Since we’ve got moderator attention, will someone address my second question.
You have yet to demonstrate how this occurred in this instance. He was a sock puppet, no other justification was offered, or needed.
What ARE you on about? Have you been silenced? Has badchad or Der Trihs been told to stop posting? Have Kalhoun or Voyager or Valeteron or any of a dozen other posters been threatened with sanctions for expressing their views of religion (or any variety of religion)?
There are various behaviors that are not permitted on this board, but mocking or challenging religion is not among them. Heck, even Ammonius Saccus was permitted to post unhindered until he revealed his prior life as a different poster, not picking up a single Warning. (I was quite content pointing out his poor grasp of history and language and bad logic without taking any official action against him.) The only staff action that was taken against him was to move a single thread that he started off with abusive language from GD to the BBQ Pit–an action undertaken by a Mod who is definitely not a believer.
Failing to slap down posters who repeatedly called Badchad a troll (because they didn’t agree with him) was just one sad, sorry incident in a long series of Pro-Christian biases that turned me around on you. Like stink on shit, you would have been all over someone who falsely labelled another poster a troll, except this was an atheist being called a troll with zero basis by a Christian, so what the hell. Let that one go.
Do you have a citation for anyone being permitted to call badchad a troll in GD? Or are you simply making things up?
prr, badchad I just honestly don’t see it. Judeochristiaslamic (just made that up) religion gets called on the carpet regularly and vigorously and even “abrasively” here, quite regularly, and it’s not even the notoriously antirreligious posters alone (Look up any thread where Eve tells you what she thinks of Mother Theresa and of the doctrines that support her actions). Any “shouting down” of antirreligious posts is * by the other posters participating in the threads,* not by management, which in general only steps in when tempers get a little too exalted.
Yeah, I’ll run out now and find you a cite for shit you know perfectly well. It may take me a while, so be a good fellow and stand there with your thumb up your ass while I do a thorough search, okay?
:rolleyes:
That started here…
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8084652&postcount=41
…and goes on and on. Subsequently the thread has largely been hijacked as to what people are allowed to ask the OP, which is something I have never seen before with other threads or mods (where tomndebb is not involved) that have strayed off topic. For the record I don’t think the thread in question was going off topic in the first place.
No, I think I’ll finish the grocery shopping, since you are simply making things up.
My point is that “management” (in the person of Tom) is extremely selective in choosing to step into such discussions, almost exclusively to censure atheists while allowing Christians to call people “trolls” and such right and left. There is virtually no act that Tom will not allow, providing it comes from someone he agrees with, while he runs a tight ship for those he disagrees with. So while that might be “generally” running a tight ship, there’s actually a fairly obvious bias in how it’s enforced.
Cite?
Are you lacking all initiative? Go find a place he was Warned or stop being silly. I’m hardly going to post every response to his every post in this thread to prove the absence of him receiving sanctions.
So it wasn’t about the turducken?
I can’t recall who it was, but I seem to remember there being a poster some time back who pretty much stalked Polycarp. He seldom posted except to respond to Poly. He ignored responses from me and others while trying to push as many of Poly’s buttons as he possibly could. I think he was even pitted for it at one point, and almost drove Poly away from the board. Anyway, I don’t think that guy was banned. So I wouldn’t say that mods favor religious posters.
I want you to cite him revealing his prior live as another poster.
live=life
Sorry. Board policy to not display how socks reveal themselves. No point in giving them ways to cover their tracks in the future.
I have no idea how this board works, but at one board I know of, there are quite many tools available to mods and admins specifically geared toward fishing out socks. (Some boards call them “gimmicks”.) There are patterns and clues in the carelessness, plus other more direct means of confirmation.
If “Cecil Adams is a punk ass bitch” wasn’t an obvious attempt to rile the members of this board, perhaps I’m unclear on this whole “troll” concept.
You’re probably thinking of badchad, who is, in my opinion, a far bigger asshole than Mr. Embyro Casing ever was. That said, it takes all kinds to make a board, and we need our assholes. Otherwise, how would we get rid of shit?
And just to make things clear, I also can’t stand the mormon religion, I find their baptism by proxy to be an offense against the dead, their historical claims are only slightly less absurd than the DC-10s of the scientologists, they’re ruining the CIA and the Boy Scouts.
But generally, they’re damn good people as people. Well educated, polite, interested in learning, well traveled, usually know another language…