Well, you’re right - when I complained about the ridiculous handling of the situation here, the warning turned into a suspension, as this post no doubt will also.
3 of the 5 warnings in question were:
*being told that “making a caricature of CRT” (i.e. disagreeing with CRT proponents over what CRT is) is against the rules, which of course it is not, but is part of Hari Seldon’s usual policy of disciplining people for arguing against leftist positions and the general tolerance of/desire for that style of moderation by the most active users of this board
*posting about CRT in a thread started by someone else called “Another Critical Race Theory Thread,” which somehow earned a warning for being a “hijack” of that thread
*posting about CRT in a thread about the Virginia gubernatorial election - which was largely fought over CRT and in which a moderator specifically posted that discussing CRT is not a hijack- which was again labeled a “hijack” of that thread; or more precisely, being told that I, specifically, was no longer allowed to post about CRT in a thread about CRT because that is a “hijack,” and then being warned for breaking that note with a subsequent post that didn’t mention CRT
It’s pretty obvious that “hijack” is the new “trolling” or “being a jerk” - just a catch-all for “you’re allowed to agree with everything the MSNBC wing of the Democratic Party says, or be a dancing clown who posts incoherent MAGA rants for people to throw fruit at, but making good arguments against leftist orthodoxy is simply not going to be tolerated for any length of time.”
It’s also not a good idea to make warnings cumulative and incentivize arguing about every single one. All the warnings I’ve received were unnecessary examples of tendentious partisan moderating, but I didn’t realize that by not posting a thread in ATMB about every single one I was accepting them as part of a larger case being built.
As I’ve said before, it would behoove this board to stop pretending that it has, or desires to have, a forum in which “political discussion” takes place as opposed to a clubhouse for the small group of elderboomer people who are allowed to be here to congratulate each other about how correct all of their pre-existing opinions are. Just delete the politics forums and ban all political discussion if you expect anyone new to sign up and keep your community viable into the future.