OK I've created a thread to try this as an experiment. There is a flowchart which helps to visually illustrate the process. Anyone is welcome to participate, but please do so in a good-faith manner, not with the intentions of disrupting the process.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/21...cracy-1657348/

No thread in this forum is independent of the rules of this forum. I think you mean it to so so I've locked the thread for now.

You may care to PM me and whosnext to discuss this further.

Are so many of my posts deleted due to a vendetta or simply because you know I don't particularly care?

I'm not sure which 'many' posts you're mean but some may have gone because of The President trump thread has also had a lot of posts deleted for breaking the rules - I didn't notice many from yours caught up in the cull. If you think any of yours have been incorrectly deleted then let us know.

Whether you care or not has not factored into any decision. There is no vendetta - where any have been deleted it's because of the rules.

Direct democracy is like a full time job. I went to occupy and played chess w randos, skipped GA.

I cannot PM.

I didn't mean that rules of the forum don't apply to the thread, I meant that rules established in the thread do not apply to the rest of the forum. I guess I didn't make that clear enough.

V did it. You're guilty. Here's a rose.

This was posted in the P forum in the Obamacare thread. Question for chez would you consider this crossing the line regarding an alleged site wide ban on mysogyny and hate?

ill take "questions that demonstrate a lack of understanding re: misogyny for $2,000" alex!

It depends on who says it. If you are on the left it's just a humorous picture. If you are on the right it's insta-ban.

Ok, ok...

I don't even need to search for trending stories anymore. I know if I check the threads einbert or goofyballer will have shared helpful links.

And this is a bad thing. In a politics forum.

Adios, could you explain what is misogynistic about that picture please?

This was before our PM exchange, but what prompted that post, which I assumed would be taken properly as slightly facetious, was my post saying Johnycrash and Zwarte Piet could be my gimmick accounts ITT, which was deleted.

It was obviously topical imo.

Allow me to explain.

I'm suggesting it might be a concern of yours that regular posters process information this way. I find it hilarious when it's about me, but, it's not limited to just being about me!

Here is a poster who states, without a trace of irony or self-awareness, what he believes is a fact about the nature of my posts immediately after, in the same sentence, saying he has me on ignore, which he does.

Do you see how a mindset capable of that, when unleashed upon the depth and breadth of all topics, results in so much cluster****ery?



p.s. Standard remind that I prefer the cluster****ery and talking about this is against my best forum entertainment interests. My heart broke a little when I saw wil's deletions and timeout.

Seems more dominatrix type stuff.

It wouldn't have occurred to me that this was anything but legitimate satire about the people involved. Politicians and public figures definitely aren't a protected group and I'm going to take a lot of persuading that it's offensive to women in general.

Just fyi. Complaints about the tweets and repeated links are getting complaints from posters across the board.

I like the tweets since i dont tweet and apparently you need to to be informed on politics nowadays. With our twit pres and all.

Just sounds like you're giving them a way to make things go away that they don't like. Kinda like making legislation against peaceful protesters. For a forum sold on its premise of 'argue against the content', it sure seems like this misses the mark.

Your fair system is not fair at all. I see a whole pack of weeping vaginas attacking Wil from all sides. When Wil defends himself he gets time outs which looks like a road to his banning.

How is that fair?

It's fair because wil isn't the only one to have had warnings and time outs, and if he continues to break the rules about making personal attacks in content threads he should expect ever-lengthier time outs.

As Jalfrezi says, everyone is getting the warnings and timeouts. We're not considering 'who started it', and we let a fair bit go, but Wil and everyone has to both stop making it about the users and stop responding to attacks in Content threads. They can report attacks on them (which are then fairly likely to be deleted) and if the attackers persist then they are going to get the timeouts.

Hi there. So can you please unlock the thread so I can clarify?

It's not just anti-liberals who are complaining about excessive tweeting. Some might just be 'protesting' but there's a genuine concern about the readability of the threads and tweeting in itself is not making an argument.

We'e trying to make the Content threads good for everyone who wants to talk about politics. That's going to require some occasional compromises and I don't think it's unreasonable to ask posters to be considerate when using fast methods to fill the thread with volume

I've had a talk with whosnext and we aren't keen on your thread - especially given you are a new account. No promises and I would bet against the thread being allowed but post for a while and we can talk about it again.

So, no?