(Site is a graveyard - How can boards save itself?) Any update?

I have a right to answer and defend against accusations which were incorrect . Those questions were at least made straight to my face . Big difference saying someone outside of here on another thread is" a liar . "

If you got threadbanned for" calling someone out "you must have said something pretty objectionable . But its someone else's fault , is it , JohnJo ?

You have come on here to air your own petty grievance ...perfectly illustrating my point .

Post away within the rules. How hard is that? Someone with 11k posts should know that by now.

But its being said by 2 different groups of people.

On one side there are those who, generally speaking, are able to comment and stay within the lines but who are annoyed by the apparent inconsistent moderation and on the other side there are those are struggle to stay within the lines and are also annoyed by the apparent inconsistent moderation.

Even if the moderation is as inconsistent as people claim, and I'm not sure it is, its still pretty easy to not get sanctioned.

It's editorialising.

If there was just an admission of this people could adjust to avoid trouble. Instead we're laboring under the misconception that this is an unbiased platform.

Re the Burke thread, it's been made clear that most CA threads are not moderated in a conventional fashion; reports are relied upon. I haven't glanced at the Burke thread in months, but if someone thinks there are some objectionable posts on there, then the simplest thing to do is "hold your nose" and report them, even if someone might personally be against the idea of reporting.

I guess part of the issue is that there is a number of controversial, or contentious, threads but the same “cadre” of posters populate the side of contention.

A thread on trans or immigration “issues” will have the same posters taking the anti trans or anti immigrant side but various, different, users on the, more, compassionate side. This goes for a host of other threads too.

This, then, leads to the same posters getting “sanctioned”, or threadbanned, on these threads so the posters on that side of the “argument” feel unfairly treated, as the same names pop up constantly. Whereas, the users, on the other side, getting similar treatment across the forum aren’t noticed as much.

Now, it should be pointed out that a large element of posters can post their opinions without attracting mod/admin attention and stay within the rules. Or they get a warning, learn from it, and move on. Other users seem unable to keep their “cool” and continue to ignore the rules then feel attacked when those same rules are applied.

Then they blame the mods.

Can I ask a genuine question?

Why if you think the site is biased and editorialized and I think you mentioned having 100+ others users on ignore why continue to use the platform?

I'm using the ignore list because I routinely get abuse from people and when I try to defend myself I get warned and they get away with their abuse. To me that's a double standard and signals a level of editorialising.

By ignoring those people I don't have to find myself getting warned/banned when they badger me. I just ignore the crap and have discussions with reasonable people, which seems to have upset a cohort of people who clearly enjoy the process of being a dick and getting away with it, which really isn't my problem.

Thanks for the reply. Just a follow up, these posters who abuse you do you not report them instead of responding?

In the second half of your reply you appear to want an echo chamber so back to my original question why bother use the platform?

Thanks for the insight and enjoy your weekend.

Not by choice. I've had enough of Dispute Resolution threads caused by defending myself from abuse from others who get away with their behaviour.

I can't report posts atm because I'm jailed, I had one user on this thread post twice a couple of days ago baiting and badgering me, I PMd an admin who said that behaviour wasn't acceptable but they weren't going to do anything about it. The second post went over their heads until I PMd them again, no on thread warning was given, seemingly a PM was sent, so all this talk of sanctioning bad behaviour only cuts in one direction it would seem.

Would you be happy about that?

EDIT: Just to clarify my point regarding in thread warnings, a big point was made about editing posts to display warnings last weekend I had a couple of posts edited in that way a day after I posted them as did others. That wasn't the case this time around with the user that was going out of their way to harrass me, I'm sure they may well have been PMd about their second post but not editing their post to inform others that their behaviour isn't acceptable gives the impression that they did nothing wrong.

The fact that they're still on this thread jabbing at me behaving exactly the same way, doesn't speak to them having been severely punished.

Maybe they should stop following me around and get a new hobby.

I have made sure to call out peoples poor behaviour on this thread so it doesn't surprise me that they don't like it.

This site tolerates my presence, but if I act as poorly as the people picking fights with me I'm sanctioned and they're not.

So as you seem to be able to understand, I've chosen to ignore those people and talk to people who can behave like adults.

Get three warnings and your profile looks like this...