So I have [[user name deleted]] on ignore because any debate where I respond to his posts seem to result in my getting a warning and the thread being locked or sent to the pit. I participate in a lot of threads but I only get moderated or warned when I participate in a thread with [[user name deleted]] so at the sugggestion of several people, I put him on ignore.
So after one thread was locked and I received another warning for engaging [[user name deleted]], I finally put [[user name deleted]] on ignore. [[user name deleted]] started another thread on the same topic. I read the thread (without being able to read the OP) and someone asked a question.
ELEVEN hours later, I responded on point to the question and I was modded less than an hour later for responding to the question (well I guess both me and Evil Captor were modded but it seems strange that you would let a post sit there for 11 hours and then less than an hour after my response to that post, you would mod the both of us for raising a topic; it almost seems like you were OK with Evil Captor asking the question, it was MY answering teh question that made it worth moderating) because the OP didn’t want to discuss the issue of provocation but I didn’t realize this because I couldn’t read his posts. So I apologized by saying “sorry, I can’t read [[user name deleted]]'s posts, I have him on ignore”
Then I get modded for identifying someone I have on my ignore list.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13253814&postcount=46
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13254429&postcount=52
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13262749&postcount=86
Its not hard to jump to the conclusion that there is something else going on here.
Perhaps there should be a rule that you cannot participate in any thread started by someone on your ignore list.
BTW I got another warning for posting this message:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13262028&postcount=207
I think I only got it in the form of a warning because I don’t have private messaging turned on. How do I turn that on? I need to tell the moderator why he is wrong because response is not duplicative of anything anyone else wrote. I didn’t see where anyone else in that thread where it was mentioned that the shortfall created by the payroll tax holiday was going to be paid for out of the general fund so there is no starving the beast by cutting the payroll tax temporarily.