No, the moderation was perfectly in keeping with the way things are generally done here. You may wish that the moderators would give up their consistency in order to favor your beliefs, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to happen. Or that it’s unfair when it doesn’t.
You’re more full of shit than a Christmas turkey. If Samclem had moderated based upon Slyfrog telling Atroxe, who threatened to kill Slyfrog’s children, to fuck off. Everything would be fine. Samclem didn’t do that. He moderated based on his personal bias which he admitted to here in the thread.
Good gods, the holidays must suck at your house!
I’m afraid it’s true. Start threads on lockpicking, drugs, explosives, hotwiring your own car, the interesting perfect murder you saw on TV last night, or even backing up your CD collection perfectly legally, and the thread will be locked unless the participants are very careful with their words and sometimes even then.
Tend to agree, but I don’t personal bias was the motive.
Damn you. I wanted to say that!
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Tend to agree, but I don’t personal bias was the motive.
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That should be “don’t think”
Cities? Yes. Towns? Probably. Rural areas? Not only is it usually legal to discharge a firearm on your property in rural areas around here, it’s downright common.
I can set up a pistol range in my back yard if I really want to. There’s nothing illegal about it. I don’t think he was advocating that anyone break the law, but out where I live, killing nuisance feral cats doesn’t even rate a raised eyebrow.
So does that mean I should never talk about shooting in my back yard because although it is perfectly legal where I live, it’s not in Chicago, and I have to abide by the laws of a city I don’t live in and have never been to? Or at least pretend that I abide by the laws of Chicago?
Doesn’t seem like ignorance fighting to me to pretend that because something is illegal in Chicago, it must be illegal everywhere else, and therefore we can’t talk about it. I really doubt SlyFrog was suggesting anyone break the laws where they live.
Note to self: If ever invited to Unregistered Bulls house for christmass, DO NOT EAT THE TURKEY!
“Anybody want seconds?”
“No! For the love of mercy please!”
While the warning to Slyfrog may or may not be fair, I would still say you are very much overreacting, Unregistered Bull. All samclem did was to break up a mini-fight between two posters, and he judged that Atroxe was using a hyperbole rather than making an actual threat. Moreover, samclem told us this. I don’t know where you’re getting this “black and white” bias from. Your argument is very murky at best. The only reason SlyFrog was included in the warning was that he was part of the fight.
Also, [sub]sorry for the double post[/sub], I want to emphatically second everything catsix said, especially about how common the killing of feral cats is. Not only is it common, but it is necessary in the rural areas where I live. They’ll overpopulate and become an unignorable menace if not done.
:smack: Too much bolding from the first post, I guess.
They’ve certainly taken that position before, although in every case I’ve seen admittedly it was a uniform United States law. Recreational marijuana use is legal in many places, but you won’t see discussions here of what music to listen to when you’re high. Discussing the merits of something’s illegality? Sure. Discussing actually doing the event? Nope.
That’s how the board operates. There are other places to discuss matters of more questionable legal nature. They want to avoid the trouble. And I see this decision as essentially consistent with that, whether or not it’s ethically okay to shoot stray cats.
Really? Then why hasn’t every thread regarding the shooting of handguns or even ownership of been locked and every poster who says they participate in such activity and own handguns been warned about illegal behavior?
Since, after all, it’s illegal to own handguns, and illegal to fire handguns, in the city of Chicago?
That’s yet another activity (like shooting nuisance animals and pests) that is illegal in Chicago yet is legal in a whole lot of other areas, but in that case we don’t have to follow the law of Chicago as if it is the law everywhere.
I think samclem got his nose bent over the poor little kitty cats and over-reacted to it. Geographically, I’d hazard a guess that it’s legal in more of the US to shoot nuisance animals including feral cats than it is illegal.
Boy, I’m never having Christmas dinner at your house. :dubious:
I know that many of y’all are city dwellers that dislike guns and dislike the killing animals, especially cute fuzzy ones, for even legitimate reasons and when legal to do so. But jumping Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, he told a poster to not mention shooting animals because he doesn’t like the idea. He didn’t tell them to not to say fuck you to a nutcase that threatened to kill another posters kids. He didn’t even do it because he was under the false impression that it was illegal. :rolleyes:
Meant to take out the quote by JimSox5. :smack:
Just a FYI, but " full of shit as a Christmas turkey" is an old saying. Given the disdain and ignorance of many things that happen outside of the extreme urban enviroment by many here on the SDMB, y’all might not recognize the figure of speech.
Hey I was bornded way in the back woods of the deep deep south, and our x-mas turkeys did not have shit for stuffin, giblets sure but not shit. You ain’t country y’all is gross man.
Damn. I should of previewed. :smack:
Just a FYI, but " as full of shit as a Christmas turkey" or “more full of shit than a Christmas turkey” are old sayings. Given the disdain and ignorance of many things that happen outside of the extreme urban enviroment by many here on the SDMB, it’s possible that many might never have heard theese figures of speech. I am not for sure if the “shit” is supposed to be actual waste matter or a reference to stuffing though. I have heard the saying all my life though.
Wow, remind me not to enjoy the sayings at your house!