Jeroen_Metselaa has been given a timeout for taking issue with other mutants criticizing their position, and tossing barbs at those users, rather than their statements.
This is not the forum for anyone who 1) thinks they should have the right to state their opinion without criticism, or 2) anyone who believes that any criticism of their position must be in bad faith.
That sort of polarization is _everywhere in public discourse nowadays, leading to a “you agree with me or you are my enemy” mindset far too often. That mentality has no place here, and my thanks to those who flag posts from individuals reacting this way towards other members.
User pmhparis has been given a timeout for taking a challenge to their opinion personally and lashing out at other members as a result.
This is a friendly reminder that your freedom to post here extends to expressing your opinions and challenging those of others only - it does not extend to criticizing (or worse) the people behind those opinions. We expect those who choose to post here to be treated with respect, even if you disagree with their opinions.
Just FYI, that poster was derailing in another thread as well, in addition to being generally insulting and condescending (to me, not that it matters who):
Yep, you’re right, in reviewing both their posts on that topic, all the way back to their joining the BBS it’s clear that this user has, from the very beginning, come here to pick a fight with both the Authors and members here.
User beOHbe has been given a timeout after doing an incredible sealion impression and turning a lighthearted post about expressing gratitude to a performer into a debate session with them alone. Being responsible for 1/3rd of ALL the posts on a topic is probably a good indication that you are both sucking all the air out of the room and likely taking the topic a little too personally.
User jimmyjone has been banned after spending the last two days on a mission to ensure they had the right to ask questions of the BBS their way, while simultaneously treating any negative response to their opinion as a personal attack, and racking up over half of all flags thrown in the process.
This was a classic attempt to “sealion” by some of me who, I think was no even realize they were doing it - they had made the topic, and indeed the moderation around their comments, the focus of the conversation, demanding validation of their position and their right to sap everyone’s time the focus of their comments.
This even devolved into a heated argument with the moderation team about how they could be acting in “bad faith” when they are “just asking questions,” apparently failing to realize that the faith in question was staying on topic and focusing on the conversation happening around them, not whether or not they had the “right” to ask the questions in the first place.
Not all bad faith is malicious, and I don’t think this user was either, but it was crystal clear by the end of this adventure that the user was not interested w conversation on the communities terms, but only on their own. That is not a good-faith conversation by any definition.
Asking questions means being open to receiving answers while understanding that those answers may not be to your liking. And “How dare you ask that!” is a valid answer. If you’re not interested in the answers, don’t ask questions.
User sean_burns has been banned. The user was fond of posting throwaway one-liners that were never followed up on, ever, in their history. That doesn’t contribute to the conversation here, obviously (go play on Twitter if you want to give the world short words of wisdom that you can then ignore).
However, they also liked to up their game by occasionally making those one-liners offensive to wide swaths of the community. Offensive quips do not make you an edgelord, they just make you banned.
user cstatman has been given a timeout for attempting to manufacture outrage where there was none, in an apparent attempt to play the victim card.
There’s enough outrage to go around, we don’t need to make more. We especially don’t need to pretend that privileged folks being held to account for bad behavior is, in itself, manufactured outrage.
It’s also moral hedging. If your post stays you got to make your point…and if your post is removed, that proves your point. And so you never have to worry that maybe the problem is your point was dismissive and insulting garbage that didn’t deserve to be made.
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