Your only choice was to try to read my mind, instead of asking for clarification? Or perhaps even looking up the definition of the word "obtuse"?

Thanks for making a clarification on your lie + accusation in the OP, which you have now proven to be false.

and Enjoy Vegas!

lol

this is all very personal for you.

but that's ok. part of your compensation for doing all this for free is you get to show people you don't like the door.

i've been shown the door and i accept that. no problem.

You lied and made a false accusation towards me. That I take offense to as I make a real effort to be a fair and just moderator for the SE Forum. 2plus2 through the years has taught me so much and I've met some great people on here. Being a moderator "for free" is my way of giving back and I do it with great content in my heart.

What I am doing itt is that I am merely defending myself, showing proof towards my warnings, and explaining things to you as simply as I can.

Like I said above, I do not know you well enough to be able to determine if I "like you or not". However I can see a trend in the posts that you are making, that other posters are taking notice of as well. A trend that is not congruent with the forums rules and guidelines.


I am not showing you the door. On the contrary, I am showing you what it means to be a part of this forum community.


It is your choice if you choose to accept that or not.

For the record: I have not changed my view that this dude is a good mod and he has done a good job here. I think roughly 100% of mods most anywhere would have banned me by now and he hasn't done anything. Maybe he's pissed off by now but he's still working to resolve this. I appreciate it. And so should 2+2.

I am not, nor have ever been "pissed off" by you or anyone else posting in the SE Forum.


I don't get emotional over forum posts. I'm a grown man and make moderator decisions objectively.


Thank you for saying that I am a good mod.
I wish you well whether you decide to be a part of this community or not. Btw, I value your passion for Brock Purdy. There will never be another "Tom Brady" but there certainly can be a first "Brock Purdy" who can end up being pretty damn great himself. I root for the guy to succeed as well. I mean, who doesn't love an American true underdog story!?

I haven't read your posting in SE, but if it's anything like your posting here or in OOT, just stop sealioning. It's not clever, and it's not fooling anyone. Sadly, many people can't resist reacting to it anyway, but not all attention is good attention.

I've never heard of sealioning, but it definitely fits. Is this the right place to request the politics forum be renamed The Sealion's Den?

Never heard the term before but wow yep it fits!

Sealioning is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity, and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.

While more specific and technically actionable, this also amounts to 'stop being yourself'

I can't stop being myself.

I'm not making any deliberate attempts anywhere to do anything, I'm just being myself.

Is this the right place to mention that Dak is a scrub and Purdy is in the Super Bowl?

(This is the type of thing I say which you guys are referring to. I'm just being sarcastic and joking and talking trash to a Cowboys fan. And you're telling me I should stop. I couldn't stop if I tried. And nobody has ever told me to stop before.)

You should work on that.

At some point, every man just has to look in the mirror and accept who he is.

I grind gears.

Even says right there in my title, grinder.

Then 2+2 might not be for you. And at the risk of rising to the "feigning ignorance to get a response" bait, not, it is not smack-talking other QBs and defending Purdy (of whom I am a big fan) that is the problem. It is "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate."

I am not interested in engaging in a debate with you about it. If you can't post without posting like that, I would suggest not posting.

This reminds me of why I like people who say things like, "I'm just an honest person". Saves me the trouble of figuring out for myself that they're *******s.

I understand what you mean. I was employing the principle of charity and interpreting what you said in the strongest, most rational way possible.

I'm not sealioning. It might look like I am, but I'm not. There is no bad faith, there is no intent to deceive. I'm ****ing with people. It's sarcasm. But since you don't know my intentions i get how you might not understand that.

that's a great point, i agree with you 100%.

now let's go over all of your flaws so i can tell you which ones you need to work on. you don't get any say in this, i know better than you do, what's best for you.

^ if I added some question marks, that would be sealioning. if the reader didn't notice the buckets of sarcasm dripping from every word.

Thank God someone does.

But this sort of thing isn't bad (and I agree on both points) and isn't what you do in SE. You would be a Hero in the NFL threads if you made fun of America's Team every now and then. Everyone would love you. Unfortunately, all you've done since SF lost to Bal is whine about the Haterz over and over and over...

And now that I think about it, that's all you do in Nima's thread, whine about the treatment of Nima. Maybe just stop whining?

exhibit a your honor
not a single intelligent human alive can deny the evidentiary relevance to this particular case file as processed by the american judicial system vis-a-vis a jury of your common twitter stream peers
or may i direct your attention to how it sounds communisty?

Also 2plus2 is a private FORUM with specific rules and guidelines.

Twitter is a public social media PLATFORM where the whole damn point is to attention whore.

I thought for sure this was going to be about LKJ, but no! This guy's being insufferable in TWO forums it turns out.

Also the only reason to ask for specific rules is when you're looking for ways to edgelord.

Twitter and 2+2 are identical in this way. They're both private companies with social media products anyone can use.

Twitter used to be a publicly traded company (which wouldn't change this at all) but now they are private, mostly owned by Elon Musk. Making it a direct apples to apples comparison.

Perhaps in your country, companies like Twitter have restrictions on what they must allow. In America, they can do pretty much whatever the **** they want. They choose to very open. 2p2 chooses to be far more restrictive. Twitter is worth over $10 billion. There are people who learned poker on this website with more money in front of them at poker tables right now, than this site is worth today.