In theory, I would enjoy a forum that had some thoughtful posters who were consistent GOP voters. But whenever there is an initiative to make this forum more hospitable to conservative posters, 75% of the influx seems to be of the bad variety -- trolls, right wing CTs, derps, "I'm just here to ask questions about black people and crime" types, etc.

I guess I should have made my comment clearer. I wasnt referring to his content or lack thereof in the subject threads when I said he contributed nothing. I was referring to his repetitive comments about how posts he considers terrible are not addressed by the mods, yet he does nothing to contribute to the process to identify those posts for action. And when questioned by myself or other posters as to why he does nothing, his only response is to reference a single post from months ago as his reason, as I described above.

I don't get defensive about frank criticism. In fact, I welcome it. But that doesnt mean that the guidelines for not posting personal insults do not apply to mods as well as other posters.

This gets at part of why "niceness" is just not a particularly good lens by which to critique political discourse either in society in general or this forum in specific. There are a lot of challenges in political discourse right now from misinformation to bigotry to identity politics to polarization etc etc etc. One can tug away at any or many of those threads and probably find a meaningful critique. But niceness? That isn't the problem. It isn't top ten. If anything, faux-civility in the face of some of these problems contributes to hiding the problems under the rug. It's just a bad and rather low-level issue to make your central thesis.

OK, I misunderstood what you were saying about him.

It's frustrating because his concerns are valid even if he isn't reporting these posts. I know I see a lot of hot garbage here that I would report in any other subforum but here I don't because I'm not sure what crosses the line here. And no one wants to annoy the mods by frivolously abusing the report button.

I honestly don't even get why it's not OK to call another poster a dumb dumb or a clown. Not, even trolling, I really don't. I mean, I can see why others might think I'm uncouth or an ******* for doing it, but lots of uncouth or assholish things are not infractable offences.

Exactly. Posting JAQ-off statistics about black crime and making gross insinuations isn't "nice" even if the poster isn't throwing out insults. Constantly belittling minority groups isn't nice either.

Yeah, if anything he broke the rule of not being nice again btw.

Mods don't read everything and don't have to. He implied they have to. Everybody knows that's not true and a lie. So this is gas lighting. A form of psychological terror. That's abuse right there.

You have certain tools:

a mute button and a report button.

He didn't use neither instead he used gas lighting implying mods have to read everything. That's the worst option because he makes the mods life miserable with it, again.

should get banned immediately imo because it's not the first time he did it and will do it again.
gas lighting/ not being nice at it's best and not able to learn.

Browser, I hope you saw what he did there. He tried to make you read everything, implied you had to have read everything and he put blame on you even though you did nothing wrong. Lie after lie after lie.
So that's a direct attack on your service here. You did nothing wrong, we all know this, and yet he tries to make it look like you did. You should be praised instead of ridiculed of course. Which is what he does all the time. cheeky cheeky... not only attacked me, Also attacked the mods for nothing!! LMAO. send him the moon if he does it again imo. unacceptable behaviour definitely. He is also claiming to have a Harvard degree, which is not true imo, not with this behaviour.

in all fairness its possible that he tried to point out that I posted something offensive, which might be true.

The way he did it though wasn't nice imo. It also possible that he owns a Harvard degree despite choosing a bad option here and working against guidelines.

Elegant and only acceptable option, ed is report the offensive post.

Or quote and paste it here, so that people see what you are talking about.

Worst option is what you did and always do..

Not exactly a bone you should be picking, washoe.

Right as long as someone pushes the left narrative their telling the truth and who decides if a post is bigoted or racist? You

Seriously. I would imagine that washoe is the most challenging poster to moderate in the entire forum.

Bobo was participating in this conversation. You are also shitting on him if you say what you said. Don't **** where you eat! And if you have to, do it properly.

What exactly did I do?
I voiced that I don't believe Carroll!
That I have my doubts? So what? Until you don't say what offends you, youre talking in riddles. That's not a very smart thing to do. I'm within my rights when I voice my opinion, while trying NOT to offend anyone. The world isn't always back and white.

As you can tell, I'm steaming because I cannot believe how this foolishly disguised criticism was done. You are putting blame on other people when they did nothing wrong, there is absolutely no need for this. Especiaply when you know someone has just been on vacation. So this was very inconsiderate. You want to attack someone, attack me who you target with this attack, not anyone else, and do it properly and not like a snitch. I find the way this was done reprehensible.

This is a good post from washoe. Alas, it could not last.

Who are you talking to?

Yes I know, this is upsetting me though.

He again attacks me without me even noticing at first and he pulls others that have nothing to do it into it.

Not too far left.

Im talking to whoever it may concern, for the record, to defend myself which I feel to be obliged to.

And now I'm self banning myself for at least a month!

peace out everyone!

and bring cuepee back and be nice to d2!

You forgot to sign "yours sincerely". If I remember my school days correctly, that is the correct valediction for letters addressed to a party with whom you have no prior communication, therefore, by, implication, an anonymous recipient.

Also, get some sleep bruh. Your intentions are benevolent, but you're making yourself the laughing stock of anyone who reads this thread.

It’s only 9:30pm.

We had very different schooldays. It should be:

May the seed of your loin be fruitful in the belly of your woman.

Thanks for introducing me to a brand new experience, chez - laughing at one of your jokes.

Was actually alright. I'd give it a 7. On a scale of 1-100.

Lol...even here you can't help yourself, which makes any faux admissions of error shallow and not credible. The post I reported wasn't a close call Multiple people of various political persuasions all said it should be removed. Nobody but you ever thought it was acceptable at any point.Seems like a perfectly valid reason to conclude that post reporting is not worth it. Would a decent forum allow stuff like?


Of course not. But we're talking about the present iteration of this forum... Either someone reported it and no action was taken. Or everyone assumed this is the level the forum is at now, as I did.