In THIS thread, you warn me for “being a jerk” type behaviour. I don’t get it. This was a thread designed for people to confess their dirty laundry. While what I posted is despicable, I did so to get it off my chest as this disconnect in my brain bothers me. Since it seemed that nobody else took offense in the thread, (at least none chose to post back about it), I don’t feel that the warning was fair.
You know who’s a jerk? Someone who doesn’t link to the post in a multipage thread, that’s who’s a jerk. Jerk.
Yes, that mod warning is a toss-up. I would not have taken what you said as a serious death threat. However, I suppose the line has to be drawn somewhere, so if I got a warning like that, I’d just note it and get on with my life.
Yeah, I think that warning was hasty. It’s a harsh post, but it is a thread for confessions.
Still, airing one’s dirty laundry in public is a gamble at the best of times.
I didn’t want to get into the business of judging confessions, but ‘I would gas churches full of evangelical Christians if I could get away with it’ is not quite on par with ‘I don’t like Joss Whedon.’ Acid Lamp, what you said was just digusting and fucking horrible, period. If you meant it, get some help. If you didn’t, it’s trolling.
I didn’t take it as a serious death threat. I took it as a wildly inappropriate and completely jerkish remark, of questionably sincerity, in which a poster said he’d like to murder a lot of people. I can’t think of a way to interpret that comment as un-jerkish.
That thread could have been interesting if it wasn’t filled with a zillion people “confessing” to stupid shit like not liking Buffy.
ETA: and the flirting/attention whoring
That’s odd, it seems that is exactly what you are doing.
I said I didn’t want to. Not that I wouldn’t. And I would’ve stayed out of it if you hadn’t said something so flagrantly assholish.
Speaking as an outside observer and a non-Christian who nonetheless doesn’t share your homicidal urges: some of our Christian posters are highly sensitive souls, if curiously erratic in their sensitivity.
If I had to wager, I’d say the fact your confession evidently raised stigmata on several of them may not be entirely coincidental to your subsequent warning.
I don’t see what the problem with Marley is. You’re talking like a nazi, Acid Lamp. True, it’s a confessional thread, but we ain’t your priest.
I never said you were. I would have been content to leave my post alone if Marley23 didn’t take issue with it.
For the record, I could apply that same post to any number of extremist groups I feel we’d be better off without. I wouldn’t go out of my way to actually DO what I posted, but if someone gave me the button? Yeah, I’d push it.
Besides, a confession thread ought to be the one where you could post freely without any expectation of modding due to content that is related to the topic.
This was my thought too.
That’s how you are asking to be treated: as if this was a confession to a priest and not a public conversation.
The rules apply in all threads, although they vary to some degree by forum. That’s by far the most consistent and fair way to do things. You apparently expected things to be handled differently, which was not smart, particularly since there was absolutely zero basis for it. As indicated, I did want to let people admit to what they wanted to. You took it too far, and you shouldn’t need me to tell you that. Common sense alone would keep most people from saying that kind of thing.
So confessions are only allowed so long as they aren’t controversial, or disturbing to some. I’ll keep that in mind. :rolleyes:
“Don’t rock the boat, don’t rock the boat baby!”
You’re pretending to be principled because you know applying common sense to this situation makes you look like an ass. Advocating mass murder is not “controversial,” it’s just being hateful and stupid.
Confessions aren’t a special case; they have to fit within the rules just like any other post on the board. Yours was over-the-top and jerkish; that it was in a confession thread doesn’t give it any more protection than if someone had come in there and said, “I confess that I think John Doe is an ass.” That confession may be what the poster honestly believes, but it still violates the rules.
In addition, we don’t hand out warnings by popular vote. That someone was bothered enough by your post to report it was the only relation to your and Vinyl Turnip’s off-base suspicion. Had we run across your post while reading the thread, and had no one complained about it, you still would have been warned.
Incidentally, Vinyl Turnip and the Off-Base Suspicion is due out in stores soon, and die-hard fans are already queuing up.
Advance word is that several major characters die, none of whom is particularly loved, and that the protagonist finally “comes out” as a heterosexual.
Let me see if I have this right. The poster of the OP shared a ‘confession’ that he has a strong desire to gas a bunch of Christians in a church (simply because they are Christians), receives (what looks like to me to be a mild) rebuke, and then complains about it here in The Pit, while generating some fairly mild comments?
To paraphrase Cecil in his article on the 2nd Amendment, I can see why some of the Christian member comments on this board sometimes take on such apocalyptic tones when discussing what seems to clearly be a double standard. Not that I blame the Mods, but I can certainly see where they are coming from. My guess is if I said I secretly wanted to whack a bunch of blacks (or Jews, or Muslims, or Inuit, or baby puppies, etc etc) by gassing them simply because they were black (or whatever), not only would I risk being banned (and rightfully so) but my guess is the flames would be hot and heavy here in The Pit (and again, rightfully so). But because we are talking about Christians (or conservatives, or some other distasteful and unpopular group in these parts) it slides by with a wrist slap and some pretty mild retorts…in a thread STARTED by the idiot who made the comment in the first place! The OP should have been reamed a new one just for the stupidity of coming in here and asking why the Mod in question took exception to his comments in the linked thread! :smack:
-XT