What IS good, and how do we determine it?

[Ravenshire]

You're free to comment, of course, as long as you remember that you're doing so in a partial vacuum of limited information.

(emphasis is mine)

As if he's not doing so in any other aspect of life.

[rexbeccarox]

In your browser, you have two windows open.

In the first window, you are logged in as a regular user. Cuss at me all you want.

In the second window, you are logged in as a mod. Correct me all you want.

Easy peasy.

It doesn't work that way.  Not so easy peasy.

Also, do you recall me telling you the other day that derailing threads to make suggestions or complaints about the forum is completely inappropriate, and that we have a Suggestions forum for that very purpose?  You must have seen it, you quoted it.

Hell, I was even nice.

I don't like having to repeat myself, Randy.  This will be the last time I do so.

I told him the same thing; I even posted in green, and he still chose to ignore me.

[Randy Carson]

In your browser, you have two windows open.

In the first window, you are logged in as a regular user. Cuss at me all you want.

In the second window, you are logged in as a mod. Correct me all you want.

Easy peasy.

It doesn't work that way.  Not so easy peasy.

Also, do you recall me telling you the other day that derailing threads to make suggestions or complaints about the forum is completely inappropriate, and that we have a Suggestions forum for that very purpose?  You must have seen it, you quoted it.

Hell, I was even nice.

I don't like having to repeat myself, Randy.  This will be the last time I do so.

It doesn't work that way.  Not so easy peasy.

Also, do you recall me telling you the other day that derailing threads to make suggestions or complaints about the forum is completely inappropriate, and that we have a Suggestions forum for that very purpose?  You must have seen it, you quoted it.

Hell, I was even nice.

I don't like having to repeat myself, Randy.  This will be the last time I do so.

I told him the same thing; I even posted in green, and he still chose to ignore me.

So, it's okay for people to call me a motherfucker, accuse me of lying, mock my faith, slander my Church and blaspheme my God.

But if I make a suggestion for improving the forum in the wrong place, I've committed a GREAT TRANSGRESSION.

And this seems perfectly normal to you all. I feel like I've fallen down a rabbit hole.

[Ravenshire]

It doesn't work that way.  Not so easy peasy.

Also, do you recall me telling you the other day that derailing threads to make suggestions or complaints about the forum is completely inappropriate, and that we have a Suggestions forum for that very purpose?  You must have seen it, you quoted it.

Hell, I was even nice.

I don't like having to repeat myself, Randy.  This will be the last time I do so.

I told him the same thing; I even posted in green, and he still chose to ignore me.

So, it's okay for people to call me a motherfucker, accuse me of lying, mock my faith, slander my Church and blaspheme my God.

But if I make a suggestion for improving the forum in the wrong place, I've committed a GREAT TRANSGRESSION.

And this seems perfectly normal to you all. I feel like I've fallen down a rabbit hole.

For fucks sake, Randy. You're on an atheist forum, a loosely moderated one at that, telling us how wrong we all are and how were sure to wind up in hell, but you expect no hostility for it? There's no rule against telling you to get bent, nor are there any rules against calling you a motherfucker, accusing you of lying, mocking your faith, slandering your Church or blaspheming your gawd. You claimed to have read the rules and you agreed to abide by them. You haven't.

[Jackalope]

As a matter of fact, yes, Randy, because such derails have historically been used to troll the staff.

Everything else, whatever you may think of it, is fine outside in the specific context of the rules that cover such things.

[Cato]

So, it's okay for people to call me a motherfucker, accuse me of lying, mock my faith, slander my Church and blaspheme my God.

Motherfucker - you deserved it
Lying - you did
Mock your faith - it deserves mocking
Slander your Church - the least one can do for an organization that plays a shell game with child molesters (but that wouldn't be slander would it?)
Blaspheme your God - Funny, your God hasn't protested. Are you on retainer? Eventually your client will have to make an appearance.

Fuck off!

[Randy Carson]

In your browser, you have two windows open.

In the first window, you are logged in as a regular user. Cuss at me all you want.

In the second window, you are logged in as a mod. Correct me all you want.

Easy peasy.

It doesn't work that way.  Not so easy peasy.

Also, do you recall me telling you the other day that derailing threads to make suggestions or complaints about the forum is completely inappropriate, and that we have a Suggestions forum for that very purpose?  You must have seen it, you quoted it.

Hell, I was even nice.

I don't like having to repeat myself, Randy.  This will be the last time I do so.

As a matter of fact, yes, Randy, because such derails have historically been used to troll the staff.  

Everything else, whatever you may think of it, is fine outside in the specific context of the rules that cover such things.

I'm not trolling the staff, and I will not speak of this again.

I'm here to discuss things we all consider more important. Let's move on.

[Cyberman]

So, it's okay for people to call me a motherfucker,

Insults per se are not against the Rules.

accuse me of lying,

When you are, yes.

mock my faith,

Yes.

slander my Church

Yes.

and blaspheme my God.

Of course. In fact, it might interest you to know that, in my country at least, blasphemy is no longer recognised as a crime.

But if I make a suggestion for improving the forum in the wrong place, I've committed a GREAT TRANSGRESSION.

It's been explained to you repeatedly, by different people, why your suggestions will not be adopted. Suffer if you must, but do it in silence.

And this seems perfectly normal to you all. I feel like I've fallen down a rabbit hole.

Nope; just an atheist forum. Which has given you far more leeway and consideration than any ten xtian forums would give an atheist. And if you think we're bad, I'd've loved to have seen you at the old EvilBible forum. You'd've melted like a lump of lard on a hotplate.

[Huggy Bear]

Plagiarize much?

...

You clearly are in need of a good dictionary:

plagiarize

1 Take (the work or an idea of someone else) and pass it off as one’s own

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defini...ctCode=all

Quoting someone and giving them credit for saying it is the antithesis of plagiarism.

My point apparently sailed waaayyy over your head. I was saying Stimbo's quote from Abraham Lincoln (the quote is actually credited to a number of people) was plagiarizing the bible.

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln

"Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding." - Proverbs 17:28

See the similarities?

What'd I just say, Huggy?

I know what you said, But here's the thing... You don't get to call me a liar and tell me to leave it at that. I have a right at that point to prove that I'm in fact not lying. This is a DISCUSSION forum, If you want to assert I'm a liar, fine, but don't expect it to be left at that.

Now if you wanted me to drop it, all you had to sat was "hey I made a mistake when I stated huggy was a liar for claiming that his sig privileges were revoked......they were". Then I'll drop it, but as long as you maintain that I'm a liar, then I'll maintain providing evidence to show otherwise.

I propose an addition to the forum lexicon -

Pull(ing/ed) a Huggy: to be a demonstratively whiny twat when it comes to how forum rules are enforced in the middle of a thread.  Example:

Randy, stop pulling a Huggy.

Yes, because taking issue with being falsely labeled a liar is being "a whiny twat"....
When a homosexual man having sex with an underage boy, was labeled a pedophile, certain atheist here took issue with that and was trying to clear him of that "slanderous" title (ask me for evidence, go ahead, I dare you).

But me taking issue with falsely being labeled a liar, is being "a whiny twat"? You guys are a Joke

[Cato]

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln

"Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding." - Proverbs 17:28

See the similarities?

This only proves that Abe had a better command of English than the person that translated The Bible; or God, you're choice.

Here's another example:

God: "If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them."

WBC: "God hates fags"

See the similarities?