You can avoid the getting into trouble part by not retaliating and instead alerting the moderators to someone that is calling you names or causing other discussion problems. We're not all-seeing, and we have our biases - we accept such frailties and ask the membership to put some effort into helping keep discussion civil.
I am sorry but to me that is a total bitch move. and there aint no bitch in me, I feel like its your job as Admin to Administer the site (I am not a rat nor a snitch). But from reading the
public record forum it just seems like the Admins are part of the whole thing; I do not find them to be very objective. Hence the charade. I am just glad I figured this cleverly disguised
liberal flame site as soon as I did, instead believing the lie.
You, chaoticskunk, have posted one message in Report Discussion Problems Here 3.0, it was Message 642. You reported Theodoric. He was warned, and then he apologized. It seems for you, the system worked.
I felt bad about that, it was more of an inquiry as I was really new and trying to figure out if name calling was allowed here on your debate site, for I had never had one interaction with Theodoric and he comes out of left field accusing me and attacking me, and being insulting. I was really wondering if I could tell him off or if his actions were allowed around here.
But now, instead of using the system, you just condemn it. If you think someone else is being problematic, you could still alert the moderators (preferably with links to the most obvious examples of the problem), rather than getting upset at the moderators for not noticing the problem (or in this case, getting upset that the moderators will at some time in the future, fail to notice a problem until you retaliate).
I am by no means upset. Disappointed maybe (I thought I found a good debate site), but not upset and surly not at the moderators (when you say mods do you mean admin, for I have seen no mods). All I am trying to say is I get it.
I see this site for what it really is:
One person has an opinion that is not radical left.
Five or more people dogpile ontop of that person, accusing them of various things they never stated, insinuating many things (straw manning), and pilling up the responses.
While another group of 3-5 people just make snide snarky remarks, in ALMOST every thread. For example take Jar and click his name, and look at the last 10 -20 posts he has made.are any of them adding to the debate? Are any of them more than two lines of text (my reply to you is probably equal to the trolls that run rampant here, last 3-5 posts added together) or even 50 words? He is not alone (anyone who posts here or lurks knows who adds and who talks smack all day long); unfortunately there is no ignore button and I can’t ignore the trolls (something in my brain auto reads texts when my eyes see it).
I was trying to figure out why there is the huge site with many forums and there are rarely more than 10-15 people on at any given time, and why there are many forums who only have one thread active in them and why the next thread is from last year. I wanted to see why a site like this that looks like it has so much potential, is so stagnant. I think I figured it out. I think this is a flame-site that is run as a charade of this debate style with a topic that is only supported by one side. I mean you have people like Buzzsaw who aren’t even allow to post in science forums (talk about silencing the opposition so no one can disagree with you). Take Foreveryoung, he was permanently banned for sticking up for himself, and un permanently banned probably because there was no one else in the opposition.
I think this is a fairly poorly run site, that is about ran into the ground, and I can see why. (I am sure I will be edited and then banned for speaking the truth) As a new and observant member, who doesn’t know the community (of 15+) and doesn’t have the history and built up biases, I am speaking only in terms of observable evidence that I have seen and read in the past 6 weeks (though one can go back and read about the decline of this site over the years).
Let the trash talking and straw-manning about me commence. You seem like a decent person so I wanted to answer you instead of trying to ignore you with the rest of the trolls/flamers/smack talkers.
Back to lurking
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