Pope Opens Mouth; Inserts Foot

[Darkstar]

I can't believe that it took this long for me to realize that this thread was derailed. I kept getting it mixed up with the vampire rapist thread which is now more of a giant hamburger/Ican'tstoplookingatthistrainwreck thread.

[Jackalope]

Answer that if you're interested in democracy.

This isn't a fucking democracy.

[fr0d0]

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Answer that if you're interested in democracy.

This isn't a fucking democracy.

I didn't say that it was

[Brian37]

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This isn't a fucking democracy.

I didn't say that it was

You certainly have been acting like it should be. Ok, it is not, great, we both agree. So move on.

[fr0d0]

Someone needs to spank that Brian

I'm going to ask Alice to do it...

[Jackalope]

Admin hat on.

You've made your point, fr0d0. If you don't like how the forum is run, tough shit. Post elsewhere if you don't like it.

Making in-thread accusations of rule-breaking is inappropriate. Stop doing it. Use the report button - or don't - just stop doing this in threads. If you don't like the staff's decision on a particular issue, see above. If your definition of what constitutes trolling differs from staff interpretation, see above.

[Cyberman]

Thank you, this has gone on more than far enough. I just want to tie up these loose ends, which I didn't see until now.

4. Sure about that? That's the only difference?

That's the only difference I'm concerned with, and discussing here. Your religious bias determines your judgement of trolling. This much is clear. To have any rule where only one aspect of religious opinion dictates the judgement is blatently unfair.

I quite agree, that would be most unfair. Good thing we don't have anything like that here.

Hold on there - there's been no discussion in the "appropriate place"? Where's your evidence for that?

Oh my.

We're going all exclusive club here again aren't we. I'm opposed to all that nipple bearing and trouser rolling.

I apologise that you are upset at not being privy to Staff deliberations. The most I can offer is all the logged discussion generated by the reports you filed, were it up to me to release them.

And that marks the end of my part in this. Good day.

[Esquilax]

I just stopped posting. Call it giving up if you want, but it was clear from the outset that no reasonable conclusion was going to be reached; the hobbit would continue babbling and lobbing unjustified accusations, and things would just get hotter. Some people just can't be talked to.

Either way, there's a report button for when someone thinks the rules have been broken, and staff members involved recuse themselves, so that's the appropriate place to air these grievances. That said, there's also a little delete button that every mod has access to; for all this whining about censorship, actual censorship has been well within our reach the entire time, and hasn't been used once.

Like I asked at the beginning of all this, what censor acts in such a way?

[Thumpalumpacus]

So limiting speech in your house isn't censorship, because you're free to go to many other houses and be free.

Here the first paragraph from Wikipedia:

"Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication or other information which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or inconvenient as determined by governments, media outlets, authorities or other groups or institutions."

We are a 'group' so I think that includes us.

Climb down off your cross, and quit abusing the good nature of the folks here. You're being a twat. Stop it.

[Cyberman]

for all this whining about censorship, actual censorship has been well within our reach the entire time, and hasn't been used once.

Don't forget we can edit posts at will. We can make people say anything we want them to. And nobody will be any the wiser, apart from the automatic timestamp logging that an edit was made and by whom.