I hope you aren’t speaking on my statements
And whos “they” ???
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I for one want our benevolent overlord’s to operate under a totally different set of rules than the rest of us. It’s working great in the real world, why wouldn’t it work great here too.
All jokes aside, I really don’t care either way. I find myself talking about bullshit way more than I do about cannabis. Why? I come here to chat with like minded individuals about shared interests. Sometimes it’s the weed things and most times it ain’t.
Anywho I find flagging to be hella self important behavior. Maybe ask yourself “why am I really doing this,” before you hit that button. I think more often than not you’ll realize that you’re just being a silly bitch.
Fin.
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I’ve never flagged anyone, and never will. I think it’s petty and stupid. I say let people be who they are. People don’t have to like everything, but they also don’t have to get offended by everything. People are going to call other people out, have different perspectives, make bad tasted jokes, whatever. That’s just individuality. On the flip side, it doesn’t really bug me all that much if others want the flag system, but I don’t think it should erase the flagged post altogether. You’ll get too many thin skinned punks trying to erase anything and everything they don’t like, which can lead to a sort of false narrative in certain situations. Whatever is what it is though. Mods’ house, mods’ rules. If people want it, whatever…
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This, so much this.
‘Thin skin’ and the interwebs are a poor combination.
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I agree, particularly in the U.S. Doug, however, is Canadian, and it’s really not an analogous situation. I’ve lived in both countries.
Again I agree with your broad brush assessment.
Now I must disagree. Ascribing a single motive to broad swaths of people, individuals, seems to me a shaky proposition at best.
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How do I “ flag “ this entire thread ? 
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There are female mods
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Why? 10 chars
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Particularly the US, really?
This kind of commentary continues to feed the outrage cycle. No, it does not matter.
We are not going to play the identity politics game. The existence of this thread illustrates why.
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Glad to hear it! I haven’t closely examined the moderator list, and many people don’t specify.
Well, I started with “if there are none currently”, and it’s because women’s perspectives can be quite different, and having multiple different perspectives can add nuance to decisions. If a group wants to make sure it’s welcoming to people of all kinds, then it’s good to have folks who can help us see where our blind spots are and help us grow.
If the general consensus among mods is for x or y to be ok, then even if I personally disagree with it, that’s the decision, and I’ll make my choices accordingly (like if I ever decided to leave the site over a moderation decision).
For me, that would be the case regardless of who the mods are. Personally, I will always feel better about decisions made by a diverse group of people than a monolith. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Anyway, I wasn’t trying to get into a discussion of what the makeup of the mod team was, that’s not the topic of this thread. Was responding to a specific question about why someone might say what they did, and as I said at the end, I joined accepting whatever makeup of the mod team was, and I’m good with it.
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If you carefully read my post, you’ll see I’m replying to someone else. Doesn’t mean I agree with what you say though.
When it comes to racism. I’m not at ease to use the “anti-white racism” rhetoric, given it’s used by, well… known racists.
(I’m not implying you are a racist in case you wonder, I don’t know you)
It sure is a bit different than the US (from what I can remotely see), but not radically so though. Lands colonized by white people baked in the european culture. Not trying to shame any country in particular. The place where I live is not better, and I’m no better than anyone.
Sure, I was speaking globally, and not about specific contexts, though it’s still always underlying even in particular cases, so it has to be taken into account.
I agree the discussion is slipping, though discussing racism isn’t “identity politics” (whatever this could be). I’ll shut up on that subject here from now on.
Maybe we could just agree with “Flagging posts that contains discrimination helps the moderators work given they break the TOS” and move on 
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There’s the attempt to create the image of ‘racisms’ … and then onto categorization where there is none. A duck is a duck.
Yes, good idea. This has always been the case, flag it.
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Ironic really that the flagging thread is going off topic 
Offence is taken not given. Trying to second guess people on racial and sexual grievances is for weaklings. Get a grip and stop flagging posts. Mard arses.
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wow this thread took a hard turn down racism lane LOL
Someone here accused me of being racist within the past few weeks. I took great offense to that. I am a white skinned Indigenous person of Irish/Cree descent… I am a Metis.
I am not very accepted within the indigenous communities at face value because I am white skinned and blue eyed. I am treated differently by non indigenous when I identify myself as Indigenous… it’s an interesting situation. To say that a white man can’t understand racism or that a Black man does… is absolutely assinine.
Black folks don’t own the yolk of racism … it’s a global thing among all races and nations. It sucks but it is the truth.
Personally I have never cared what a persons skin color is , we are all the same inside biologically. How people act and treat thier fellow human beings has always been how I judge folks.
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The recent flagging fury has been primarily tit-for-tat. Agree’d, petty.
Though, when used judiciously, it is a mechanism that allows the community to provide insight and to help moderate the site. It does keep the forum more-or-less grounded and aligned towards it’s purpose. No one wants a good conversation drowned by trolls inserting divisiveness in violation of the TOS/FAQ. There are literally individuals that register, get banned, register, get banned, over and over just so they can throw burning bags of poo into the theater.
No one has to use it. It’s purpose is of importance, though.
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Triggering total feels over here brother. I feel this to my very core. Because I am a mix of Northern Spanish Romani, Irish Traveller and Scottish hill gypsy I am as pale as a sheet. I don’t have the usual perma-tan of most Romani.
Romani are leery of me actually being one of them despite me being fluent in two forms of Romani and white people are leery of me identifying as Romani for various reasons from not looking Romani right to the other end of the scale of them being prejudicial.
Life is properly weird sometimes and it’s def not as simple as black/white binary cases. I also treat people based on their quality of character and not their race.
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That’s a misunderstanding of what I’m trying to say, which is a bit more subtile. My inbox is open to discuss that further if you want.
My experience so far, thanks to the mod team for the great work!
Why are you bringing this in the middle of the thread here? That’s not what happened nor what was said. We could have discussed the issue when I reached out (without insulting you), but you refused. I had no other choice than flagging it. If you have a problem with what happened, it’s still possible to reach me or the mods rather than rewrite the story in this thread.
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Sounds like microagressions. If you have something specific and definable, PM the moderation team with the detail.
If anyone encounters racist comments or divisiveness within the forum, including being called a racist, that is a good reason to flag the post for review.
Expect heavy moderation of the identity politics in this thread, here forward.
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I get it real clear, some people are online so much they nit pic every little word, if I don’t like something, I move on, not a big deal. someone else said earlier , I think it was @Foreigner ,
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This is pretty insane to me. How did a community topic about flagging get turned into 200+ posts about racism. I’m surprised nothing has been flagged in here by anyone. It blows my mind how this thread hasn’t been closed yet when many other topics have been shut down for less. It’s pretty gross that racism is still a thing, especially on such an accepting community as this one. I know it’s still around but it really has no place here or anywhere for that matter.
99% of this thread is off topic but it shouldn’t be brushed under the rug. It doesn’t matter what race or religion you are if you have dislike or disrespect in your heart and look at yourself in a different light then someone else you really shouldn’t be here.
I’m like Doug, I’m Canadian so we probably don’t see it in our day to day lives as bad some people in different countries.
Over the last year on here I’ve seen so much chaos and fragmentation of our community, Ive seen scams, the puppet accounts, and now the racism. Over the years here I’ve talked with most people in this thread at some point and not once did I care who you are, what you look like, or what you believed in. We all have the same common hobbies and interests, we all have the love for these wonderful plants.
We should get back on track and try to keep the gross parts of this world away.
The world might be a shit show but this place doesn’t have to be.
That’s my rant, I hope some agree with me, and I’m sure some won’t also but that’s ok too.
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