Adhere to the spirit of a thread, or don’t post in it. Seems simple enough.
Your username is proving ironic here.
"*Hey, (insert name of celebrity here) just passed and i am starting this thread to talk about all the great memories he/she has given us over the past decades. Post your favorite bits from his/her oeuvre, meetings, etc, please. "
*
“That … is a no talent asshole, and I am glad he is dead!”
So, basically that’s what the OP wants to do. Which is exactly threadshitting.
Even if it doesn’t happen in that thread that is the exact behavior that the right is constantly engaging in and happens all the time here.
Look at any Liz Warren speech on the stump. I support her positions, on capitalism. She and I are both capitalists. Some capitalists oppose her though.
Now in a “good news about capitalism” thread we are going to have disagreements, between those like me and those not like me.
The right are always leveraging and arbitraging this feature of our world. When the left does if there is an outcry of squeals. Welcome to reality.
It’s called working the refs.
Just out of curiosity, what does it prove when something that happens constantly and all the time doesn’t happen?
Regards,
Shodan
I think a better analogy would be “Remember that time <celebrity> crashed his car into a van of nuns? That was pretty great!” and then getting modded because that is not the “great memories” the OP meant.
I am pro-gun control but this thread is almost causing me to re-think my stance.
That’s bad news for the OP.
Start a thread about it, but ask people not to post unless they disagree with you.
Regards,
Shodan
Regards,
My observation is that anything that the right feels it needs to say “constantly,” will be something that also will happen “all the time” here, within the reaasonable interpretation of those phrases. Keep working those refs, though.
I will concede that Bone chose poorly for the thread title. If he’d just named it “Omnibus defensive gun use thread” this whole whiny nit-picky thread might never have been born.
OPs and Titles are critical. If someone can twist what you said in one of those, you have to assume they will. Then if you have a problem they will complain about the first amendment. And they will be right AFAIAC. Title your threads competently, and with the understanding that you are in a heterotodox community.
But people aren’t robots. People can read for intent and understand the spirit of things. Also, this isn’t a court of law, where things must be spelled out in great detail, and any technical error is fair game to exploit. It’s a message board discussion, where it’s at least possible to be fair and generous to each other.
The intent of the thread was clear. I refuse to believe the people rules-lawyering it can have failed to see it. They just aren’t that stupid. They saw an opening and took it, solely to cheese off the gun folk. I guess it’s up to the mods whether or not they’ll succeed, but it seems really childish to me.
From the left to the right it is unfamiliar, I grant, to be pedantic about thread missions in trying to insert a given POV from the left.
But from the right to the left it is like the ether. It’s not even notable anymore. When it is noted it is one of those “Poor conservative me” posts. “You want to eliminate us!!!”
The assymetry really offends me in this situation.
The OP has to be the source of the threads mission. We are anonymous and use only typed english words for our communication. It’s not a lot to ask that posters make clear OPs as that is the source for the future modding of the thread as to it’s mission. It doesn’t work to say “but you knew what I meant!” in most situations concerning the actual lives of adults, and especially not now in 2019. I live in a country with 63 million people who I dont know what they mean.
We have two sides to every issue in this country now, in a post fox news/ trump era. Good always cuts two ways, and if you go around and disagree with people just for the Lulz you have to write clearly and legibly.
Yes, good writing and clear reasoning are important. With that in mind would you mind clarifying this? I’m having a hard time parsing it, especially how it applies to the thread in question.
For the record I’m generally left leaning on a lot of issues, though I’m pretty neutral on guns.
No, it’s not.
Fear Itself and manson1972, I know that you understand the intent of that thread, and are just disagreeing with it because you don’t like it. Since your comments here make it painfully clear that you will do everything that you can to subvert the intent of that thread, you are now hereby officially topic banned from participating in that thread. You may not post at all in the Positive Gun News of the Day thread.
This ban applies only to that thread. If you so desire, you may post in the Pit about that thread, and link to posts in that thread. But you will not post in the Positive Gun News of the Day thread at all.
And I would have had to spend at least another hour this week paying attention to the Old Wench. Lord knows none of us want to see that happen. 
I applaud this moderation. It strikes me as modest in scope and entirely appropriate.
You don’t have to work them when they’re already on your team.
Or if you’re playing by the rules.
The use of a gun in accordance with the current laws/rules/regulations is a positive gun use and a post concerning that is positive gun news.
A change in the current laws/rules/regulations in the direction of allowing more freedoms/greater rights concerning obtaining/possessing/using guns is positive gun news.
The correctness/appropriateness of the current or proposed gun laws/rules/regulations are debatable and appropriate for a thread in Great Debates or the Pit; it could be a In My Humble Opinion thread if the thread explicitly encourages all opinions.
I don’t think it would violate any board rules if I daily posted in the thread: “Millions & millions of gun owners did not illegally or accidentally discharge their hundreds of millions of guns today.” While the statement is true, it doesn’t add much to the discussion but then many posts in many threads don’t.
A more appropriate title for the thread could be News of Positive Gun Use but if hyper-specificity becomes the standard, many thread titles on this Board would need revision.