General Moderation Topic

User comedian has been given a timeout for, again, focusing on meta minutae on the periphery of an issue, rather than the issue itself.

A lot of us are, I think, the types to end up in wild digressions about red vs blue, mac vs windows, star trek vs star wars, redhat vs suse - but when you consistently post in topics of import, ignoring the topic entirely and instead focusing on that minutae, it becomes a source of derailment every time one posts, and in many ways is worse than being contrarian, because the position one is arguing really has nothing to do with the original post at all.

As I said, this often happens in good faith and in no way do I want to discourage mutants being mutants, but when the majority of your posts are this way, it begins to become apparent that disruption is the point, and that’s not constructive.

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