Objection to Warning in the Leave the Birth Rate Alone Thread

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@Johnny_Bravo, @HMS_Irruncible, @TroutMan, I want to clear up a tiny bit of confusion.

The actual moderation was what I quoted earlier by @What_Exit :

@Leave the birthrate alone

Moderating: Once again you jumped off-topic, replying to someone else edging off-topic is not an excuse to go off-topic. I’ll hide your post. We might change this to a Warning later.

and myself

@ParallelLines

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 hours prior about staying on topic, and while the post you were responding too was headed off topic, you chose to continue and greatly amplify it.

As such, this is an official Warning for Hijacking.

Note - the specific moderation doesn’t mention White nationalism specifically, and the P&E mod discussion was about the hobby-horse (which, we acknowledge is sadly relevant to a number of Right Wingers and especially white Nationalists) and massive hijack on the intended genocide of brown people.

The sections you seem to be referring too are quotes from a very small section of an extended complaint when the OP protested the warning via DMs.

And even in the section quoted above (from a part of @Aspenglow’s rebuttal) is that his efforts to make a connection are uncited, and so common we cannot help but doubt his claims that he’s making a good faith effort to stay on topic. Again, the post in question from upthread.

@Aspenglow

Your views here are not objective. You drag your hobby horses into nearly every topic you reply to. They are frequently not relevant to the topic at hand.

In the instant moderation, it’s quite a boot strap to attempt to tie white nationalism to actual national policies for controlling birth rates. You offered not a single citation, just your opinion, and expect others to simply accept it as true. To discuss it further would absolutely have been a hijack. Again.

You make many good posts, but too often, you pay zero attention to the topic to which you are responding. It’s become a real problem. We have come to feel your efforts to hijack threads now are deliberate. We aren’t going to tolerate it.

Note we are talking about the pattern. And if you saw the number of warnings, the flags, and notes (many of which were Warnable but see @Johnny_Bravo’s point that long term posters get a TON of slack)…

I am not blaming you or any of the others - you’re operating with incomplete information, which again was not helped by the OP not citing the actual moderation and jumping to claims of Political Bias. Instead, @Der_Trihs is heading in the direction that many long term posters have over the years of the board. A history of questionable, borderline posts that get worse over time, followed by lots of Notes to do better, digging in the heels, more notes, and finally warnings because the behavior doesn’t change.