Free speech on Episode Forum... I mean lack of it

If you didn’t know, @NelidaU was suspended. I mean banned. Until 3019. For people who are as bad as me in math, it is 1000 years.

Why u might ask? Because of the picture in her profile. Check it urself. The reason is “Antisemitism”. Yep. So now if u have Hitler picture it is interpreted as Antisemitism? Maybe we should call any historical journal that shows Hitler picture as antisemitic?
I’ll just post a definition of Antisemitism.
Antisemitism is hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews. Antisemitism is generally considered to be a form of racism. It has also been characterized as a political ideology which serves as an organizing principle and unites disparate groups which are opposed to liberalism.

To be honest I’m personally sick over ridiculous bans and suspensions.
Last days I heard a lot from people who were suspended for a reason “Playing a moderator”. Are you for real??? So now, trying to calm people on the thread, while being respectful is a violation?

Am I the only one who feels like I can’t say anything here anymore? Every day it gets more and more ridiculous.

Maybe Episode should just post things we ARE ALLOWED to say? U know, just to avoid the ban.

The thing about hate speech. It is easy to manipulate up to your own opinion. Especially if u have power.

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WTF? Antisemitism? That picture definitely doesnt give out that vibe, that she supports “antisemitism” :face_with_raised_eyebrow: Are they blind or insane or what?

This is like when my bf had a patch with crossed out nacist symbol on his vest and cops wanted to give him a fine :expressionless:

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Support.

If you’re going to silence a group of people for an opinion, then you might as well close down this entire forum. People are entitled to their personal opinions; so please stop abusing the flag system (you know who you are). And for the record, Nelida’s picture wasn’t even discriminatory; it’s literally a meme. In no way did she even slightly express that has a prejudice against Jews, not every single thing is an attack.

Also: Why is the first course of action suspension? The logical thing to do would be to contact her and ask her to remove it - if you still believe it violates the guidelines. Did not even give her the chance to explain herself or “correct” it. Ridiculous.

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I know right? Who needs to get into subject when u can just ban, so that u don’t have to deal with over-sensitive people complaints?

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@NelidaU had people up her ass. Flagging comments, and literally stalking. Get life people.

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Well it was crossed out, because he is antifa, so he often does what you would :sweat_smile:
@fcukforcookies its like they didnt even look at it or they are missing some brain cells

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Agree 100% Sadly this forum isn’t a place where you can speak your mind, even if it’s a non offensive thing you are saying. You get flagged for random stuff all the time. Just because someone might not agree with what you are saying. You get flagged for calming a situation down and in general it’s becoming a place where you have to weigh up the risks before replying to anything. People overuse the flag system and in many cases it’s obvious you get flagged by people who just don’t like you. End of story. It’s a faulted system and people get silenced and suspended because of it.
I get that rules have to be in place, but some of these just don’t work or make sense.
In my view the image in question doesn’t show support to that at any point it’s not a yay hitler poster or anything.
The least that should have been done in this case, if there was a cause for conern to those in charge, Is to message her and explain the situation and ask for it to be removed.
This is a drastic overreaction. 1000 years… We will all be long dead by then anyway so why the hell use that date?

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I mean, why didn’t they ask her to remove it? That’s kinda stupid.

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Seriously, this is getting ridiculous. You could have just told her to remove it and now she’s suspended for life?? :unamused: What?!

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Also if you have something flagged, they ligit give you all of a minute to edit. Most of the time, I don’t realize I have something flagged until 5 minutes later!

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Yes please. Thank you.

Maybe mods can explain why it happened.

@Sydney_H or @Jeremy ?

Is this justified?

The Episode has stories with fathers screwing their daughters, about strippers, bj’s portrayed visually, that stay there and gain reads, and no one bothers to check them as they should since Episode at the very end is responsible for the content. But people get banned for ridiculous stuff?

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Isn’t she Jewish?

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no. she’s from Texas :smiley:

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:joy:

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I agree, this is not fair and she doesn’t deserve that.

:clap:

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This is unfair. Just ask her to remove the photo. That’s it. That’s all they needed to do. That’s so stupid. But of course, they won’t remove obvious trolls but will suspend someone for life just for an easy fix? :roll_eyes:

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I don’t think she has to remove the photo. It doesn’t support Nazis, or degrade Jews in any way. This is a satire meme. Nothing more, nothing less.

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What was her photo?

The saddest part is that she has had that meme for a while now, so it was obviously something personal.

Also…

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You can look at her profile.

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