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I'm really at a loss to explain this in any more precise detail, so let me be as clear as I can.
You have mentioned many times where I have made sweeping statements about other posters here where I have called them begrudgers, blah, blah, blah.., yet have never as far as I can see used that specific term or another terms like it. I think it is fair to ask why are you implying that I use this term when in fact I have not.I, and so far as I can see, most other posters here, are tired of you making grand, un-evidinced sweeping statements in which you demean the motives of people who are upset about one issue or another.
Where am I demeaning the motives of people in that reply to Gordon??
It was a general observation I made regarding Irish people, not designed to be some side dig at any group or people in particular. You do know that I am also Irish? If there is problem or a disagreement with the points I made then by all means refute them but if you think I have some agenda then you are seeing ghosts I am afraid.Most, though not all, of your posts also tend to be content free. When you post something worth reading, as you did about your experiences in the M+B home, you can post with the best of the forum posters, for which I thank you.
Yes, so clearly I do post things worth reading so why did you say "can't you post anything worth reading? Can't you change your tune for just one topic?"
when clearly its not the case.You can consider this a formal warning of an impending forum ban if your posting style does not improve.
What was wrong with that post I replied to Gordon and how did that reflect my style? It was actually just an honest opinion and I did not have any secret ax to grind at all.0 -
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Some of Jank's posts are good, unfortunately others aren't. There's a line and he's crossed it several times in my opinion. Regardless of my general contributions to boards.ie if I'm a plank too often then there's going to be conseqences. Regardless of the majority quality of an individuals posts if 1% of their posts are over line then on this site there will generally be action taken.
Turtwig's definition of plank:
Repeatedly dragging up vague contrarian positions in unnecessary thread topics that derails thread, making vague swipes at members of the forum that often seem inflammatory and finally, most pertinently, insulting posters mental and physical acuity and finally whataboutery.
Contrarians are about the most useful posters you can have in any discussion forum. This is why Jank was tolerated, and still is being, tolerated for so long. The problem there is that too often his posts are nothing other than vacuous contrarians or personal snipes, derails, potential inflammation. Anyone can contradict stuff, that's the easiest thing in the world to do. But there's an etiquette to be expected. Substantiate the point and for the love of gods making the point in a somewhat relevant topic and tone.
I've infracted at least three posters for insulting dissent 'right wing', I guess you could call them those, opinions. Banned two, not sure if it was the same person or a different person each time. But I recall that. In fact, one rather, I guess, funny? story is that two posters on this forum I've been reluctant to action on the Christianity forum for the simple reason that they might feel it's an existing bias brought forward from this forum. So I had to ask benny to look after them. He'd already run into trouble with one of them too. So, by right we should have played rock paper scissors lizard spock but we didn't.
Go ahead, start the thread bashing extremist left wingers.0 -
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I'll shut YOU down!
No, their being nice and doing a hybrid eventually
Anyway, continue! Just letting you know posters miss those subject lines sometimes
Go ahead and try!
Oh awesome, I really ought to try reading threads again. This skimming lark is clearly missing some important stuff.
Yeah, thanks very much, no way I'd have known that, edited it, can only imagine Perma's expression if he read that on mobile?
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There is the inevitable fact that mods make mistakes. We're human and have biases. I don't agree with your criticism of Rob. Considering how adamant and lenient is Rob against enforcing bans on posters. Can't name specific names but Rob is largely the reason that lefties and righties from both sides stick around for so long. To drag Jank up again. Rob's the mod who's been the most lenient with him. Used your own reasoning too. [Jank does make some very good posts. So let's put up with him as long as possible.]
One of the issues with this forum is that the demographic is largely lefty economically and lefty socially. This means that as a general rule the majority of the reported posts will be by left orientated posters. The downside to this is the minority sides will be drowned out. As moderators we need to take this bias into account but it's not always going to be practical - we can't read entire threads and every so often the 'trigger' for inflammatory spats is going to be missed. There is always the fundamental problem of when reports warrants action then action must be taken. If a reported post warrants action then action will be taken, and rightly so. In a forum dominated by lefty there's going to be an apparent moderator bias of against righty's because that's where the majority of reported posts will likely lie. Even more so, when many posters don't bother reporting posts. Minority opinions on any thread should be biased towards by the moderator. By this I mean the moderator shows extra leniency and patience with the minority side. The reason being is that the majority of reported posts will be by people biased against the minority whereas the minority will have fewer reported fewer posts - if any at all . And, it is so easy to miss the 'trigger' post that ignites a discussion into a tomato splat fest.
That's in a nutshell the spirit of how moderation in A&A works.
I wrote a more detailed post about that somewhere but I'm too lazy to type it out again. So I mostly just cut up a similar one that was a nutshell of a previous one. Christ! I is lazy. 0 -
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