Politics and Society Moderation Discussion Only Fans Thread

Congratulations, you have now added "emotional blackmail" to your asenal.

Last time when you left, I could hardly contain my enjoyment. But I did say, privately, to someone - I don't want to piss on the guy's grave, man, He was a decent guy, just a **** mod.

You've opened this door now. Well done, you.

They're there. I know where they are. If you really need to see them go find them. The site even has tools to make it really easy.

For sure. Do you like how I'm skirting on the fringes of literally every single stated rule when I post latterly, because I don't want you to get me on a technicality?

This should be fun place. Not a place where some sefl-appointed dictator is standing there wielding a masive hammer over everyone. You will kill this forum with this approach.

The fact that the moderator of a politic and society forum, when pressed to present a view on one thing related to politics or society, says "use the search function", is a bit telling.

No, man, I want you to say something you think. Here. Now. And commit to that opinion.

what browser did is a very good thing

people here have long ago ceased having productive discussion and just toss insults

just look how once browser forbid calling people bigot or transphobe all the trans threads died overnight because many don't want an actual discussion

just look how when 3 posters all say the same thing in a series of posts, all the responses will ignore the two more reasonable posters and just quote respond attack to the 3rd one which was made by a newish account

it's tribal and unproductive - better to have no discussion at all then just having 2 sides play hot potato but instead of a potato its aids

Also, while you're on the unicorn search, maybe you could link one post where someone says they agree with your moderation policies.

I dont mind playing catch and release with you. Im glad you arent crossing the line because I dont enjoy banning anyone, and I dont want to ban you. But if I got off on mod power as you say, I wouldn't need a reason. I could just ban you at any time and make up any reason. That's what dictators can do. And no mod can undo another mod's ban. But for the record, I didnt appoint myself. I was appointed by the bigger dictators.

It should be a fun place. Some people think it's fun to call people names and insult them. Most people outgrow that by high school, but some carry it with them for life and end up on anonymous internet forums, the last bastion of name calling without real life consequences. But the problem is that other people dont think its fun to be insulted and called names. They think its fun to participate in a forum without the insults.

Since that means both types of people cant have fun in the same forum, forum owners have to decide which group to accommodate. The owners here went the fun without insults option.

No need for a link. Look at the post directly above yours 😃

did he ever offer to stake you in exchange for pics?

he was just temp banned right?

One week.

See, this is how disinformation starts. I never said use the search function as you quoted me as saying.(when you put words in those little "" symbols it means those were my exact words).

I would have thought that someone who has been around here for 10 years would know you can click on a link in a posters profile and see the last 250 posts made by that user. No need for the search function. That's why I never said use the search function.

It doesnt really matter what you want. I want to win the Thai lotto today so I can afford to give up my lucrative mod salary and surf the entire internet responsibility free. But its not likely to happen. We dont always get what we want.

This is the allocution of someone who is guilty. An innocent person just sends the links.

Sorry, but even my google translate app can't figure out what that means 😃

OK. I give up. Here is a post I made in the Trump thread contributing my thoughts on a political topic not modding.

But interestingly, just 6 posts later in the very same thread, you made a post displaying your contribution to a political topic outside the moderation thread.

LMFAO. 😃

I remember when i acted like a pompous ass and bitched and moaned about mods who do this thankless job for free

Good times

I stand erected.

Nah, for real, alright, you get this one. You got it.

We live to fight another day.

All good.

The details to some of this drama are so wild

This probably accounts for 80% of the on-topic posts in the moderation thread.

100%. This subforum has been much better this past week than it has been since t_d left.

I personally get 0 "power satisfaction" or whatever from banning someone. It's always met with attacks from those who think any form of enforcing rules is tyranny, and little thanks from those who benefit from it (which is usually 100% of the users). Thanks to all the mods here for your efforts, it's easily the most difficult subforum to mod that I've seen on 2p2. Unfortunately I have not been doing my best to make it easier to mod, and I apologize.

I, for one, appreciate the moderators’ attempts to re-socialize some of the hooligans

Schlitz mmm has received a substantial temp ban for egregious unprovoked personal attacks on another poster. I left most of the posts up but deleted the worst one that I would never allow to remain up. It seemed to come out of the blue, but his user notes indicate previous warning and bans for similar outbursts, which was considered in deciding appropriate action.