The forum should create a room for relevant political discussion, (and not suppress opinions of any narrative, especially when relevant to the future of the base of the forum ( more so when representative of a vast majority of members (only poll would show if i am wrong)).... considering the Godot engine itself has decided it can and will BULLY people they do not like <irony> (because THAT is what happened).
Silence is violence..... right? Isn't that the whole mentality of the engines actions up to this point? I don't respect people being banned/blocked/silenced simply because someone overemotional was put in a position of power.
I'm not trying to open a "can of worms" (in here) but EVERY opinion should be voiced/discussed as long as it doesn't promote hate/violence/exclusion. An opinion should never create such.... disfunction... especially in an professional organization that has NO NEED TO PANDER to target audience etc.
I get that if the forum was openly attacking the actions of Godot (posting something on social media etc), we may be invaded by the "mob", just like the Godot cafe was, and NO ONE wants that... But the ability to poll the community on decisions/directions and take representative action would feel... well, correct. If we had sent a REAL poll to show Godot of active members saying "85%* disagree on current actions and request a completely non political stance be taken by the engine...." like what the people who got banned said (on social media).... it may actually have made/may make a difference.
Hopefully the engine survives and prospers, but that's only if the community does, being that its open source. So I am speaking as a member of an international community of open source software users, having been built and maintained by the idea of open source freedom, and created thru donations of peoples represented in all ethnicities, religions, sexes, and nationalities. Wanting to have that continue and prosper doesn't really seem political to me, kind of just relevant to the Forum/Engine.
This may seriously boost the forums numbers as well being a safe haven from the abusive powers of bias censorship.... cough cough...
@MikeCL I honestly do feel bad for anyone in your shoes currently, and i mean no disrespect towards you personally in any way. Making decisions to benefit the whole of a populations is pretty much impossible, and honestly, even with the suppression of recent events i feel you made a good choice not allowing the platform to spread hate or get caught up in something that was POLITICAL considering what a poop show this became. I am asking for a way to voice my/our opinions in the future... somewhere... because the way this all unfolded was very disempowering. Hopefully you can create a way to help people have open discussion, even when the topics ARE controversial/political
