I think the new mod just called all but 4 of you idiots.

Fair enough. I was making presumptions about an assumed future reign of chez.

Love this gif.

I was actually referring to this post, and the discussion leading up to it:

Well anything follows from that premise

but I wouldn't even ban trolly. And he would be miles ahead of fly.

TS and JV?

This isn't really true fwiw. I mean this is the politics and society subforum and understanding conspiracies are an important aspect of understanding politics and society. But I also enjoy discussions of birds, quantum physics, bird genetics, language and linguistics, personality theory, Freudian psychology, regional differences in people in their attitudes and a whole host of other things that have been discussed here in this forum. It's just that the conspiracy stuff is the most apparent and the day-to-day "oh wow can you believe what Trump did this time" sort of stuff doesn't interest me at all.

I appreciate that. I would donate a kidney if I needed to. I'm sure lots of people here would though.

Possibly.

I mean this isn’t a “what if” sort of question. We already know how you would mod a forum, and you’d definitely let people post white nationalist youtubes and you’d refuse to take them down when the community asked you to.

That's funny that Chez would do something like that because he really doesn't strike me as a white-nationalist. Say it ain't so Chez.

just ignore trolly. Except as a weird source of amusement. He is so far removed from reality that he thinks Well Named is nazi collaborator who needs to be banned.

It’s odd that you’re dodging his question.

Trolly is entirely correct in his assessment of what happened in chez's politics forum fyi

lol

Congratulations, man. I hope that real life treats you very well

Well, now we are confirmed (the lord have mercy upon us), and your points speak for me as well. Well_Named managed this forum as well as can be done, and the plan is to keep it in line with his policies. He will obviously be a tough act to follow. Forum guidelines might be revised, but we're not talking revolutionary stuff.

There is no immediate plan to revert previous exiles. Well_Named has explained those exiles to me and EADGBE, and as most things he does - they are well reasoned out. Honestly, I also think starting modding this forum by reverting exiles is a bit like starting a chili tasting experience with 1 million Scoville.

I’m sure you can give us a better explanation for why Mat shut your forum down.

The posted policies that were enforced like a year ago and call for a well-policed regime to foster a high signal-to-noise ratio? Or the de facto policies of recent months featuring very little moderation of attacks/trolling?

Not sure "congrats" is quite the right word here, but always found your posts thoughtful and informative and I''m sure you'll do a great job.

Given some of the continued attacks against Joe6pack in the Trump thread it would seem to be the status quo.
My advice would be to work on the tone there and pay extra attention to that thread. Asking Goofy to eliminate the Trump bot would help.
For the most part this forum is fine. Nobody seems to bother me too much in any of the threads I like to post in at least and Monteroy should be allowed to troll me as much as he desires.
It's just some of the nastiness in other places spills out and I don't always have the self-discipline to not click on the worst threads here.
And my once a week ban list is a good list fwiw.

YOUR GREEN!!!

I don't plan on a laissez-faire approach.

But this process has gone by quickly and me and EADGBE need to get our bearings and discuss things, so we don't start pulling in different directions.

I'm gonna take heed of this and let this one go.

I erased more of your post than I meant to, and as a lazy person there is no way of rectifying it.

This forum would, imo, be better with fewer posters. Banning (quickly and with little to no warning) for lack of civility or lack of good content wouldn't be a problem. I don't think I am alone in avoiding reading it because of the unnecessary volume.