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Oh dear.
Banning doesn't work like that, Firewave. People are banned by Tom's action rather than by moderator vote, and only if their presence is perceived to be actively damaging to Barbelith. It is an extremely rare occurence, and as far as I know simply being cretinous is not in itself banning material.
However, the cretinous issue is something that you may want to address. You have in both this thread and the "Anti-Semitism" thread suggested that people calm down or that they are going over the top, but have you considered that hurtling into these threads like a dog with two dicks might be something that *you* might want to calm down a bit on? I seem to recall that a couple of days ago you did not know what anti-Semitism was, and then mere moments after that, after a quick trip to Google, you were telling everybody that they were wrong in their understanding of it, and generally very loudly and rather embarrassingly displaying your ignorance. Likewise this thread - I am absolutely gobsmacked that you managed to avoid any knowledge of Nick Berg, deciding instead that this was somebody who had selflessly agreed to have his head chopped off for the sake of some amateurish computer graphics.
However, what is truly gobsmacking is that you decided, without any research, to bowl into these extremely passionately-argued threads with your uninformed opinion and start insulting people for not getting it. Perhaps that might be identified as "going over the top"? Or needing to "calm down"? Just maybe?
It seems, despite your claims, that you are far more interested at present in parading your views, no matter how ill-informed, than you are in taking the time to consider or indeed to learn anything except the bare minimum required to contribute to the thread. That's contribute, not contribute value. And, if you decide to do this about decapitated civilians, anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, and have to have it explained to you that maybe, just maybe, the fucking Blood Libel is more important than where Grant Morrison gets his ideas, people are going to think that you are a moron. And they are going to be right. Sorry, simple as that. Also, it means that you are going to introduce a massive drag factor to threads while everybody has to stop and explain humanity 101 to you, which is unlikely to endear.
Now, stop saying that you are thick as if it was some sort of defence and act on it. If you want to be thought of as a worthwhile interlocutor, start doing the groundwork. Ask people where to find things out. Read around. Have some idea of what is actually being discussed before you start telling people what they should be thinking about it. That will probably enrich massively your experience of this place you enjoy attending, because people will call you an idiot a lot less. Right now thick is not the issue, anti-Semitic is not the issue - ignorant, lazy and self-absorbed is the issue. |
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