I used to go round and round with Aldebaran in defense of our Constitution and against some of the generalizations that he made. At that time he had told us his whereabouts. Sometimes I tried to draw parallels or contrast the two countries – or even use what little I knew as a weapon. Then, for some reason or another, I realized I was just being an ass and confirming his negative opinions of Americans.
I don’t consider it hypocrisy that he doesn’t tell us where he lives. As others have mentioned, the freedom to post freely is not legal in all countries. That may or may not be the reason he doesn’t say. It isn’t my business and I don’t need to insult his country in order to discuss mine.
I see what you’re saying about the futility of going 'round and 'round with Aldebaran and his generalizations, but I really don’t see how you drawing parallels or contrasts between your country of origin and his makes you an ass. If he is claiming his culture is superior (is he? I really don’t know), then you are perfectly justified in calling him on it.
I don’t consider it hypocrisy that he doesn’t tell us where he lives. As others have mentioned, the freedom to post freely is not legal in all countries. That may or may not be the reason he doesn’t say. It isn’t my business and I don’t need to insult his country in order to discuss mine.
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No one is saying one must have the ability to insult another poster’s country. It does smack of a deliberate deception in order to dodge debate points. He could e-mail Mehitabel privately and tell her he is not at liberty to reveal his country of origin due to fear of reprisals. I think she’s a decent enough person to take the hint. Instead, he insults her right back, in a very public and inflammatory way. I don’t believe he wants to resolve anything with her, if this thread is any evidence. JMO based on his behavior in the thread.
Well, in my viewu the refusal of any moderator to react to my reports and to answer my question in post 128 and to close this thread as I ask both on the board and by reporting that post, says more then words couod ever do.
Maybe the administrator can once again come on board to post the location she thinks the IP that use now has, in order to once again help poor Mehitabel and to ensure her by this that she has in her stalking, harrassing, deliberately spreading false informaton with as only aim to cause confusion and to divert the focus of discussions to “where I live” etc… every support of the moderators and administrators of this website.
I still wonder what would happen if I did the same as Mehitabel does since about 17 months non-stop to any at random chosen member of this website.
Yet it does not interest me since this website has lost its ability to interst me.
I appreciate many of the members very much and no, Zoe (and you are among the members I appreciate very much) I do not form my impressions of countries of nations or iots citizens by what I read that is posted by idiots and bigots on a website.
I have friends in the USA, I visit the USA frequently, we have business in the USA just as is the case in other nations. Furthermore I received an education that - other then I can say from what some members of this website show - in any case would prevent me from being so stupid to form my opinion about such matter relying on what is posted on a website, or on the internet in its whole for that mattersomething.
Yet I do not visit a website to be continiously harassed by one obsessed member, who’s inventions and over and over again cause me trouble when posting because she influences with her repeatedly posted fantasies fantasies (and yes, this are here fantasies) other members.
The more because she does this - as she herself said here once again - because of her obsession to know what I over and over again and to anyone involved declared NOT to reveil.
This counts the more when such a member receives support from those working behind the screen.
There are limits to masochism even when only being a cyber-identity.
Salaam. A
Before I go let me give poor innocent stalking Mehitabel the link to the thread I made because of my disgust with the actions of said moderator in support of Mehitabel’s stalking and because there came no answer to my mails regarding that incident.
I asked that by mail and by posting that thread to explain why she did this and did not receive answer. Hence I asked her once again on a thread where she said something in the line of " I don’t not look up IP’s" to explain finally why she posted mine publicly. Only to receive ananswer by an other moderator that “she explained herself” by telling that she reveiled my IP because of my behaviour. (link to that post provided by a meber in this very thread)
I can only understand this as: because I refused rerpeatedly and since the beginning of my posting history here to give my location to Mehitabel.
The lack of reactions on this thread and on my reoprts about it can only confirm this.
I was disgusted when this breach in my privacy happend, I was disgusted by the refusal of that moderator to take responsibility of her actions and to offer me the apology I in my vew certainly deserve, next I was disgusted by the answer of that other moderator, even “warning” me that I should “drop it” (no, >I can’t drop unfinished business and unsettled disputes about such importance things as my privacy, sorry) I am digusted still and nowI am to a point of disgust that spending more time on a website where enven the moderators can’t judge impartial is in my view utterly meaningless and hence a waste of my time.
Not to mention my serious concerns about what in fact really happens with the IP informations moderators and administrators have acces to.
I have no single shred of confidence left and hence I can not post here anymore.
Don’t you think this is rather petty - as I’ve said before, I like Aldebaran’s posts here, I hope that he changes his mind about staying, and that this thread puts an end [finally] to speculation about his location.
Aldebaran IS a drama queen, because he got what he wanted: before he decided to quit the SDMB:
Mehitabel admitted to being wrong and says she’ll stop bothering him. What the hell more does he want? My god. :rolleyes: I feel he has finally proved my thesis about him correct–he didn’t open this thread to resolve things with her, just to start another fight. Even if you think Mehitabel has behaved abominably, she has now recanted. If Aldebaran expects an apology, he may be pushing his luck, so one would hope he could be satisfied with an admission of guilt and a promise to try to change.
You like his posts. I – and clearly many others find – that he generates more heat than light, does nothing to fight ignorance and is so intentionally polarizing and obtuse in the threads that he participates in that his presence isn’t all that useful anyway. If he had spent as much time honestly sharing perspectives about real issues as he had making things all about him, personally, we might all have learned something by now. The sum total of what we’ve learned from Aldebaran in his 18 months on these boards is so inconsequential as to render his footstomping declaration the height of unsavory, egocentric whining.
Oh, Alde, sweet halfwit. Where to begin. You said you were worried about your proxy server being found out. (Anyone able to tell me how to use a proxy server on the SDMB?)
You, Alde, are a punk. No, let me rephrase, as that would offend punks. You’re worthless. You hate the US and anyone living here. Specifically Bush voters. I’m one of them, so I invite you to bring it on.
I have an email address available to anyone posting here. Yet you can’t post what what fucking country you’re from. (either of them) :rolleyes:
I’m calling you out, tough guy.
Why can’t you mention the country you’re in? Are you afraid of your government? Are you afraid of getting busted for what you’ve done? You’re posting, as a paying member, to an American message board. If your government is Islam-based and anti-American , like Iran, you’d be in jail by now.
Otherwise, it seems you may be a terrorist in another country looking for new recruits. This would make sense if you’re posting inflammitory posts supporting Islam. After all, where better to find some fringe elements than an anonymous message board?
The fact you’re still here is giving me more and more reason to flame your type.
Salaam my cock, bitch. D.
Interesting. This thread is still open. Not interesting are the replies following my last post, but that is no surprise to me when looking at the names of the posters.
I’m also not inclined to struggle any longer to be able to post on this message board without obsessed members following me around to post attacks, harassments and false information on me.
But I’m a compassionate being and hence thinking about it that this board tells the audience that its goal is to “fight ignorance”, it can maybe add to this goal to point out that the way it is moderated seems at the very least to cause confusion. Because I see here some very clear double standards in practice and am left wondering by the day more and more about the reasons behind this.
Now I finally hear the moderators speaking. I might help to restore my confidence a little bit, eventually.
But can you explain me then finally how come it is OK when a member follows me around for exactly that reason, harassing me, spreading false information on me and claiming in this very thread that she does this because I do not wish to answer personal questions considering my location?
Why it is OK that when I even open a thread to ask that member to stop this she thinks she has the backup of the moderators and administrators, which leads her to post “conditions” I should fulfil for her to be inclined to stop harassing me?
(On a not directly related side note: Why is it OK for an other member to change my member name which Mehitabel also finds such a success that she does not hesitate to start using it?)
Secondly: If member have [the right** not to reveal any personal information, as I read today to my satisfaction, then why is it that an administrator posted what she perceived to be the location of one of my IP’s because once again I made it clear to Mehitabel that I do not say where I live, after Mehitabel once again popped up in the middle of a thread following her obsession to find out “where I live”?
I now it was said after this incident (yet only after I made a thread about it) that this was not in line with the rules. I was posted in that thread of mine and also that it shall not happen again. Yet I still have no other explanation about why this incident happened, other then what I read here
Why is it that instead of Lynn Bodoni finally explaining the matter, an other administrator came along to tell me -rather threatening, in my view - that she did this because of my “behaviour” = my refusal to give my location? All while now an other moderator posts on GD that it is my right not to give any personal information I do not want to give. Surely this is not a new rule?
Can Lynn Bodoni not simply answer my question to clear this once and for all? I asked her by mail, I asked her on the board. Surely, if there is any other explanation then a sudden inclination to help Mehitabel “finding out” where I live or where I am at a given moment, she could have said so long ago and the matter would have been resolved once and for all. Even if it was caused by such sudden inclination, she could have said this and the matter would have been resolved. There is in my view no harm in admitting you got a bit carried away and forgot for a few moments that you were acting in your function as a moderator instead of posting in function of your normal membership.
Most certainly I would be the first to understand this happening. I’m not such an innocent blank page on such matters either = I know all too well how some situations - or people - can irritate you and how this can influence your judgement and the way you approach a matter in your postings.
I’ve made a lot of posts here and quite a few - especially those explaining Islam or its history - asked a lot of my time because I had to write them in this language. I came to appreciate a lot of the members and a lot of the input here.
I would prefer to leave this message board without having the memory a bitter taste of prejudice by its administration.
Salaam. A
Alderbaran, the mods do not have a rule that they’ll close a thread on request.
I mentioned earlier that the rules often seem arbitrarily enforced but you cannot attribute it to any racial/religious prejudice. If there is a prejudice it is a personal one against you brought about by your posting history.
I can only counsel patience and a continued lowering of your haughtiness levels. Good Luck.
Don’t usually put it but I think everyone needs my sig right about here.
