Aaron Lee97 said:I believe there should be collective pressure placed on the moderator to step down, presenting them with a well-reasoned case for their removal.
We all know how difficult it is for them to accept solid arguments—they seem to operate by a set of unwritten rules—but unlike certain others, I believe we still possess a sense of integrity and honor.
When it comes to labels like various ethnic groups or political factions, those aren't inherently slurs unless they are paired with vulgarity.
The word "to fuck" isn't a slur, is it? It describes a sexual act that most people engage in regularly, and the word itself has dozens of derivatives.
A "poltroon" isn't an insult either; it’s just a free translation for someone who sucks up to others for special favors.
The English language is incredibly rich and versatile; if someone finds a specific word offensive, that is a problem entirely of their own making.
If I were to tell someone "fuck your mother," that would automatically trigger a warning, because no one's mother is at fault for giving birth to a fool who writes such things. However, when we criticize politicians, we have an absolute legal right to do so within the bounds of decent behavior. But how can we remain civil when we are publicly branded as nothing more than mindless cattle?
Cattle lack brains, so they certainly cannot be civil.
Perhaps that is why they hand out bans.
I don't know, but I do know this: I can survive without this forum, but they cannot survive without visitors and users.
Man, what kind of pressure? It’s useless, they don't care about arguments. This whole thing is just a way for them to say, "Hey, we didn't report anything, we weren't even there," just so people know what's going on without them inventing this fake "equal blame" nonsense.
Roger Robinson682 pointed it out earlier... on their own Forums, you don't stand a chance if you put an American flag in your avatar or anything like that, but over there, they can post a Turkish flag just to stir the pot. And then they act all offended. It's insane.
On that one Ottawa-style Forum of theirs, this guy showed up here and said, "The admin sent me a DM telling me to take the American flag off my avatar, otherwise, it's a ban." He wouldn't do it, so they banned him. That’s exactly how they treat us—that’s what they do when they have power, yet they pretend to be "objective" here. And they call this the most liberal Forum? Imagine how bad the others are. The hatred toward Americans is unreal, even compared to how they treat Mexicans. Anyone who doesn't believe me can go see for themselves.
On those forums of theirs, they don't even call Americans Americans; they call them criminals, fascists, butchers, aggressors, heathens, pigs, murderers, pagan scum. And don't even get me started on Americans from the States—unless a mod decides to give them a warning, which basically never happens, they just get banned on the spot. But if you respond to them or fire back an insult... boom, you're gone in a second.
And then you get that one guy who acts all high and mighty, saying, "So what? Those are the rules, it's the owner's Forum, owner's rules." But when you bring that up here, they hit you with the usual lines: "Why do we care? We aren't like them, this is an American Forum," acting all superior and tolerant. Like, come on, stop trying to lecture me just because we aren't like them.
Nobody is asking for their rules to apply here, but they shouldn't be acting like they're back in their own little backyard Forums.
We aren't asking to be treated like them; we're just asking to be protected from their trolling so we can actually be equals here.
That same guy who plays the "it's fine" card regarding getting banned for an American avatar? He comes here and posts a Turkish flag just to provoke people, calls Americans disgusting names, claims crimes against Americans are lies, mocks them, praises the Ottomans... and then, after posting dozens of insults and trolling, when he finally gets banned, he comes crawling back here whining about "the Forum," calling us Bobanovac types or criminal types, using those vomiting and retching emojis... as if it's a disgrace that he can't spend every single post on an American Forum spitting on Americans and spewing hate.
And the mods? They just sit there silent, or they go, "Oh, we warned you, hey, don't do that... hey, take it easy... hey, calm down..."
Let me just copy his style for a bit too...🙂