Why Current Events should come back

I think that MAL simply does not have the needed resources to moderate its forums, so the suggestion seems rather unreasonable to me. The club works well because few people post and that I am usually here to actively moderate it by addressing misleading posts and various kinds of propaganda.

Just have a look at this thread (deleted thread, but there are obvious ways to access it, and moderators should still be able to see it):

https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2157843

If a thread posted in Anime Discussion containing countless violations could reach five pages despite several reports and people @ ing directly moderators, it clearly shows that reopening a board dedicated to controversial topics would be completely unmanageable.

I think if people stopped being so sensitive and moderation would be reserved for actual harmful cases such as gore spam or when things get outright illegal (like doxing, actual threats, phishing attempts, etc.), it would more than work. Before those "controversial" rules were even set up and before there have been some people vocally complaining about the opinions of other users, discussing "controversial" topics was completely manageable. After all, no one forces you to read or interact with a posting you don't agree with
I'll give you credit though that your club has exceeded my initial expectations by far


It was a thread asking about why there seemed to be a tendency that male users would like to watch pairings with two female characters and female users pairings of two persons of the opposite sex/gender as well

@Noboru To be fair I don't remember the thread that well but I don't get why it was banned. Was the reply section filled with heinous responses or what?

I think if people stopped being so sensitive and moderation would be reserved for actual harmful cases such as gore spam or when things get outright illegal (like doxing, actual threats, phishing attempts, etc.), it would more than work. Before those "controversial" rules were even set up and before there have been some people vocally complaining about the opinions of other users, discussing "controversial" topics was completely manageable. After all, no one forces you to read or interact with a posting you don't agree with
I'll give you credit though that your club has exceeded my initial expectations by far


It was a thread asking about why there seemed to be a tendency that male users would like to watch pairings with two female characters and female users pairings of two persons of the opposite sex/gender as well

Oh, it was the BL/GL thread

How did it derail?? I thought it was common knowledge BL has a mostly female fanbase and GL male fanbase

Oh, it was the BL/GL thread

How did it derail?? I thought it was common knowledge BL has a mostly female fanbase and GL male fanbase

@DigiCat Instead of explaining it with words, I'll explain it with a single image.



Yes, this was that same thread meant purely to discuss why people like men like yuri and women like yaoi, and this was how it all started going downhill. All at a record breaking pace of derailing on the first page. It became preference and identity bashing... so basically 4chan. And the mods sat on their hands when it was reported a bunch of times, so I personally pinged the lead admin to finally get the thread euthanized. God I hate this site.

not a good idea anymore since this site is full of right wingers ever since donald trump won

@deg I'd say something to rebut that, but I literally used the word "confederate brain" to describe people who actively derailed a yuri/yaoi thread into a full on hate speech thread, so... yeah, you're honestly correct.

not a good idea anymore since this site is full of right wingers ever since donald trump won

Counter point, allowing current events scares away advertisers, someone has to pay for those server costs.

@ACasualViewer

So censoring all interesting discussions is the solution?

@Daviljoe193 mal is called 4chan lite for a reason

@deg
Youre the only one that calls it that lol



Advertisers usually don't pull out of large websites unless on rare occasion if it gets widespread negative mainstream media attention, just they at most dont jump in for certain pages on a site by scanning words on the page though im not sure how MALs ad system works but it is a crappy one. MALs advertisers are mainly tabloids and other scammy article sites that are just ads themselves and Temu is what I get and they arent the kind of advertisers that care about any image. MAL also has had ads by a religious group designated by the SPLC as a hate group. They also had BetterHelp advertising which has been exposed as a scam. So you shouldnt even think about advertisers because chances are they arent going anywhere and they are actually as bad or worse than the users because they clearly dont vet the ads well.

not a good idea anymore since this site is full of right wingers ever since donald trump won

@deg
Youre the only one that calls it that lol



Advertisers usually don't pull out of large websites unless on rare occasion if it gets widespread negative mainstream media attention, just they at most dont jump in for certain pages on a site by scanning words on the page though im not sure how MALs ad system works but it is a crappy one. MALs advertisers are mainly tabloids and other scammy article sites that are just ads themselves and Temu is what I get and they arent the kind of advertisers that care about any image. MAL also has had ads by a religious group designated by the SPLC as a hate group. They also had BetterHelp advertising which has been exposed as a scam. So you shouldnt even think about advertisers because chances are they arent going anywhere and they are actually as bad or worse than the users because they clearly dont vet the ads well.

@traed I do agree with you for the most part but I understand the need to be safer than sorry in mal's case. Although I do find this whole thing kind of funny since 90% of the ads are just gacha games.

@deg Being right-wing (or left-wing) isn't inherently bad by itself, it's just when people start to get indoctrinated and become far right and far left that things become an issue. I'm just saying it's pretty disingenuous to say that a political forum becomes bad just because people that you disagree with politically use it and then blaming it on a politician. We should be fighting against echo-chamber thought not encouraging it.

One of the more recently banned users got banned because they were calling me a fascist for no good reason, basically just using it as a buzz word. Just to give one example of it not being all "right-wingers."

https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2146331

@WaffleMaster89 im talking about the amount here right wingers far outnumbers left wingers on this site from my observation being so active here

lol did you get qpr banned? damn i thought the current events club allows heated arguments also qpr is a moderate like meusnier

scratch that if qpr is banned then he can never delete his account so i guess he deleted his account himself since i remember him being too paranoid about his privacy

@deg Making up serious lies like that shouldn't be tolerated. I'm all for heated arguments and not reporting people for the slightest provocations but accusing someone of being in a dangerous and radicial ideology without any proof whatsoever goes way beyond the scope of a "heated argument."

@WaffleMaster89 dude youre a trump voter so you know what radical is

@deg So instead of actually responding to my points you just get mad and say "your a trump voter." Shows how mature you are. I'm not going to get into petty fights with you deg either respond to what I am saying or don't bother speaking at all.

Also, I'm not sure if this will really reach you, but if you label everyone you don't like as a radical, it really shows how radical you are.

@WaffleMaster89 well you did implied you reported QPR so what else you want me to say?

anyway politics is a power struggle so if one side becomes radical the other side must become radical too may the greater radicals win

but you cannot prove my beliefs are radical

@deg You made a comment that had nothing to do with the topic at hand, your just still mad that I said something you don't like and brought it into the discussion for no reason.

Sounds like the thinking of an extremist.

@WaffleMaster89 no since its just funny you acting you do not know what radical means when you voted for trump

and trump is an extremist more than me for sure so why support him?

if i can vote there i will vote for biden so is that extremist?

@deg Please explain to me how I am a radical then, because your only reason seems to be because I said I am going to vote for a politician and not because of the political beliefs I hold.

@WaffleMaster89

its just funny you claim im radical but i will vote for biden if ever and youre not a radical but you will vote for trump, the consequences of votes matters here imo

@deg Claiming a moderate is a radical is pretty radical, you clearly don't know enough about my political beliefs.

@WaffleMaster89 does not matter who you vote for is what matters like i said

@deg Voting for person deg doesn't like makes you an extremist. Also, your political beliefs definitely do matter when determining whether someone is a radical.

@WaffleMaster89 dude who you vote will affect your society heck its usa so they will affect the world

@deg I never said it doesn't.

@WaffleMaster89 and my point is your political beliefs does not matter what matters is who you vote for

if youre enabling a radical like trump then ok lots of people will suffer because of your vote

@deg So all you see is the vote and not the reasoning behind the vote. So essentially your politically illiterate.

@WaffleMaster89 well you did implied you reported QPR so what else you want me to say?

anyway politics is a power struggle so if one side becomes radical the other side must become radical too may the greater radicals win

but you cannot prove my beliefs are radical