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Your #364: I think you either ignored or missed the word "just" in my comment. There are some who overuse the abuse button. But the problem isn't just that. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to clarify.

Thanks for the clarification. I wasn't sure if "button happy" meant overuse, particularly since what your own eyes saw meshed with the reports.

Hopefully I have never been considered one of the button happy people. I have never been told that I was, except by my critics who keep claiming that I am responsible for all sorts of things disappearing, something I am powerless to make happen.

On the other hand, the whole reason we are having this thread in the first place is that far too many posts have been made that violate the rules, but abuse was never pushed, nor did the moderators pull them, and the posts are still there.

The brawlers are going to try to make overuse of the abuse button the bigger problem, but as the article says, the brawling is the bigger problem. How much would the abuse button be used if there were no brawling?

Thanks for your help, and for all that you have done.

In the past week, there was a conscious effort made by the staff to avoid pulling almost anything except the most egregious in the religion forum, so as to allow us (and our intrepid volunteer SM) to get a better feel for how things go without our involvement, while we discussed a path forward. That may be why you have noticed some things staying up that might really have been appropriate pulls.

Thanks, LM

Hopefully I have never been considered one of the button happy people.

Don't hope too hard, some things are getting a little obvious.

But a civil, cordial discussion of LDS beliefs - and only if you bring the subject up - will still involve pointing out problematic areas, such as the complete lack of archaeological evidence of any of the accounts in the Book of Mormon. And the DNA tests which show that native American Indians are descended from Chinese/Asiatic ancestors and not of semitic ones.

If the subject of inaccurate translations arises, we can discuss quite civilly the Book of Abraham.

All this should be done in the spirit of academic polite discussion for the edification of any that are interested in learning the facts about the subject, as I'm sure you'll agree. No personal attacks, just the facts, as the mods say.