Orpheus wrote:Your first post said I wish we could have statitiscs on what matters. Who do you think you are kidding? We've had it with this sly junk on our Mormon board for Mormons. We have more posters than we know what to do with so you won't be missed if you don't want to do what it takes to stay here. If you take up space with another post in this thread I'll ban you. ~ Mod
It's not at all clear that Tarski had time to read this warning before his 11:07 post and subsequent banning. It's also not at all clear why you're reacting the way you are to fairly inoffensive posts in this thread. I think you're merely proving how truly capricious is the moderating on this board.
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Jersey Girl wrote:I just read it as per your link. The moderator told him that if he posted again on the thread, he'd be banned. He posted again.
I posted before I saw the warning.
Whatever. That was the nuttiest moderation I have ever seen.
when believers want to give their claims more weight, they dress these claims up in scientific terms. When believers want to belittle atheism or secular humanism, they call it a "religion". -Beastie
yesterday's Mormon doctrine is today's Mormon folklore.-Buffalo
Whoever Orpheus is, he/she is 1 ) an asshole, and 2 ) really obsessed with micromanaging that thread for some reason. I mean seriously, with all the crap threads that go on on that board, it's like Orpheus is sitting there with some moderator intervention on seemingly every single freaking post. It's really insane.
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Jersey Girl wrote:I think they considered his remarks off topic to the OP.
My remarks were on topic (Statistics)
All I did was use up one post defending myself against a ridiculous attack.
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when believers want to give their claims more weight, they dress these claims up in scientific terms. When believers want to belittle atheism or secular humanism, they call it a "religion". -Beastie
yesterday's Mormon doctrine is today's Mormon folklore.-Buffalo
Wait a minute...isn't MAD an "apologetics and discussion" board? How is it then a
Orpheus wrote:... a Mormon board for Mormons.
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Doesn't "apologetics" itself imply nonmormons among the discussion? Or is there some form of Mormon apologetics for other Mormons? Perhaps a kind of internet Mormons reaching out to chapel Mormons type ministry?
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Moniker wrote:Oh, CK, I hadn't even considered that he might not have had time to read that specific warning. I bet that is what happened!
Right. How can someone be a moderator when they aren't computer savy enough to realize that this is what happened?
Who goes back and checks before each new post?
There can't be anything but unchallenged back patting if that's how the moderation is going. Apologetics?
Remember how they moaned about being banned from CARM?
Hypocrisy.
I guess if they want to get rid of someone like me then I shouldn't be interested to be there anyway. They can let it degenerate into a place for bored teenage Mormon girls to tell faith promoting stories to each other and argue with EVs about faith vs. works over and over again.
when believers want to give their claims more weight, they dress these claims up in scientific terms. When believers want to belittle atheism or secular humanism, they call it a "religion". -Beastie
yesterday's Mormon doctrine is today's Mormon folklore.-Buffalo
I never check before each post... who does that? I just went back and looked at the time line (hadn't paid any attention to it before) and it's obvious that the thread was moving along and you made another post unaware of the mod warning.
Blixa, you're right. There's no apologetics there if you ban all the critics. How absurd.
Sethbag wrote:Whoever Orpheus is, he/she is 1 ) an asshole, and 2 ) really obsessed with micromanaging that thread for some reason. I mean seriously, with all the crap threads that go on on that board, it's like Orpheus is sitting there with some moderator intervention on seemingly every single freaking post. It's really insane.
Yah, I was a bit surprised at how that thread was being moderated... a bit of overkill there. I don't get it.
Tarski is a provocateur and pot stirrer, and nothing more. That is the only reason he has ever posted in forums such as this. They are aware of that there as all TBMs are here.
Mormondiscussions.com is the dumping ground for critics of the Church who will not endure civil, relevant, respectful debate or stay on topic once debate has began. Everyone knows the moderation policies at MAD, and they're really not that hard to follow.
What MAD does not want to become, is another Mormondiscussions.com, which, if people like Tarski, and Scratch, and Harmony, and many others who make there home here because they will not abide the simple rules there, is precisely what it would become.
The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance.