Look, I don’t know what the deal is with lekatt. Evidently, he’s some sort of evangelical. That’s fine, it doesn’t matter to me one way or another.
But whenever people post questionable claims here, they’re expected to be able to support them with evidence. That, the very heart of this messageboard, no longer applies to lekatt–according to Marley, lekatt has hijacked so many threads that asking him for a cite is frowned upon by the Mods.
I get it. Marley’s trying to head off a hijack. Fine, no problem. My question is why on earth is lekatt still posting here?
If lekatt is constantly threadshitting and hijacking, then wouldn’t a better solution be to ban him from threadshitting and hijacking, rather than telling everyone else on the SDMB that we are not allowed to ask one particular poster for cites?
My point, Electric Warrior, is that replies to lekatt are now forbidden in that thread. That’s a needless onus on us… why not simply get rid of the source of what has become, according to Marley, a recurring problem?
There’s no reason to ban somebody who didn’t break the rules. Haven’t people been complaining about too many bannings anyway? Especially of right wing and religious posters? Instead, it just keeps the thread from being hijacked.
I said that if he wants to have yet another discussion about the brain and the spirit, he should take it to another thread instead of hijacking a thread about Terri Schiavo in that direction. If he does start that thread, you can ask him for all the cites you like. But if I ask him to drop the hijack, it’s only fair that other posters also have to stop bringing it up. If they keep asking him questions, the hijack doesn’t end and he gets warned for backing up his own arguments, which I don’t think is fair.
He’s been warned on occasion for breaking the rules, but for the most part he follows them. What I don’t get is why he bothers posting here in the first place.
That’s fair enough. So it’s a specific sort of hijacking he’s become notorious for, brain / spirit discussions.
I’m happy to have him here if he normally brings a different, but reasonably argued, point of view. I was curious about how someone could get several don’t-start-that-crap-in-here-again mod-notes without having their posting priveleges reviewed. You’ve answered that well, thanks.
