ISTM that this Mod Note is based on a misunderstanding. As pkbites points out, the “you” is the generic “you” in the traffic stop, not anyone in the thread. Reading it in context I think makes it clear.
Please consider rescinding the Mod Note.
Regards,
Shodan
Called someone a liar and told someone to shut up, in GD.
Hard to sell that as ‘generic you’, I think.
Seems like a pretty clearly legit reason for a note. It wasn’t a formal warning, so I’m not seeing any need for a retraction.
YMMV
I read it the same as Shodan (holy cow there’s a sentence). Mod note based on incorrect reading of the post, and entirely unwarranted.
But that isn’t what happened. At this point the discussion was about whether lying to a cop about a crime is itself a crime. It was posited that you (generic) can say “no” without it creating an additional chargeable offense. PK bites suggests an alternative that you (still generic) instead just say nothing.
Someone reported the post as an accusation of lying, and with that bias in mind, I obviously misunderstood the intent of the post. My mistake. Please disregard the note.
Agreed, to read it the other way, would mean accusing manson of having drugs in his car.
Thanks for this.
Regards,
Shodan
Really? Did you look at it again before posting this?
Yeah, it was a misunderstanding and taken out of context easy to see why. But no, he didnt insult me.
Never mind. Didn’t see e_c_g’s post.
Can the person who reported it as an accusation be publicly named and thoroughly mocked? Just spitballing here.
LOL, don’t we wish.
So shame someone for misinterpreting a post because they didn’t put together the context? That seems like the wrong sort of ignorance fighting to me.
And, no, it wasn’t me. For one thing, the thread didn’t interest me. For another, I don’t tend to report posts. It has to get so bad that I’m willing to send the mods a full message.
Seems to me a potentially powerful teaching moment to at least try to recognize the context. If it turned out to be me, I’d fully expect mockery as the price of carelessness.
They didn’t just misinterpret the post, they reported it. If you’re going to report posts you should put a little more time into the interpretation. And more so for the mods before acting on a report.
Hey, at least now pkbites knows what it’s like to have a “guy with a gun” report called in on him when he’s just carrying an obvious squirt gun.
Really? If I were pkbites or Loach I would find it hard to contribute to threads about law enforcement as it is, since so often they are addressed as stand-ins for other, often terrible, LEOs. Meanwhile their contributions are incredibly valuable because they can give a perspective not otherwise available to us. In addition, I have found especially Loach a clear example of what LEOs should be like.
The comment above is unnecessary because it adds nothing, is not funny, and it potentially hurts the exchange of ideas which this board is often so very good at.
Yeah, those two are solid contributors, even if I dont always agree.
I hope, then, that neither pkbites nor Loach joins you in perceiving animus where none was intended.
If it’s any consolation, I’m sure the mods have that poster on their “Boy Who Cried Wolf” list.