All I can say is thank you for all the negative commentary: it displays how incredibly flawed and broken the Blacklisting Combine really is. No one, on either side is learning how to live and let live. No one is arguing about regional ability to ban undesirable players from NationStates regions or even discord.
The knee-jerk bans however come from the little gossip channel, listening to one another complain about Nation X sand then deciding, well, Nation Y is well respected, and complaining about Nation X, so I shall ban them also".
While everyone is fond of saying there is no hard list, there really is, as everything is TYPED. SO its SEARCHABLE. On site, and in discord channels.
The Whitelist is both morally superior than shaming and shunning, as well as more applicable to a text based game. With all the wonderful cultures represented here, we should be resolving issues between ourselves, and that is what the Whitelist proposes. Maybe you need to re-read it again if you are confused:
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1303449I have been told that Whitelist has some other meanings; however I chose the title simply to provide a counterpoint to The Blacklisters and their flawed and simple methodology.