I really don’t think you are being “targeted”. Someone probably reported your thread via our handy dandy “Report this post to a moderator” button, he saw it first, and moved it to the proper forum.
If you piss off the Mods you get warnings or mod calls, moving threads to their proper forums is not a Mod’s sanction, he’s just doing his most basic task, and as you have noted, pretty diligently so.
Well just the same, I won’t be stepping on certain toes any further.
It would be a good idea for you to read the forum descriptions and maybe check out a few threads in different forums to see how things usually work. But even if you have other threads moved, it really isn’t a big deal.
So, you are asking a question about the running of the board, and are wondering why it was moved to About This Message Board?? 
Questions about the operation of the board belong in…that’s right, About This Message Board. Questions that have factual answers go in General Questions. Questions about staff reports or articles by Cecil belong in Comments on Cecil’s Columns/Staff Reports, and questions that are up for debate or witnessing belong in Great Debate, etc etc. It’s really a pretty simple system. If you post a new OP and the mods feel it’s in the wrong forum they simply move it. It has nothing to do with upsetting people or some sort of ‘favoritism’, since I don’t know a poster on this board (including me) who hasn’t had threads moved from their original forum to some other forum because the mods felt it wasn’t in the right place.
In the thread on videotaping, the OP is asserting that it was a ‘good’ decision…which opens up the discussion to posters who do NOT think it was a good decision. IOW, it’s a debate. I suppose the mods COULD move it to the Elections forum, since that also includes discussions about all things political, but it seems the proper forum to me. If the discussion gets off track and the mods feel it’s becoming silly, or inflammatory, or something else, they they might move it later on…at their discretion. That’s their jobs, after all.
Your thread, on the other hand, started off as inflammatory and aggressive, so it’s not a big mystery as to why it was moved to the Pit. If you wanted to ask the question in a different way then you might have gotten a debate out of it. If you really DID want a debate (instead of a rant) you could always petition the mods to close your train wreck thread, and craft a new one. It takes a while to get the hang of this board, and no one is going to ding you much for trying to learn the culture here…not if you ARE making an effort to learn it.
No…as others have said, I think it’s a matter of you not understanding the culture here or how things work. Before jumping automatically on some sort of ‘favoritism’ thingy, try reading through a number of threads and learning how the board operates. The fact that posters as diverse as those in this thread are all telling you the same thing should make an impression, as many of those posters couldn’t agree on what the color of the sky is, or whether or not water is wet. 
-XT
That’s absolutely wrong. We could totally agree on the colour of the sky, but it has to be written colour and not color.
Is it lonely up there on that cross?
I came to this site via a link from another website and there happened to be a link to the rule change discussion that I followed. I have read the rules, not completely as I did not click on the abusive language discussion because I already know not be abusive to others from my conscience. I did not read the one below that either as it was self explanatory. And when I registered, I did review the rules that were also not self explanatory. While getting acquainted with all of you, I have noticed many instances of rules being broken with no consequences. I attributed that to human limitations. I had participated in one thread that was not a debate and so was not worried about starting one which was alike.
All the circumstances of this particular altercation (timing, previous disagreement, apparent acceptance of same behavior from others) point to deliberate targeting. You say there was no targeting involved and I must take you at your word. But there is no need to dismiss my valid points by puling out of thin air excuses for the 2nd post, assuming rules were not read, and claiming rules are strictly followed here.
I attributed that to their fear of also being targeted themselves or they, having been here a while, knowing the ins and outs better than I do. None have made valid points as to why one nondebate post was moved whereas another was not.
Not to mention the fact that this kind of excuse would never do for the whole atheist position since the majority of the world tells them one thing and that has made no impression.
No one is dismissing your valid points because you have not made a single valid point. But when you make a valid point, I’m sure someone will come along and dismiss it, if just to make you feel better.
The other thread DID pose a subject for debate. You are not being targeted.
If you believe you see rules being broken, please report the posts. Based on this discussion and the fact that you’re new here, I have a feeling your interpretation of the rules is not going to be the same as those of the staff or other users, but I will take a look.
This is starting to get tiresome because I don’t think you are listening. You were not punished and I am not making excuses. I did not “dismiss your valid points.” You were wrong and I explained why. Dismissal implies I ignored you. I’ve told you why I moved your thread. What I did was consistent with the way I’ve always interpreted the rules and the way the other mods interpreted them. I have absolutely zero doubt that any other mod would have handled it the same way.
You haven’t been “targeted” by the mods for anything, yet. It now appears that you may be attempting to tattoo a large bullseye on your chest, for reasons that are not immediately apparent.
This entire situation is simple. You posted a thread in the wrong forum. Twice. Both threads got moved to the proper forum.
You ask why? The first thread was clearly not intended to be a debate. It was a rant/complaint about other posters, and thus was properly moved to the Pit. The second was a question about the moderation of this board. It was moved to ATMB, which is where such threads belong.
That’s it. Done. Over. Finito. You’ve got me agreeing with **Dio **and Czarcasm on this one. That almost never happens. I’ve got long and colorful histories with both guys. They don’t like me, I don’t like them. We have most certainly not entered into any conspiracy to mislead you in any way.
honestly how many times do I have to ask one of you to read the post? Never wondered why the post was moved.
really? NO WAY, I totally disagree. (being deliberately faceitous here)
can we please stick to the point? the move is not in question, the uneven distribution of moves is…
Right, and same could be said of my original post
please do quote the very beginning of the post which was inflammatory and aggressive. I apologize if a contest is abhorrent to you.
Culture is a very good word
I cannot excuse illogic. What you read into things is not necessarily what is there. the fact that you would insist that no part of the situation is questionable just goes to show what I am up against here. Inserting comments that I have NOT made or interpreting what I do state to fit your own single view is not conducive to any sort of discussion. Fact remains, I am not complaining, I am trying to understand the situation better but all these unbased attacks just further support my view that there is a certain ‘culture’ here that I need to adapt to. But the whole semblance of embracing only logic tripped me up. Not the first time.
gtk
Sorry the board isn’t working out for you. Thankfully, it’s a big internet out there, and undoubtedly, you’ll find a place more to your liking.
You cant insert yourself in another poster’s post (when quoting him). You have to keep your answers separate from the quoted post.
Please do quote EXACTLY where I “ask why”. And please do explain how stating that I understand why it was moved is questioning the move itself. If you cannot find it in my OP, please do consider why you would automatically assume that I am questioning a move when I deliberately stated that I was not. And as far as the second moved post is concerned, I only made a snide remark about the move because the reasoning was not provided as it was for the original post.
But none of that matters any way now does it? You’ve already made up your mind that you are right and any evidence to the contrary can simply be ignored or explained away. Have I got the ‘culture’ yet?
I fixed this by inserting some extra quote tags.
Part of the culture too when someone brings up a valid argument, just tell them they can go elsewhere? This board may work out for me after all.
Thank you. I did not do it bc i am lazy. did it take time? is there a faster way to do it i am not aware of?