4 pages!
I'm truly amazed at what this rev character does to us...

Rev, what you should have learned from your time-outs is:
- Don't just copy/past stuff from other websites, add your commentary, or interpretation to them, even if just to say that you agree 100% with that quote and always remember to present the link to where you got the text from. You'll see it's common practice to just give the link and add a quote to the most relevant bits... the other bits are for people to take time to follow the link and read themselves.

- Discuss with people. You often use one-line replies to other people's posts and most of those one-liners are barely addressing the post you're replying to... it's frustrating to the person you're replying to (and everyone else), it becomes less than a discussion and more of a monologue, with a few interjections (from you) in between, and the main purpose of an online forum is to have discussions among the users... not monologues.... that's why it's against the rules to reply in such a fashion. It makes you sound like a parrot, which renders you useless to the forum and, thus, banned.

I'm still looking forward to your remaining "arguments"... if I recall correctly, we were at the 3rd of 7. But I urge you to put some effort into the remaining ones, or else you'll just get the same rebuttals from the previous 3: go research what you're arguing against.
Actually, your best bet is not to argue against anything, but for something.
In the absurd chance that you could actually convince everyone in the forum that all of currently known science is wrong, you would not have moved a millimeter towards your goal of making us accept that your faith based divinity exists, nor that we should worship it, nor that the stories in your favorite holy book are trustworthy, much less true.

(July 27, 2014 at 11:06 am)pocaracas Wrote: 4 pages!
I'm truly amazed at what this rev character does to us...

The ignore feature was invented for his sort. All I can say is... AHHHHHHH!

(July 27, 2014 at 12:54 am)Esquilax Wrote: Each of our profiles has a "send X an email" button on it.

I just checked by using a different unlogged-in browser and indeed the button exists... however, once you press it, you are taken to the login page.
There's no way for a non-member to actually contact anyone on the inside...

Think about it, if there was a way to do that, how much spam would you get on your e-mail? Just from all the e-mail addresses seeking bots alone!

Oh, and if it's relevant (since rev mentioned CD), unlike you Esq, CD doesn't have his e-mail available to the general public.

So it seems that the only way to contact people about a potentially unfair ban is to create a sock account.... which will then be banned as soon as a mod realizes that it's a sock.

(July 27, 2014 at 1:54 pm)pocaracas Wrote: So it seems that the only way to contact people about a potentially unfair ban is to create a sock account.... which will then be banned as soon as a mod realizes that it's a sock.

There is a "Contact Us" link at the bottom of every page. You don't have to be logged in to use it.

(July 27, 2014 at 1:54 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Oh, and if it's relevant (since rev mentioned CD), unlike you Esq, CD doesn't have his e-mail available to the general public.

It's been like that forever - I generally would prefer to be contacted by PM rather than expose my email inbox to the world. However, given my position here, I have enabled it as of now.

I think I get it now. I was in the wrong and violated the rules. I apologize and will try harder to abide by them.

That's a good start. Do you understand why you were in the wrong? Can you see what led to the rules being violated?

(July 27, 2014 at 2:05 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:

(July 27, 2014 at 1:54 pm)pocaracas Wrote: So it seems that the only way to contact people about a potentially unfair ban is to create a sock account.... which will then be banned as soon as a mod realizes that it's a sock.

There is a "Contact Us" link at the bottom of every page. You don't have to be logged in to use it.

someone ban me and lets see if I can still pm people!
Obviously non members should not have the ability to spam the forum pm's.

(July 27, 2014 at 2:42 pm)Stimbo Wrote: That's a good start. Do you understand why you were in the wrong? Can you see what led to the rules being violated?

Yes, I get it. Humbling but want to be an abiding contributor and stay within the rules. Theists are welcomed here as long as they do that.

Carnac sees another ban coming.