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Author Topic:   General Discussion Of Moderation Procedures 9.0
AdminNosy
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Message 47 of 301 (377784)
01-18-2007 11:13 AM
Reply to: Message 45 by arachnophilia
01-18-2007 10:39 AM


Bannin[qs]
wk, do you suppose that this might be why we have so few creationists on this board -- we have shown a propensity for banning them? granted, for entirely legitimate reasons most of the time, but they sure do not see it that way.
It would be interesting to have actual statistics but I think you'll find that for every creo banned there are 10 who come; rant and give up when someone asks a hard question or two.
I also suggest that it isn't propensity for banning any particular viewpoint -- we ban specific behaviours. Your post suggests that it is creos who behave badly more frequently. If you think that why do you think that?
Edited by AdminNosy, : No reason given.

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AdminNosy
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Message 161 of 301 (378959)
01-22-2007 2:46 PM
Reply to: Message 157 by crashfrog
01-22-2007 2:15 PM


Re: What would you have us do?
I understand the degree of frustration involved Crash. My ire gets up still when I read such nonsense even when I'm not involved and t h i n k I'm ignorning the nitwits.
However, the rules say that you can't call someone a liar. So you either stop wasting time with wackos or you carefully keep simplifying things:
He says "There you are, clearly asserting the sky is yellow..."
You have to (it is harder in the real case) get it down to fewer words and posts. Ask -- "In that post of mine, where is the word "yellow".
At some point, if you want to waste time with such a game, you may have to resort to going over the rules of grammer. It may be that the individual is actually not lying !!!! They are so narrow minded and focussed that they misread even a fairly simple bit of English.
You can see if you can get them to look at each word of your posts and show how they read them. Personally I think that this is a waste of time with a number of the utterly crazy (or at least working hard to appear to be-- perhaps just in order to play with you) here.
Given that they aren't just playing the fool then you can make their own posts prove the lie by getting them to say something as clear as in your simple example.
You will have to have unbelievable discipline to control the wild gyrations onto other issues that they will resort to but it would be fun to watch.

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