A Poll Relating to the BO Drama

strawpoll.me/13328326

I wanted to gauge the level of discontent with the current BO and mods.
And let us emulate the ideologies we support, so direct democracy.
If we gain a majority vote against they should resign, if not, so be it.
I removed the flag I use all the time so no one can claim I have a side.

Pic unrelated.

We've had several polls so far, there's an 80/20 split in disagreement with the imperialism bans and about a 70/30 split in favor of BO stepping down. This one won't be any different.

Part of me wants to endorse this 0chan sponsored coup simply out of disdain for the current state of this board. Burn it all down.

Getting sick of these posts. I just want BO to admit that she made a mistake. She doesn't have to step down. She won't though.

Oh, I hadn't seen any of those polls. Sorry for the repetitive post then.

What happened anyway?

The BO banned a bunch of people because of their support of imperialism, if you adhere to her definition of imperialism.
Mostly just people being critical to Syria

Most of the policy-related polls have fallen more 90/10 in favor of reversing the policy actually.

I mostly agree with though. I'm more interested in seeing the imperialism bans revoked and the prior status quo restored. Let the users themselves fight it out over the nature and implications of global imperialism.

NOOOOO, you MUST give your critical support to Bashar Al-Assad, why the fuck do you think you have the right to be critical of what he does?

Just ban anyone who repeats Bookchin's godawful position on imperialism. That would basically solve most of the problem. YPG won't be an issue once the US turns on them anyways.

Where have we heard this before???
It's George Soros sponsoring it!
Get over your narcissistic paranoia and deal with people disagreeing with you. On every past poll, anarchists, leftcoms, and communalists have all consistently outperformed tankies by a wide margin (tankies getting around 12-15% most of the time).
If it really matters to you that you be with people who are "anti-imperialists" and people who disagree are banned, there's r/fullcommunism and r/socialism. I'm going to have to ask you to leave if you want for the Holla Forums where I've posted since 2015 to be your personal hug.box.

No. Go away.

Last I looked at one it was 83 in favor of reversing, but any way you slice it the majority disagrees by a landslide.

tbh I read a thread where BO communicated with the users and quite frankly everyone needs to take a chill pill coz everyone was sperging out. I mean it was a shitty and overhanded thing to do but it is not worth forcing her to resign tbh

No you go away. You aren't even leftist. Just a bunch of opportunists who will cry endlessly about the death of Rojava once America gets tired of supporting them. It's basically Catalonia 2.0 but even dumber since it has no theory and is more ethnically nationalist.

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So far it's a 33/33/33 split, or 67/33 in favor of her resigning.

Projection much?
Sick meme, my dude! Totally based in reality! Remind about that USSR policy of korenizatsiya again?
Ah yes, we put class warfare first and want a society without capitalism, without alienation, and with freedom for all, and yet we're not leftist because we won't support a far right genocidal capitalist state with support from another block of openly capitalist states
You're literally supporting Assad, a firm neoliberal capitalist, just because he's "against the USA" and because he has a better chance of winning out in the short run, even if the conditions in Rojava are objectively far closer to the definition of socialism (social ownership of the means of production).

Fuck off liberal.

BO has been skating on thin ice for a while now. This isn't the first time that BO pushes for something against overwhelmingly popular opposition - look at how BO pushed for board migration to bunkerchan when 95% of posters did not want that and to this day still hasn't apologized. BO is pushing a definite agenda against what almost the entire board wants and isn't stopping at it.
If BO won't stop on her own, we will make her by taking down our content and making a new board based on a democratic system of restricting moderator power.

Why would anyone want this? The mods are completely guiltless.

Possible BO sympathizers.
Complete purge of the current moderation to start anew.

I'd support this.

Go back to reddit.

Complicity in severe autism and overzealousness. We need a general system based on checking moderator power and a new start. Unfortunately for the good ones, they're caught up in this as well. If they want to, they will probably be able to get back up once we set up the Web Of Trust key system and sortition.

I'd normally agree with you, mistakes can be forgiven, but the way BO handled this so arrogantly, I can no longer trust them. I'd like them to be replaced by a trustworthy mod now.

Even that bunkerchan incident flew by with nothing permanent happening to the board. BO sperged out and some people did too. Then everyone took a chill pill and compromise. Hopefully something similar will happen. Not worth splitting this board over something this minor. Call me when BO start banning those people criticizing her right now


I agree but the backlash was too spergy with memes of freeze peach. So much so that I suspect false flagging

No, this is major because it sets a precedent. We're all tired of this happening over and over again. Tankies are constantly insulting and shouting down anyone who disagrees with them - they're not even pretending to argue based on theory, they say leftcoms = anarchists = communalists = LOL ROBOT LOSERS = imperialists. And now they have the Board Owner on their side, ready to moderate away any disagreements with this Reddit-like circlejerking line. If we stop pushing back now, this will be a slow process where we will look back as we're banned for disagreeing while no one says anything because it's accepted and say "we should have removed BO then".
This is not a rational person in charge of the board. This is not a person friendly to open discussion in charge of the board. This is a person who cannot handle the responsibilities the seat in charge of the board.
The best moderation is the least needed to preserve discussion quality.
See above for why, memes aside, free speech is important. We're all here because we hate being overshadowed by SJWs more interested in having their safe spaces and yelling incoherently at anyone who disagrees with the Central Committee's line, because we want to discuss class and other real material concerns instead of cultural appropriation, race, gender, etc. The only way to avoid this is to keep open dialogues with those who we disagree with while still maintaining the place of discussion as a place distinctly for ourselves.

Fuck you.

You just want to split the Yes vote faggot. And keep creating polls until you and your reddit buddies win.

You literally don't know how moderation works.

Since the voting is practically over, I actually want her to step down myself.
And yes with added details is still yes.