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Message 600 of 860 (809379)
05-18-2017 9:03 AM
Reply to: Message 598 by Davidjay
05-17-2017 6:36 PM


Hi Davidjay,
I have suspended you again for purposefully and persistently misstating what people say, see Message 329. You're heading for permanent suspension if you don't change your discussion style.

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Message 604 of 860 (809703)
05-20-2017 11:33 AM
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05-20-2017 10:12 AM


Re: Peek into Cats Eye response about 'fuck you'
Hi Davidjay,
You're mostly incoherent, you don't engage in discussion but ignore the content of responses, you just declare the same thing over and over, you make purposeful misstatements, you ignore moderation - these are characteristics of a troll. If you dislike the reactions trolls typically receive then stop behaving like a troll.
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Message 607 of 860 (810073)
05-23-2017 10:55 AM
Reply to: Message 606 by Faith
05-20-2017 2:55 PM


Re: PaulK
I'll respond since no one else has:
Faith writes:
Is this acceptable?
Paul K attacks me personally on a political thread:
And all your lies and hate won't save him.
Your castigations of the left have been fairly scathing.
As a participant in the thread there's nothing I can do. If I were to moderate the thread I'd probably try to encourage participants to stop the name calling.

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Message 618 of 860 (819372)
09-10-2017 8:00 AM
Reply to: Message 617 by RAZD
09-10-2017 7:44 AM


Re: Picture of the Month.
Hosting the photos locally is something I've wanted to do for a long time. I'll fix the homepage photo when I get a chance.

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Message 629 of 860 (828698)
02-22-2018 2:51 PM


I'm a participant in the Evolution. We Have The Fossils. We Win. thread and so cannot moderate. I could recuse myself for a couple days and then take over as moderator (in fact, it's already been a couple days since I last posted to that thread), but I don't know that other participants would like that because I would just bring the discussion about the flood to a halt and redirect discussion to a more appropriate thread. So I'll just make a couple comments here.
I agree that the accusations of lying should cease.
I agree that content free posts should cease.
I agree that participants shouldn't introduce their own favorite arguments as if for the first time when those arguments have already been raised and discussed at length in other threads. Unless there is some new angle, there should be no convenient forgetting or mischaracterization of previous history, especially of discussions that a participant has abandoned in midstream.

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Message 664 of 860 (845758)
12-20-2018 7:35 AM
Reply to: Message 662 by Faith
12-17-2018 2:24 PM


The opening post introduces the thread by saying, "I think we would be better well served as a society to teach people how 'not to be offended'." I think Tanypteryx (and probably a lot of other people) found your Message 22 pretty offensive due to the many inaccurate characterizations. I think his reply was intentionally meant to test if you yourself were heeding the lesson of "how not to be offended."
I guess we have our answer.

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Message 667 of 860 (845887)
12-21-2018 5:17 PM
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12-21-2018 1:49 PM


Faith writes:
...but a command that only applies to me for some reason...
It isn't that it applies only to you. It's that you were the only one to post here about being offended in a thread about not taking offense. The irony is strong with this one.

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Message 683 of 860 (850604)
04-10-2019 8:42 PM
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04-10-2019 8:20 PM


Faith writes:
I can't point out that your point of view is culturebound and historically challenged? But that's the whole point. Duh.
It was pretty clear that Theodoric was referring to things like, "Gosh you're not very bright are you?", and so forth.
I will do as Theodoric requests and ask you to please keep your focus on the topic and rather than on bad mouthing your fellow debaters.

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Message 685 of 860 (850607)
04-10-2019 9:03 PM
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04-10-2019 8:46 PM


No, it's not acceptable.
Perhaps only those willing to keep their focus on substance and the topic will post from now on.

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Message 687 of 860 (851514)
04-25-2019 7:21 PM


About Discussion in the The Right Side of the News Thread
Let me say a few words about discussion in the The Right Side of the News thread. One effective technique when the facts are not on your side is to ignore the facts, muddy the waters, distract attention from the topic, and get personal. What is an effective technique when someone is employing this tactic? I'm not sure I know, but I am sure it isn't to join that person in the mud.

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Message 694 of 860 (851913)
05-04-2019 10:08 AM
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05-04-2019 5:29 AM


Re: The Mad Censor
Message 1628 has been fixed.

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Message 697 of 860 (851984)
05-05-2019 4:45 PM
Reply to: Message 695 by Faith
05-05-2019 1:48 PM


Re: another protest
Restricting your vocabulary will continue for as long as you continue to post messages like your Message 1659 in the The Right Side of the News thread, which you posted about a half hour after stating that it was no longer necessary:
Faith in Message 1659 writes:
LFTSTS are truly accomplished LYRs.

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Message 700 of 860 (852000)
05-05-2019 8:42 PM


Faith's Posting Permissions in This Forum Rescinded
That is all.

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Message 705 of 860 (853479)
05-27-2019 9:03 PM
Reply to: Message 704 by Faith
05-27-2019 6:53 PM


Re: Suggestion
As announced above in Message 700, your posting permissions in this forum were rescinded in early May. A software glitch I've just now become aware of restored them about a week ago, but I've rescinded them again.
To address your complaint, let us assume for the sake of argument that you are not a troll. If one were to review all posts over just the past couple months and judge who was the most troll-like, who do you think that would be? You might find Message 1970 helpful. Your own Message 2142 is also helpful:
Faith writes:
The only voter manipulation tactics I'm aware of are the work of the Izquierdo.
It's hard to believe you're really unaware of the highly publicized front-page case of Republican vote tampering in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District where 40% of the population is non-white. It does leave you wide open to accusations of trolling and racism.
I would prefer that people simply not engage with posts like this from you, but paraphrasing Pete Buttigieg from his interview with Martha Raditz on ABC's This Week, it is the nature of grotesque things that they're hard to ignore.

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Message 715 of 860 (867005)
11-19-2019 12:16 AM
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11-16-2019 11:10 PM


Re: ****** ********** ****** (Phats 2 cents)
Just now noticed these posts.
First, as I posted in another thread, the "all asterisks" problem was a typo I made in Faith's disallowed word list. I've explained about regular expressions before, and because Faith tries to get around the disallowed words feature by misspelling words I have to use regular expressions. Accidentally enter a space before "\S*" and all hell breaks loose.
Second, each word in Faith's disallowed word list was added when it was directed in a derogatory fashion at someone personally (or sometimes at everyone at EvC) and was not an expression of political opinion. All political and religious views can be expressed here, although some years ago we did permanently suspend a couple determined racists.
I don't normally reveal anything about any private exchanges, including whether they occur, but I'm making an exception in this case because of Faith's lack of candor. She is being less than candid when she asserts that I'm censoring her conservative views. We've exchanged PMs and she knows that's not true. I've clearly explained how words are getting added to her list. For example, the base words "silly," "irrelevant," tendentious" and "insinuation" were added to her list because of this exchange in Message 107:
Faith writes:
Taq writes:
If the evidence pans out and Trump did in fact do what the Democrats have accused him of, will you give Trump a pass? Yes or no?
I'm not going to answer silly irrelevant tendentious questions. Insinuations? No thanks. We get enough of that in the Leftist media every day.
By base words I mean that all forms of a word are covered, for example not just "silly" but also "silliness," etc.

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