He’s got to be putting you on. The way he says “you must be some kind of commie” is just too perfect. If not, just wow.
And please add me to the list of people who’d like the phone number for the BoingBoing complaints department. In fact, maybe each poster could be issued their own complaints department and phone number?
Damn, some people take internet forums WAY too fucking seriously.
I easily could argue that there’s “no reason” for a good 80% of all the content on the entirety of the internet… but I won’t, because I realize that content is still going to be there, no matter what my personal opinion of it may be.
Getting so upset about it is completely pointless.
What I wanna know is how he managed to stay so angry while being that stoned. And also why. I mean just cuz you can doesn’t mean it’s worth the effort.
I don’t have a soundcloud account to test adequately but the Discourse magic will apparently embed soundcloud sounds. I suspect it will for other things also.
I would say that typically the dragon does a very good job at moderation. I even know a few comments others posted in replies to me that have disappeared, but I got an email about them. I have no idea what you posted, but posts meant to inflame or harass with out adding to the conversation are targets. Things that go too far off topic in a not good way too.
FWIW, the moderation style is markedly improved in the last couple of years, IMHO.