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He doesn't suffer fools lightly
I know a lot of people in this generation resent any kind of negative feedback, but fact of the matter is that delusional premeds are best served by straight talk. Even though it hurts their feels.
There are... they're called rejection letters. Also known as "donation receipts" lolRight! Because at the end of each app cycle, there are no Participation Trophies handed out.
Because SDN is now a safe space where criticism isn't welcome. Slowly pushing out all honest assessment until it is devoid of any real worth and essentially useless.
Same ol', same ol'.
We like @Goro , we really do but he has repeatedly violated the Terms of Service. People do get upset; we have no way of knowing if they're "special snowflakes" but when a user has been warned about X and they doing X, then action against their account is only fair. Even Goro has agreed and owned it. FWIW, he's one of the very few who is gracious about the administrative actions against his account.
So carry on, he'll be back soon.
I know a lot of people in this generation resent any kind of negative feedback, but fact of the matter is that delusional premeds are best served by straight talk. Even though it hurts their feels.
Or they're just treating everyone the same. The TOS are the TOS, whether you're goro or a new user. He's a great resource, but the rules don't stop applying to you just because you give great info.
He has written about 37k posts. When someone has posted that much, the odds are that some will annoy or upset some snowflakes, oops, readers.
As others mentioned, @Goro doesn't suffer fools gladly, and rightly so on a forum like this where it does no good to "tickle the ears" and encourage unwise paths.
Looking at his most recent posts, nothing glaring stands out, so unless a post was later edited, don't know what caused the time-out. Maybe someone bearing rose-colored glasses was reading a more older post, got his spectacles steamed and reported. If that's the case, maybe everything will shake out soon.
Hopefully he'll be back.
Because SDN is now a safe space where criticism isn't welcome. Slowly pushing out all honest assessment until it is devoid of any real worth and essentially useless.
I'm probably misreading things but where did you get the assumption that Goro got into trouble because some sensitive person over-reported him? You think he did nothing wrong to deserve it?
Assuming, which I admit I should not be but it seems all SDN cares about anymore is protecting everyone's feelings. However, my statement has come from seeing this progression over time and not this isolated incident.
Don't mean to chime in, but I do agree that SDN (and any other internet community that has a few core members) put certain members on a pedestal too much and worship those like Demigods.I'm probably misreading things but where did you get the assumption that Goro got into trouble because some sensitive person over-reported him? You think he did nothing wrong to deserve it?
Y'all take this website so seriously lolbanned
I agree that everyone should be treated the same. My issue is not necessarily just with Goro, although I do wholeheartedly agree he is a great resource, but with the whole website as of late. People are genuinely trying to help somebody and then that person doesn't appreciate it and reports it. It's an online forum, people take it a little too seriously sometimes. When I started using SDN what I loved about it and what made it better than other online resources was the blunt honesty IMO.
Except you have no idea if that's what happened. You're assuming.
I'm assuming that's what happened with Goro, which could be 100% incorrect very easily. I'm not assuming that it has happened outside of this incident.
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]I was one who got some straight talk, and it definitely served me well. People (like me) need to have their bubble burst occasionally.
I kinda wish the admins actually followed through with the "we are going to give a description of why people's accounts are suspended/banned," that was talked about a couple years ago... though mostly for my own personal entertainment rather than anything productive for the site.
I've also only ever been cautioned (not even suspended) by the mods 2x in almost 12 years on this site when about 40% of my posts are snark, so it's not THAT hard to avoid violating TOS.
@Lucca God forbid people make inappropriate comments about our rational POTUS who wants to build a wall after he forcibly extradites the dreamers who despite having no convictions are in truth mostly "rapists" and criminals. I guess all the DACA emails in my inbox from various schools should also be considered inappropriate. It's not like we live in a time where appropriateness has been throw out the window.
the political content of his posts is not in question or the issue, it is where and how he made them that resulted in the action. I have no love for trump and have strong opinions about the direction of the country in general but PreAllo is not the place to have those discussions. There can be no doubt that most, if not all, topics in medicine have some political element to them and political discussion is allowed when it concerns matters related to being a preMed, applying to med school, etc. That being said, just because the mainstream political environs of the US are a circus that does not mean that SDN has to be as well.@Lucca God forbid people make inappropriate comments about our rational POTUS who wants to build a wall after he forcibly extradites the dreamers who despite having no convictions are in truth mostly "rapists" and criminals. I guess all the DACA emails in my inbox from various schools should also be considered inappropriate. It's not like we live in a time where appropriateness has been throw out the window.
the particular violation was intent to inflame/derail
Please. His comments and input are generally invaluable.
If he has political views you don't like, don't read his political comments.
Bro, you've been here two months. If you don't like the moderation standards here, there's always reddit.
I see where you're coming from, but the mods have to maintain standards regardless of how valuable the poster is to keep this forum under control.Except Goro is the opposite of Reddit; specifically he has a lot of knowledge and doesn't seem to start drama He's 90% of the value of this forum.
Please. His comments and input are generally invaluable.
If he has political views you don't like, don't read his political comments.
Except Goro is the opposite of Reddit; specifically he has a lot of knowledge and doesn't seem to start drama He's 90% of the value of this forum.
@Lucca God forbid people make inappropriate comments about our rational POTUS who wants to build a wall after he forcibly extradites the dreamers who despite having no convictions are in truth mostly "rapists" and criminals. I guess all the DACA emails in my inbox from various schools should also be considered inappropriate. It's not like we live in a time where appropriateness has been throw out the window.
That's kind of the whole point though. I agree with what you said here. However, Goro's making the comments in threads about completely unrelated topics where people are asking for help with pre-med stuff, and absolutely no reason to bring up politics. So you're not expecting to see the comment until it's there - it's not something that can be easily avoided. Evidently some other users are incapable of letting a joking side comment slide, and it ends up derailing the entire thread, getting it locked, and then the OP doesn't get the answer to their original question. Goro's not completely at fault for this - I agree that the better thing would be for those who disagree to just roll their eyes and move on. But let's be real, that won't happen anytime soon.