This is a joke, right?

Honestly, I've never heard of any admin ever doing this. I (and probably everybody else here) would rather eat our own **** than call somebody and beg to be unbanned from an internet forum. I mean, is there any precedent for you making this a requirement for getting unbanned? If so, has anybody actually done it before? If not, why make it a requirement specifically for catface?

Customer service 101. We all know you have to use an overwhelming show of force upon the first challenge, regardless of scale, when discussing policy changes. They will never respect you otherwise.

Oh wait. No that is shanking someone your first day on the yard in prison.

Not sure if anybody has ever taken him up on it, but it's definitely not the first time it's been suggested.

uh yeah I admin a web game with 10k hits per day and 6k people on our Discord server and every single time some douchenozzle DMs me complaining about being banned or whatever I tell him to talk to the moderators. I have not once stepped in personally. There's rules I made (similar to ones here) that my mods follow and it runs itself. I would never even consider this sort of thing.

I used to admin a sci-fi/fantasy forum and in my years there, the idea of having banned forum members personally contact me to become unbanned never crossed my mind. I mean why would I want to talk to somebody who wreaked havoc on a forum I run? More importantly, why would I willingly give my personal information to a complete stranger to exploit should they choose to do so?

RIP SUB

In Mason's defense, the guy in his 60s and the internet didn't engineer his etiquette as much as it did you or I.

Is wil still banned as well?

No

Gosh I hope not. I'm no bad boy here. I think once I got some yellow card or something like that for using profanity in a post.

This is a good point.

Also to be fair, I know it sounds weird now, but like 30 years ago people used to use telephones to communicate with each other by having conversations using their voice. Ir does seem kind of quaint now.

People still do that with skype and facetime.

Politics is, and has always been fine from most of our perspectives. The only people whining has always been one certain type of poster. There have been slightly less insults lately as everyone is on thin ice here. Being more polite to an extent is not a bad thing though.

The ironic thing is that in fact Politics is one of your best subforums here and it is not close.

I wish you nothing with the best with your new African American friend who does not like Trump. Hopefully you can have mutually beneficial conversation and it will give both of you greater and more accurate perspective on the world.

So your saying “Catface don’t do it! ITS a TARP!”

Can you guys please stop getting in digs at tptb?

You're lying. The bolded didn't happen. Stop lying.

That's not an excuse.

Look at what I replied to and the context.

I like this forum, mainly because politics doesn't belong at the poker table, this is a good place for it. Politics=bad poker game.

Old politics:



New and improved politics:

I almost completely stopped participating in the politics forum. It is populated with a cult like devotion to,"Trump bad obama good." Not that Trump is any political genius or that he is worth defending, but it is just a waste of time to debate with others who have zero interest in the dialectic. Moreover, wookie and goofy are still mods, so the risk of collecting infractions for committing the same acts of trolling that others in the forum go unpunished for is annoying. The forum is simply an echo chamber that has almost zero value in regards to new information or interesting opinions. But thank you for the opportunity to provide feedback.

Cheers.

I am not and have never been a moderator of the politics forum. Thank you for showing, via your ignorance, how much your criticism is worth.

quite true. but as a mod of other fourms don't you have the ability to direct message and coordinate with the mods of the politics forum more efficiently?

but really, who cares? The politics forum is silly at best.

Any thoughts on this post by cuse?

Posters like this are why people say things like "reality has a liberal bias"

It's a nonsense phrase. Reality is reality. There is no liberal or conservative bias in the real world truth of things. It just is

The reason the phrase exists is because that's a reflection of the state of American politics. The right wing is FUBAR, the centrist Dem is now jokingly called a Republican, and "radical" views like UHC are demonized as socialist, which is a dirty word for no other reason than people who think this subforum is an echo chamber, "Trump bad Obama good", monolithic group when really it's just a large number of people ranging left, Independent, and center right calling out right wing and conservative disingenuous discourse for their bull****

And Paul D, this is why I say "no excuse". While I do feel that there has been some marked improvement in the forum in general, there are some things I still do not like, and the bottom line is Mason only put forth "the changes" because his view is similar to that of PFunk's. It's cool that Mason supports the free flow and exchange of ideas, but choosing not to participate in a politics forum or threatening to ban people or shut down the entire platform because you get directly criticized and refuse to directly address flaws in your own arguments are the antithesis of fluidity given to all viewpoints.

If you can't argue with intellectual honesty, then you don't have an argument to begin with.