When the US MIC drag your country into an illegal war despite millions turning out to protest against it, and the end result is, just as everyone predicted, a total clusterfuck and numerous terrorist attacks on your own streets and your local schools are shut down on 7/7 (look it up) and you have to console a child sent home from school terrified about what’s just happened and try to explain to them why they shouldn’t feel unsafe despite the horrific scenes on TV maybe, just maybe, you’ll understand why people abroad hate the US military so much and hate to see people glorifying it.
This is just imagined self-persecution poppycock. There are plenty of good posters here who are Brits. Tomdemaine comes to mind. There also coincidentally just happen to be a handful of British posters who are also terrible posters. They fact that they are British has nothing to do with it.
Fidget got a harmless timeout for posting that was judged to be heading in the direction of inducing more forum drama. Likewise, this thread has been throttled. Neither of those things should be treated as big deals.
The mods are acting as if their objective is to avoid a situation where a thread like this blows up with a few hundred posts in a few hours without any substantive discussion or fun or where it spills over into other threads. I find that to be an acceptable goal and for their methods to be reasonable attempts at attaining that goal. At some level, we empower the mods to be judges of what is good faith and what is bad faith. Their word on that is not sacrosanct, but I have not seen a good argument that they have been clearly wrong in their judgment.
This dude needs to fucking go. You guys already threw cuse over the side of the boat for this asshole and his friends.
I was right about everything then. Micro’s idiotic ideas about how to run a community are running this place straight into the ground full stop.
Appeasing trolls is a guaranteed losing strategy on the internet. We don’t owe people who are harvesting other posters pain for giggles anything.
We have something special on this site, but that’s despite the way we run the site not because of it. This place is massively less than the sum of it’s parts because almost half the forum seems to be actively in favor of burning it down.
You’ve already made your views clear on how you want to permaban people.
I don’t know who it was who was flagging all the posts that led to the mod behaviour we saw itt, but threatening to ban people for using a word (in a non-abusive way) that was accepted by the community in a poll is pretty bad, don’t you think?
And any behaviour the mods don’t approve of was limited to this thread anyway, was it not? (Apart from one poster calling another the c-word in another thread which inconsistently didn’t result in a ban for abuse).
It’s always helpful to toss multiple personal attacks into a post about how some guy and his friends are ruining the forum with their personal attacks. But congrats about being right, about something…
Wait you’re here to defend checks notes jalfrezi from checks notes again personal attacks?
You sound like an idiot. As always I would rather be accurate than well liked or pleasant in any way.
Anarchy doesn’t work, even for a community as small as this… That makes it idiotic. Jalfrezi and co run off posters and have a new target selected by the next day. That makes them both trolls and assholes.
Fuck you for complaining about me calling balls and strikes. Posts like this enabling terrible behavior are a huge part of the problem here.
It’s almost enough to make you think that some here may have been keen on the idea of gaining lessons from the Trump regime and Q on how to create a groundswell of opinion based on total bullshit.
You’re racking up quite a few personal attacks this morning. I guess you’ve decided that personal attacks are completely fine against anyone you decide is an idiot or an asshole. Or anyone who perhaps disagrees with you. (But then you also want to reserve the right to determine when others are allowed to behave in the same way as you, and when they’re not.)
Fine example you’re setting here. If the mods took your advice, you would be eating a temp ban right about now.
