No arguing this time mods, just reporting da nooz:
I’ll be posting a Full Topic Ban for Aspidistra sometime soon, hopefully in the next few hours. I will also be sending it to her. It boils down to She is no longer to post about Trans people at all.
Thank you very much @What_Exit - that was (as I mentioned in ATMB) the one thing absent from the cited moderation I found puzzling. Thanks to all in the modloop who worked hard to try to find a solution for all, though I fully accept that there’s never going to be 100% agreement on any such. There are times I think we should all ruefully pit ourselves for being a cantankerous bunch!
Weekend can slow us down. The suspension was step one and the topic ban we then had 30 days to figure out.
I’m just trying to get the wording right for the ATMB announcement, the behind the scenes stuff is mostly done.
First pass at least is up:
Affable yet gross?
Are you saying that I’m a golden retriever?
More like the “funny” uncle that makes a couple of badly off-color “jokes” that you that might give you a guilty chuckle, and then feel bad about it later. The one with one point left on their license because they keep driving impaired but isn’t worried because he hasn’t hurt anyone yet. The one with two ex-wives he’s supporting because he kept cheating on them while married, and is still somehow shopping for wife number three.
Not absolutely beyond redemption if they worked at it, but is still a major disappointment.
My apologies for feeding a certain landbound troll in the “America First may result in lost armament sales” thread.
What transparent assshole.
I reported what appeared to me to be obvious threadshits. We’ll see if they can skate the edge and win in their trolling game or not.
He confirmed his trocking a few minutes ago, so he is now mostly cornfielded.
His title pretty much said it all.
Who are we talking about? I haven’t been following that thread.
Flightless?
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Thanks. I don’t think I ever interacted with them. And now it’s too late.
If he’s a trock of an existing poster it’ll be interesting to see who else has made a sudden disappearance. Far more likely he’s a trock of a previously banned poster.
But one can hope. I’m sure the Mods enjoy bagging the occasioanal twofer.
ETA: @DocCathode : you did not miss much. Simple one sentence posts that were blandly but blindly ignorant of the topic they supposed wanted to address. Plus of course some feigned ignorance to attract the folks, like me, who often can’t resist offering a straight answer to a trap question.
The user page still exists, with the sobriquet “Trocking in the USA” - but marked as suspended so presumably banned.
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ETA - 10 hour read time. A hard-working trock, then.
Thanks. Have we talked about the Herd guy? He did say that anybody who was ‘sane and rational’ would agree with his position. Eventually, a mod told everybody to not make personal insults. His position and OP are idiotic. He often doesn’t answer direct questions. I assume he’s a trock who know enough not to break the rules and get banned again
The title is my doing, not his. He is banned.
He will probably be back under a new name, hopefully not too soon.
My mistake.
Is it a trock of anyone we know or just one of those casual guys?
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Anybody know just what is going on here?
https://boards.straightdope. com/t/hypothetical-defense-to-possession-of-contraband/1015870
Minkman asks a question about possession of child porn. Everybody gives the same answer ‘possession is illegal without prior permission from authorities. The man in your hypothetical is guilty regardless of his reasons for having it.’
Minkman ignores that and say what he is interested in is ‘How do real world computer systems get trained to recognize child porn without breaking the law?’
I bring up that if that is the question he meant to ask, why didn’t he start a thread actually asking that question? Why start a thread where the OP is a long, detailed hypothetical completely unrelated to that question?
On Preview, he has answerd. I find his answer thoroughly unconvincing and rather suspicious.
It very much comes across to me as asking how to possess child porn without getting in trouble.
I don’t see it as blatant enough to report, but at the very least they need to be aware that subjects like this are necessarily delicate ones and need to be handled with more care than has been done in that thread.