Moderation Questions

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

FWIW rafiki PM'd me before his ban and let's just say his account of the goings on don't exactly match Crossnerd's version of events posted in the Israel/Palestine thread.

wait rafiki got banned? for what?

Dear lord, now Rafiki is banned? I posted a long critique of the moderation in response to one of your posts last week and it was deleted. The thrust was essentially that Jeff and Vic just run amok because their ideology aligns with the new mod. And if you are slightly critical of Palenstein / Hamas, you will catch a ban. Unsurprisingly reinforced even though my post was deleted.

I find it pretty funny that the direction is to post in the mod thread, but then the mod thread gets closed. Then people post in the IP thread and the posts get deleted. Then the IP thread gets locked and posts get deleted in the Mod thread.

Rinse, repeat and here we are censoring anything that doesn’t fit with the prevailing moderation ideology about the IP conflict

"Pretty funny" is not reading the mod's comments on why he's banned before jumping to conclusions. Not that I think people should be banned anyway.

Where can i read them?

ffs search CN's recent posts.

Care to fill me in on whatever new conspiracy theory is being peddled about me? There was no reason for that massive of an over reaction on his part.

No matter how transparent I am with how and why I do things, it never seems to satisfy the mob.

It was a PM. I wouldn't share it without his permission.

I'd imagine the truth lies somewhere in between his and your stories.

What's up with all the mystery and intrigue? Anyone gonna share the juicy goss?

So you shared just enough to imply that I’m a liar. Cool. Thank you 😀

It’s not very juicy. The usual complainers were complaining in here; Rafiki made a few posts gloating that he had certain people on ignore, I made a joke (not entirely without suspicion tbh) that I was beginning to wonder if it was actually Rafiki on the account. Rafiki immediately assumed I was accusing him of multiaccounting as a new poster, IMBLUEtheONE, and subsequently blew up both this thread and the IP thread will trolling about how I can’t tell Jews apart because they all look the same to me.

I locked both threads because I was and still am recovering from an illness and it was getting out of hand. The next day I wake up to these bizarre and aggressive PMs threatening that if I apologize then he won’t expose me or some nonsense and when I blew him off he came back with some weird **** that “I KNOW, you don’t think I KNOW??” I had recently been doing some IP checking in the mod forum, and I’m fairly certain that it was somehow misconstrued to him. Anyway, when that didn’t work, he said that he was going to perma, so I did it for him.

That was my experience in this. Frankly, if Rafiki had enough time to PM multiple people to tell them he was going to get banned, then he was very much aware that what he was doing was not ok behavior that would likely have that consequence. Also, and again, I am in no way obligated to tolerate any sort of abuse or harassment from individual posters.

I'm marking this down as a lie, fwiw.

free fresh
free rafki

why do you have to be so dramatic?

which part am i lying about?

What's wrong with a mod doing IP checks? What's there to expose?

I have no idea, it was all extremely bizarre

This is ****ing awful and cowardly. I’ve had my differences with CN’s modding but spreading unsubstantiated **** about people, even if just that they haven’t been honest, shouldn't happen unless you’re prepared to cite.

Well,

You certainly have your biases. If a new poster comes in blazing with pro-Islamism takes, I doubt you would start "joking" that Victor was multi-accounting. (That is something I would do, and have done, but I have my biases too)

But Rafiki completely over-reacted.

It is what it is. Always sad to see anyone that attempts to address the real world, and just doesn't just engage in bad faith, performative morality plays, get banned. But the discussions on here do seem to get him IRL upset, so maybe for the best.

And this is exactly why I'm not posting the contents here. I haven't even hinted at anything.

I have IP checked all the new posters in that thread from either side, and this is verifiable. Please stop with this.

And it wasn’t a viewpoint that inspired the joke; it was a specific behavior. If Victor started making petty quips about having everyone on ignore, I might make the same joke about Victor.

You’ve said that rafiki PMd you that CN wasn’t being honest, and for some reason you thought it acceptable to post that here, without citing. You’re just stirring up **** because your mate got banned.

rafiki pm'd me before Crossnerd's posts in the IP thread and there is nothing in his PM calling her a liar.....because she hadn't posted yet.

I said their accounts of what happened differ.

Accounts of what happened differ….jfc