First, I want to reiterate my pressing issue in different words. There seems to be a greater and greater call for people to be
banned from the entire site over perceived bigotry.
I don't care when people want to confront someone over perceived bigotry. I don't care that the politics forum so tightly moderates for bigotry either. So this isn't about how that forum is run.
I use toothsayer as an example. The reason for his actual ban hasn't been explained yet to me. But for the purposes of this thread, let's just say he was banned for making multiple racist posts.
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Originally Posted by tomdemaine
Mat,
Do you want business advice, moral advice or how do I shut these complainers up advice? It's 3 different solutions imo.
So, 1 and 2. Using the toothsayer example.
How does that ban affect business?
Was it just the right thing to regardless?
Not trying to shut people up today.
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Originally Posted by smoothcriminal99
I mean I think banning someone who doesn't agree with you has to be the worst way to validate your side... that is the whole argument behind free speech... I didn't really see him post anything racist but I didn't see all his posts. People got really offended by his post about poverty and poor people specifically in one thread but I think his views are shared by a large portion of the population on that front and were actually logically portrayed. This is the whole point of a forum is to discuss ideas in a civilized manner.
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Originally Posted by AllCowsEatGrass
Let's do Mat a favor and try to make this productive and not devolve into **** flinging.
So, again. It's the calls to ban people outside of politcs for their politics I want to hear about. And maybe, hopefully, i'm wrong about it being such a big issue.
If everyone pretty much agrees that the individual forums can be treated independently, then there won't be many requests to ban people from the site, rather requests for exiles from specific forums. That's an easy thing to grant if a moderator asks.