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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 4:41 pm
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(January 19, 2015 at 4:36 pm)alpha male Wrote: So do the mods, or a former crop did anyway. One of the few warnings I've received was for suggesting that Brian is gay.
Hmmmm evidence for this? I don't recall such warning be given.
Put up or shut the fuck up. Please post the warning PM telling you were warned for doing that.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 4:42 pm
(January 19, 2015 at 4:30 pm)alpha male Wrote: Ah, so you get in trouble if you make a frivolous report, but you can't know if it's frivolous until the mods rule on it. Nothing could possibly go wrong with that system...
No, you don't get in trouble. You get in trouble when you do it over and over and over again, even after being told what a frivolous report is. Numerous times.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 4:47 pm
(January 19, 2015 at 4:30 pm)alpha male Wrote: Oh noes!
Imagine...someone on an internet forum accused someone else of trolling... 
Sarcasm is not an argument.
Quote:Maybe mods should be issued some lube so their butts don't get hurt so easily. Ask Exlax, he's probably got some quality stuff.
I do. That, and some stuff that suppresses the gag reflex; maybe you want some of that, if you're gonna keep trying to deep throat your persecution complex?
Quote:Ah, so you get in trouble if you make a frivolous report, but you can't know if it's frivolous until the mods rule on it. Nothing could possibly go wrong with that system...
Crazy thought: use common sense. We don't even suspect abuse of the system until multiple similar reports have been made, after having sent an explanation of what does and does not constitute a breach of the relevant rule, plus a verbal warning, to the party making the frivolous reports. That last step, by the way, requires its own quorum too.
You have to really be trying to get in trouble, before you do here. What is it with you theists and assuming you know everything about a system you aren't even privy to?
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 4:47 pm
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Quote:Ah, so you get in trouble if you make a frivolous report, but you can't know if it's frivolous until the mods rule on it. Nothing could possibly go wrong with that system...
Perhaps I wasn't clear. By misuse of the report system, I should have added the word persistent. Reporting someone for, say, trolling when all they did was disagree with you would be "ruled" as 'no action'. You would expect a PM explaining why and possibly a mini tutorial explaining what constitutes trolling and what doesn't.
Continually doing it, especially after having the problem explained, is what pisses in staff chips. Reports are never assessed in a vacuum - we look for evidence of the transgression, posting habits, attitude to other members, attitude to discussion and criticism, etc. In a word: context.
Here, the halfling fired off four or five reports in rapid succession, all with the intent of silencing criticism. That was the final straw after the mountain of others before it.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 4:49 pm
What I want is evidence, for what alpha male has accused us of. You know, warning him for accusing other from being gay.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 4:53 pm
Let me make something perfectly clear.
No one gets in trouble for filing a report we decline to act on.
What gets you in trouble is filing flurries of frivolous reports, after you've done it before and we told you to stop.
That the person in question also liked to make unsupported accusations to staff and ordinary members in thread (after its been made clear that's the wrong venue for same) didn't help his cause.
He had a history of provoking the staff going way back.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 4:53 pm
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(January 19, 2015 at 4:41 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Hmmmm evidence for this? I don't recall such warning be given.
Put up or shut the fuck up. Please post the warning PM telling you were warned for doing that. Sure. It was TGAC, not Brian. You wrote the warning yourself:
LastPoet Wrote:Hello John V.
It has come to our attenttion several posts of yours:
http://atheistforums.org/thread-17600-po...#pid411504
http://atheistforums.org/thread-17600-po...#pid411508
http://atheistforums.org/thread-17543-po...#pid410184
http://atheistforums.org/thread-17131-po...#pid411514
http://atheistforums.org/thread-17543-po...#pid410175
These are rule breaking, by personal attack. Because we find you a valuable member, this serves as a verbal warning to reconsider your stance in offhanded personal attacks. If you wish to disobey, please state it right away, and save us all the trouble of further action. If you wish to go into christian persecution mode, go somewhere else. If you have a reasonable complaint, please use the suggestion forum.
-- The AtheistForums Staff --
(January 19, 2015 at 4:49 pm)LastPoet Wrote: What I want is evidence, for what alpha male has accused us of. You know, warning him for accusing other from being gay. See above. Again, you issued the warning yourself.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 5:02 pm
So you got a warning for breaking the "no personal attack" rule. And?
Hey, it's not like you got banned or anything. It's almost like you were given a chance to reflect on the behaviour that attracted staff attention.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 5:05 pm
(January 19, 2015 at 4:28 pm)Losty Wrote: (January 19, 2015 at 4:18 pm)Stimbo Wrote: If anyone files a report that in their view raises a rule breach, it will be assessed and discussed appropriately. Whatever a person's religious affiliation happens to be has no bearing on the matter whatsoever. Whether the report is justified is our job to decide, not yours. It's a lot like reporting someone to the police - that you think the person is guilty is surprisingly irrelevant.
What we don't appreciate and will come down hard on is abuse of the report system - making prank calls if you like.
I would never ever make a report saying that Cthulhu should be banned for some silly reason I can't remember. Would never, have never, never ever, and honestly it won't happen again 
But seriously, I try to use the report button wisely.
I never use the report button. I just tell the asshole what I think of them.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 5:08 pm
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(January 19, 2015 at 5:02 pm)Stimbo Wrote: So you got a warning for breaking the "no personal attack" rule. And? And, as already noted, it's interesting that mods consider suggesting that someone is gay to be an attack.
(January 19, 2015 at 5:05 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I never use the report button. I just tell the asshole what I think of them. If the person is breaking a rule, you are then yourself breaking a rule.
"If you are aware of a member breaking the rules, you are obligated to report them to the staff, either via the Report System or by sending one of the staff a PM."
And mods kudo'd your post... 
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