Dispute with mod

I'm not seeing any "abuse" there. I'm questioning the system, and rightly so. And I knew you'd take the "lunatics of the asylum" out of context.

"They're the real lunatics of this asylum in my opinion(it's an expression of speech, in case I get accused of calling people names)."

That's what I wrote. Who mods the mods and the admin? They're, my opinion again, a law onto themselves(edit: sorry, some are).

You handed out a petty warning to me this morning for calling someone confrontational/hostile. You called it "personal abuse". Who reprimands you for repeatedly, in numerous posts calling my posts "ranting"? Is that not an offence?

And thank you for quoting some of what I wrote, as you've proven me right with the outcome of the unresolved disputes.

You can't knowingly insult someone and then immediately tell the person that they will be offended by it but you somehow think they shouldn't, and then get shirty because they were indeed offended by it. Have a word with yourself.

I don't know what you've done to my post because I can't post it as what I wrote.

"You're an antagonistic Man United fan, so you would say that."

Confrontational and hostile are synonyms of antagonistic. That's name calling? Pfft! I sent you a PM about the warning which you didn't respond to.

I know pre vanilla they were. Glad they're still decent then.

Well, I don't know how they work at all post-vanilla, TBF.

The "problem" with everyone taking it to PM or indeed just PM-ing the mod in question is that its not out in the open. If you think you are subjected to over zealous moderation, then keeping it private isn't really going to achieve anything.

However I would say that it should be in the appropriate thread as its counter-productive to keep ranting (;)) about it here.

That’s been a “quirk” of the site, going back a long way, S. You can’t call a racist “a racist”.

I’m always a bit baffled why racists, homophobes, misogynist, transphobes, bigots etc are so offended when they are called such. Just own it, you’re fooling nobody. It weakens their points, and arguments, when they act, in a melodramatic way, when they are “called out”.

What about tossers?

If someone called someone else a tosser, and it was the opinion of many others that the name was apt, should they just own it? By your logic they should.

Sorry, Sig, it’s not a democratic endowment. Anyone can be “a tosser” in the eyes of someone when they, themselves, are, in fact “a tosser”.

With racism, though, it’s universal. No matter what way you slice it. I would, also, argue that being “a tosser” is a lot lower down on the odious scale to racist. It would be the sort of term a racist, or bigot, themselves, might throw out should they be called out.

never mind

May I suggest looking at your own behavior first. Painful reading this drivel the past few pages

Being a racist may not be subjective, but calling someone a racist on a forum like this almost always is. If you feel someone's posts are racist there's already an appropriate way to deal with that, rather than reducing a discussion to tit-for-tat name-calling.

Let me reveal the limits of my own understanding: I'm not sure who you are calling spiteful scumbags here?

Intolerant people in general?

To speak to something you did raise - I've been on - and still am - on friendly terms and have been friends with over the years with people in RL whose politics I wouldn't agree with in the slightest, people who I know whose political or social views would make my toes curl, but the key thing for me is whether those views are held with malice or just a bit of - and this sounds condescending I guess - ignorance.

And in reality you get to know the person in their totality and it allows more nuance and tolerance than online, when you've only got written words to go on.