I either do things in 2 hours or 2 years. Just that kinda guy. :wink:

One fine day I'll get you to swap identifies with me and you can have the pleasure of being the woke stalinist anti-feminist monster that cleans the dunnies round here.



We should. Maybe I'll do a poll on the idea. Cheers for the reminder anyhow. :up:

Even better. :party:

Ooh, insta consensus. I like it.

No.

The quote is a good example of her low quality content too. She was simply asked to entertain a philosophical thought experiment and acted as if the whole idea was outrageous. Not the type of thing you want on a philosophy forum.

That is ridicules and very highly offensive to me.
So now I have - as you show no respect towards me being the women I am - reached the point when I have had enough of this sort of offense. — Iris0

Definitely did, but I thought maybe you knew something I didn't.

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Tiff. Do feel free to smack us into line though as you see fit.



Fair enough. I thought she (?) indicated she was. Any reason for your opinion on this?

In case anyone is still wondering, transphobia wasn't a consideration at all here, nor was it raised in the mod forum re Iris. I don't have any particular position on her positions. I don't even know what they are really behind the bluster, which is partially illustrative of why she was banned.

The bad grammar didn't help but the deciding factor was low quality lazy posts with little or no attempt to address arguments put to her and some bizarre efforts at taking offence. I'm not going to pretend we can achieve absolute consistency here, so you might be right that posters who use better grammar and punctuation or post less frequently, but equally lack substance, more easily fly under the radar.

He's just trying to provoke a response. The idea that Iris was banned because she's a feminist is one of the stupidest things I've heard claimed on this thread.

Sure, he wasn't banned for low quality.

Christ, let's not have a witch hunt over it. I, for one, am sorry I said anything. There is a fair point in there actually.

Just for clarification, before PMs, I had spent a significant amount of time trying to convince @Foghorn in-thread to stay on topic and had to delete a bunch of his posts.

What I find distressing is low quality posters carelessly spamming threads with their random thoughts. You may be right that it's in bad taste to say anything negative about them when they're gone, but that I'm less concerned about. We have different priorities, I guess.



It wasn't just mods. He's absolutely convinced he knows what's going on in other people's heads. Just that in the case of mods it prevented him from doing what he was asked.

I'm not in the slightest. It's a simple request that almost no-one argues about and we shouldn't be expected to waste our day on someone who won't go along with it.

Banned @Foghorn for refusing to agree to my PMed request to stay on topic on other threads.

Unfortunate overlap with the convo here but he insisted I was a liar and wouldn't cooperate until I admitted it. Probably, he really believed that and there wasn't much point in trying to convince him otherwise.

Yes, we do have a right to make a joke. Feel free to do the same. Even at our expense.

Mainly though she was banned just because her posts were shit.

Whoops, I did it again. :yikes:

The politest thing we could say in response to the demise of a sincere person who was doing their best is nothing. — Foghorn

I don't feel she was necessarily doing her best. She posted too much to be taking much time over her responses imo, didn't listen, and didn't seem to really care about any one's views but her own.

The politest thing I can say is... Fuck it, I give up.

Banned @Iris0 for low quality.

@Michael You're asking the right questions of the wrong person.

:100:

It's a politics not a philosophy thread, so it will be full of contention and conflict. Qualify tends to be lower as a result and yes, we all contribute to that, including mods. Such is the nature of such threads. But it will be kept on topic as a minimum effort at maintaining coherence. If that's too silly for you, so be it.

If we can make this @Hanover's fault, I'd be totally up for that. :victory:

Maybe it works like karma. For every troll action there is a troll reaction, like waves on the surface of a pond slowly diffusing. If the reactionary amplifiers quiet, we might be able to hear something else.

Did I just amplify the amplifiers? Are they like the borg, entities of a collective one? What is really going on, beyond the fun or tedious drama is a mystery. — Nils Loc

:eyes: This is how you write something "different" without it being shit.

Kindly put, he is full of it. Lived down to my expectations anyhow.

Indeed, it is a horrible and unfair place. Do not let us detain you here any longer, good sir. And good luck in the fairer internet climes we are sure you will find more suitable to someone of your erudition and kindliness.



Sure, you can do that.

My take is Amen didn’t show up to the debate. Everything he said was posturing, my guess is he was hoping to barf out enough words that he could have plenty of weeds to hide in when he inevitably evaded addressing the actual topic of debate. That's what it looked like to me. — DingoJones

:up:

What was mentioned was paragraphing, punctuation, and spacing not grammar. We actually don't police grammar much when meaning is clear. We just don't want the site looking like shit because some posters are too lazy to present their writing at above kindergarten level.

Btw, there's a reply function you can use rather than @ing every time.

The central committee has decided you need to write properly. Use standard paragraphing, punctuation, spacing etc. Otherwise, you may be "disappeared". Spasiba. — Baden

The topic of threads are found in the OP. The idea there's a debate to be had about that is your fantasy. Anyway, thank you for going away. You've been a serious time-waster. All off-topic posts being deleted from now on.

Yes, stop trolling. If you’re not interested in the topic or in staying on topic, do not post here.

The central committee has decided you need to write properly. Use standard paragraphing, punctuation, spacing etc. Otherwise, you may be "disappeared". Spasiba.

The central committee here — Trinidad

I like that. Could everyone here please refer to the mod team as "the central committee" from now on. :up:

My take is if the fed scares investors and there's a stock market correction, btc will break support and crash. If not, it'll likely grind up again. Long term it's a good investment as long as it keeps doing what it always has, but I'd rather wait for a bit more certainly.

Forget the old and new testament we have streetlight and baden with their ranting monologues! — Mystic

And also our resident Mystic
With thoughts so utterly twisted
It's bad grammar he likes
While philosophy's shite
And the mods want Jesus delisted!

BTW, I've nothing against an esoteric or poetic style where appropriate and if it's not used to jazz up mediocrities, hide grammatical laziness, or obscure intellectual shallowness. It's rare all those buttons get hit though.

Didn't realize the whole cult was here. Let's play poison Kool-aid, shall we?