The last couple of days of posts here have largely been people discussing their own take on the site’s approach to the recent riots and our support of the Black Lives Matter movement, or people making sure that their own personal take on all of this has been heard, so it made sense to keep it open so everyone had a place where they could be heard and talk with each other about this.
But now we’ve got folks using this thread to post that black lives “really don’t matter” and we would be better off without “them” (as if no one on staff or no one in our community of fans and artists was black), or outright calling for racial war. So, seems like this thread has served its purpose and now is decaying into a haven for people coming here to create drama.
So, rather than continuing to monitor this thread for such blatantly rule breaking and unwelcome comments, or bothering to try to have a discussion with someone like that to explain why such bigotry or calls for violence is bad, I’m just going to lock this thread. Let’s just take the usual “by deleting their blatantly racist and vile statements I’m not allowing them their right to freedom of speech” and “all voices deserve to be heard equally” screeds as read.
If you feel you have had a forced filter applied to your profile and don’t want to wait for it to expire you of have several options:
• please report yourself for a reason of “other” and state your appeal in the text field provided
• come to one of our support channels (linked on the Contact page) and appeal the forced filter
• wait until the current fracas ends and the forced filter will expire
