Moderation Questions

hey Rococo & Luckbox

why was it off limits?
people talk all they want about 911 for years and that isnt off limits either
many more children died on 911 (I think) than at sandy hook
there are threads about sandy hook on reddit, so they allow it
x probably too, nobody gets banned for it
thats what free speech is about

Being an unpaid moderator in a politics forum takes tons of time and patience. Not exactly a 'job' that there would be competition over.

Agreed.

Yet they pick and choose who they accept seemingly based on the politics of the candidate. At least, it’s not clear why else they wouldnt want someone as uncontroversial as F72.

It was for a while until the mods decided to give up. I expect the same thing will happen here with Sandy Hook trutherism.

I would think that F72 would be an excellent mod as well.

I don't believe there has ever been a mod here (since the reboot) who would self-identify as conservative.

My motivations were as follows:

1) I was asked several times;

2) No one else seemed willing to do it;

3) I was concerned that the forum would be closed relatively quickly if there was no moderation at all;

4) I had a vague desire for the forum to remain open; and

5) I didn't think it would be much work.

Before too long, even though 5 was true, I realized that I wasn't worried enough about 3 and didn't care enough about 4 to tolerate the aggravation of continuing. 99% of the aggravation stemmed from people complaining about too little or too much moderation.

The LirVa situation also made me very uncomfortable.

King Spew is no Trumper, but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he voted for someone like George H.W. Bush.

Dead children are sacred.

If you say that children haven't died that is considered sacrilegious. It's because people get really emotionally invested in having children be dead.

Eta: it's trauma-based-mind-control stuff

Say the guy who moderates porn chatrooms.
You can't make this shit up.

Or maybe, if a child is murdered, and you say he wasn't murdered and any insistence he was murdered is over emotional trauma-based-mind-control stuff, it kind of makes you sound like a psychopath

I only try to believe what makes sense and what fits. If that makes me sound like a psychopath to people like you then that cannot be helped.

Its not really "people like me", its just "people"

if you look at the history of europe - we have long stretches where there was almost no population of any sort living in coastal stretches due to the fact that anyone dumb enough to settle there would be killed or captured by raiders

we have the late roman period where the germanic raiders came through in the 3rd to 5th centuries where the records show the population of coastal britain fell dramatically and the only areas with people were surrounded by saxon shore forts

we have the viking age from the 8th to 11th centiuries - also overlapping with the saracen raids of the same time - a lot of our contemporary history books detail massive flight away from coastal areas - they were either heavily fortified or straight up abandoned

france came up with an amazing solution - nobody was living in normandy anyway because it was too close to the sea and thus too vulnerable so they gave it to one of the groups raiding them, the normans who then not only settled the land and made it productive again but also acted as a defensive buffer

and then the more recent barbary corsair era where again massive stretches of coastal europe were depopulated to avoid being captured as a slave

this is just italy

it's estimated that there were over a million european slaves captured to work in north africa during the same time period as the usa had 300k slaves brought in from sub saharan africa

some of those europeans went to turkey - but turkey primarily got their slaves as slavs from around the black sea - having over 2 million at that time

so the united states wasn't even a top 10 aggregate slave buyer/owner etc during that time

and the reason why they were bringing in sub saharan africans and not buying the ancestors of luciom and cv was because the overwhelming majority brought across the atlantic weren't going to pick cotton on virginian plantations but would be dealing with sugar cane in the malaria infest tropics - malaria will quickly kill of a pasty irishman or colonel but won't be nearly as deadly to someone who comes from an area that also has malaria to begin with - this is the only reason they weren't buying the far more accessible white slaves that were logistically much easier to procur as they could just pop on over the straits of gibraltar rather than go the long way down south

and the reason why we didn't have lucioms and cvs in the us despite that we didn't have a need for a malaria resistant workforce was that we were just buying the excess that was already headed nearby anyway

it wasn't until France conquered much of north africa that the barbary slave trade was finally ended

It makes you sound like a batshit nuts conspiraloon anyway. To go with all the other crazy shite you believe in.

It's a complicated question but Jones is disinfo so he has separate motivations.

Fortunately or unfortunately reality isn't a popularity contest

At this point, for a lot of people, reality is very much a popularity contest.

so is every school shooting fake? every mass shooting?

I apologize, I got carried away :(

Please don't encourage him, he'll only answer questions with more questions

It's not my job to answer every question Crossnerd poses to me when she refused to answer mine or back up her claims.