This is one of them, which it may not have been had it not been renamed.

Wat. I don'e see how re-modding spank, whose round the clock trolling of this forum has been comprised entirely of a combination of incoherence and insult, can be seen as anything less as a direct rebuke to the SMP efforts to re-mod Bruce, a poster whose contributions to 2+2 for over 14 years are "irreplaceable". Clearly it is time to lock this up and move on.

So who closed it?

I'll accept my answer in the form of a screenshot ldo

Nah, this was Elliott.

If Bruce had kept his head down and posted in SMP and Probability and Beginners and stuff he'd already be green.

I don't think Mat put a ton of thought into this.

But this is actually pretty true.

That's somehow weirder. Like, what part of "unchained" does he not get?

Also

You have the power to help end the great mistake that JJ made.

Wait, what?

Spank please explain the thread title change. Do you think it's appropriate for a mod to change the historical record to suit his own ideological agenda?

I'd suggest a more neutral title.

Then again I would for all long lasting threads about posters (past or present)

ETA: meh, I'm deleting this post. I have no idea what's going on in this place. This is just a truly strange website.

Why wouldn't they just expect those who don't want PU to exist to just ignore it's existence?

You are misunderstanding my objection. I don't give a **** about your hurt feelings. The thread title was changed retroactively, so the historical record now says I've been posting in a thread called "Air Grievances about Fiascos Getting Called Fiascos" all along which is completely false and misleading.

chezlaw, you are weird and I don't know what you are talking about. Who want's PU closed? I like this forum and would like it to have a good mod. Hell, I'd do it myself! It's just hard to see some of the actions taken here as anything other then purposeful antagonism against their customers - either the "smp" crowd or, i guess, everybody else. And that's just a little strange to me, but then again, I have no idea how the economy works.

That's OK. I have no hurt feelings either way.

You didn't seem so bothered when other people had their posts moved to one with a title they thought was misleading. I still care about your hurt though so a neutral title seems better.

I'm just kidding here, ldo. I actually have a Nobel in Economics.

Sounds like you looking for a wedge issue - setting up some mockery and derision perhaps.?

This thread was originally extracted from another conversation because certain posters hijacked it. The renaming was done to accurately describe the extracted conversation and to consolidate the topic that had spread to multiple other threads in a semi-coordinated troll campaighn - that's good modding. The original thread titles were preserved in the posts if you wanted to recreate that history. Those are gone now, because the current mod wanted to hide the history of the conversation and impose his own ideology on the thread - that's terrible modding.

I'm sure a highly coherent and thoughtful explanation is forthcoming, however.

Some have been saying PU should be closed, they should carry little weight compared to those who don't whoever the mod is.

I also like this forum, we possibly disagree about a good mod though maybe we were both mostly fine with JJ at least until very recently.

That's a matter of opinion and why a more neutral title would have been better.

The view that all objections to the way some behave is to do with Bruce is utter nonsense.

The original title was considerably more neutral than the current one. That's the point.

ETA: the only part of the original title that could be said to be non-neutral was "New Posts Arriving All the Time!" which is still there.

We could bicker about what was more neutral or just agree to something g obviously neutral and let people's posts do the talking.

There was nothing neutral about the implication that everything is to do with Bruce.

There was nothing biased about the old thread title.

This thread is a containment thread for the spamming campaign of 'tone policing' related to BruceZ.

That's not what this thread is about. This thread is a containment thread for the campaign of 'tone policing' related to BruceZ.

If you wanna make a thread about "objections to the way some behave" that isn't particularly related to BruceZ go ahead and do so. Make sure to quote a few examples of that objectionable behavior while you're at it... LMFAO. What you're trying to do ITT is 'tone police' a containment thread about 'tone policing'. Cut it the f out !!!1!

Here's the thing though, chezlaw, I know how to read. The previous title of the thread did not imply that "everything is to do with Bruce." Quite the contrary! The thread implied that those things to do with Bruce should be limited to this thread.

What does the new title imply?

Also - it's worth pointing out that not only was the title changed - but he changed all of the posts in the thread as well. As long as that happens, how can I trust that my posts will "do the talking?"

Of course, like I said, Spank will no doubt be along shortly with a thoughtful and articulate explanation.

Remodding Spank wasn't throwing Team Bruce a bone, Spank is just a useful idiot to them at heart.

Spank:Team Bruce as Jimmy Smash:Tony Soprano

Massive lol at the title change though since Mr. Wookie specifically set it up as a Chezlaw/BruceZ containment thread.

Oh, and BruceZ is still a racist piece of ****, and one with less social awareness than Spank, in case anyone was confused.