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As members, we are guests on this board and as guests we are asked to put forth our best behavior.
Such a policy would seem entirely appropriate. But post #113 and others by "Iblis" appear to be trolls, designed (in vain) to produce an angry response. I must ask why you have directed this to me?
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Rule #4: Points should be supported with evidence and/or reasoned argumentation. Address rebuttals through the introduction of additional evidence or by enlarging upon the argument. Do not repeat previous points without further elaboration. Avoid bare assertions.
Um, why do you direct this to *me*, when the post to which I responded was guilty of these? Or do you assert that your forum requires visitors to treat any assertion as requiring an essay?
Let people justify their assertions if they can. When they cannot, there is no obligation on anyone to write essays about it.
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Readers like to learn as well as debate. Stating that someone's position is wrong without reasoned argument or supporting evidence, does nothing to move the discussion forward or to educate/inspire readers.
This is sad stuff. Either apply this policy to the original poster, or else not to me either.
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We also frown on useless one word or one line posts.
Do you? But I notice no rebuke of intentionally abusive ones, to which I replied in that polite manner if brief manner. That's OK, then?
I have rarely seen a moderator intervention that was quite as contemptible as this. A moderator who attacks the courteous poster, while allowing crude trolling of that poster without remark; that demands I prove things, while allowing assertion without evidence, is beneath contempt.
Kindly remove all my posts from this forum. No forum can operate with this level of bias.
Sincerely,
Roger Pearse
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