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Natebishop3 said:
Calling someone an attention whore is also a little different than flat out calling a woman a whore.
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Exactly. And the original quote was something like "I don't know if you have a vagina but you are a whore".
 
So much rage...

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bodyman5000 and 1 said:
I thought the guy had/has a brain tumor? Give him some slack.
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Not sure how having a life threatening illness/whatever gives someone the green light to be an ass.
 
crandc said:
Whore is meant in a nice way? In what universe?

I missed that exchange - I'm rarely on the board because I feel pretty unwelcome here, and I know that a lot of people WANT me to feel unwelcome here. Not just that people disagree with me, that's fine, it's expected, this is a discussion board, after all. But that any comment ends up setting off an MRA rant. Frankly, I'd rather clean the cat box.
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Hahahahhahaa!

Wait, you're serious?
 
crandc said:
But that any comment ends up setting off an MRA rant.
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Just because I didn't know what MRA was, from Urban Dictionary:

Men's Rights Activists: A bunch of whiny pedantic morons that think there is some vast Illuminati feminist conspiracy while seemingly ignoring the fact that their own gender runs the majority of the world.
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julius said:
Not sure how having a life threatening illness/whatever gives someone the green light to be an ass.
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I don't know what they did to him. So it might be something he can't help. I've read stories where men who were sweet natured had their wives leave them after brain surgery because they turned into total dicks.
 
MM has a lot of friends on this site. When he was undergoing the prep and then his surgery and disappeared, there was genuine concern for his well being expressed by many.

I don't believe anyone really wants him gone, but we don't want to have so many threads ruined with the crap he's been pulling.
 
bodyman5000 and 1 said:
I don't know what they did to him. So it might be something he can't help. I've read stories where men who were sweet natured had their wives leave them after brain surgery because they turned into total dicks.
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I think MM would be the first (and loudest) to say he's never been accused of being sweet natured, lol...
 
He's always been a contrarian, which is fine. The name calling is new, and not fine.

BNM
 
BlazerWookee said:
I think MM would be the first (and loudest) to say he's never been accused of being sweet natured, lol...
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It certainly wasn't a direct comparison. In fact if a sweet natured guy can turn asshole after brain surgery MM could go full psycopath.
 
I'd rather known trolls be suspended first as they actually impact everything on the board. Mediocre Man brings something to the forum at least.
 
When you get banned does your rep points go down to zero and you have to start from scratch? I still think there should be more to the rep points and you should be able to give a negative and positive. Get some competition going on in this forum!
 
BigGameDamian said:
When you get banned does your rep points go down to zero and you have to start from scratch? I still think there should be more to the rep points and you should be able to give a negative and positive. Get some competition going on in this forum!
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Careful what you wish for......
 
BigGameDamian said:
When you get banned does your rep points go down to zero and you have to start from scratch? I still think there should be more to the rep points and you should be able to give a negative and positive. Get some competition going on in this forum!
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I go into the account and transfer them to myself.
 
What if we're okay being called a whore? I won't be insulted by it, so it's not an insult, and therefore is allowed?
 
OregonHuskerMan said:
I'd rather known trolls be suspended first as they actually impact everything on the board. Mediocre Man brings something to the forum at least.
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He used to.

But lately every single one of his posts was more about him and playing the victim card than actually discussing basketball.
 
Two mods and Mediocre Man (under a different moniker which I'm not going to disclose) are saying that I should have suspended Mick Zagger for this comment,

This gives the Mediocre one more time to spend with his make believe adopted black kids.
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I agree that this was a fucked up thing to post, that's why I deleted it and asked Zags not to post crap like that. MM and the mods are all saying that Zag's post was a direct attack on his family. Last night I didn't read it as that. I read it as a backhanded insult to MM, that Zags was questioning if MM really had black foster kids. I read it as Zags was calling MM a liar, I didn't read it as him insulting MM's family. In the heat of arguments people have been called liars before and that doesn't result in them being banned, only their comments being deleted or edited.

In my opinion calling a woman a whore is worse than calling someone a liar. That said I'm not interested in creating some list of words that will get you deleted or edited and some words that will get you suspended and or banned. I suspended MM because he knows posting that is not acceptable. He points out all the time in threads when someone posts a personal insult and the mods miss it and/or don't do anything about it. He posted that to provoke a reaction from a member on this forum and instead he got a reaction from a mod.

I'm explaining all of this because moderating this forum is never black and white. Most of the time we're making it up as we go along. Also I'm taking the time to explain what I do and why I do it because sometimes I get it wrong. My intentions aren't to pick on someone or play favorites, my intentions are to make this community a fun place to post at.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Two mods and Mediocre Man (under a different moniker which I'm not going to disclose) are saying that I should have suspended Mick Zagger for this comment,



I agree that this was a fucked up thing to post, that's why I deleted it and asked Zags not to post crap like that. MM and the mods are all saying that Zag's post was a direct attack on his family. Last night I didn't read it as that. I read it as a backhanded insult to MM, that Zags was questioning if MM really had black foster kids. I read it as Zags was calling MM a liar, I didn't read it as him insulting MM's family. In the heat of arguments people have been called liars before and that doesn't result in them being banned, only their comments being deleted or edited.

In my opinion calling a woman a whore is worse than calling someone a liar. That said I'm not interested in creating some list of words that will get you deleted or edited and some words that will get you suspended and or banned. I suspended MM because he knows posting that is not acceptable. He points out all the time in threads when someone posts a personal insult and the mods miss it and/or don't do anything about it. He posted that to provoke a reaction from a member on this forum and instead he got a reaction from a mod.

I'm explaining all of this because moderating this forum is never black and white. Most of the time we're making it up as we go along. Also I'm taking the time to explain what I do and why I do it because sometimes I get it wrong. My intentions aren't to pick on someone or play favorites, my intentions are to make this community a fun place to post at.
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tldr

Haha, I beat El Pres to it.
 
Simple touchstone: if you called MM's mother/wife/sister/daughter a whore, how would he react?

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Quiet down in here or else I'll ban all you assholes
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Two mods and Mediocre Man (under a different moniker which I'm not going to disclose) are saying that I should have suspended Mick Zagger for this comment,



I agree that this was a fucked up thing to post, that's why I deleted it and asked Zags not to post crap like that. MM and the mods are all saying that Zag's post was a direct attack on his family. Last night I didn't read it as that. I read it as a backhanded insult to MM, that Zags was questioning if MM really had black foster kids. I read it as Zags was calling MM a liar, I didn't read it as him insulting MM's family. In the heat of arguments people have been called liars before and that doesn't result in them being banned, only their comments being deleted or edited.

In my opinion calling a woman a whore is worse than calling someone a liar. That said I'm not interested in creating some list of words that will get you deleted or edited and some words that will get you suspended and or banned. I suspended MM because he knows posting that is not acceptable. He points out all the time in threads when someone posts a personal insult and the mods miss it and/or don't do anything about it. He posted that to provoke a reaction from a member on this forum and instead he got a reaction from a mod.

I'm explaining all of this because moderating this forum is never black and white. Most of the time we're making it up as we go along. Also I'm taking the time to explain what I do and why I do it because sometimes I get it wrong. My intentions aren't to pick on someone or play favorites, my intentions are to make this community a fun place to post at.
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If you don't suspend Zags for that, whom according to you has had numerous warnings as well, I don't see how you aren't playing favorites. You warned him in this post as a matter of fact, and he still continued on to say that after you told him NOT to try and aggravate MM. Furthermore, by adding in personal details, that makes it a DIRECT PERSONAL attack. He did so knowing MM cannot "retort" back as he is suspended.

I have more beef with the lack of suspension for Zags than I do with suspending MM in this scenario. That's an egregious use of justice on your part, IMO.
 
I am a bit curious as to what you would have to call a white, heterosexual male in order to get banned. I'm not sure that word exists.
 
Reep said:
I am a bit curious as to what you would have to call a white, heterosexual male in order to get banned. I'm not sure that word exists.
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Soccer mom seems to get the blood boiling.
 
Reep said:
I am a bit curious as to what you would have to call a white, heterosexual male in order to get banned. I'm not sure that word exists.
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Apparently "cracker" is the height of offense so that should do it
 
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