Objection to Warning in the Leave the Birth Rate Alone Thread

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@Der_Trihs

It follows a pattern of what I can only interpret as politically biased moderation, given that my previous Warning was for “saying mean things about Trump”, and now it’s “saying mean things about white nationalists”.

A reminder - I addressed this the last time you made the same assertation in ATMB.

Why do so many posters have trouble staying on topic?

Okay, I made myself sleep on this before responding, but first, I think you’re quite wrong, and second, you aren’t doing yourself or the board any favors by NOT actually quoting the moderation in context. So first, let me add some context by way of my most recent moderation that included you. [quoting the whole thing would make this even more of a book, so I’ll use snips to illustrate my points] From the onebox listed (or if it doesn’t load, it’s the second sentence of moderation after my …

If I applied your “Everyone should read every thread and know every post” logic, then please consider that every active P&E mod has participated in one or more threads, often in the Pit, expressing contempt of Trump ranging from exhausted disbelief to outright searing rage. We make a strong effort to indeed keep our moderation as neutral as possible. In fact, we (moderators) often end up here if we let too much of our personal feelings show up in our moderation.

Continuing on your mischaracterization of our moderation, I note that once again you did not link to the actual moderation of yourself, exactly as in the link I provided above. So I will do so:

Leave the birthrate alone

Moderating: This is a follow-up to @What_Exit’s moderation of @Der_Trihs above. Three P&E mods took time to review the post and have agreed unanimously that a warning should be issued. As a stand alone post, we might have let it slide with a note as we have repeatedly done in the past, but @Der_Trihs has a history of posting screeds largely unrelated to the topic at hand including a post earning a warning for the same offense less than 30 days ago. @What_Exit had noted the thread only three …

You are once again leaving out all the context, including this is the second time you’ve done this in a MONTH. That there had been a moderator request to stay on topic less than 3 hours ago in thread. And that to try to make sure that it wasn’t personal, that @What_Exit requested a review by all active P&E mods after he originally noted you.

I won’t bring up the language of the many notes and Warnings you’ve accumulated on these habits from all the P&E staff as well as other mods, but consistently mis-representing our moderation and ignoring it it is a serious problem.

For the record, you can (and have) disagree with an individual ruling. We make mistakes. I’ve acknowledged it before. I had a discussion about this in a very recent ATMB thread where I made a judgement call recently where posters made good points about how it could be on-topic and I explained how and why the call was made. We still didn’t agree but we were able to discuss it without making unsupported accusations.

Another post DM’d me about the Warning that spawned this thread, and I took the time there to explain as well out of courtesy.

@Der_Trihs - you take every one of your notes, and certainly all of your warnings as attacks when they’re meant to allow the topic to follow the questions framed by the OP. You have a tendency to rant on your (in my opinion heartfelt) concerns in any tangential thread, and we try to direct that to the appropriate forum (often the Pit), or otherwise source and cite. In all examples, your apparent feelings of righteousness means you tend to flat out ignore moderation. So you’re being moderated in the exact same way other frequent offenders are.