User evilkolbot given 24 hrs for a miserable attempt at sarcasm while reporting a typo.
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Dear BoingBoing BBS Overlords. Iām still trying to understand the flow here but am enjoying the culture. I was wondering if someone could help me grasp why the post below was flagged as off topic, hidden, then restored, then moved to another thread. Any constructive feedback is welcome.
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That is a community-started topic, and your post was moved by the community, presumably because the original topic was likely intended to be US-centric.
I tend to give more leniency to things like topicality and whatnot to topic creators for community posts, because they do not appear on the main page of Boing Boing proper.
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Gotcha, did not see anything in the title or first post that indicated US centric and assumed it was outrage at mass murder everywhere. I appreciate the clarification.
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User DeclanMcManus has been asked not to return.
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As always, thank you for your effort. Iām impressed that you take your time explaining yourself and to the BBS community guidelines, over and over again. And in thankful, because I know how easy it is for me to be very sure I am right in something. I usually read your mod posts and think about what I would feel if I were in the recieving end.
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User Bernel has been removed for the remainder of 2020 for throwing insults at users in public and private messages. This is your reminder that PMs here follow the same guidelines as the remainder of the site. If your goal is to be an asshole to anyone else, do it elsewhere, please.
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As always, thanks for your hard work and transparency!
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User Vaughn_Stegeman has been asked not to return after declaring that bigotry and hatred are really all just people being too sensitive.
If thatās your opinion, then it, and you, do not belong here.
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User LDoBe has been given a timeout for (again) lobbing insults at other users, literally two posts after I requested that folks not do so. Our 19-day run of no suspension actions is sadly at an end.
If you canāt give your opinion without attacking others in the process, donāt post it here. Not only that, but being able to make your point without making it personal will go a long way towards more people paying attention to what you are trying to say in the first place, rather than scrolling past yet another online pissing match. Especially by adding āshitā to another userās name. We arenāt on a school playground. 
Enough of this.
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User Fabio has been asked not to return after a pattern of Immigrant FUD that has only been escalating. The most recent posts about how immigration must cease until there is a way to āfilter out ISIS plantsā from the immigration flow is the same inane rhetoric thatās used about every migrant population everywhere, and we donāt need that fear-mongering here.
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Thx! I hope he comes to truly understand why he has been filtered out here. 
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Sadly, whatās more likely is that heāll just blame the forum at large for being āa liberal echo chamber,ā rather than examining his own bias.
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To some extent, thatās true, insofar as weāre not going to tolerate bigotry, labelling wide swaths of the population, or blanket propaganda against immigration or science or reason as āokā.
The fact that any of that above is remotely the āliberalā position in the first place is the real problem IMHO, and I keep waiting for the conservative āWeāve been co-opted by bigots and racistsā reckoning to come, yet it never does.
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I donāt disagree at all.
At some point NOT BEING A TOTAL DICKHEAD TO OTHER PEOPLE somehow became a ābadā thing, and I wish I could honestly say āI donāt know how or whenā but I have some pretty damn good guesses.
You canāt build anything real and lasting on the back of lies and avarice, not to mention a crumbling infrastructure that was only ever meant to benefit one group above all others.
Eventually, every facade cracks and then breaks.
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User unlicensed_bozo has been asked not to return. Their string of one-line comments, a large majority of which were single-sentence āwhataboutismsā that were never followed up on, almost always derailed the topic, and often were removed as a result, contributed nothing here.
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User acidrain69 has been asked not to return after exploding into a rant of tone-policing, pearl-clutching bad-faith faux indignation at having their position challenged.
Do not post here if you are not prepared to have your opinions and positions challenged. Do not post here if you are not prepared for criticism in equal or greater measure than praise. And do not pretend that such criticism or disagreement represents an āattackā on you or your values. Your opinions are not your value, they are your opinions, presumably formed by your experiences and perspective. Your perspective does not invalidate or diminish all others.
Far too much of late I have watched tone-policing and pushback because we are all tired, and we are all done with fighting every day for some shred of normalcy. But the BBS exists in a unique place where we can discuss many hard topics because we remain civil and respectful of ideas, positions, and perspectives that differ, provided they fall within our community guidelines. Do not fall victim to this users pattern of behaviour and choose indignation at differing opinions as your reason to run roughshod over the community and lose your place here.
Thank you.
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I prefer to be beast.
Erm, when appropriate.
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