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Originally Posted by Bobo Fett
No, you referenced it. We're just providing links to the thread you referenced.
Fair enough
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Originally Posted by Bobo Fett
No, that's not what he said. He said:
You didn't spell out your point, and so he did exactly what he said he would do.
Please clear something up for me. His wording and your defense of it seems to indicate that you can be banned for NOT debating? It's not simply that the thread will be locked if you don't engage ... it is that you will also be banned.
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Originally Posted by Bobo Fett
The whole thread, which I just read for the first time was so...odd. At first, I wasn't sure that you were getting a fair shake, but then you went on this weird series of posts where you call people trolls for not directly answering a question, that as far as I could tell was being directly answered, refusing to expand on or further explain the question, and then refusing to answer what point you said had been proven. I still have no idea what your point was.
How can you not be sure? The first response to the OP was a troll remark. Then you have the guy saying they're going to run me out of the political forum. Then a guy named "Trolly McTrollston" calling me a nazi. Then someone trolling about grammar nonsense.
It starts going off the rails even worse on page 4 when people start admitting that they're now just playing word games:
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...0&postcount=76
Then the cherry on top is when Wookie essentially asserts (troll response IMO) that I'm some racist that doesn't care about black lives:
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...9&postcount=84
Somewhere around page 5 i think is when i decided to mentally exit the thread since everyone was either A) trolling B) supporting the trolls with little quips C) Avoiding the context of the thread (free speech) with disingenuous word games.
The point of all this even being rehashed is this:
How can you have multiple pages of people trolling me, calling me names, insinuating I'm a nazi, with the mod jumping in on the fun ... and then when i refuse to be part of their little game ... i get banned?
With that kind of hostile environment on the forum ... why would anyone with an opposing view stick around unless they love fighting back against ridiculous odds? That's when you get to the point of projection. You antagonize those people enough ... well of course they're going to eventually lash out like an abused dog backed into a corner. Then, bam!!! ... mod to the rescue to enforce rules on that person despite looking the other way for their team 99% of the time. The outcome was not organic... you merely set the stage for it with the hostile environment. I suspect that is the entire reason this whole politics moderation thread exists at all.
Last edited by faxanadu; 09-28-2018 at 08:29 PM.