On the topic of moderator bias

Well, fair enough, but I fail to see how implying that some dead cops (none of whom, presumably, were posters, or family thereof) “had it coming” is any more offensive than wishing for Mike Huckabee to commit suicide.

I also think it should have been kept out of the pit; there was no reason to put it there.

Did you report it? In general, the mods don’t do anything unless someone reports a post.

Why do you think it got moved so quickly? Yes, I reported it, and received a reply that was essentially that the poster violated no rules and everything he said was a-okay with the moderators. shrug I’ve said my piece about it, and as even a cursory search of threads by this poster demonstrates a history of inflammatory, intentionally goading responses that clearly violate the “Don’t be a jerk,” policy under which several posters have been suspended, I’m just at a loss to why this particular poster is handled with kid gloves.

Stranger

As I said in the thread proper (which was perhaps the wrong place for it), I personally didn’t see anything GD about it. It belongs either in the Pit or MPSIMS.

It doesn’t belong in the pit. I guess that leaves MPSIMS. The pit is for where people want to insult each other and be dicks, not where a bunch of people group hug about some cops getting shot except for one or two posters who think the pigs should put down.

Really? You think that it should have stayed in GD?

Your own first post in that thread, which was also the third post in the thread as a whole, was:

This is not a GD post. It’s a stupid rant that does not offer the slightest useful contribution to any sort of “legitimate topic.” Make no mistake, if that thread got moved to the Pit, your own contributions were largely to blame.

ETA:

I think MPSIMS is the place for it. GD threads need some sort of actual premise for debate. If someone wants to start a debate about the legal mechanisms surrounding the death penalty, and whether or not the length of time it takes to exhaust appeals is reasonable, then they can start a thread about it. But that thread was started simply to make people aware of the killing of 4 cops. It’s not a GD thread.