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steelsurfer42 steelsurfer42 MemberOP
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joined Nov 2006
#21 ·
bluemason3 said:Look, Alternative isn't even part of the natural science PDF, so I don't see the point of the first part of that comment. Seriously? What are we even talking about here?

It’s part of spirituality. Why? I’ve already asked you that! 😉

Nobody is forcing you to stay, and nobody is kicking you off this PDF. Seriously! But what we’re seeing here is constant interference from certain people over on the main board, trying to muscle everyone else around. They want to turn forum management into their own personal ideological battlefield, and honestly, this entire thread is just another symptom of that same power trip. Is anyone actually surprised?
Stop playing the victim. Seriously. You aren't getting any special treatment compared to anyone else here who acts the exact same way. Your specific stance on this doesn't even matter—but that doesn't give you the right to lecture everyone else on how to run or moderate this place. That’s just straight-up trolling, and trolling gets sanctioned. Period. And yeah, the whole point of the penalty is to shut it down. This isn't about being "skeptical," it's about stopping someone from acting like a total troll.

Look, technically speaking, you guys are just trying to shut us up. You're pushing us away from the very topics we actually dare to speak out about—like how, yeah, drinking bleach isn't exactly the brightest move anyone's ever made. If being banned for that isn't "censorship," then I honestly don't know what is.
What’s the deal with this whole "order" and "dominance" nonsense? And this constant playing the victim act? If that's how it works, why aren't the people constantly spewing venom at Alternative getting carded? Seriously, I could pull up at least five different insults aimed at natural science nerds right now that haven't even been flagged. I have yet to see a single pseudo-intellectual get a yellow card for being an absolute jerk. It just doesn't happen. 🤔
I wouldn't go so far as to call that bias.

Sure, you can try to police the conversation, but honestly? You’re just asking to get shut down the second people start drowning out actual constructive points. What happens when those annoying trolls start overpowering the real perspectives I’m trying to push? These are good ideas—they benefit the whole group and anyone looking for an Alternative to the usual nonsense. Why kill the momentum just to play hall monitor?

Look, your behavior—and Hippopotamus's, for that matter—doesn't exactly line up with the nonsense you're preaching here. Seriously?

When it comes to religious proximity, even the self-proclaimed skeptics can't help but show exactly how narrow-minded they really are. Seriously, don't they see it? They preach this whole "rational" mindset while acting just as closed off as anyone else! 😁

Man, we could go on about this forever. Honestly? I’m dying to see how someone like Chronic Vlad or Lastan would even handle a topic like this. What would they even say?
If you're actually willing to waste your time on this, I'll go ahead and start a thread right in the middle of the Natural Science subforum. 😁

I guess I should just say it again: natural science has this one absolutely infuriating flaw when you stack it up against every other ideology out there. They’re actually right. That's the problem! 😛

bluemason3 said:What's the point? We already have a broad social group that covers all that perfectly fine. Why wouldn't someone then suggest separating the natural science sections (math, sociology, psychology...) entirely? It might even be a more logical move 🙂

I really hope you didn't take this as a provocation, because the idea isn't completely mindless. I’d actually go as far as grouping Health and Environment Together—or whatever they call those sections these days.

Then again, you guys all tend to jump in with such an ideological mindset that I honestly don't think you fully grasp what I'm saying, even though I'm being perfectly clear.
If you just look at the very top of the thread, my actual suggestion was to bundle three subforums together, maybe under one specific shared heading.
At the end of the day, you could just regroup them—basically just line them up on the forum homepage so they sit right next to each other.

bluemason3 said:No, that's just playing games because it doesn't serve the main forum's purpose. Even SM said in his last post he wasn't planning on changing anything; he just wanted to get people thinking about the sense or lack thereof in an Alternative. In other words, he's confirming he's trying to push his personal vendetta against everything Alternative onto the forum administration level, wasting the mods' and admins' time on his little power trips. 😁

By that logic, I could say the same about every other thread starter here who abuses the subforums by constantly whining that the site isn't working, when in reality nothing changes except for the site lagging even more. 😁

On another note, it's pretty low of you to twist my words like that. This whole "sense vs. nonsense" thing is something you made up. Anyone who gives a serious thought to Pseudoscience will easily see that it's basically spirituality.
So, that little bit you bolded? That's just your own little game to try and discredit me. 😛
placidranger placidranger Regular
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joined Sep 2004
#22 ·
bluemason3 said:places where free speech doesn't exist—where they punish the opinion itself rather than just the delivery (insults, trolling, spam, etc.)

Look at Alternative. Massive numbers of people have been permanently banned for some pretty idiotic reasons. I’m counting myself in that group. Is there an actual list of everyone who’s been banned from specific subforums? If there were, we could probably count red cards too.

A list like that would easily expose any "purge" that might have happened over at Alternative. My gut tells me most of those bans happen because someone said something "unacceptable," not necessarily because of how they said it. Maybe I'm wrong.
bluemason3 bluemason3 Veteran
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#23 ·
placidranger said:Well, look at the Alternative sub. Tons of people have permanent bans there for pretty stupid reasons. I’m counting myself among them. Is there actually a list of everyone banned from specific subforums? I suppose we could count the temporary suspensions too.

A list like that would make it easy to spot any "purge" if one actually happened over on Alternative. My impression is that most bans there happen because someone is deemed "unsuitable," rather than just because of how they talk. Maybe I've got that wrong.

Ever since we took over moderation, nobody has received a permanent or even a partial ban. As for those classic short-term suspensions, it seems like they hit the skeptics and the Alternative crowd equally.

There are a few old partial bans floating around, but I'm not going to start digging up lists for the sake of it.

So, who exactly was doing what, and where?

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