The problem is that you've deleted posts, including my own posts, that have been similarly innocuous and yet patronizing little snipes like Michael's post above are paid no mind. Naturally, you agree with the sentiment, so why moderate them? — Thorongil
But if an Emptyheady engages in sarcasm of a similar nature, you gullibly take the bait, interpret him literally, and permaban him. — Thorongil
No, in fact, I haven't. Not only have I not deleted a post like the above from anyone including you, I haven't moderated you at all in as long as I can remember. In any case, we can settle it now. We have a record of all changes including edits and deletions, so let me know roughly what the content of the post was and roughly when it was deleted and I'll check the record. And that can be done any time by the way if any member really feels a post was unfairly deleted. — Baden
Nazi sympathizer — Baden
If your post was deleted because I made a complaint requesting it and if you were banned for your behaviour, how is change possible? — TimeLine
Now there's a shift in mission statement. Our purpose is therapeutic, to bring about personal change through philosophical debate. Would you propose a banning for someone who violated no rule, but for whom such a punishment would provide needed humility? — Hanover
It's simple: overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. - Ghost in a Shell (the actual anime, not that rubbish hollywood crap)
Nay, I am against banning because it would contradict my stance on communication and freedom of speech, unless they are very extreme cases (as mentioned, like that guy that hung out in the banned section of the old forum spouting racially apocalyptic nonsense). — TimeLine
That's a laugh. The purple prose-laden, hyperbolic, and ill-tempered responses by the mod team toward anyone who supported the right to own firearms in the recent gun control thread alone puts the lie to this suggestion. — Thorongil
There are differences of course, but your views all bear a certain family resemblance to each other on many issues (for example religion).Maybe, although I seem to disagree with them as much as agree when it comes to politics. On many issues I'm often much more inclined to agree with, say, Hanover or Thorongil than with, say, Sapientia or Street. So if you class me as being on the Left along with them, you're obscuring some deep differences. — jamalrob
You could always get someone like Mariner, or Thorongil on the mod team then.I'd like to see more diversity in the mod team. Conservatives are welcome. — jamalrob
I haven't met any of those on this site yet.Ranting alt-right maniacs, maybe less so. — jamalrob
There are differences of course, but your views all bear a certain family resemblance to each other on many issues (for example religion). — Agustino
I wish you wouldn't lump us all together like that. The mod team did not act as one in that discussion, and we don't all share the same views or manners. For instance I don't share the views espoused in the posts you refer to, although I can be a little ill-tempered at times. — jamalrob
I think you're right that it's not left vs right. Some on the far Left are as supportive of the right to bear arms as American conservatives and libertarians, and not only in America. — jamalrob
Sure. Fair enough. A generalized statement still admits of exceptions, and you are one of them, for you never commented in that thread, so please accept my apologies if you felt unjustly slighted by my comment. Still, the fact remains that there were several mods in that thread who saw fit to post in such a way as I describe. — Thorongil
Still, the fact remains that there were several mods in that thread who saw fit to post in such a way as I describe. — Thorongil
I've just gone through all my posts in that discussion. I can't find any of mine that are "purple prose-laden, hyperbolic, and ill-tempered". — Michael
We were only bitter because we had to deal with so many lemons. — Michael
The fact is that some posts by some of us in the discussion fit some of your negative description as did some of your own posts — Baden
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