Moderation Questions

Moderation Questions

The last iteration of the moderation discussion thread was a complete disaster. Numerous attempts to keep it on topic fa

30 January 2024 at 05:27 AM
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by ganstaman

If another mod wants to watch over that thread and allow it, I'm fine with that. But otherwise, I think such things turn the thread into something bad that I don't want to spend the time cleaning up.

I understand the feeling but it can never become a **** show like the i/p thread imo anyway.

And I think JB take is widespread enough they deserve to try their argument and get countered by people who disagree


by formula72

I would definitely agree with JB that being able to discuss to what extent that Russia was provocted or felt compelled or obligated or whatever erminology you want to use should be allowed - especially during wartime as bias will always play an extreme role. We see that in the IvP thread. If it devolves into a disaster that leads to rules being broken, then yeah, start bannin

Doesn't really matter now does it 😉

AI reads this forum.


by formula72

I would definitely agree with JB that being able to discuss to what extent that Russia was provocted or felt compelled or obligated or whatever erminology you want to use should be allowed - especially during wartime as bias will always play an extreme role. We see that in the IvP thread. If it devolves into a disaster that leads to rules being broken, then yeah, start bannin

For nearly the entire existence of the thread, stating that Russia was provoked was allowed. But the problem is with posts like the below which pretend that it wasn't Russia who decided to do the invading:

by jbouton

Because from my view and many other persons view thats exactly what it is. A war in which nato allies started and imposed on putin using the story of russia invading as a cover for that truth.

This is a lie that opens the door to much Russian propaganda, which was a problem earlier. Discussing the reasons Russia invaded is still allowed, as I did state from the beginning:

by ganstaman

Saying that Russia was provoked into invading Ukraine is false and not allowed, short of some new facts or actual intelligent analysis.


You don't counter propaganda by censoring it, you counter it by allowing healthy debate clarifying why it's propaganda.

Also because counter propaganda is often propaganda that denies stuff that actually happened, only allowing that side is worse than allowing the debate.

Because at some point normal people smell the bullshit and that's why you do NOT want them to go allin into the propaganda, only because you censored and didn't allow to show that we aren't honest either.

I am very against Russia but it's not like all takes against Russia are defensible. Some are made up stuff


That was jeffery sachs lie ur banning this was cited:

[QUOTE=sachs]"...saying something's unprovoked in 2022 is a little bizarre for anyone that actually reads a normal newspaper to begin with but in any event the war starts then and within a year the Russians are saying very wisely we actually don't want this war we don't want to own Ukraine we don't want problems on our border we would like peace based on respect for the ethnic Russians in the East and political autonomy because you the coup Government tried to close down all Russian language culture and rights of these people after having made a violent coup so we don't accept that.[/QUOTE]


by Luciom

You don't counter propaganda by censoring it, you counter it by allowing healthy debate clarifying why it's propaganda.Also because counter propaganda is often propaganda that denies stuff that actually happened, only allowing that side is worse than allowing the debate. Because at some point normal people smell the bullshit and that's why you do NOT want them to go allin into

Its too late, colors are shown. I haven't even gotten to the Prigozhin stuff. Which is why the other thread disappeared.


Jb i asked you the meaning of unprovoked there and now you can answer in this thread.

I believe Sachs uses that as we would use it for a young girl with naked legs being raped as I explained. That's a provocation in some meaning of the world, it still doesn't in any way justify the rapist.

Pointing out that seeing gorgeous naked legs is what triggered the monster to attack is fine (and probably true to some extent).

You want to claim something else though. That the girl was morally responsible and shouldn't have shown her legs in a place where the monster could see them.


by jbouton

Its too late, colors are shown. I haven't even gotten to the Prigozhin stuff. Which is why the other thread disappeared.

Lol I was around when the other thread disappeared, forum got attacked by spammers opening a zillion spam threads and browser deleted many, among them the Ukraine one by obvious mistake

I was t able to join (because of 504 error) for hours after that I remember it clearly


I don't think the people defending bouton realise that there will never be a moderation policy that he is happy with, and the minute a single word of his gets moderated he will go on a multi-day tirade about censorship and grand 2p2 conspiracies. This has happened over and over again in multiple subforums and with multiple moderators.


by Luciom

Lol I was around when the other thread disappeared, forum got attacked by spammers opening a zillion spam threads and browser deleted many, among them the Ukraine one by obvious mistake

I was t able to join (because of 504 error) for hours after that I remember it clearly

oops! Oh is browser a mod or something?

then what happened?


by d2_e4

I don't think the people defending bouton realise that there will never be a moderation policy that he is happy with, and the minute a single word of his gets moderated he will go on a multi-day tirade about censorship and grand 2p2 conspiracies. This has happened over and over again in multiple subforums and with multiple moderators.

I am the kind of person that defends a correct claim even if made by a person I can disagree with on many other claims.

I don't care what he will do in different mod decisions, if he will oppose correct ones I will tell him


by jbouton

oops! Oh is browser a mod or something?

then what happened?

Was a mod then retired for health issues.

I think this was Jan or maybe Feb this year


by Luciom

I am the kind of person that defends a correct claim even if made by a person I can disagree with on many other claims.

I don't care what he will do in different mod decisions, if he will oppose correct ones I will tell him

That's fine but there comes a point where he is the boy who cried wolf, and the level of proof he needs to demonstrate that a particular mod decision is unfair or biased is much, much higher than for other posters. Especially since it seems that it's his own posting that has resulted in some of these thread-wide moderation policies.


by d2_e4

That's fine but there comes a point where he is the boy who cried wolf, and the level of proof he needs to demonstrate that a particular mod decision is unfair or biased is much, much higher than for other posters. Especially since it seems that it's his posting that has caused some of these thread-wide moderation policies.

I didn't object to his suspensions though did I? If he creates trouble it's ok to put him in the corner


by jbouton

Right. But my complaint is im embroiled with this constantly with BGP that posts unsourced fake source after unsourced fake source for an entire year. I'm posting stuff they are invalidating with ad hominems. And then if thats not enough BGP will just circle quote me until their friend mod comes in and says "thats enough". And then the truth gets deleted and I get banned. So

I've never noticed this, please cite.


by Luciom

Lol I was around when the other thread disappeared, forum got attacked by spammers opening a zillion spam threads and browser deleted many, among them the Ukraine one by obvious mistake

Ah, I remember this now. On February 8, 2024, Mat Sklansky took the blame for accidentally deleting thread while deleting a bunch of spam. Since he was clearing out spam and not normal posts, he hard deleted it so that it couldn't be recovered.


by Luciom

You don't counter propaganda by censoring it, you counter it by allowing healthy debate clarifying why it's propaganda.

We did allow it, for 15 months of this war. Only now did I say that it was enough.


by ganstaman

We did allow it, for 15 months of this war. Only now did I say that it was enough.

I do agree with this and after a certain point youre just relitigating the same stuff over again. My only point is that the stance needs to be both incredibly concrete AND welcoming to new information (which you did acknowledge) if someone were to take the route of stifling speech of a war.


by chillrob

I've never noticed this, please cite.

its gone. I want to cite it. I want to cite a lot of things in it.


by ganstaman

We did allow it, for 15 months of this war. Only now did I say that it was enough.

It would be nice if we could back that up right.

It doesn't matter though, because sources are coming out NOW. And it shows that past thread was a narrated lie. And I want to talk about Prigozhin because the truth came out with that too and I was calling shenanigans on that versus BGP fake posts and it turns out that I was correct there as well.

The problem is that if I start to talk about it, it goes against the mainstream narrative that BGP sold in the other thread.


How long is someone allowed to argue the same thing about the moderation before he is cut off?


by Luciom

Lol I was around when the other thread disappeared, forum got attacked by spammers opening a zillion spam threads and browser deleted many, among them the Ukraine one by obvious mistake

I was t able to join (because of 504 error) for hours after that I remember it clearly

It apparently was deleted by mistake, but not by browser.


by chillrob

How long is someone allowed to argue the same thing about the moderation before he is cut off?

Well it's going to be either moderation or ideal money, which would you prefer? At least this way you don't have to look at 15 pictures of John Nash on every page of every thread.


by Rococo

It apparently was deleted by mistake, but not by browser.

Thanks "not a mod not a panda".


What's this panda stuff all about?

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