New Rule: Posting Private Correspondence

[Huggy Bear]

Do you remember this little correspondence?

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Since then, my signature has been permanently disabled, and the mental gymnastics used to construe my signature (which was a simple quote, something people do all the time by simply pressing the reply button) into somehow being a breach of the rules is nothing short of amazing.

I'd post the PM as proof but I can't....

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If the person that complained about PM's being posted was not staff, then I stand corrected and apologize, But if it was, then that just seems shady to me, that's all.

I dug through a stack of reports from the time period in question and found the one that spawned this new rule.  The complaint did not come from anyone on staff.

Then I apologize for the accusation.

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It was me who reported you Huggy. You had a quote mine in your signature, this was pointed out, and you failed to sort it out. It was not a "simple quote", it was entirely out of context to try and embarress another member. You showed you weren't mature enough to have the privilege of a signature. This was of course way before I was a member of staff.

Please don't embarress yourself further by dragging this all up. I reported it because of the gross dishonesty and misrepresentation, which is clearly against the forum rules.

There is no conspiracy. There is you acting in a ridiculous manner. The fact that you're still even here on the forum shows how tolerant the staff were, and are, to all your shenanigans.

That is a bald faced lie.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quote_mining

Quote mining (also contextomy) is the fallacious tactic of taking quotes out of context in order to make them seemingly agree with the quote miner's viewpoint or to make the comments of an opponent seem more extreme or hold positions they don't in order to make their positions easier to refute or demonize. It's a way of lying.

My signature was (and still is, seeing how I haven't changed it):

Huggy74: Ok, answer this. What is the very first step in any scientific discovery?

FatAndFaithless: What a strange question.. I would say the first step would be to verify the result.

Here is FatAndFaithless actual post.

http://atheistforums.org/thread-27805-po...#pid729650

Ok, answer this. What is the very first step in any scientific discovery?

What a strange question..  I would say the first step would be to verify the result.

As you can see I asked a question and he provided an answer, where is the "gross dishonesty and misrepresentation"? Where is the quote mine? Like I said, "the mental gymnastics used to construe my signature into somehow being a breach of the rules is nothing short of amazing."

I think the problem is that you can't stand when an "theist" makes an atheist look foolish, and btw my punishment was for "trolling" NOT "quote mining", apparently if someone is embarrassed by the quote in your sig, it can be interpreted as trolling...