I know but it’s weird. It seems like all the LGBTQ threads just dissapeared. They were the hot topic of the forums for a bit. Eh they’ll be back next june
While I like that idea, it’s unlikely because they’ll get crucified for it both ways, they won’t 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 it’s not a political position, it’s 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 don’t care about the games journalism bullying you into making you apologise - or don’t do it at all and that’s 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.
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 isn’t gonna work well because it’s a massive resource sink, and there’s 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 don’t think such a thing is realistic nor enforceable. There’s already an “on topic” rule where things are supposed to be related to Overwatch. But current events are current events. People are gonna talk about them.
I mean I could leap into all sorts of discourse about how things like LGBT rights shouldn’t be a “difference of belief” buuuut I mean. Things as basic as D.Va buffs are boiled down to difference in belief about her viability and role in the game. So it’s a bit general to me.
Politics is lame I agree but really it’s about time people cut the crap with the racism it’s 2020, not the stone ages. The color of your skin has nothing to do with the kind of person you are.
But do you know why we got such a bad selection? A mix of people deliberately not wanting to care, and sufficient DNC/RNC establishment shenaniganry to stop those that actually do.
Also political systems in general are generally optimized toward working with two major parties. Even in countries where you have much more diversity in terms of political parties, you still usually wind up with them grouping into two coalitions, and people often vote on the basis of these coalitions over the individual parties unless there’s a particular issue they really feel very strongly about. The nature of politics in the USA definitely aggravates that and makes it more evident, but it’s pretty frequently the case in any nation that allows free elections.