Rule Change (New Staff Power)

[SteelCurtain]

Dubai!

[Thumpalumpacus]

EP, you were given a two week vacation for trolling/flaming, harassing brand new members in the shoutbox, and derailing nearly every thread you entered.

If we had 'retroactively ma[d]e up a new rule' for you then you wouldn't be posting right now, would you?

Instructions: See Thump's post.

Also: Don't pretend for a second that you are the arbiter of what 'powers' the staff has or doesn't have, or that you are in any position to judge whether or not they are being abused.

You are accusing me of trolling and flaming. I contend that I never ever trolled, and dare you to prove me otherwise, and that I only ever cursed or insulted those who have done the same towards me first. If I'm not mistaken, none of those were banned.

I ask that you clarify your accusing me of harrasing new members in the shoutbox. I think I know what you're referring to, and if it is that, then here we have a mere failure of recognizing humour for what it is, even when it is self-described as such, and even when the purported victim claims it isn't even slightly offended by it.

I think you need to explain to me what derailing a thread even means and prove to me that I have done it.

I certainly have no authority to ask you to do these things, which I'm sure you would be quick to point out in an unnerving manner if not for this very caveat, but alas, it has been shown that here you can be banned and ostracized simply if you happen to be repeatedly misconstrued and villified with the most appaling intents imaginable by certain individuals. Enter mob mentality at its finest.

Why do you think you feel so threatened by my remarks that you feel the need to disallow me from criticizing you? Does this sound familiar? Dictatorships, anyone?

You're being a dumbass. This is a privately-owned website which is subject to the rules of the guy who pays the bills.

You'll learn that once Mom kicks you out.

Dumbfuck.

[Thumpalumpacus]

You all know it. I know it. There's no point in continuing this conversation. It makes me sick to my stomach to witness what you are doing.

You banned me for illegitimate reasons. But I don't care anymore. It's Tib's site, and if he's allowing this to happen, what the fuck do I have to say on the matter. Go ahead and do whatever you like. I'll stop engaging any one of you from this point forward.

The management of these forums is inherently flawed from the get go. No wonder it fosters the flavors of idiocy it does. What did I expect? Why did I even bother?

Go ahead and ban me indefinitely. I'm not coming back anyway. You're all a bunch of cunts and the fact that you would ban me for stating that, while at the same time applying double standards failing to notice your own hypocrisies and actually banning me for personal reasons just proves what cunts you are.

Go away. Take your rope with you. No one cares.

No, really. No one cares.

Go away.

[pocaracas]

Here I Oracled that Huggy would get the boot.... turns out I Oracled wrong... It's EP that comes back and goes away... kinda like a yoyo!
Oh well...
I'm glad I Oracled about Huggy... that way, everyone kept their composure... mostly...

[SteelCurtain]

To be clear, EP hasn't been banned. He just threw a hissy and sulked off.

[Iroscato]

You all know it. I know it. There's no point in continuing this conversation. It makes me sick to my stomach to witness what you are doing.

You banned me for illegitimate reasons. But I don't care anymore. It's Tib's site, and if he's allowing this to happen, what the fuck do I have to say on the matter. Go ahead and do whatever you like. I'll stop engaging any one of you from this point forward.

The management of these forums is inherently flawed from the get go. No wonder it fosters the flavors of idiocy it does. What did I expect? Why did I even bother?

Go ahead and ban me indefinitely. I'm not coming back anyway. You're all a bunch of cunts and the fact that you would ban me for stating that, while at the same time applying double standards failing to notice your own hypocrisies and actually banning me for personal reasons just proves what cunts you are.

Come back when you've done some growing up, little boy.

[Longhorn]

I'm not coming back anyway.

And if you look to the left, you'll see a narcissist making a dramatic exit #3534668; he'll probably be back in about three to five minutes. Moving on....

[Losty]

Give me one example. I don't consider fallacious bullshit arguments followed by an atheist's silence and the theist declaring themselves victorious to be the same thing as beating an atheist "into a corner".

I don't think fallacies and obfuscation can beat anyone into a corner.

Fallacies fail.

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.

You're seriously delusional.
This is a clear example of the mindset of an atheist, If you won't accept that Denmark's government is in fact NOT secular which is easily provable, how are you going to even begin to discuss spiritual matters?

Your own quote (in bold for clarity)
http://atheistforums.org/thread-30615-po...#pid835049

so according to YOU, secularism prevents a state mandated religion.
This link is taken from your own post.
http://atheistforums.org/thread-30615-po...#pid846133
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Denmark

Also according to YOU secularism "gives people the ability to chose a religion (or no-religion) without the state choosing for them"
This link is also taken from your exact same post
http://atheistforums.org/thread-30615-po...#pid846133
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Denmark
Need I go on?
Denmark clearly does not have separation between church and state, yet you fail to acknowledge your own evidence proving this fact.

You're contradicting yourself dude.

I can't wait to hear your next excuse....

I just love you for quoting my Fidel when his name was still right.

[Losty]

I think the fact that you felt the need to retroactively make up a new rule after abusing your powers in my case speaks volumes as to the inpracticality of this rule and raises multiple concernes regarding censorship of speech, mob rule, overreaching of authority and so on. Congratulations, Atheist Forums. You have essentially become what you despise, if only in name.

I am awaiting instructions and/or explanations, privately or publicly, whatever the staff thinks appropriate, as to what I did wrong or may do wrong in the future so as to avoid running foul of this despicably authoritarian rule.

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I already know I'll get banned no matter what I say. What you seem to fail to realise is the long-term effects of enforcing such an unthinkable constrain of free speech. Banning people for not agreeing with them? For not liking them? Does this sound familiar at all to any sound mind around here? So just because all staff agrees that a certain individual is "disruptive"(whatever that means) and a "negative influence"(whatever that means) that justifies banishing them, despite not being able to come up with sound reasons for why that might be or why those reasons are justifiable for doing so? You are basically telling everyone you are the ultimate authority on what is right to do around here, based merely on that, your authority. No evidence of wrong doing or sound reasoning employed to make a good case with that evidence, just unanimous agreement. Doesn't this strike you a little odd, seeing how theists use the same kinds of mechanisms(and have done so for millenia) to arive at what most of you here hold to be unfactual descriptions of the world?

I rest my case with the casual reader who is not staff.

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How fun. Do you have any proofs? No? Well I'm shocked D:

Oh by the way, welcome back.

[Losty]

You are accusing me of trolling and flaming. I contend that I never ever trolled, and dare you to prove me otherwise, and that I only ever cursed or insulted those who have done the same towards me first. If I'm not mistaken, none of those were banned.

I ask that you clarify your accusing me of harrasing new members in the shoutbox. I think I know what you're referring to, and if it is that, then here we have a mere failure of recognizing humour for what it is, even when it is self-described as such, and even when the purported victim claims it isn't even slightly offended by it.

I think you need to explain to me what derailing a thread even means and prove to me that I have done it.

I certainly have no authority to ask you to do these things, which I'm sure you would be quick to point out in an unnerving manner if not for this very caveat, but alas, it has been shown that here you can be banned and ostracized simply if you happen to be repeatedly misconstrued and villified with the most appaling intents imaginable by certain individuals. Enter mob mentality at its finest.

Why do you think you feel so threatened by my remarks that you feel the need to disallow me from criticizing you? Does this sound familiar? Dictatorships, anyone?

You're being a dumbass.  This is a privately-owned website which is subject to the rules of the guy who pays the bills.

You'll learn that once Mom kicks you out.

Dumbfuck.

We have a forum Mom?