The light touch CA moderation experiment

Fairly sure if that's how you'd worded your post instead you wouldnt have been threadbanned.

Are you having a laugh here with this ?

You go on about " People engaging in bad faith, being abusive, playing the man and not the ball. " after saying this to another poster ..

"Not only are you a raging hypocrite, you have so little self awareness that you can't accept having it pointed out to you" ?

I had to read it a few times because I genuinely thought you must have been talking to yourself or joking , because it isn't very nice reflected back , is it ?

Its addressing others on threads that people disagree with so aggressively and without any desire to find the middle ground "That's what's killing the forum, not people making complaints."

If you had posted that post anywhere except feedback it would be classed as an ad hominem attack because it is a perfect illustration of playing the man not the ball.

To finish with another quote from your post ..

"This is why nothing you say has any validity. " .

I am glad I didn't write that ...it is shameful and a personal attack.

In fact I thought there was a rule on Feedback about personal attacks ??

The poster I replied to on the day the rules were relaxed embarked upon a campaign of spamming and general nuisance posting in protest over the rule concerning anecdotes in the immigration thread.

Their behaviour at that time went unpunished, at any other time they could or should have been site banned for their behaviour, yet in protesting in this way against relaxed rules for anecdotes they not only went beyond making that point but made an absolute mockery of the position they were taking.

In fact the only people acting that way were the pro immigration posters.

He then started this thread to complain about the relaxed rules which is a far better way of making his point but when his wishes were granted and the rules reinstated he then wanted other people to be denied the route of complaint he availed of.

I typically don't make comments about other posters directly, but in light of his behaviour and the bare faced hypocrisy he displayed here I commented on his behaviour, his obvious hypocrisy and stated that in light of those facts his commentary here should not be taken seriously.

I'm replying to you here to clarify the reasoning behind the post you decided to quote.

I generally don't interact with you because of the fact you've repeatedly been abusive towards me on multiple occasions.

You've quoted me in CA a number of times but I won't reply because you've proven to be incredibly unpleasant.

Now after a good long while from me posting what you quoted you're in here looking to raise my post as being in contravention of the rules I'm guessing with the intent of hopefully seeing me being punished.

I think you've ignored the facts of the post I made and have come here to see to it I receive some measure of punishment which undermines the point your attempting to make. That poster wanted their opinions to be given due consideration, even after their ridiculous behaviour that was accommodated but they wanted to silence others, they are a raging hypocrite, and that's borne out by facts, not personal opinion.

There was a warning issued last week about discussion of flags in the immigration thread. It was suggested people set up a separate thread for it but the last few pages have been nothing but discussion of flags.

How is it these things are let go but other issues get jumped on immediately?

If you want a conversation about immigration it's going to have to wait because flags are racist or something. Complete nonsense and people know well it's been called youth as off topic.

I think there are certain heated topics that simply cant be discussed rationally or calmly on here or pretty much anywhere on the internet for that matter, Immigration being one.

You have a small minority of NGO based operatives and bad faith actors on one side and a few far right agitators on the other side.

These posters will try to derail any logical discussion and insert their propaganda.

This site is liberal minded so it will by default seek to over compensate in how it moderates, so one side will always have a built inadvantage.

We live is a culture of people being perpetually offended at the least thing, virtue signalling cancel culture so anything in the least bit controversial is erased.

Sometimes its best to keep ones politics to oneself. I mentioned this before on another thread how study has show that the people most likely to discuss politics in an open manner, rarely change their ideas or beliefs.

In effect they gravitate towards an echo chamber. Pride over truth.