# Alarming trend in moderation **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 11, 2019, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alarming-trend-in-moderation/836891 "2019-07-11T06:58:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 46
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alarming-trend-in-moderation/836891/46 "2019-07-11T17:48:36Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > :rolleyes: In. That. Warning. Of Manson. What did it refer to? I think there has been a misunderstanding. My comment about the broad range of topics are permitted and the limited types of things that are disallowed in post #20 was a general description, not specific to any given warning. I didn’t make any connection between the two warnings you mentioned in the OP and your follow up paragraph’s general description of being constrained about topics for discussion. My reference to hate speech being forbidden wasn’t related to the two warnings you mentioned. Here is the warning that manson earned: > [@Why Bone thinks he was "doing me a favor"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-bone-thinks-he-was-doing-me-a-favor/836873/7): > > **Moderator Warning** > > Ok, if you insist. > > The comments are racist and misogynistic. Here is an official warning for continuing to make said comments even after it has been pointed out to you that they are inappropriate in ATMB. > > I strongly advise you to keep racist comments out of ATMB in the future. I also strongly advise you to keep misogynistic comments out of ATMB as well. Either is warnable on its own. > > Bone did you a favor. You should have left it at that. The ideas that manson wanted to discuss would probably be fine in GD, i.e. the impact of the behavior of victims in their victimization. But that’s not ATMB material. I attempted to head this off by closing the thread that was going off the rails. Manson does have a pattern of the one line rapid fire question type posting, and IIRC it typically happens in the evening when he has previously said alcohol may be involved. With this background in mind, and given his comments seemed to be escalating as a way to torque others off, especially because it was analogous to the behavior that SamuelA was warned for, I closed the thread in hopes that he would take that as ending that line of discussion. He seemed intent on continuing, even after being told that he would have most likely earned a warning if he continued, and then he continued. Kind of open and shut there. > [@SlackerInc](#): > > Speaking of which, another area I feel constrained from discussing outside the Pit is the Steven Pinker type critique of what he calls the Standard Social Science Model or SSSM in his book _The Blank Slate_. This embrace of the SSSM has wide ranging public policy ramifications in education, labor practices, and criminal justice especially. I’m not familiar with what that is beyond what I just looked up on the wiki page. That’d fine as a debate topic as far as I can see. > [@Richard\_Parker](#): > > I too rise up to complain about the jackbooted oppression of discussion of Pinker’s critique of the Standard Social Science Model. > > I would also add that I feel afraid to discuss Kant’s views on aesthetics and teleology as presented in Kritik der Urteilskraft. Also fine 🙂 You’d have to have the discussion in English though. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alarming-trend-in-moderation/836891)._