no two people see things in exactly the same way, so we should expect there to be some difference in the decisions they make.
***All we need is a basic minimum standard. Ferinstance, I had a long post removed because there were 2 words that were “naughty” according to the admin mod: bull shiite and a$$#0/e. But I’ve seen much, much worse continue to pass under their noses. So if the mods are going to hang their hat on this, they need to hang their hat. The reality of the situation is that the mods have a lot of capricious leeway and they use it on posters and subjects on which they intend to affect discourse. But if there was a minimum standard POSTED, where a dutiful freeper could go and see, “oh, I can’t use bull shiite but I can use bull feces” then the mods would have an easier job and they wouldn’t lose the confidence of dutiful freepers who notice their capriciousness. Yes, I know they have a difficult job to do but they are acting like Moses before his father in law set him straight.
I’ve got 26 on my list; some are noobs, some have old signup dates. Some I’ve run into in the past and always were on the “liberal” side, some are out and out trolls. Some seem sort of regular but just for some reason really extra snarky and nasty about the BC issue.
The short list you pinged me to last night posted by a noob - jetxnet, I think is the one - is a strange list, and has people on it who are not trolls at all. Weird. How can someone who’s been here a few weeks start posting lists of trolls - who are not trolls? Very suspect.
But definitely lefists of probably various groups are in the trolling business bigtime. If the Mods here would either help sniff them out - since they can see the IPs etc - and get rid of them, or at least take a look when abuse button is hit, a lot of them would get cleaned out.
And regarding someone’s comment above - napscoordinator - the difference between a troll and someone honestly debating is pretty easy to detect. In honest debate both parties will agree to learn - read up - find out things. A troll just repeats the same damn crap over and over again, with duplicitous intent.