Posts by Gerald Chavez7

Nica will probably tell you pretty soon that they can issue a temporary ban instead—say, for something like two years...

Maybe just ask her how long you’d actually want to be out?

The forum isn't just for the ten regulars who spend all day in the chat—it's also for the five to ten times as many people who mostly just lurk and rarely post...

If you haven't been hanging around the economics section for long, you might not realize that the previous two versions of this thread basically just spun in circles—generating hundreds (okay, thousands) of identical posts and endless, pointless arguments...

Harold Evans4 tried warning everyone several times—quite patiently, actually—but those warnings wouldn't even last two or three posts before everything slid right back into the old patterns..

We have a dedicated chat thread on the subforum, so feel free to move over there more often.

Like I mentioned in your DM a second ago, neither me nor any of the other admins actually see your private messages until you officially report them. You have to hit that little triangle icon in the top right corner once you open the message...

Reporting a post isn't the same thing as reporting a PM.

Do you actually think anyone can see a private message??? Not until you report it...

Bob Dylan, you finally got your answer — we're sticking to the plan

@wanderingdriver17/">@@wanderingdriver17 You're right—my Signature isn't actually following the rules. I didn't catch it this morning (I haven't really been posting much lately, anyway). I'll get that changed.

As for the whole "agitating" thing, I see it as a bit of a gray area—it really just depends on the specific situation. We'll just have to play it by ear as we go.

Musk's paying us off.

...seriously though, this topic will be opened whenever.

It’s honestly pretty easy to follow your whole STEM manifesto—you show up, lecture everyone on everything, and just keep going week after week, post after post. Then, after a full year of silence, you pop back up with this thread and start...

Even with all that constant lecturing, you rarely actually ask an interesting question, so I'll give you the floor.

But I don't quite get how someone so convinced of their own brilliance feels the need to constantly seek protection from other users? You go out of your way to accuse people of trolling when they’re just acting totally normal—it's just that they won't buy into your "I'm a genius and everyone else is just a geeky loser" mantra...

Regarding the flame wars, I've already issued several warnings, and if this keeps up, there will be much harsher consequences coming...

Aaron Harris2 said:You can also download AdBlock for your computer.

If you would simply dedicate three minutes of your time to this, you would find that these frustrations vanish entirely.
It is a worthwhile endeavor for everyone involved. Please, take some initiative and help yourselves if there is no other way to resolve this. After all, this Reddit community must be funded by something, regardless of the circumstances.

Well, yeah, if you actually have admin rights on your machine, you can... But if you're just scraping by and surfing the web on the clock (cough, me, obviously 😁), then you're out of luck.

Carol Newman2 said:143 versus 143

Looks like we're back to 144 against 142 again.

It’s actually pretty fascinating how two different groups—made up of seven parties in total—ended up with practically identical vote counts. 😁

The SD is clearly sitting in third place; I honestly thought the race for second would be a lot tighter than this...

All that thunder and lightning, just to produce a mouse... 5000 out of 6000 spots processed

Broken down by blocks:

left center 144
right center 142
SD 63

It looks like the entire mod team decided to take a simultaneous vacation... I'm temporarily locking this thread until things can be cleaned up properly.

Does it always have to be the same group of people killing every single thread? Seriously, enough already.

wanderingdriver17 said:I respect your opinion.

But I think you're taking this way too seriously. You can see there’s still that old-school sense of gravity here—#member 😁—but there's definitely more room for creative expression now. 🕺

It's just more fun that way; you get to dive deeper and broader into the topic... besides, try explaining to me how politics and economics are two completely unrelated things. 🤷

Policajis.

People are leaving.

An exodus. 🤣

P. S. You'd probably hand me a penalty card for the bolded part (and you already did).

You're being dramatic about being unfairly punished... That PM you pasted (didn't realize public posting of PMs from the Prime Minister's Office was allowed, but hey, I'm not a moderator for the PŽK), was simply an explanation of why you received a custom warning with minimal points—mostly because you dropped that post literally 45 minutes after my warning. posts 937 and 938.

You claim people are leaving—and sure, I agree—but that's because I've been too lenient and allowed too much trolling and off-topic chatter. Honestly, just scroll down through this subforum and look at the threads started even before I became a moderator; you'll see plenty of users complaining about massive amounts of trolling, off-topic nonsense, and insults. Some of those users eventually left, but I doubt it was due to my "police state" style of moderating...

Am I really that weird for wanting to ensure that not even a single section (and I emphasize *single* section!!!—the economics subforum) uses expressions like—and I'm not quoting your posts specifically:

"Screw the money, screw savings, just go broke," or "Those 5-10% raises some users brag about are nothing but absolute garbage," which led to the warning mentioned in the PM above.

As for the "corrupt mess" and "cronyism"—you were the one reporting people constantly when they generalized and used slurs against those who moved abroad. Why do you think I haven't received a mountain of reports for your own posts regarding generalizations? If I'm going to issue cards when someone calls immigrants "runaways" or something similar, then I'll have to do the same for your "corrupt mess" and "cronyism" comments.

And again link to the subforum rules, since we also introduced a chat thread where you can practically write about anything (as long as there's no outright insults).

Honestly, it’s just plain stupid how people constantly resort to insults and calling everyone corrupt bureaucrats or lowlifes in the economics subforum—all without actually making a single coherent point. I already pointed out in my own post that we have a dedicated chat thread for that kind of nonsense, which works fine. Does this site really need another carbon copy of a "politics" forum or something "near-political"?

All this whining about the subforum being ruined—well, if you actually bother to look at the original "real estate prices" thread, or check the posts from back when Lehman Brothers collapsed, or even the discussions during the debt crisis... you'll see actual substance. Just look at some of those "added value" posts, like the ones shadow used to write.

I’ll say it again: please just read the subforum rules. They’ve been pinned since 2007 for a reason.

wanderingdriver17 said:I’d appreciate it if the admins or supermods could weigh in—is retroactive punishing actually okay?
The moderator made it pretty clear: they'll be penalizing this moving forward... yet somehow I ended up as the sacrificial lamb for a post that went up before the "new" standard was set. 🤷

30 points!!

Because if the admins think this is fine, there’s really no point in arguing about moderation styles anymore.

You might have the concept of "retroactive" a little twisted here—I issued the warning on post #400, then followed up with the heads-up about future behavior in post #401.

There isn't some "new" standard; these subforum rules have been pinned for about 11 years now.

Besides, you've already picked up a few (mild) warnings for similar posts—each one accompanied by a PM explaining things and suggesting a change in style.

Just to be crystal clear, we’re talking about this post

Look, this isn't our first chat regarding writing styles—I've pointed out several times already that your approach doesn't really fit the vibe of this subforum.

I'll give you some credit here—partially—on one point: I probably should have been more consistent about shutting down the off-topic chatter and the trolling, but if I had, you wouldn't be filing this complaint for another few weeks...

At the end of the day, I’ve been posting in the economics section for about 10 years now, and I can tell you firsthand that the quality of discussion and reasoning has actually been much higher in years past...

ruggeddriver70 said:I'm on board. Instead of deleting off-topic posts, just move them over to the chat—don't wipe them out, just relocate them—keep the threads organized, and if someone keeps being a nuisance, then go ahead and issue a ban.

Honestly, this is the best suggestion yet. We don't need more clutter with new threads; we just need to "rescue" the ones we already have...

The real question is whether we should dump everything into the chat or if we should create specific threads for things—you know, like "Cost of Living Comparisons Across Different US States" or something similar.

I'm looking for some recommendations on electric mobility scooters.

It’s for an elderly family member—still fairly mobile, but they use a cane. We need something specifically for outdoor strolls, so nothing that requires constant, heavy-duty operation. The main thing is portability; it needs to be easy to break down and fit into a car trunk, and it shouldn't be so heavy that it's impossible to lug up a flight of ten stairs in pieces.

Any specific brands or models I should be eyeing? I honestly have no idea what the price range looks like—maybe somewhere around $1,000 to $5000?

Also, do these things actually handle hills okay? They'll only be used a few months out of the year, likely in a coastal town with plenty of steep inclines...