In re recent warnings of Sammy and Manson:
We are not there yet, but if the moderation trajectory continues apace, within a few months or a year it will be a demerit in my eyes if you can post regularly on this board and not get banned, because you will either be a true believer in an almost Maoist politically correct agenda, or be living out your days in pathetically cowed prostration before said True Believers.
I agree it seems things are shifting in the direction where the Mods are making judgements more on their feeling or emotions than in the fairness of discussion and deciding what discussions are worth having at all. If someone makes a statement hypothetically or playing devil’s advocate to make a point or go down a line of discussion that may be illuminating if allowed to evolve naturally it just gets shut down.
I’d ask for some of what you are smoking, but decided my stuff doesn’t make me all paranoid like you are. 
FFS…it’s a messageboard dude. You don’t have to be here if it pains you to do so.
FTR, I’m fine with both SammyA’s suspension and manson’s warning. I don’t find the moderation in those cases alarming.
Maoism, eh?
Moderators, do you have your little red books?
This is a feature, not a bug.
I’m delighted to read the OP. Obviously, the moderation is effective!
You do indeed!
I wonder if [del]the poster that caused all the brouhaha[/del], his cats go “Mao!”
Tripler
::ducks and runs::
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ETA: You know who I’m talking about. I softened the reference to keep this post lighthearted.[/sub]
Ooh! Ooh! I wanna be a True Believer! I have a podcast you can listen to if you want to know why.
Maybe if we could get all the black people in Georgia to post here, it would swing the balance.
I don’t know. How many black Georgian Maoists are there?
Yup. It’s a requirement to be both a Maoist and and a supporter of anti-semites to be a moderator here.
I thought he was being melodramatic, but I just saw someone on another board saying almost the same thing. This is seriously alarming!
They would be paid, of course. By Tom Steyer and Bill Gates.
This retort could be used in response to literally every complaint lodged in ATMB. It is therefore a form of threadshitting.
oh shit
I thought a True Believer was what Stan Lee called fans who wrote in to Marvel Comics in the 1960s.
Me, I Truly Believe that the moderation is far too weak, and that obvious trolls are allowed to spew their noxious effluents for years after they should have been banned.
I’ll try to focus on your substantive issues and ignore this, but I’ll just say that this isn’t how we construe threadshitting.
It seems your main point is that posters are being constrained to hold certain views else they get banned, or choose to remain silent. If that’s your position then I disagree. With certain limitations, virtually any topic can be discussed on the board in one of the forums. In my view, the biggest constraints that limit posters are in areas of illegal activity and hate speech. Beyond that, most topics are fair game as long as people remain civil about it.
Are there topics you want to engage in but feel constrained about?
