Perhaps it’s the deep state pushing the mods to get rid of you?
I fucking love the deep state! They are saving all our asses.
That’s enough of that, andy. Do not suggest other posters should leave or are not welcome here.
To pull back the curtain a bit, I’ll say with absolute certainty that I have not once taken a pitting into consideration when awarding notes or warnings or in any other moderation decision. Nor do I believe any of the others have done so.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply otherwise. I was just using it to illustrate that it has not been a huge percentage of my 16 years that I have been persona non grata around here.
Also, I have zero PMs from people asking for your departure. I have zero PMs about you. Not that it matters. Moderator action is not a popularity contest.
The way warnings work, is they are attributed to your profile so by virtue of their issuance, they build up and would result in X number within Y length of time. Given as you mention your previous suspension (I had to verify in our logs because I had forgotten), I do think it’s a good idea to adhere to forum rules. It makes the board a more pleasant place for discussion.
I have seen you post on the Giraffe Boards where people frequently say they lodge complaints about me on the regular, so you can presumably understand why that’s a bit tough for me to believe.
Altho I understand the controversy, I have to support the staff on this one.
Well, you didn’t freely and openly admit to being a racist for most of those years, so yeah, there’s that. I can see how that would get you on more people’s radar.
Not that modding is a popularity contest, they tell me. But I reckon less of your posts are just let slide by your fellow posters than before.
Threads like this are perplexing.
This is a moderated board and it seems to me that it takes a conscious effort to ignore instructions and guidance to the degree that suspension, let alone banning is even considered.
The instruction was clear and the poster’s obsessive interest was not even tangentially related to the thread. The poster was completely free to open a thread dedicated to the subject or to participate in a thread that was about the subject. The poster instead ignored instruction and continued to behave in the manner of one of those Onion "Ask the … " bits.
Once given guidance as clearly as it was given any rational poster who wishes to continue posting here would steer far clear from the margins laid out by the moderator, and attempting to insult a mod while arguing about the response to ignoring the instruction? That is a declaration of not caring enough about participation to stay.
(FWIW my visual imagery of Bone is Ron Swanson.)
And here we see a perfect example of race being brought into an unrelated thread.
When you can come up with examples of him doing this in other supposedly unrelated threads after being told not to by the mods, you will have a point.
The point is that he won’t be told not to do it, because he is on the supported side.
The actual point is that you have provided no evidence whatsoever to support this opinion. Repeating opinion does not make it fact.
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A poster suggests that they are reported often and another suggests a possible reason for such if true. That seems very related to the natural flow of discussion.
Not a hijack. Not a repeated hijack by the same poster. Not the same repeat hijack by the same poster. Not done despite clear guidance to cease and desist. No insult and argument to the clear directive.
But other the exact same thing! Score you!
I asked you directly in post #105, and mentioned it again in post #151. You’ve asserted that the latest post that received an infraction was actually on topic. I laid out my rationale on why I think you’re wrong. This seems to be the crux of your argument but you’re not actually addressing it in any kind of meaningful way.
This forum is meant to address complaints, comments, questions about moderation, etc. and I’ll do my best to do that. But if you aren’t interested in actually engaging on that then I can’t really offer much more than what has been said already.
What side do you think I support? MrDibble and I are pretty much polar opposites when it comes to public policy, IIRC.
You’ve shown that you support shutting down certain types of discussion, specifically right wing/libertarian discussion. Whether you do so because of your own beliefs or because you are told to by TPTB is ultimately irrelevant.
As for whether the post in question is on topic, it would be hard for it to be more on topic. The thread is literally about whether the Government should be allowed to shut down speech it deems harmful, and Will Farnaby’s post, in total, consists of his opinion of that sort of action, and some examples of it.
So, not only was your rule that only applied to him a bullshit rule, it didn’t even apply to this case.
If this modding is of your own accord, you are unfit to be a moderator. If you are doing it despite disagreeing with it, you should step down and say so. Either way, this banning is ridiculous, it is deliberate censorship of a particular viewpoint, and it should be reversed.
If that makes some people uncomfortable, good. This board, especially the debate forums, should not be a safe space for anyone.
You’re not only merely wrong, you’re really most sincerely wrong.
Who are these PTB?
Whoever owns/runs the board these days. It’s been sold, and Ed retired. since I last knew for certain who that was.
Or the deep state/Russians/Ukrainians/Chinese/Lizard People, if you prefer.