At least you were :ha:I'm on friendly terms with lighthouse but I thought your book title for him was hilarious.
Sorry LH
The embarrassment of receiving an infraction
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zoo22
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I see. That makes sense.
Arthur Brain
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I think SD would be more likely to say:
"Proof please"
each: :yawn: "Ad hominem"
and quote a whole load of irrelevance from Dennis Prager and equally irrelevant links while quote mining from posters she "responds" to...
:think:
No wonder the pair of you get on so well...
Oh, and your infractions were due to lying sleaze for the most part but of course none of that was your fault...
lol!
6days
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Sort of funny... I was reading comments on an atheist board and thought I would like to add a comment. But, in order to join, i had to agree with their 'statement of faith' (Wasn't named that). Thats fine... I understand, but it reminded me of membership requirements that churches have.
6days
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Good comments Delmar. The boo boo's we make here may be embarrassing... but its good to remember that it isn't just a few people that see our mistake. Our mistakes are also seen by the One who shed His blood for me.
Kudo's to Rusha for the humble attitude in his comments.
musterion
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Because both are faith-based institutions.
Yes but you can attend churches without declaring a statement of faith.
The atheist board i was at didn't require anything like that and the only reason i ever signed up for it, was because i had to in order to participate in the cross discussions from their board to the christian board i was on - because their forum that had the cross discussion was hidden, for members only (it seemed weird that they even had such a thing to me to begin with about another board)
Not for me. The only time I was embarrassed by something I wrote no one reported it and I went back and apologized for it once I stopped and realized that I'd allowed myself to answer from a place of pride and unjustified rancor instead of engaging. She was gracious enough to accept it.
I had a warning from Knight that was mostly a matter of communication. He'd waved me off but I didn't read it until after I'd posted another time on a subject. That one was funnier than it was irritating.
The one infraction I got was for strongly going at someone who had been routinely calling murder victims, among them fallen members of the armed forces, cowards. I think I called them waste matter in the punch bowl of life, which wasn't a simple insult, but one meant to infer the degree with which a) they were polluting discourse and b) I held their contributions in contempt.
If that's worth an infraction I'll wear it like an Olympic medal.
That said, I appreciated being able to discuss and air my objection to it and felt as though I'd been heard. I even understood the reason behind it, though I didn't agree with that either.
It depends on how you see the infraction or infractions, I guess.
As to how serious it is...obviously it isn't really. But it's always easier to speak to how minorities should respond when you aren't in one and never will be.
shagster01
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Angel4Truth. I rarely agree with you, but I don't see how anything you ever post would be infraction worthy. Those other boards must be pretty crappy.
annabenedetti
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You should be embarrassed by all the times you've lied about people.
annabenedetti
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Your post was completely undeserving of an infraction.
There are a few here who are pretty much untouchable. And yes, there are a few here who report those they don't like as often as they think they can get something to stick, because they don't have anything better to do than trying to get that person an infraction, and they know when the poster is an atheist, agnostic or more left than right that they have a better chance at making it happen. So often it's not that the targeted poster said something that was even worth reporting, it doesn't matter - the goal of the one doing the reporting is to get that infraction handed down. A lot of those lame reports are ignored, but not all of them, obviously.
Is the penalty box sometimes like the fortress of solitude?
annabenedetti
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Agreed. As for the infraction you got, the post and poster in that infamous thread both earned the description you gave.
What on earth do you have to do to get run on a Tolkien forum? :chuckle:
I've only received one infraction, for "intentional blasphemy", which I can be certain is not accurate at least for the intentional description. Obviously, the blasphemy is in the eyes of the beholder. It was momentarily embarrassing, and it was definitely a surprise, but it also prompted me to return to the post in question and reconsider. I concluded that there wasn't really a better way to convey the point I was making, and that the standard applied was pretty unclear.
Call me unrepentant, but well, yeah, that applies to a lot of things. Still, I try to stick pretty close to the rules here, and I think I generally succeed. Others may disagree, but if so, there hasn't been a hint to the contrary from the mods save the one case.
rainee
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This is such a dangerous place for me, I can see it!
You see, I agreed with Zoo in some of what he said, or most of it...
And I can see quite well in my imagination why Angel or Inzl would get infractions!
And not only that... When Town Heretic finally got his infraction after he had long before provoked and insulted me to near insanity back in the day, then I could finally feel some sort restitution done for my suffering, or some equality of life - or something.
But what good is all this honesty?
Do any of you want to hug now? Is the air more clear?
Maybe Del should get a n infraction for ripping scabs off old wounds?
You see, I agreed with Zoo in some of what he said, or most of it...
And I can see quite well in my imagination why Angel or Inzl would get infractions!
And not only that... When Town Heretic finally got his infraction after he had long before provoked and insulted me to near insanity back in the day, then I could finally feel some sort restitution done for my suffering, or some equality of life - or something.
But what good is all this honesty?
Do any of you want to hug now? Is the air more clear?
Maybe Del should get a n infraction for ripping scabs off old wounds?
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