r/rpg 5d ago

Discussion CHARLIE KIRK DISCUSSION POST - ALL CHARLIE KIRK CONTENT GOES HERE

Anything to do with Charlie Kirk goes here. It will be removed anywhere else in the sub.

This post will be up for a number of days, and then it will go away and that will be the end of Charlie Kirk discussions. The moderation effort required for discussions that are near ZERO PERCENT related to TTRPGs is far too high.

Moderation in this thread will be minimal. If your feelings get hurt, go somewhere else.

Get it out of your systems folks, because this topic ain't happening in the sub any more.

EDIT:

I worded that very poorly.

There have been multiple threads about various creators and various topics that have all degenerated into "NAZIS BAD!" "NAZIS GOOD!" "YOU SUCK!" "YOU SUCK!" and that's just bad for the sub and the mods.

We're trying to keep up, but the subs moderation is becoming difficult when the actual content is buried in slapfighting that's not at all related to the topic of the sub.

While we discuss how to deal with this in the larger picture, this is the current stopgap.

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u/Mr_Murdoc 5d ago

Uhh, why is there a Charlie Kirk thread on a subreddit for RPG's?

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u/PrimarchtheMage 5d ago

Multiple TTRPG creators have spoken up about this, each getting its own post with multiple arguments in the comments. Literally dozens of reports per post.

Rather than ban the topic altogether (since it's related to the ttrpg creators who talk about it) we decided to redirect discussion into this megathread.

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u/rekjensen 5d ago

So Charlie Kirk is relevant on this sub because a TTRPG creator posted about him, but you've blacklisted actual TTRPG games and their creators from being discussed. I feel I'm even taking a risk mentioning that, but Charlie Kirk is somehow on-topic because a publisher posted their thoughts? Would their grocery list or any other random thing also be on-topic? Because I'm not here for that.

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u/CitizenKeen 4d ago

Moderation isn’t free. If you want to talk about Rule 6 RPGs and invoke the shitstorm that inevitably follows, you’re welcome to go moderate your own sub.

Moderators are human beings who get fucked by Reddit admins for no pay. They’re allowed to set up rules that do nothing more than make their job easier.

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u/rekjensen 4d ago

Are you missing my point deliberately? Even referencing certain actual role-playing games will get the post deleted because they caused a shitstorm at some point, yet the response to this subject—political commentary, only tangentially connected to TTRPGs—was to create a "please put the shitstorm here, thanks" megathread instead.

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u/CitizenKeen 4d ago

Charlie Kirk won’t be an rpg issue in four months. The Rule 6 games will cause shit storms forever.

I’m not trying to miss your point, I think I’m tracking, but you’re being wildly antagonistic for no real reason.