(April 26, 2014 at 11:20 am)sven Wrote: I think this forum could use a little bit more moderation. I know you have to have a thick skin on the internet sometimes, but a certain poster who's name I will not mention here has insulted me personally on several occasions. He does this for no apparent reason. A couple of times, his insults have been so severe that if those things had been said to me IRL, there would be serious trouble.
I'm not going to make any more fuzz about this individual. I've blocked him and that's the end of that story.
It seems a lot of people on this forum are young adults, and things are bound to get a little rowdy sometimes with a crowd like that. Offensive and/or disturbing posts don't bother me much, as long as they are not targeted at someone specific. But personal insults and attacks is something I simply cannot tolerate. Mostly the mods here do a good job of policing the forums, but this kind of thing, is it really acceptable?
I know that the mods seem to not accept suicide threats and the like, which I think is a very good thing.
I had a similar incident not long after I joined, because I have an unusual view for an atheist it was assumed by some other atheists here that I was a Christian using another alias and hounded me round the forums for weeks spouting their paranoia. Not that anyone was paying attention to be fair to the regs here but it disrupted some interesting discussion.
I accept the mods here try to balance freedom of speech with basic decency, so I kept away from the forum for about 3-4 months and they went.
MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
