What she is able to do right there in ATMB is deliver reminders to posters to follow the rules. She gets to determine the level of reproach she wishes to convey. She gets to tell the addressee what prompted her action, and why she found the behavior noteworthy. In short, she gets to get away with “junior modding”.
Well, what would be called “junior modding” if you or I were to engage in it.
BTW, did Alex Dubinsky misspell “prophet” in the post to which TubaDiva objected? Never mind, that was a stupid question; of course he did. The reas question is whether he did it intentionally. For my money, ignorantly using “profit” in place of “prophet” is every bit as annoying as the sneering and condescending tone he took with Una Persson (sorry, Una, you know I love you, and in another context, you would certainly outrank a vocabulary error; but the whole banner ad conversation just makes my eyes glaze over).
Anyway, Carol Stream, ISTM that your whole “lame excuse” cavil misses the point of what Dex was pointing out, in response to the thread title: TubaDiva can’t “take [her] own crap to the Pit*”, because mods and admins are constrained by the terms of their positions from doing so.
I rather think you’re missing the point. Yes, she can’t take it to the Pit, but why the free pass to be snarky in ATMB? Anyone else being snarky in that forum would have the thread closed, quickly, and possibly face even more sanctions.
Oh, piffle. She wasn’t being snarky, IMHO, she was reprimanding a poster for sneering at another poster. As Orbifold pointed out in post #65, she was doing her job. That she chose to do it in the manner she employed, rather than donning jackboots and issuing a warning suggests restraint on her part.
I don’t know what Alex’ problem was; I’m not even sure if he actually had a problem with me or if was just not being as communicative as he might have been. I’m not responding to that thread any more because I’ve made my case about keeping the SDMB viable for the future, and I’m guessing The Reader/Creative Loafing will make its decision without needing any further input from me.
You know what, on second thought, I have a more detailed response. Libertarianism isn’t really *for *any of those. It’s simply against *any *kind of responsible or responsive government, some of the incidental consequences of which you claim as platform planks. When they are, in fact, nothing but incidental to libertarianism’s ethos of social Darwinism.
A second thought? Boy, your brain must be fried by now. Let me try to help you lest you strain yourself into a stroke.
Okay, you already figured out that by “voluntary human relations” we mean central planning for the implementation of social Darwinism. Herbert Spencer is known in all academic circles as the founder of libertarianism. Nazi Germany was libertarian, as was Khmer Rouge Cambodia. Mao’s cultural revolution was a fine application of libertarian principles. Those are the best examples available from history unless we include the Crusades and the Inquisition.
In the present day, Saudi Arabia and the Sudan, where peaceful honest people are prohibited from pursuing their own happiness in their own way, are good examples of libertarian states. But the jewel in our crown is North Korea, where libertarian philosopher Kim Jung Il uses noncoercion to force people into compliance with his theories on freedom and entrepreneurship.
Now that you are better informed, maybe Cecil will tap you to write a column about social Darwinists like Ludwig von Mises and FA von Hayek. After all, if we’re going to fight ignorance, we don’t want people to think that defining “freedom” as “the absence of coercion” is anything other than a plan by those in power to mollify the masses until they can be duped into submission. To paraphrase that great libertarian, John Kennedy, ask not what The State can do for you; ask what you can do for The State.
I’ve lived in the south, and I would not describe it as genteel. Yeah, they will smile and compliment you when they wish you would fall over dead, but their true feelings still show through. It’s intentional, I might add. A southerner will want you to know you are unwelcome, but they also want you to know that they are too polite not to be nice about it. Which isn’t polite at all in my book.
I don’t like my adopted home state of NY and better. It’s like living on the set of the Sopranos, and no, that isn’t a good thing. Look folks, I’ve been to Italy… you don’t look or act anything like Italians. I don’t know what you are, but it is definitely unique to the tri-state area. Minga ya.
Libertarianism is a system of government? I thought it was like anarchy, but without the consideration for anyone else, focusing on what the Libertarian wants to do and his or her annoyance for anyone who won’t let them. Maybe it’s really LeVayian Satanism: Do what thou wilt.