Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
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Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
1d ago
Man, the subject line of this post looked so much like the spam we are regularly flooded with that I almost deleted it without looking at who the poster was.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
3d ago
If you want to report someone's posts for being uncivil you may do so, but generally we're a lot harder on personal comments than we are on snide critiques of arguments.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
3d ago
You are a martial arts instructor, right?
What do you do when a liberal comes to your dojo? It must happen, and while in my experience, most people try to avoid politics on the mat (for good reason!) you're often going to get clues about people's affiliations.
This isn't a gotcha question or anything. I just really want to know how you deal with people you literally don't think should coexist with you, when you are in a position of trust and authority and with responsibility for their safety. As a former instructor myself I'd be very concerned about someone who feels they can't teach people with the wrong politics. This sounds nearly as bad as all those psychologists and therapists reportedly distressed at the idea of having to provide help to Republicans.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
3d ago
I'm not going to mod you for the comment you deleted, but you are kind of being an asshole here. People are allowed to push back on your thesis ( isn't that what you want? To get responses, including criticism?) and responding to a critic with a patronizing "know your place, woman" isn't acceptable in this forum. Maybe that's how you'd like it to be and think it should be, but it's not how it is.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
3d ago
I generally dislike commentary on FdB that boils down to "he's off his meds." He (with some justification) gets really sick of having that thrown at him.
That said, he does seem really... off lately, and that includes responding to someone posting a Substack article that made him mad (about... treatment for the mentally ill) by literally posting thinly veiled threats to physically assault the poster.
(I can no longer find the link. Possibly he came to his senses and deleted it.)
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
3d ago
We are often accused of giving "DEI" passes to leftists. I'm not going to bother arguing that point for the umpteenth time. I'm just going to say that no one is ever getting a pass for sending insulting DMs to people or justifying it with "he started it."
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
4d ago
Your post would be perfectly fine without "wokestupid" sprinkled all through it. Don't do that, it's nothing but sneering. Just like if a liberal wrote a post criticizing "conservatards."
Amadan
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4d ago
I assume you are jewish.
This is the definition of an ad hominem. Even if he were Jewish, "Your opinion is invalid because Jew" isn't acceptable.
You've been warned and banned repeatedly because of your antagonistic obsession with Jews. As we are obligated to repeat over and over, you can hate whomever you want, but your posting needs to follow the rules.
Banned for two days, but next time you are looking at a longer term ban.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
4d ago
You are getting very agitated for someone who "didn't read lol." This post is terrible: antagonistic, full of personal attacks and mind-reading, and the final flounce. Additionally, we're informed you're sending abusive DMs. The only reason I'm not banning you for the latter is that I have only the recipient's word for it. However, if this behavior continues, you will be banned.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
5d ago
This is what I expected someone like you to say
Are you illiterate?
You two are just bickering and insulting each other now. Stop it.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
6d ago
You and @Magusoflight - knock it off. This thread has descended into real bottom-tier gotchas and "edginess."
Amadan
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6d ago
If you know someone is trying to bait you into this kind of response, don't take the bait.
Amadan
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6d ago
Is this what you mean by "Interesting, intelligent people being banned for petty rule violations"?
You are filling the mod queue with these obnoxious attempts to bait people. I'm sure in your own mind you're a brilliant debater pwning the chuds. I am not impressed.
I'm not going to permaban you. I'm going to ban you for two days. In your own words: "Do better."
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
6d ago
Thank you for your input.
Be less antagonistic.
Amadan
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6d ago
You’re also the idiot
Even if you're responding to someone being antagonistic, do not reply with personal attacks.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
6d ago
This place is a hollow husk of its former self.
We're so sorry we fail to meet your expectations. But be less antagonistic.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
6d ago
What sticks in my craw about pearl-clutching from conservatives over less-than-decorous reactions to Kirk's death is how one-sided it is.
I'm not a conservative and I'm not clutching my pearls. I am horrified and disgusted because "less-than-decorous" is an understatement. I do not recall seeing this kind of reaction on this scale, ever. I don't disagree that MAGAs have cultivated an anti-empathy, pro-cruelty attitude towards their enemies, but I haven't seen a major outbreak of tribal celebration over an ideological opponent being murdered in cold blood like this in my lifetime.
I'm old enough to remember when John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan, and there was conservative pearl-clutching over reports of cheering at a few schools. Those were isolated incidents. This is different. I fortunately do not have any personal friends or family members who are literally celebrating, but they are posting lots of "reminders" about how horrible and harmful Charlie Kirk was. It's impossible not to read the subtext that they think he kind of deserved it even if they don't approve of murder on principle.
I see conservatives seeing this and realizing that even normie liberals think they kind of deserve to die, or at least if they did die, you shouldn't feel sorry for them. That's you, taking that position.
I don't doubt if someone shoots Rachel Maddow or Hassan Piker or whoever the fuck is the leftie counterpart to Charlie Kirk now, rightists will go into full grave-dancing mode, because that's the new norm.
Thanks a lot.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
7d ago
Yes, I misunderstood what you were asking for. The mods discussed it and we'd prefer you not start a new megathread since there is already a big thread on the topic right now.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
7d ago
Sure, but if you want to start a thread about mod policies, it would be better to put it in the Small Questions thread than the CW thread.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
7d ago
Everything is incredibly sad right now.
Yes, it is. You know what? I was probably more hostile than I needed to be, and I'm sorry for that. We've been getting a lot of shit thrown at us lately and the threads this week have been terrible. But I should still have tried to write that in a less antagonistic manner. I apologize.
That said- the point stands. Our rule against posting hot takes on breaking news is not because we're trying to make people jump through unreasonable hoops or prevent people from talking about breaking news. It's because we want to see effortposts, not people trying to emulate Twitter with who can get the fastest zinger out there. It really is not unreasonable to ask you, if you want to talk about the latest breaking news, to put a few minutes thought into what you want to say about it and not just copy-paste a link and an excerpt, which looks very much like someone who is just eager to have the first top-level thread on the subject.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
7d ago
From right wing outlets, yes, I see a lot of lionizing about what a great guy he was. From left wing outlets, barely-restrained grave dancing following throat-clearing about how murder is bad. Mostly what I see from mainstream news is "This is awful and says something about politics/free speech/gun control in America right now" followed by a lot of throat-clearing about how Kirk was "controversial."
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
7d ago
Once again, the rules of this site are extremely tiresome at times.
Tough.
I know you're sick of reading this same complaint, and I'm sorry for that.
Yes we are, and no you're not.
But this news was going to get posted here one way or another,
Yes. There are good and acceptable ways to post it that require a minimal amount of effort, and there are bad and unacceptable ways to post it because someone wants to be First!!!
and forcing people to jump through hoops to talk about current events while they're happening right now is bad.
No, it is not.
We've explained why the rule exists. We've explained why you can't do what you want to do. You can accept this or not.
FWIW usually we can undo an accidental delete.
The filtered posts are not nearly as interesting as you imagine. Mostly crypto scams and various AIslop web services. For example (just now found in the filter, with links deleted):
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