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Tom G.

Leesburg va

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2 Reviews by Tom

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  • BGG

9/6/21

Boardgamegeek is a great source for all things board game. I have consumed and contributed much over the years.

"Octavian" (BGG administrator) however has a record of deleting posts that he feels are "inflammatory or argumentative". A noble thought. However, as usually is the case when acting on this level of power, the controller of said power ("Octavian" in this case) clearly allows his personal prejudices to show through. I have seen numerous inflammatory posts supporting leftest thought left up permanently (challenge me and I will demonstrate). But if somebody posts something speaking against those leftists thoughts, even if written respectfully and courteously, he will remove them. I've seen it happen numerous times, and numerous people have witnessed/discussed it. And these are game-related discussions. Many games deal with "controversial topics", and it seems if the point being made supports current left view points, they can stay,... even if generally disrespectful of others opinions and/or personally offensive. Argue against those points, your post is removed.

It is a shame that BGG supports this cancel culture. Even though I personally am middle of the road politically speaking, I will no longer contribute to BGG simply because I can not stand such selfish, single-minded, un-American thought/action. I hope BGG makes some changes in the future. I am only speaking of games/gamers in this post, but this single-sided cancel culture is hugely pervasive in society now. It stands in the very face of what this country is all about. Freedom of speech (even if I don't like what you have to say), the sharing of ideas, this is what makes the US special. C'mon BGG, get it together!

  • Patch

5/12/21

I have seen/heard-of several reasonably and rationally written posts (in response to written articles) deleted simply because the administrator did not like what the reviewer had to say. Patch should allow people to express their comments freely, they do not.

E.G. They had an article yesterday regarding children in Loudoun county being vaccinated. I simply wrote in reminding people that the Covid vaccine was still in 'Emergency use' status (i. E. we still do not know if there are any long term effects, it has NOT been through full FDA testing yet), and that Covid was less dangerous to children than the Flu (according to CDC). There is no emergency for kids with regards to Covid.

Rather than leave the comment in place for discussion, they simply removed it. Several hours later, I noticed a comment praising the news (that children will be getting the vaccine). I responded to that individual with the exact same post from earlier. Within 1 minute that individual responded "You make some good points, thanks for sharing". But then, my post was again deleted.

Me and one other poster had a nice dialog initiated, Patch then decided they would not allow it, at least not my portion (they left the agreeing opinion there). Judge, Jury, Executioner. They need to remember the US was born on free speech and the sharing of opinions! I have now cancelled my subscription with Patch.

I did not see it at first, but it is true, our country is slipping towards a cancel-society. It's unfortunate that Patch does not stand its ground against this movement.

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