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Homophobic Abuse Of Mod Power

almost 10 years

This image has been approved by the previous admin (bronto) and it was no vio'd and approved in at least 5 reports in the last 3 months. It was removed with no reason given by "oliver". I told him that it was already approved, and I reploaded it. He then banned me for 24 hours and removed it again. He said the precedent has changed because this time they reverse image searched it and naked pictures came up. SO?! I'm not using those pictures. I've been using THAT one. The censored one that shows nothing.

If Google was going to take down Epic Mafia over a censored picture they would have done it in the 3 months that it's been my avatar. This is clearly an attack on me and my sexual orientation. Nobody would know these men were nude below the waist unless they reverse image searched it. And why would they do that, unless they WANTED to see them naked? You literally had to SEARCH for a way to give me a violation. oliver and gennehfarrxD should be reprimanded and my ban should be lifted, as well as my violation. This is a clear abuse of power and it's a personal attack against me and my sexual orientation.

Abuse Of Power
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We believe this violation is an abuse of power and that the avatar is NOT inappropriate and does NOT violate the rules of EpicMafia.
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wakemeupxo says


Jackhammer says


MikeyRu says

I didn't repload it to cause controversy. I reuploaded it (one time) because I literally thought this had already been taken care of three months ago by the admin and that oliver would be told off by the rest of the mods for making a mistake. Instead, he 24 hour bans me and genneh swoops in before anyone can say anything in my appeal and sustains it.


That's fair enough, but why not being proactive and speaking to genneh/oliver about this first?

As a fairly new moderator who has no past experience with modding I don't know much about what does or what doesn't violate google ToS, and I wasn't around for the first time Bronto approved of Mikey's image. I personally have no problem with the image at all, I'm just saying there could've been a much smoother way to deal with this. Your sexuality is your business, and whether or not you're gay or straight is not my problem. I'm sorry if you took this thing the wrong way, the mods who dealt with your report have no ill-will towards you or homosexuals.

That being said, we're discussing this issue atm so please, again, I implore you to remain patient. Thanks for taking the time to make this thread. Ciao.


Maybe we should have moderators that do have the qualities and past experiences to become a mod.


Maybe we should have the same modteam until the end of time and never give any new mods the chance to mod. Maybe we should let the amount of people willing to mod go extinct.
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that's why it's his opinion, it's not an excuse to anything?????_?
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citrus says


BiIIStickers says

if you think abortion is wrong, you're also dumb as hell

so

there's that


it's his opinion based on something religious perhaps


not an excuse
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okay but the thread isnt about that
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Wakemeup if we only hired mods with past mod experience we'd have no mods you fool.
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BiIIStickers says

if you think abortion is wrong, you're also dumb as hell

so

there's that


it's his opinion based on something religious perhaps
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What has this thread escalated to? Stay on subject, friends.

Also general reminder that modding is nothing personal and that mods are working with you, not against you.
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the whole argument around abortion is about the fetuses potential. thinking its wrong to end that potential is ok. proactively stopping a woman from making the decision to have an abortion is wrong.
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Retti says

i wish threads didn't stray into sub-topics either due to someone's posting or some other anomaly because i'd love to hear more constructive arguments just so we can actually take it as feedback in future cases should this arise again


yeah well billstickers is at fault for that
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Giga13 says

No, I am not a mod


good LOL
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This isn't an abortion thread, if you wanna talk about abortion then stop derailing this thread and go make your own

No, I am not a mod

No, I am not giving a stance on abortion
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if you think abortion is wrong, you're also dumb as hell

so

there's that
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fetuses are people too
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if you think those are the same things you are dumb as hell
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Harunan says

kerry shut up

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no. thinking abortion is wrong =/= proactively stopping women from making that choice
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kerry shut up
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Retti says

i wish threads didn't stray into sub-topics either due to someone's posting or some other anomaly because i'd love to hear more constructive arguments just so we can actually take it as feedback in future cases should this arise again


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BiIIStickers says


Miki says

its really offensive to call rutab those things


it's really offensive to tell a woman she can't make decisions with her own body


its not offensive to think abortion is wrong. he does not go around telling pregnant women they cannot make that decision
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its too late retti
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i wish threads didn't stray into sub-topics either due to someone's posting or some other anomaly because i'd love to hear more constructive arguments just so we can actually take it as feedback in future cases should this arise again
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Miki says

its really offensive to call rutab those things


it's really offensive to tell a woman she can't make decisions with her own body
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ok but this topic isnt about that[2]
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its really offensive to call rutab those things