Posted on 05/27/2005 8:31:06 AM PDT by JoeV1
I wonder if the rules on this forum are applied equally? Several weeks ago I was denied posting privileges because I jokingly advocated a "plan b" in fighting the so far failed war on illegal immigration. My "plan b" was to have border guards retreat to within 200 yards of the border and while fitted with night vision goggles simply drop any illegals attempting to gain access to America.
Now frankly I am not concerned with the fact I was denied posting privileges for a day(reason given was "advocating violence")but I wonder if the folks who post pictures of exploding nukes over text that calls for turning the middle east, or N Korea into a glowing heap of slag. were also denied the ability to post. I did a cursory check and found the names of the posters associated with the nuke threats posting regularly after the aforementioned posts appeared.
Is it possible that some are more equal then others here? I have been referred to as a "newbie" as if that somehow makes what I say less credible then someone here a longer period of time. I believe opinions are opinions and the length of forum membership does not serve to make ones credibility stronger.
It does seem that there is a "good old boy's" network operating here and the old timers are given more leeway as far as the rules then are the newer arrivals. While I have been a FR member for only 8 months I have been an avid political forum debator for 8 or 9 years on places such as the NYT, WP, LAT and others.
There was another incident in which I was accused of a personal attack although I was merely responding to an attack on myself. I never used profanity and merely responded in kind to another whose main complaint was that I was wrong in criticizing the post of another person because that person was a 5 year member. I was also told I didn't know what I was talking about. This resulted in a few back and forth retorts which I frankly found amusing and in no way took as an insult.
I thoroughly enjoy verbal jousting and never shrink from a confrontation. It appears that others see fit to run to the moderator at the first sign of getting back what it is they dish out. It is at that time that I believe the good old boys network comes into play.
If any of you would like to see the posts that caused this simply ask and I will happily post them.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. . . .!!!
Unless you're prepared to admit that a stinking, unemployed moveon hairhead is your equal, Joe, then the fact of the matter is that you and I are better than some and worse than others. Concluding otherwise may be what the Framers called 'leveling'.
"While I have been a FR member for only 8 months I have been an avid political forum debator for 8 or 9 years on places such as the NYT, WP, LAT and others."
Ah, easy to read, is your mind. /Yoda
How ya been?
In my house, there is no fair enforcement either. What I say goes. As long as my wife agrees.......
Me too.
Let's see if I understand your complaint.
You come on this board and state that killing humans is a viable plan.
And you wonder why you would be kicked off the board?
You've been playing too many video games.
Go back to your Game Boy now and leave the adult conversations to the adults.
Bingo
Joe ...dont sweat it. I have been around here a long time and got bounced for asking a question about context of postings.
Robinson and the mods are not equal op bouncers.
I could pray that they all become christians, I know this
is within God's power to do. That would be the right thing
for me to do, but I do have get ideas on what we could
do on our own. None of my ideas are pretty or would be
practical to work out.
I thought it was parking lots of glass.
We're all just regular "Joe Six Packs"......
I've had that tagline for awhile every since Steve Lovelady at Columbia Journalism Review, or whatever that screed is called, referred to us as slobbering morons or idiots or something like that.
Nothing like an insult you can wear with pride because it shows just how big a cretin is who uttered it.
Don't take it so personally. I have taken a gander at your posts for as far as I wanted to read and find nothing there to consider you a disrupter.
I myself have been threatened with suspension for checking "activism" in the required posting index once to many times. I just did not know I was a repeat offender. I thought immigration was under there, but now I post NOTHING under activism!! Problem solved! I think it was "the way" I was told I would be suspended, more so than the correction itself. But as I whined then; but reflect now..its no big deal. I find no problem with how Jim steers his ship.
Just move on you had some good posts going for ya..as we can't take things to personally. Don't get drawn into a Chat-type attack mode. Happens all the time the FReeper will have a good post going and then has to put in that "personal dig" to you..yes that gets the blood boiling sometimes, but just don't bother responding.
( I am not a newbie; an inbetween-bie)
"Ah, easy to read, is your mind. /Yoda"
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Got a call from a telemarketer a little bit ago trying to sell a subscription to the NYT.
Told 'em I wouldn't buy their rag to line my bird cage. They asked "why?" so I said, "well, I like my bird."
In true telemarketer style, they still wouldn't take no for an answer, and asked if I had any friends who might like a subscription. So, of course, I said, "No, I like my friends, too."
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