briskpuma23 said:I have zero interest in laws that turn citizens into informants.
This is a forum. My job, as a user, is to shut down someone using hate speech to win an argument and, if I see fit, report them to the admins. Dragging the police into all of this is just pathetic.
Everything is totally doable—the wins, the tactics, the sheer satisfaction of it all—as long as you haven't been permabanned yet. 😬
...but how exactly are you going to win an argument by reporting someone to the admins?
And honestly, I don't see any real difference between reporting a post to the police or reporting it to the mods/admins; the gap is tiny and basically irrelevant.
To me, it feels like there’s more "police" energy happening here... and everything that might follow, which feels more like a competition than an actual desire for free speech.
Seriously though, don't go running to the cops; we have our own institutions right here. It's just like when the cops start nitpicking and whining... don't go reporting them to your District Attorneys; report them to us instead!
The absolute worst thing you can do isn't just being a whiner and chasing some neurotic version of justice; it's being a whiner toward moderators who are out here fighting for free speech—well, at least within their own monopoly on interpreting what free speech means.
It sounds like one of those ultimate moderator catchphrases of the year, something like "we won't allow that kind of thing on this forum."
All that's missing is the dramatic opening line for the trial... "you know what you did, and if you don't know, well, everyone knows you know why you're guilty." 🧐
That's why people click those little warning triangles you see on road signs; because with every single click, you're basically offloading a piece of freedom, rights, opinions, and responsibility onto these poor moderators who are just over-performing their sense of duty... and everything else, really.
Reporting stuff to the police is exactly the same as reporting it to the mods; there's no massive distinction, and anyone is free to do one, the other, both, or absolutely nothing at all without having to justify themselves to anyone.
It's not a problem, even if it is pretty pointless. It's the same way you could pray for leniency from a mod or a cop when they're interpreting the law, life, or whatever. Nothing happens without a rulebook telling you how to do it... and we aren't going to let that happen here.
But the real issue is when you try to dump your own whining onto other people and lecture them on what to do or not do, based entirely on whatever level of pettiness you're operating from.
That's the beauty of this kind of manipulation, though; you can't really report anyone for it. How are you even going to report that?
...and you can't even call a forum regular a whiner to their face because that's... what's the word... offensive, and that kind of language won't be tolerated on this forum.
But you *can* do something else. You can point out those kinds of characters, and then let people decide for themselves who they're dealing with and whether they'll be clicking those anti-cop triangles tomorrow just to get a "win," seeking justice, or looking for some neurotic satisfaction, a mental milestone, or a virtual slice of liberty delivered by some moderator (or maybe even a shadowy group of officials sitting in the background) who happens to be a whiner themselves.
Is that really a victory? Whose victory is it, and for whom? Is that a win? Becoming your own snitch? Go right ahead...
