05-05-2013, 12:58 AM
Black wrote:
You guys (sekker/davester) are being played. What I'm referring to are the folks who want =only= to get the ranting forum shut down because they perceive it to be left-leaning. So they intentionally provoke and provoke until they have a reason to hammer the "report' link and complain to Larry directly that everyone's mean to them. The characterization that moderation resources are being devoted to people who are thin-skinned crybabies is not an accurate portrayal of who may be causing headaches and why they're doing it.
In another thread on the other side, you made some comments regarding some sort of privileged information you received about how the powers that be (I have to presume you mean people like Larry) were in some sort of support of right-wing causes. You also chose not to disclose your source. Then you have been making claims that some sort of concerted effort is being made to shut down the political forum and now you're upset about it.
But you need to pause before you attempt to insinuate that I'm some sort of tattle-tale or whiner who runs to "moderators" simply because someone disagrees with me.
I'll let you take it up with the moderators yourself and you can ask them if I've ever "reported" someone on a thread because they disagreed with me or called me names - and moderators have my blessing to release that such information about my membership in these forums.
That said, it bothers me little if the political forum were to go away. I enjoy the discourse and the pig-headed debate and, unlike you, I don't hold the disagreement in the other forum and let it spoil my fun on this side (as you have allowed whatever hatred you hold for me to cloud your postings in response to mine on this side). If the political forum departed, I still would have my real-world conversations and debates. The difference in my real-world is that I get to engage with a wide disparity of positions amongst people who may not agree on all issues but who know how to get along and try to understand each other and the competing positions/arguments. Here it's mainly left-wing liberals who have little more to say than calling any dissenter names.
"Friendly" Political Forum - Stay or Go, that's up to MR to decide.