Reporting Non-Post Content
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Snarf Zagyg
Notorious Liquefactionist
You can always PM them with concerns or questions.
aco175
Legend
Are you asking about the little emojis that people leave with a thumbs up, laugh, or hearts in the eyes? Are you saying that some of them offend you? The second part of your question is about thread titles and you are offended by some words people may use?
Xamnam
Loves Your Favorite Game
If someone writes a serious post about bigotry they've faced, and someone laugh reacts to it, that's pretty direct mockery, and the mods have previously explicitly called that sort of use out as unacceptable behavior.
Maggan
Writer of The Bitter Reach
I sometimes use the report button for a post at the end of a thread if I feel that there is a general issue I'd like to draw the mods' attention to. In the report, I clearly state that the report is not with the actual post, and then explain the issue. But this is just my way of doing things, and the mods might prefer another approach.
Gradine
The Elephant in the Room (she/they)
So when I say something fairly serious about, say, my identity, and somebody uses the laugh react to that, that's very directly an attack on me.
Custom titles are the little things under your names on the left side of posts. So you're a "Legend", and Snarf is a "Notorious Liquefactionist", and some people use that space to display their transphobia, which I don't think is particularly on the mods' radar a lot of the times.
Good to know you can report in the profile
aco175
Legend
I have gotten the sad face emoji before for something I posted. Seemed like the person was trying to shame me for my post and thinking. Never thought to report them, since most threads are gone tomorrow and hardly linger for long. I guess if the same person kept cropping up.
aco175
Legend
I have noticed these, but never tried to change mine. I can see where some people suck and try to place certain things in. I wonder where the line is though. If I change mine to Happy Golfer, nobody would care but what about Proud American would someone think that is offensive? How about Pro-life or Pro-choice? There is likely some line, but everyone has their own threshold.
The rules of the forum are that that we keep it inclusive. If someone is engaging in anti-inclusive behavior to undermine that, then it should be brought to the attention of the mods. Just blocking the one doing it fails to address the problem.
This is how social interaction works, yes.
So report them then block them.
But the thing is we are responsible for our own feelings. That doesn't mean we aren't allowed to have them, but it does mean we have to deal with them. If something someone is doing makes you angry on a forum,you lose nothing by ignoring them and making it so they can't see you either.
Alternatively, just message them. "Hey, you added a laugh emotion to my post and I was being serious. I just wanted to make sure you didn't think I was joking." Or similar.
The point is, it's on us. We are responsible.
Grendel_Khan
Hero
C'mon, it's basically never a mystery as to why someone is doing this. You really expect people to do this, on the 5% chance it was an innocent misunderstanding?
The point of this thread is to ask about reporting. You don't have to be interested in reporting for the reasons the OP is asking about, but responding by saying "It's on you" is brutal stuff.
That was the question being asked: how to do that when the source is not a post (something easily reported). Just blocking someone doesn’t answer that question.
The question was about reporting anti-inclusive content. Ignoring it and carrying on as if it’s just a disagreement about games makes the community less welcoming not just to those it targets but everyone. Also, sometimes it’s not or doesn’t feel safe to engage a harasser directly. That’s what the mods are for, which (again) is what this thread is about: how to bring it to their attention.
Oh, I don't expect anything. I'm saying that if someone is somehow motivated to do something besides just make that person disappear by way of 2 way ignore, then I guess directly confronting them about it is an option. I still think just erasing them from your ENWorld experience is much easier and leads to a more enjoyable experience.
I didn't say "it's on you." I said we, each of us, are responsible for our own feelings. That's a different thing. I'm not blaming someone for feeling their feelings. I'm saying that they are the key to their own peace with those feelings.
There are 8 billion people on the planet. Your life will not be negatively impacted in the slightest if you elimate a handful of the worst ones from your ENWorld experience.
Aberzanzorax
Hero
Or you could try to make the forum a less antagonistic place. The OP is asking how to do that, not for a free therapy session.
Ralif Redhammer
Legend
If it's the account I'm thinking of, I suspect it's a burner/sock puppet account. Created on Sunday and all it's done is laugh-react to a bunch of pro-inclusivity posts in the Harry Potter thread, and love react a single post in that thread. Add the two together and I think that's more than enough reason to report it.
You can PM us for many things.
And, by the way, for the anti-inclusive titles, you can report their profile page, and note to us that there's a problem.
We are discussing one of those right now, actually...
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