more than others, making helpful suggestions and offers to help with whatever shit, and even modding out subs of their own. That said, we're still just users.

The people banned should appeal, and for the rest of us it's not really our business or decision to make. If they continue to ban evade, fuck their disrespectful shit. That's the epitome of asking for it.

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That was legitimately insightful. It's why you can't be friends with your subordinates, and it sucks.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Anonymous aliases are one of the biggest pros/cons of SaidIt. I have no problem using my real name.

M7 didn't build SaidIt on his own, not even on the coding side. This community is a team effort. WE've done something great. He brought forth a great vision and utilizing the Pyramid Of Debate is brilliant. That doesn't mean we should shut down all discussion about improving things further and just coast, adrift, without direction.

I'm not talking about full transparency on all things. I hope M7's real name is never exposed - if it is even just one person (ie. not Dread Pirate Roberts). I want to know why my friend /u/diogenesjunior was banned and/or if he can be restored. If DioJr is not safe here, then maybe I'm not safe here, and maybe everyone is not safe - so why bother building this community at all? This is an existential crisis worse than trolls.

Yes, the people banned should appeal, but there is no process for that. I'm asking for it. M7 can employ mine, others', or come up with his own ideas - or better: all of us collaborate. It just occurred to me, maybe M7 can set up a simple site on the side for dealing with this and/or other matters. He says SaidIt costs only $400/year to run. I'm quite certain that money could easily be raised, especially if he bothered to put the "donate" in the banner or something more prominent.

The disrespect is trivial compared to the problems, manipulations, and deception - and the sock puppets are much worse than ban evasions, especially considering bans may or may not be fair.