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Overheal · 07-11-2020 05:06PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I was just asking the mods a question as to how many people threadbanned from the trump Biden thread were in that position due to your reporting of their posts..

And how many reports from you or your ilk got me threadbanned etc etc.

Nobody cares. Poster makes a report, mods check it out and make their own call. Not every report leads to an action, not every action is predicated on a report. Whether dozens of pro police brutality posters reported me in that thread or none of them did the mods made the call to keep me off the thread and that's a conversation between me and the mod that did so.

pjohnson · 07-11-2020 07:07PM

People seem to be upset that their posts are reported and think that is why they get threadbanned?

Have you considered that the content of the posts is what gets you thread banned?

Gatling · 07-11-2020 07:24PM

pjohnson wrote: »

People seem to be upset that their posts are reported and think that is why they get threadbanned?

Or the same people are reporting my posts to get me banned again !

07-11-2020 07:27PM

Gatling wrote: »

Or the same people are reporting my posts to get me banned again !

That's it..if all my posts are being reported by the same person all the time it's surely harassment..

pjohnson · 07-11-2020 07:29PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

That's it..if all my posts are being reported by the same person all the time it's surely harassment..

Gatling wrote: »

Or the same people are reporting my posts to get me banned again !

So its nothing whatsoever to do with your posts?

Overheal · 07-11-2020 07:31PM

Deleted User wrote: »

That's it..if all my posts are being reported by the same person all the time it's surely harassment..

There is no validity to your conspiracy.

Can I thank your reports for my threadban? Mods! I'm being harassed!

07-11-2020 07:32PM

Snake Plisken wrote: »

The others love the report button, we have to start using it as mods have suggested and the mods investigate your complaint

Well to use your term the others, ye seem to have a habit of multiple accounts running at the same time, constantly reg etc.

Ha Long Bay · 07-11-2020 07:33PM

Deleted User wrote: »

That's it..if all my posts are being reported by the same person all the time it's surely harassment..

Here is a snapshot of your posts on a thread I was following in the space of an hour. If you can't see why some of them wouldn't be reported its a lost cause.

I have a genuine interest in reading the thread but it's posts like these that completely derail the conversation and adds nothing.

Timberrrrrrrr · 07-11-2020 07:35PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

That's it..if all my posts are being reported by the same person all the time it's surely harassment..

You do know that overusing the report function is also a ban hammer offence right?

If i were to report your posts everyday I would get banned for that.

07-11-2020 07:36PM

Great to see the mob mentality prevalent in the thread continue on to the feedback forum..

Overheal · 07-11-2020 07:39PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Great to see the mob mentality prevalent in the thread continue on to the feedback forum..

Persecutory delusions are a set of delusional conditions in which the affected persons believe they are being persecuted, despite a lack of evidence. Specifically, they have been defined as containing two central elements:[1]

The individual thinks that harm is occurring, or is going to occur.
The individual thinks that the perceived persecutor has the intention to cause harm.

pjohnson · 07-11-2020 07:40PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Great to see the mob mentality prevalent in the thread continue on to the feedback forum..

What?

07-11-2020 07:40PM

Overheal wrote: »

Persecutory delusions are a set of delusional conditions in which the affected persons believe they are being persecuted, despite a lack of evidence. Specifically, they have been defined as containing two central elements:[1]
The individual thinks that harm is occurring, or is going to occur.

The individual thinks that the perceived persecutor has the intention to cause harm.

You should report the post..

Overheal · 07-11-2020 07:43PM

Deleted User wrote: »

You should report the post..

I'm being objective here: do you have any evidence for your perceived persecution? "mob mentality" and "harassment?"

pjohnson · 07-11-2020 07:43PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

You should report the post..

Granted I'm not a mod here but pretty sure that a "report" does not automatically equal "ban".

A report simply highlights a post for the moderator to review the post to see if it breaches the rules. Thats how it works on 98.7% of discussion forums...

If its different here feel free to correct me.

Smee_Again · 07-11-2020 07:46PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

That's it..if all my posts are being reported by the same person all the time it's surely harassment..

Reported.

07-11-2020 08:00PM

Deleted User wrote: »

That's it..if all my posts are being reported by the same person all the time it's surely harassment..

Or that it's really annoying to see a person consistently flouting the rules so they're reporting it. So far it seems like you're annoyed that moderators are made aware that you're breaking the rules.

Overheal · 07-11-2020 08:13PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Or that it's really annoying to see a person consistently flouting the rules so they're reporting it. So far it seems like you're annoyed that moderators are made aware that you're breaking the rules.

Indeed if you get threadbanned 3 times and constantly flout that threadban could you really argue that someone was out to get you? If there was really a cabal out for you they would have made sure you didn't get away with posting again the first, second, or third time. That didn't happen.

vojiwox · 07-11-2020 08:15PM

pjohnson wrote: »

People seem to be upset that their posts are reported and think that is why they get threadbanned?

Have you considered that the content of the posts is what gets you thread banned?

It's 'we test so we have cases' level of logic.

Smee_Again · 07-11-2020 08:34PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Tbf,a mod could put this bed,if they shown a screenshot of who reported his posts?

The posters could put it to bed by obeying the rules.

Or at least taking their medicine instead whining like little children.

It’s pathetic.

Ten of Swords · 07-11-2020 08:36PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Tbf,a mod could put this bed,if they shown a screenshot of who reported his posts?

Never gonna happen, reports are confidential

Overheal · 07-11-2020 08:38PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Tbf,a mod could put this bed,if they shown a screenshot of who reported his posts?

There are so many reasons that will never happen, not the least of which is the GPDR.

07-11-2020 08:39PM

It's like being in stasi era east Germany..

But really, if there's a trend of someone being continually reported by one person that shouldn't be on..

Quantum Erasure · 07-11-2020 08:45PM

Overheal wrote: »

There are so many reasons that will never happen, not the least of which is the GPDR.

Well, you're right there. Not the least, not even a little bit...

Overheal · 07-11-2020 08:45PM

Deleted User wrote: »

It's like being in stasi era east Germany..

But really, if there's a trend of someone being continually reported by one person that shouldn't be on..

"If" - and there's not, and if there were yes abuse of the report function.

Like I already pointed out you managed to continue posting in the megathread despite 3 threadbans. If someone really had been continually reporting on you do you really think they would have let that slip by?

What you have is a conspiracy theory.

pjohnson · 07-11-2020 08:49PM

If someone is repeatedly arrested is it the Garda to blame?

07-11-2020 08:55PM

Ok..I want to report Overheal for abuse of the report function..I would like the moderators to review his use of it..

Quantum Erasure · 07-11-2020 08:56PM

pjohnson wrote: »

If someone is repeatedly arrested is it the Garda to blame?

Well, it depends on, as I said before, if a crime has been committed

Ten of Swords · 07-11-2020 09:07PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Ok..I want to report Overheal for abuse of the report function..I would like the moderators to review his use of it..

Mods do not give feedback or updates on reported posts. If you want to kick this off report your post and outline the reasons for it but do not expect to hear anything further. Once a report is made the matter is between the mods and the person reported, nobody else.

Outlaw Pete · 07-11-2020 09:25PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Trump supporters often tend to behave worse, it's a reality tbh.

Deleted User wrote: »

Moderators have been enforcing the rules stringently on posts from both sides tbh. It's not limited to just one group.

Yeah, keep posting that absurd position and just ignore the reality, of which this thread is full of examples of, which clearly show the opposite to be true.

From the moment those threads started pro-Trump users were held to a much much higher standard of posting. Anti-Trump users often got moderated for their posts, that's true, but it would generally be slaps on the wrist; on thread warnings or a Yellow at worst.

One user, for example, must have had four or five other users infracted for saying they had TDS but yet that same user themselves got away with saying ALL users on the other side had TDS. Indeed they even moaned about users saying it about them in this very thread. Similar situation with name calling, liberal users who insulted the whole thread would generally get away with it, whereas if pro-Trump users insulted others in any small way whatsoever, they'd end up threadbanned.

As it stands, I still haven't seen a user threadbanned for making points via rhetorical questions and ignoring strawman arguments and a mod say that amounted to them "hijacking" the thread the way I was, but I'll keep an eye out for it, maybe it'll happen again, one day.

Beasty wrote: »

One thing you can be assured of is the Trump side of discussions is a hell of a lot louder than the Biden side

And that's not picking sides. It's quite clear and evident in the threads. Of course a lot of Trump supporters and/or indeed posters associating with the extreme right side of politics can and do so in a civil manner. Unfortunately though a much higher proportion seem to tthink it is some kind of slanging match

No, it's not clear and evident. That is just your bias. What is evident is that a lot of noise is made in response to pro-Trump views, not just in CA but all over Boards, and via the Report button also, which is of course, directly into the ear of mods. I know that more than any user as I am more often than not met with a barrage of abusive replies for daring to post almost anything positive about him as President, and that's over the last four years.

Ad hominem responses asking 'How can you support a rapist/egomaniac/idiot' etc etc were commonplace and no mod ever jumped on a thread and demanded our posts were respected. Perhaps cause we never made noise via the report button in response to it. Maybe we should have but it's a hallmark of the left to want to silence the views of others, and so I suspect it will never be the case that us (non-leftties) would want users silenced for daring to call a politician that we supported, sleepy, no matter what their objective for doing so was.

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