I know exactly what you mean, and part of the problem is who gets left with the keys to the kingdom at night. Some Admin Mods are a lot more reasonable than others, and at least one of them is an outright activist prude.
In the past few months a new paradigm about what is and what is not acceptable here has developed, and as usual, with no formal guidance being issued or announced we are all left to guess about exactly what that new paradigm really is.
Good luck.
This thread was on an article at Fox News!
The problem was that the OP was a noobie and had posted 3 anti-Cain threads since joining.
Okay, so maybe that’s a problem. Maybe. If the threads are not total basketcases, and this one wasn’t, I’d say watch and see. There are plenty of old-timers here posting anti-Cain after anti-Cain (or anti-whoever) threads. SO WHAT?
The people who support Cain (or whoever) can hold their own, or not. That is all.
The freepers who get walloped the most by this type of arbitrary action are those who work the hardest to post substantive arguments and engage others in a substantive way!
We all love the one-liners and snark, me most of all. But when there’s more to a thread than that, mods should respect what feepers have invested in the discussion. If you keep walloping the people who routinely invest the most, they will feel like it’s not worth it to post.