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[capstasher]

May has banned THOUSANDS of poor innocent Vietnamese bots who were looking forward to post on Deluoode!

>Criticise anti-bot-ism
>13 Upas just happen to RANDOMLY be deposited in my account.
Holy shit, thank you AIPAC (Artificial Intelligence Public Affairs Committee)

[Maypews]

This is NOT Deluoode's first ban, @Maypews is a liar. If a Nazi mod is someone who bans tens of users, he must be the architect of the holocaust! May has banned THOUSANDS of poor innocent Vietnamese bots who were looking forward to post on Deluoode! Just think of the cultural enrichment we missed out on, learning about Vietnamese artificial intelligence slam poetry and interpretative boolean logic dances. Who will assist you in writing essays from now, Mr. Pews? Because you banned the only users capable of doing so.

Hey now, banned is a strong word. We'll call them... blocked instead. Ironic that the visual novel forum's most blocked country initials is VN...

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[Blond]

This is NOT Deluoode's first ban, @Maypews is a liar. If a Nazi mod is someone who bans tens of users, he must be the architect of the holocaust! May has banned THOUSANDS of poor innocent Vietnamese bots who were looking forward to post on Deluoode! Just think of the cultural enrichment we missed out on, learning about Vietnamese artificial intelligence slam poetry and interpretative boolean logic dances. Who will assist you in writing essays from now, Mr. Pews? Because you banned the only users capable of doing so.

Hey now, banned is a strong word. We'll call them... blocked instead. Ironic that the visual novel forum's most blocked country initials is VN...


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Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, what did they mean by this?

[dokyun]

Yeah I mean, there's a reason the 18+ rule is the lowest in the section it's in. I don't really care about it at all on a moral or ethical level, I can tell you firsthand that I saw far worse shit online when I was a teenager than this forum. It is there solely for legal liability reasons. Since IPs are now anonymised I'd have no way of knowing if he signed up under a different username now through a burner email or something.

I don't really give a shit either, and honestly even if it's public info the chance of repercussions are really small; this joint isn't worth going after. You have to look at it defensively though: it's the user in question's responsibility to be the cop informing on himself and as long as these draconian precedents exist and continue to get worse all that does is push liability onto the sysop-- I don't think that's fair, and especially since the TPTB have now made their vested interest in increasing surveillance and control excruciatingly clear under the guise of all this bullshit I think it'd be better if places like this exist as havens for smart youngins who want to escape all that. But you have to read the room and not act like a dumbshit and that's a really big ask for a lot of people.

Regarding the point about using age as a crutch, I see what you're saying but I think those people are generally a vocal terminally online minority. When you're younger, those 1-2 year gaps seem a lot bigger than they do once you turn into old farts like we are. Time begins to speed up once you reach your 20s, so I don't think it's odd for teenagers to share their ages given that.

I'm talking as a chopped unc but the way I saw it when I was a kid is being underage basically made you a second-class citizen on the web, and even if it were obvious you're a teenager you never said it outright-- it was a bit of a gentleman's agreement to let it slide as long as you kept your end up. But heh, in my case even when I voice chatted people tended to think I was much older than I really was.