I answered a question posted by a member without making any references to any other specific post or poster and that becomes, (in your odd view), “throwing a wet blanket” on you?
And you want me to lighten up?
I didn’t even wave a damp handkerchief in your direction.
I do not ever recall this happening.
So you’re saying the Board membership acts automatically in this fashion - almost like a leftist immune response reaction? And that’s a bad thing because…:dubious: I mean, it’s the approach you say, quite positively, is happening with BPC and the late DtC. But when similar happens to conservatives, you don’t like it?
Hey. I’ve been in touch with Dio, and he is alive and well.
Late, as in no longer on this board, not this world.
This doesn’t happen with a rather prominent conservative poster who has also been reviled in the Pit. He posts in other threads on the board largely without comment by other posters. And the moderation staff have taken steps against it when people have attempted to harass him in other forums for his statements here. As we will do for other posters regardless of their political opinions.
In short, your opinion is bullshit.
Seriously?
Every time I hear people complain about the mods supposedly going after conservative posters I have to laugh.
Leaving aside how many left-wing posters regularly make the exact opposite remark, such as RedFury, don’t they notice how many “race realists” we have who’ve repeatedly put up threads try to prove the alleged intellectual shortcomings of blacks?
What’s the idea? That the mods have gotten together and decided “Ok, here’s the plan guys, we’re going to use these right-wing racists as cover. We let them post here so we can purge all the more moderate right-wingers”?
Clothahump.
Now that I have utterly rebutted your assertion, will you retract it?
I’ll see your Clothahump and raise you a Shodan.
Regards,
MfM
Heh, I trump both of you.
Brazil84.
Looks like we’re beat, Lobohan.
Ouch.
Though, don’t forget stalwart NotfooledbyW
I thought I would have to fold, but then I remembered adaher.
Well, at least my name hasn’t come up… yet.
Yes, I think they are similar, but two different things.
I wouldn’t want to be a member of a board that let BBC post without being mocked.
I also wouldn’t want to be a member of a board that only allowed one type of political thought. (On the right or the left.) One thing that left leaning boards like DU and right leaning boards like Tea Party ones have in common is that they suck. You need diversity of thought to make things interesting. However, that doesn’t mean that blatant idiots and assholes like BBC should get a pass.
Is that hypocritical? I don’t think so.
Not only did I not claim this, I specifically said that this isn’t what I think occurs.
I’m not going to get into a contest of which side has more idiots, or who they are by name.
As I said before, I give the mods credit for not targeting conservatives, or those who criticize them. It would be easy for them to do this, but they don’t.
I’ll simply state that IMHO it’s much harder to post here as a conservative than a liberal without attracting negative attention. This is not whining, it’s a simple statement that’s hard to disagree with given the nature of the board.
It amazes me that anyone would seriously claim BBC wouldn’t have been banned by now if he were a pro-life conservative for instance. Not because of mod bias, but because the lynch mob forming up around him would be much larger.
Let’s look at the post in question:
We’re “probably” not stalking, “per se”. But we’ll be modded if we attack him in other threads or if he doesn’t interact with us. Yeah. No wet blanket there.
Finally, on the subject of me telling the truth:
:rolleyes:
The more I think about it, this is sort of unprecedented. We’re in a pit thread about a poster. Yet we’re being vaguely warned we’re “probably” not going to be modded for stalking as long as he “continued to interact with us”, which you advised him not to do.
Plenty of posters have been pitted before who get ripped to shreds and they never even post in the pit thread. Is this no longer allowed?
Of course it isn’t allowed, if it were, you would be doing it with apparent impunity.
You do not appear to be bothering to read what I posted with any effort to understand it.
Is this Pit thread “totally unrelated” to BPC’ behavior? Has anyone been Modded for statements made about him, here? What do you think your point is?
If you are arguing that in a discussion of Creationism, Race Politics, Anthropogenic Global Warming or similar topics, you feel the need to falsely accuse him of pedophilia without Mod intervention, then you are just wrong. If someone pops up in a thread that is “totally unrelated” to the claims of his personal behavior in order to throw out charges against him, I will, indeed, consider that stalking.
Your complaint, here, makes no sense unless you are arguing that once a poster has a reputation that invites disdain, that poster becomes fair game for anyone to bring up his or her reputation on any thread on any topic. Certainly, reputations get dragged into any number of threads on separate topics. A one-off quip is probably going to be let passed, (or, more likely, simply missed), by the staff. However, attacking a poster with claims about the poster’s personal life in threads that do not refer to that life has always been considered poor form and if it is repeated, it will be deemed as stalking or harassment.