Rule Change (New Staff Power)

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I'll give you an example.

There was one thread where we were discussing whether or not Denmark had a secular government. To this day not one "atheist" involved in the discussion has conceded that Denmark in fact does not have a secular government.

Your desperate hoarding of that incident continues to be as depressingly pathetic as ever, Huggy. You don't need to continue torpedoing your own credibility like that: you haven't had any for a long, long time.

That said, regarding the actual meat of the original question (comedic value inherent in what you theists consider victories aside) I don't think the new power has anything at all to do with the agreement/disagreement that we as staff have on specific threads. I know certain folks here love to push this button, as though any form of staff action is just persecution for your faith, lashing out because your god has "convicted" us or something, but as someone actually within the staff, who can see how we are when we make these determinations, the idea is laughable. You people, you literally have no idea how many votes, across how many reports, begin with the phrase "X is being a dickhead, but that's not actionable."

Hell, the idea of the nuke button being used on an established member is laughable: we give you people a truly absurd level of latitude, more than we probably should based solely on your post count or time here, but it happens because we know what you do add to the forum and you're (in a general sense, not anyone specifically) a part of the community. To characterize this new power as the end of christian disagreement on AF just showcases the position of ignorance as to our inner workings and who we are that such an accusation is levied from.

Because I'll give you a little hint at what happens when one of these premature theistic victory laps floats across our dashes: we roll our eyes, maybe have a little joke in private, and then send it to the archive with a nice, friendly "no action" label on it. If you really, truly think that we're looking to remove christians from the board simply for disagreeing vociferously, then you need to ask yourselves why that isn't unambiguously against the rules, despite us having several years to make this so. Why would we suddenly pop out something like this now, and why would we need to? If we truly wanted to do that we already have that power, and we have no need at all to tell you people about it first, either. Hell, religious forums do that all the time. But we don't, and that's not what's happening.