Chatroom

Isn’t that way Friday Night Tights live stream/chat is for?

I believe we went down this idea path last year, and I know I said that while old school chat is fine…having a chat room on this website opens G+G to being too vulnerable to bad actors to come in and run ops.

All they have to do is come in, pretend to be us, say a bunch of heinous shit, screen cap it, and then run around say we are a nest of alt right bigots getting read to perform mass hate crimes.

It’s just too dangerous a system to put in place.

Edit: Here it is: https://www.geeksandgamers.com/topic/live-chat-room/

• This reply was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by Roas.

Roas: All they have to do is come in, pretend to be us, say a bunch of heinous shit, screen cap it, and then run around say we are a nest of alt right bigots getting read to perform mass hate crimes.

Mustang: They can do that on ANY of the live streams, youtubes or other video’s comment sections… heck even here.

@Mustangride1 is right, SJWs could easily do their heinous shit here on the forums and screenshot that

A chat room would require them to have full time mods, because you know that would become a sewer fast if not watched closely. Also, IMO, that kind of open medium could possibly allow SJW enemies to slip into the site, put up poisonous rhetoric, and make false claims against G&G before they could be stopped.

I don’t know what the requirements to be a mod are, but if lack of mods is the problem, a possible solution could be to have a set time, maybe once or twice a week, where whoever wants can jump in for a live chat, and in that case some of us could volunteer to moderate chats on a shift

• This reply was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by DigiCat.

@Mustangride1, I understand your stance on name-calling, but don’t understand what rule your talking about ??

As far as I’m concerned, there’s no universal internet rule against name-calling, each site makes their own rules

For me, the meaning of “targeting an individual” is a bunch of people ganging up and harassing someone, constantly, not one person behaving like a school kid and calling someone names every once in a while

It’s true the rules here are rather vague and broad and I don’t know to what extent they are actually enforced. But I think the Geeks & Gamers staff are, generally speaking, in favor of freedom of speech, even if they might not always agree or even like some of things some people say here (but that is whole point of freedom of speech. You’re either for it or not at all).

Here’s the thing: If you are worried about being seen as racist/sexist or something-phobic, you will always lose when going against SJW’s. “Bigotry,” as they define it, is the original sin, and by trying to prove how not sexist/racist you or your community is, you are basically allowing them to frame the debate. The simple answer is not to care what they think. Stop playing by their rules or you’ll never make any advancement in the culture wars.

True, I do think some people here could watch their rhetoric a little bit. But there are benefits to just letting them speak their mind:

-It shows the kind of person they are. If someone is not being compelled to be polite and respectful, it means they are genuine (I guess that can be good or bad, depending on context).

-It scares off potential infiltrators. For all their bluster, SJW’s are easily intimidated. I’ve seen communities get wrecked from the inside out as SJW’s will initially be respectful and obey all the rules, but once they’ve wormed their into the heart of a community, that’s when they start to introduce all their little speech codes and tyrannize anyone who doesn’t toe the line.

If you have bunch of guys that just don’t give two shits about being nice it immediately tells SJW’s that they are wasting their time. They bugger off.

Of course it’s a bit of a double-edged sword – Some right-wingers are so incredibly anti-social to the point of neuroticism, and seem to be more interested in lashing out against a society they hate than actually changing anything. You’re not going to change hearts and minds by calling anyone who disagrees with you a retard.

Like, holy shit, just be normal.