The Paizo forums are a cesspit because of leadership's policy of refusing to ban people who engage in open transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, racism, ableism antisemitism, etc.
It's allowed white supremacists to colonize the forums.
Not the fault of current moderators.
It's allowed white supremacists to colonize the forums.
Not the fault of current moderators.
https://twitter.com/legalizegoblins/status/1459242040395329538
That said, Paizo staff have been telling leadership it's a problem for over a decade. Leadership has refused to listen.
(Hell, when I was there, I offered to have pro friends come in gratis to help re-architect the community.)
You can add that to the accountability demands.
(Hell, when I was there, I offered to have pro friends come in gratis to help re-architect the community.)
You can add that to the accountability demands.
To be clear, leadership's eventual solution to "your refusal to ban bad actors, + your refusal to add block functions for staff, + your insistence that staff be active on the forums equates to tying your staff to the railroad tracks and signaling the train to come this way"...
...was to eventually dump the requirement that staff participate on the forums, not to do anything to make the community less hostile to marginalized people and less welcoming to white supremacists.
When you're talking about holding leadership accountable for their transphobia, it's not just about room-sharing at conventions, which I feel like the conversation has sort of boiled down to.
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