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They could, but they theyād have to enforce it. And a lot of times shutting down threads is like kicking a bees nest.
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Totally agree, politics just separate people, nothing brings people closer.
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Agreed. Its really annoying.
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What qualifies as politics?
Who gets to define it?
These questions are themselves inherently political. Leaving it up to moderator discretion is far more convenient for everyone.
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Apolitical, until the first political decision that broke your life.
And as for the prohibition of politics - so Blizzard indulge trends. Try to discuss HongKong - immediately the ban on politics will pop up. And BLM is different!
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Maybe a Bot that can do something like that? I donāt know, but something like that is possible.
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That reminds meā¦did everyone just forget about pride month or did they all give up and go home?
I meanā¦ thereās really nothing u can talk about since Covid-19 is a thing.
Well, Iām not a great one to talk to on politics.
Considering I think our president is basically a mass murderer. And he deserves worse than life in prison.
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Young you are still, a misunderstanding.
Rightness in our world is measured by quantity. And for some reason you push the logic ā¦
Both of our presidents running for office are bad. I wish I could vote for someone else.
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I know but itās weird. It seems like all the LGBTQ threads just dissapeared. They were the hot topic of the forums for a bit. Eh theyāll be back next june
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While I like that idea, itās unlikely because theyāll get crucified for it both ways, they wonāt ban lgbt stuff and we know inequality breed contempt and that contempt will be aimed at LGBT (BAD MOVE) and if they outright ban it along with LGBT stuff then the LGBT crowd would be FURIOUS (and I know itās not a political position, itās just sad that people see it that way, and they DO see it that way REGARDLESS of what you may think about it being right or wrong to do so - therefore it causes contempt if singularly left on) and that would also be bad.
You know, there is a 3rd and fourth option, do it unilaterally and donāt care about the games journalism bullying you into making you apologise - or donāt do it at all and thatās what we have got. And sadly, that feels like ALL of our options thanks to flaktivism dividing us to the point liking someone of the same or ambiguous gender is seen as a POLITICAL AFFILIATION. World would be a whole lot better if some of these people just shut up and stopped making everyone hate one another on tribal lines based on race gender and who we like to do it with. Their brand of social media driven activism is hurting more than it helps and no one is trying to bridge the gap therefore we have NO OPTIONS but these crap ones.
Really. No.
Biden isnāt ideal on issues.
Trump is responsible for more dead Americans than 9/11
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Thereās a huge megathread: LGBT in Overwatch Mega(y)thread š³ļøāš
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Bots reflect the systemic biases of the people who create them, either directly, or through their selection of data and metrics.
Honestly though, the bigger issue in this context is that the bot isnāt gonna work well because itās a massive resource sink, and thereās low tolerance for failure. Imagine the bot accidentally learning that buff/nerf X threads are political because of the amount of flags and angery words, and subsequently deleting 90% of the forums.
I mean, is it really a matter of opinion that a ton of people are going to die, because they arenāt wearing masks?
Why in the world are you happy about tens of thousands of avoidable dead people?
As if itās some sort of sporting event.
Maybe itās anything thats going on in the world thatās conflict? Stuff that bring up more arguments?
I donāt think such a thing is realistic nor enforceable. Thereās already an āon topicā rule where things are supposed to be related to Overwatch. But current events are current events. People are gonna talk about them.
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