Moderation Questions
The last iteration of the moderation discussion thread was a complete disaster. Numerous attempts to keep it on topic failed, and it became a general discussion thread with almost no moderation related posts at all. And those that were posted were so buried in non-mod posts that it became a huge time drain on the mods to sort through them. Then, when off topic posts were deleted posters complained about that.
This led to the closing of the mod discussion thread, replaced by the post report/pm approach. This has filtered out lots of noise, but has resulted at times in the General Discussion Thread turning into a quasi-mod thread. This is not desirable, but going back to the old mod thread is also not a workable option.
Therefore, I have created this new moderation thread, but with a different purpose and ground rules than previous mod threads. The purpose of this thread is to provide a place for posters to pose questions to the mods about how policies are applied; to bring to the mods attention posts they think are inappropriate and reach the level of requiring mod action; and for mods to communicate to posters things like changes or clarifications to policies, bannings, etc.
Now let me tell you what this thread is NOT a place for. It is not for nonmoderation related posts, even if the discussion originates from a comment in in a mod related post. It is not for posters to post their opinions about other posters or whether a poster should be banned. It is not to rehash past grievances about mod decisions from months or years ago. The focus of this thread will be recent posts that require action now. Or questions about current policies and enforcement.
So basically, this is a thread to ask mods questions. Which means, pretty much that only mods should be answering those questions. If a poster asks why a particular post was deleted or allowed, only a mod can answer that. Everyone else who wants to jump in with their opinion or their mod war story needs to stay out of it. It just increases the noise to signal ratio and does nothing to answer the question.
Everyone needs to understand that this thread has very different rules than the old mod thread and any other thread. Any non-moderation post will be deleted on sight. Not moved to the appropriate thread, just deleted. So don't waste your time crafting a masterpiece post about wars or transgender issues or the presidential election and then post it in this thread. It will be gone. Also, this isnt a thread for general commentary about our mods performance. Posting "browser sucks as a mod" or any such posts that don't actually ask about a policy or request a mod action will be deleted. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the moderation of this forum. But this thread isnt for complaining about mods. You are free to go to the ATF forum and make your concerns about modding in this forum there.
So with that intro, this thread is open for those who need to bring questions about mod policies or bring inappropriate posts to the mods attention. Again, it is NOT a thread for group discussions about other posters or for other posters to answer questions directed to mods.
We'll see how this goes. If you have what you feel is an open issue raised in the General Discussion Thread, please copy that post or otherwise reintroduce the issue here.
Thanks.
trolly, you voted for genocide. you are the fascist.
right, that stink never wears off trolly. on your bike, back to UP.
I'm sure you're right about that
but if people support authoratarians even by mistake when they think they are democrats then eventually cognitive processes will mostly resolve that as 'democracy sucks' or 'oops'. (They may or perhaps more often may not become conciously aware of this). it's a cognitive equivalent of the nixonian being got by the balls.
I fear 'democracy sucks' will slaughter 'oops'. At least for a while until people might remember that democracy is worth fighting for.
Victor turning on Bern while ‘ha ha ha wouldn’t it be so gay if I fucked you in the ass ha ha ha’ing for Trump is literally the least surprising shit I’ve ever seen in my life
Yeah if you are to the left of him you are probably a traitor to America. Just like if you are to the right of Nixon you are probably a traitor to America. It’s called an Overton window.
Im pretty sure victor has acknowledged that he is in favor of bringing down america. That position obv isnt lefty/righty libard or magaturd or w/e.
I wish more people did that instead of arguing for really idiiotic proposals in bad faith.
literally nothing Victor is doing is something you should ever wish others are doing
I understand why you would think that. It's difficult for liberals to understand the slightest concept of principles like you know, opposition to mass murder children.
I understand why you would think that. It's difficult for liberals to understand the slightest concept of principles like you know, opposition to mass murder children.
What counties do you think are around which have never mass murdered children?
And when two regimes, both of whom have mass murdered children, do you think it might still be fair to prefer one regime to the other?
If not, what should be done? It's a lot easier to criticize than to come up with a good policy.
What counties do you think are around which have never mass murdered children?
And when two regimes, both of whom have mass murdered children, do you think it might still be fair to prefer one regime to the other?
If not, what should be done? It's a lot easier to criticize than to come up with a good policy.
Probably only Bhutan
You say that like you imagine yourself sympathetic to them. You would have cheered their expulsion as "illegal immigrants" if you knew about it at the time.
No i say that because he probably thought Bhutan was so remote, that would spare it the need to use organized systemic violence regularly.
Instead, organized systemic violence happens everywhere, everytime, in human history (which is why criticizing it is never a political criticism, just a criticism of the totality of humanity as it is, a denial of human nature).
Organized systemic violence in inevitable and inexorable (until/unless we heavily modify our DNA), so society role is to channel it to productive endeavors, not to deny it exist or to "ban" it (which is impossible and only causes more systemic violence down the line).
A denial that it encompasses any of the best things about "human nature", ie all the things you don't like.
Pointing a stick at the worst things humans do and saying "Hey, that's just who we are so it's ok" is pathetic.
It’s who men are, at least
Maybe time to to try a matriarchal society
booby traps
