Melmi

I prefer to stick to uncontroversial works made by politically conscious creators, like H.P. Lovecraft!

But no, I get it. I like art made by people who are or weren’t great. And that’s before considering my participation in the vast system of capitalism which necessarily involves systemic evils far beyond what JKR personally is capable of.

It just hurts to have a person who is loudly transphobic like JKR, who uses all support of her IP as support of her views, and then all the majority of society has to say is “I love HP tho”. It hurts especially when society is increasingly hostile towards trans people right now.

There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism. And it’s not like HL was handmade by JKR herself, there were plenty of people working on it who I’m sure aren’t transphobic and whose livelihoods are connected to the franchise as a result, some of whom are probably trans themselves.

The “separate the art from the artist” argument just always rings a little hollow to me. I tend to be put off when people cling to a franchise that is owned by a person who profits off hateful rhetoric and contributing to an unsafe environment for us. It feels like continuing to enjoy her art continues to platform her hate and shows people that being transphobic not only isn’t a deal breaker, it’s acceptable and profitable.

Anyone can have shares of anything, so that’s kind of moot. Even if suddenly Minecraft stopped making money, it would not affect Notch in the least. From what I can tell he might kind of like it, he seems to be kind of bitter about it. Though who knows what’s legit and what’s a grift at this point.

Art vs artist doesn’t apply when the artist is making bank off their art.

A better example would be something like Notch and Minecraft. Notch made Minecraft, Notch sucks, but he sold it and makes no money off it anymore so who cares if he’s the worst. JKR is a different story, and every new Harry Potter thing supports JKR.

Yeahhh I didn’t really think through how I worded that one, sorry. I was trying to say that Ada is essentially the face of enforcement and I haven’t seen you going out and banning people, but that hardly means there’s only one admin.

I really appreciate you keeping this place running for us!

Most people earn their currency in-game, which would make it awkward to have a real-world conversion attached to everything—especially when there’s no way to pull it out so it’s not really meaningful.

It’s already hard enough getting people to undock and risk their internet spaceships, it’d be even harder if there were little real-world price estimates attached to everything.

A better solution would be to attach the prices only to PLEX (the premium currency), since that’s what maps directly to real-world money and would be what you’re spending your money on. They could also post the going exchange rate for euro to isk on the market itself without having to attach price tags to every individual item.

My point is that rules do nothing to “control corruption” as you put it.

In an instance like this where there’s only one active admin, the rules are fundamentally just a courtesy to the users. The owner can just do whatever they want.

It doesn’t ultimately matter what their rules are. Anti corruption laws exist IRL so they can be enforced by the government on its own members, but when the “government” is one person what are they gonna do, say “welp I made a rule against corruption, guess I gotta stop being corrupt.” The very concept of controls is silly.

Ada owns this space, so she decides how to run it. I like that because it means there’s no room for arguments over what’s technically within the rules or not. Are you transphobic/potentially harmful to the safe space? You’re out.

Writing down a million rules to explain Ada’s internal logic for banning people would be ridiculously infeasible because it’s such a personal thing. But for people who like the way that Ada runs things, it’s a nice space. Anyways, I don’t particularly want “polite transphobes” here who are capable of following the rules if written out but would be horribly transphobic otherwise.

EDIT: what even is “corruption” in this context? I feel like your government analogy doesn’t apply very well to this situation

Laws need to be stringent because governments involve lots of people, and people’s livelihoods and well-being are on the line.

No one’s livelihood is on the line here, worst case scenario they get banned and then they find a new server.

There’s only two (really one) admins, and they enforce the safe space according to their own judgement. This isn’t a government, it’s a Lemmy server. Fleshing out rules would only invite rules lawyering which bigots love and is a headache for little practical gain.

There’s no need to “control corruption” or prevent “enforcers not understanding the rules” when the person making the rules is also the person enforcing them.