Posts by Nicole James

Haha, seriously—just call the police and tell them you want to file a formal report for mocking Islam.

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Look, it’s painfully obvious that you’re just a carbon copy of a user who was banned from this forum ages ago. We decided to let you hang around for a bit under this new handle—just to see if there was any actual growth or change in your perspective—but honestly? Nothing has changed. Since you haven't learned a thing, we’ve decided to finally pull the trigger and do exactly what the rules required us to do a long time ago.

You constantly derail discussions into off-topic tangents, you’re being disrespectful, and you’re picking fights with the moderators—but most importantly, you aren't showing even a shred of genuine motivation to change your ways. I assume you thought we moderators were just going to follow some rigid playbook where we hand out bans like trading cards—thinking you could just sit out a suspension for a bit and then come right back to run wild on the forums and laugh in our faces. Well, that isn't how this works.

Walter Carter58 said:Do we actually have a right to our own opinions here—or does anyone Sigmund accuses of being someone's clone just get an automatic, permanent ban without a shred of evidence?

Look, you’re entitled to your opinion, but you aren't necessarily entitled to post those opinions on this forum.

EOD.

Look, rowdyotter25—since you’ve admitted that your previous post was definitely over the line—let’s just call it what it is: a formal warning. We’ve had some closed-door discussions regarding our moderation criteria, and we'll need to hash those out further, but since half the team (including the admins) is currently away on vacation, we can't really finalize any major decisions right now.

Aside from those incredibly crude comparisons involving illegal paraphilias—which are obviously off-limits—there aren't any blanket restrictions on the actual arguments being made. Of course, personal attacks, insults, and anything else that violates our code of conduct will result in a ban.
I'm asking everyone to please get back to the topic and try to keep things as constructive as possible.

Simply because it’s off-topic.

First off, this thread is strictly for political discussion—let's keep religion out of it. Also, we decided to consolidate everything under one main topic specifically because we want to avoid cluttering the forum with a dozen different threads covering the exact same ground.

You can just repost it once.

I think this thread might have already been moved over to the main discussion topic. If it hasn't happened yet, it probably will be very soon.

Steven Wood72 said:Look, people can worship whoever they want. No problem there—but as a moderator, you should at least be tolerant toward everyone instead of claiming certain faiths are offensive. Tell me honestly, doesn't that sound a bit clumsy? The moderator of Religion saying faith itself is offensive.

See, for example, I have extremely negative views regarding homosexuals, but for that reason, it wouldn't be right for me to moderate an LGBTQ+ forum because every single warning I issued could be challenged based on my bias.

When a regular user writes that a religion is offensive, fine—that's just an opinion. But you are someone with the power to punish on this forum, the power to issue warnings, to ban... Anyone can challenge your disciplinary actions using nothing more than that one sentence you just wrote.

By that logic, all moderators would need to be completely devoid of any personal stance just so their rulings couldn't be called into question. 🤷

Steven Wood72 said:I just quoted you. It’s pretty straightforward—a moderator for the Religion board can't claim that. Look, you might find my specific faith offensive—which is totally fine by me, I don't care which religion someone follows, nor am I against atheism... but if that's actually the case, how in the world are you supposed to moderate that sub?

Can't you see how many people are constantly pushing back against you? Does that tell you anything at all?

I have nothing against you personally, but since you're this ultra-extra-super-moderator—or whatever title you're holding—it’s possible you're getting paid, which might be why they won't let you go. But you know as well as I do that any sane person would ban someone from moderating the Religion section if they found certain faiths offensive. It’s a direct conflict of interest... because every single ban or strike you hand out could be interpreted as being motivated by your own religious biases.

On the Religion subreddit, you have all sorts of different people claiming that "other" faiths are offensive. You have some who worship Jesus as God, while others find that very idea to be sacrilegious. There have even been those who worship Satan... The way my moderation could be interpreted isn't any different from how the moderation of any user, regardless of their religious convictions, could be interpreted.

Steven Wood72 said:Nothing ever changes on this Reddit thread, so I’ll just ask—is anyone from management actually reading this, or can someone finally weigh in?

Is there some grand theory where a supermod will eventually step in and explain this mess? Do you guys even grasp what the guy wrote? Basically, according to the moderator, Religion is some deeply offensive faith.

Asking Nica, Strillet, or whoever sits above Nicole James—do you honestly think it’s normal for someone who finds a certain faith offensive to moderate the Religion thread? You know, the very thread where people discuss exactly what they find offensive?

Where on earth did you dig up this idea that my faith is generally offensive to me?

Morgan Ruiz3 said:Maybe we should just put an imam or a rabbi in charge of the food subreddits and have them ban anyone who mentions non-kosher or non-halal options, just to balance things out. 😁Though I highly doubt they would actually act that way.

Or how about putting a Christian in charge of a thread where Muslims are busy arguing that it’s a massive sin to even suggest that Jesus could be God... 🤷

Jason Clark7 said:
I find myself wondering... what if we appointed the Pope or the Hodja to moderate the erotic and sex subreddits? They would likely spend every waking moment reminding everyone that ninety percent of the content posted there—which is essentially just the constant, crude joking of the local users—is deeply offensive to their sensibilities... 😵

In other words, most of us reading through the Religion PDF get the distinct impression that Nicole James has been placed there like a fox guarding the henhouse... 😍

Are you seriously suggesting they’d put a Hodja in charge of moderating a forum where Catholics are the ones doing all the talking? ☕

LOL, I see we’re already diving into the amateur psychoanalysis phase here.

Just like everything else on Reddit so far, it seems people are protected from criticism—it's just their beliefs that aren't. If someone is looking for a space where their convictions are treated like some untouchable, sacred relic, they can find plenty of niche forums for that elsewhere.

Morgan Ruiz3 said:Maybe it’s time an admin actually stepped up and clarified whether it's acceptable to claim a certain Religion is the greatest evil in history—especially since many people following that faith are right here on this forum—simply because the moderator seems to enjoy seeing those posts?

It seems to me you weren't nearly as vocal when people were arguing that atheism was to blame for the worst atrocities of the 20th century and things along those lines... Are you asking me to sanction those posts as well, or is it just the ones targeting your own faith that bother you 😉?

wanderingheron52 said:I mean, both terms represent actual groups of people. At the end of the day, attacking someone's identity or their faith is just straight-up disrespect, nothing more, nothing less...

From where I stand, your faith is deeply offensive. So, what happens now?

wanderingheron52 said:Fair point. I guess nobody actually called them that, but maybe—just maybe—instead of flagging my post for being offensive, this could serve as a sort of blueprint for how we should probably be talking to people like that in the future.

"Homosexuality is easily the biggest evil in modern society today. Though, I suppose they aren't exactly killers since you need balls for that kind of thing, and atheists are technically right there in the mix too..."

Homosexuality is an attribute, whereas Christianity is a belief system. They are not the same thing.

Jason Clark7 said:Well, then we are left with the lasting stigma of this forum, where believers are branded as sick or disturbed, while atheists—or even more so, homosexuals—are only permitted to contemplate such matters in silence... 😵 🙂

Please, just show me one single reported post where someone was actually allowed to call believers "sick" or "disturbed" without consequences...

Roger Hughes14 said:Where do you get the right to answer like that? When someone spits on my Religion and my sacred beliefs, and goes out of their way to imply things... I'll call them a Christianophobe because that term exists just as much as homophobia does. I don't see what the issue is.

The fact is, you didn't give him any kind of red card for behaving so primitively.

Secondly, it's just my personal opinion that homosexuality isn't normal. So what?

The real issue here is how I diagnose other users on Reddit. I didn't ban the person above, nor have I banned anyone else who has voiced theories regarding criminal atheist regimes.

You have every right to think whatever you want, just like everyone else, but if you keep calling people on this site "sick," "disordered," or anything similar, you're going to get a ban.

As far as I'm concerned, this discussion is over.