Freeciv Web Discord censorship log
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2022 10:26 pm
I don't think this will interest many people, but I firmly believe that any kind of information should be out in the open and available for whoever may want to check things out, purely for filing purposes. This is why I am writing this. Not to complain, whine or incite any kind of action, but to document events, if nothing else, for future reference, in case anyone asks, so that I can simply drop a link.
So, after many months of calm, in the past few days stuff started escalating on FCW Discord server. I don't know why and I don't care. I'm not wasting my time and energy on analysis. I will also not make value judgements, just lay down facts. People are usually able to make their own conclusions.
In the past 48 hours there were several cases of censorship, post deletions and silencing.
Case 1.
After a multi-page harangue and personal insults by "Lexxie and Qrtv", firstly I replied something along the lines that "Lexxie and Qrtv are the same person". This post got deleted.
Immediately after that, as a part of the same "discussion", I wrote, roughly, "I love these people! I start with 'I am not an expert player' and then the next few screens they try to prove that I am not an expert player!" The post was also deleted and I was admin-silenced for 24 hours. The insults were not deleted, nor were the people who made them sanctioned.
Case 2.
A FCW player asked for an extension of turn to 35 hours explaining it by him having to use 4 hours to play a turn. Another user subsequently asked, roughly, "how is it possible that it takes 4 hours to play a turn?" This second post was deleted and the user silenced for an unknown period of time.
(For possible context: before this, on another server, the same user expressed his astonishment at the 4 hours statement and wrote: "I'm not looking down on them for requesting more time. The fact that a ruleset is so poorly designed that it requires turn extensions reflects on the ruleset designer, not the player.")
Case 3.
Lexxie wrote the following: "Support for 3D had to be removed because of a "gotcha-catch-22" licensing attribution request that was deliberately engineered to be impossible to fulfill. FCW will continue to be privately inteterested in the 3D development project but for now we must publicly disassociate until such time as legal issues are resolved. "
I replied: "For factual clarity, from the screenshot I saw, I would say that support for 3D didn't have to be removed at all. Everything that was requested was to attribute it properly. Instead, it was obviously decided to pull the whole chunk of code rather than sign the contribution."
This reply was deleted and I got a ten-minute ban on posting on the server.
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This is it so far. If anyone experienced similar actions, feel free to add them here.
So, after many months of calm, in the past few days stuff started escalating on FCW Discord server. I don't know why and I don't care. I'm not wasting my time and energy on analysis. I will also not make value judgements, just lay down facts. People are usually able to make their own conclusions.
In the past 48 hours there were several cases of censorship, post deletions and silencing.
Case 1.
After a multi-page harangue and personal insults by "Lexxie and Qrtv", firstly I replied something along the lines that "Lexxie and Qrtv are the same person". This post got deleted.
Immediately after that, as a part of the same "discussion", I wrote, roughly, "I love these people! I start with 'I am not an expert player' and then the next few screens they try to prove that I am not an expert player!" The post was also deleted and I was admin-silenced for 24 hours. The insults were not deleted, nor were the people who made them sanctioned.
Case 2.
A FCW player asked for an extension of turn to 35 hours explaining it by him having to use 4 hours to play a turn. Another user subsequently asked, roughly, "how is it possible that it takes 4 hours to play a turn?" This second post was deleted and the user silenced for an unknown period of time.
(For possible context: before this, on another server, the same user expressed his astonishment at the 4 hours statement and wrote: "I'm not looking down on them for requesting more time. The fact that a ruleset is so poorly designed that it requires turn extensions reflects on the ruleset designer, not the player.")
Case 3.
Lexxie wrote the following: "Support for 3D had to be removed because of a "gotcha-catch-22" licensing attribution request that was deliberately engineered to be impossible to fulfill. FCW will continue to be privately inteterested in the 3D development project but for now we must publicly disassociate until such time as legal issues are resolved. "
I replied: "For factual clarity, from the screenshot I saw, I would say that support for 3D didn't have to be removed at all. Everything that was requested was to attribute it properly. Instead, it was obviously decided to pull the whole chunk of code rather than sign the contribution."
This reply was deleted and I got a ten-minute ban on posting on the server.
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This is it so far. If anyone experienced similar actions, feel free to add them here.