Remember how RPGnet banned open support of Trump?
Knitting site Ravelry has followed suit. Noteworthy in both citing RPGnet's call explicitly, and for being a much larger website, the knitting community being of significantly greater size than the RPG community.
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And, well, it makes sense. If you have an openly-bigoted person/group, then waving. Your options are to make a place friendly for bigots, or make a place friendly for everyone they're bigoted against. The RPGnet policy had time to work and rather than having a negative effect on conversation as some were worried about, removing people virtue-signalling bigotry by expressing support of Trump as a way to derail discussions they don't like did end up making things more open and discussion (and membership) increased, rather than decreased.
With a big site like Ravelry doing so, I do wonder if more will follow suit.
Knitting site Ravelry has followed suit. Noteworthy in both citing RPGnet's call explicitly, and for being a much larger website, the knitting community being of significantly greater size than the RPG community.
USAToday
CNN
BBC
Guardian
And, well, it makes sense. If you have an openly-bigoted person/group, then waving. Your options are to make a place friendly for bigots, or make a place friendly for everyone they're bigoted against. The RPGnet policy had time to work and rather than having a negative effect on conversation as some were worried about, removing people virtue-signalling bigotry by expressing support of Trump as a way to derail discussions they don't like did end up making things more open and discussion (and membership) increased, rather than decreased.
With a big site like Ravelry doing so, I do wonder if more will follow suit.