If that’s the case, you are going about it in a very bad way. You’ve just quoted part of what he said and treated as if it was the entirety of the post. You’ve ignored the rest of the post, which makes it clear that he didn’t Warn based on his personal irritation, but based on her actions. He laid out an argument for why she was not arguing in good faith.
Rather than rebut his argument, you’ve decided to take one portion of his post out of context, ignoring the rest of the post. So you are effectively rebutting a stawman–a position no one actually took.
Now granted, this happens sometimes even when people are arguing in good faith. People misunderstand things, or people get heated. But DemonTree has a long history of this sort of argument. And that history is exactly why I side with the moderation here. She has a pattern of behavior that shows this wasn’t some accident.
She argued something that her source did not say. She refused to explain why she thought it said something it didn’t say. She didn’t provide a cite to any source that agreed with her interpretation. And then she started accusing people of not caring about women’s sports at all, trying to negate the counterarguments against her position by bringing up an emotional strawman.
It’s just not how people act when they’re arguing in good faith. The Warning here is a good wakeup call that DemonTree needs to stop arguing in her typical disingenuous manner. She needs to stop throwing around emotionally loaded language, accusing her opponents of not caring about women simply because they don’t agree with her positions.
You know, we used to discuss this topic every once and a while on the SDMB, without all of the problems. We respectfully discussed the issue of trans athletics. It’s not like it can’t be done. It was only when two posters, YWTF and DemonTree, came in that things got so acrimonious.