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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 6:07 pm
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(January 19, 2015 at 5:44 pm)Losty Wrote: If we had to chose a theist to be banned today, it could have been alpha male. I would not have shed a single tear.
Vote: lynch alpha male
Ok, sorry, but this just sounded like something out of a mafia game
Hang on, did I just get an idea for a new mafia variant?
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Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped.
Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 6:07 pm
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(January 19, 2015 at 6:06 pm)Sionnach Wrote: Is alpha male also Fr0d0 or have they both simply jumped on the same bandwagon?
Just similar idiots for the looks of it
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 6:07 pm
I tell you something. I'm seriously considering jacking all this in. I don't mind the job, I love the job, I love the responsibility, I love making a positive contribution, I love how I feel like I have a purpose again. But what puts the shit in my noodles is ungrateful little twats who don't have a legitimate complaint bitching about the way things are done, the very same judgements that they are perfectly fine with as long as they don't apply to them.
Isn't it interesting that while all the melodrama was blowing up yesterday, I personally had the professionalism to look after the welfare of the forum as a whole; making edits and general cleanups where necessary - including the removal of personally identifiable information. But some of you who will be nameless don't think to bother about that shit, do you? It's got to the point where, after moderating a post, I'm expecting a PM demanding to know why.
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 6:08 pm
(January 19, 2015 at 6:04 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: No. You simply fail to understand where the line between "insulting" and where it becomes personal is. I understand it. If it comes from a popular atheist, it's insulting. Otherwise, it's personal.
Quote:Insulting is allowed. Making it personal (say, by verbally attacking someone's family members, or one's sexuality, etc) isn't.
Again saying that it's an insult to be gay. Amazing.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 6:09 pm
You guys don't want to piss Stimbo off.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 6:10 pm
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(January 19, 2015 at 5:54 pm)alpha male Wrote: (January 19, 2015 at 5:48 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: alpha male, are you suggesting something here or you just bitching? I'm suggesting that the moderation here is biased. I don't know why they don't just admit it.
We try and eliminate bias as much as possible.
Often we've had reports about posts that 'people don't like', theist and atheist alike, but we don't action on it, not for that reason alone anyway.
For example, some of the things you've said on this thread have been outright lies and misrepresentations of the facts. But I don't want to ban you because of it.
We don't ban people because of their beliefs, after all. If that were true, and there's an inherent bias against theists on here, then why does it not say banned under your name?
Some mods wont like some members. Obvious truth is obvious. Hence why we have a quorum system. If there were any decent theists on the board we'd promote them too, like Ryaan when he was on the staff. But there aren't any.
So you can keep accusing us of being butt hurt despite not being in full possession of the facts & actually acting more butt hurt then any of us appear to be (butt hurt over what btw? I don't get it), but you won't get banned for it. Not now at least.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 6:11 pm
(January 19, 2015 at 6:08 pm)alpha male Wrote: Again saying that it's an insult to be gay. Amazing. 
Please keep going, please. Just keep saying it, again and again, who knows, the next one may be your last.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 6:13 pm
(January 19, 2015 at 6:09 pm)LastPoet Wrote: You guys don't want to piss Stimbo off.
Too late. First catfish, then Fr0d0. Now this.
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 6:13 pm
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(January 19, 2015 at 5:54 pm)alpha male Wrote: (January 19, 2015 at 5:48 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: alpha male, are you suggesting something here or you just bitching? I'm suggesting that the moderation here is biased. I don't know why they don't just admit it.
I'm suggesting that your god is a delusional fantasy and that your belief in him is irrational and illogical. I don't know why you don't just admit it.
Like I said in another thread: we announce our bans in public. A look through that list will see plenty of banned atheists. I would be sure that theists get banned more frequently compared to their percentage of the population, but let's be honest: atheists are vastly less likely to come to an atheist forum looking to stir up trouble.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 19, 2015 at 6:14 pm
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(January 19, 2015 at 6:10 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: We try and eliminate bias as much as possible.
Often we've had reports about posts that 'people don't like', theist and atheist alike, but we don't action on it, not for that reason alone anyway.
For example, some of the things you've said on this thread have been outright lies and misrepresentations of the facts. But I don't want to ban you because of it.
We don't ban people because of their beliefs, after all. If that were true, and there's an inherent bias against theists on here, then why does it not say banned under your name? False dichotomy. That you're biased against theists doesn't imply that you must ban all theists.
Quote:So you can keep accusing us of being butt hurt despite not being in full possession of the facts & actually acting more butt hurt then any of us appear to be (butt hurt over what btw? I don't get it),
Over fr0d0 saying some mods had trolled him in the last thread. Certain people just would not let it go.
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