US Politics Mega-thread Ban List

I am removing your access to the USPMT temporarily. A thread ban is an alternative form of a ban in which we allow users to continue to use TL but prohibit them from posting in selective threads.

I am removing your access to the USPMT temporarily. A thread ban is an alternative form of a ban in which we allow users to continue to use TL but prohibit them from posting in selective threads.

I'm not sure if you're just a very clever troll or just a very uneducated one. But either way, none of your posts are helping the political discussions that are taking place. You have been thread banned from the US Politics Mega-thread until further notice.

Your posting is unacceptable. It feels more like you're trying to start a nasty argument instead of a legitimate discussion. You are hereby temporarily banned from the USPMT until further notice.

Original Message From Seeker:
Danglars, I'm sorry but your posting is going downhill yet again. You're really strongly opinionated and you don't seem to acknowledge the other side when they point out your BS. It's this type of posting that's causing a shit-storm to take place. I reviewed your past 20 posts in the USPMT and it's clear that you have no intention of changing your posting habits. You are hereby temporarily banned from the USPMT until further notice.

Original Message From Seeker:


Your failure to follow thread guidelines has resulted in a temporary thread ban from the USPMT until further notice.

Per the new rules and guidelines set forth by the moderation team, we are going to be harsher on articles/news sources that are posted without a supporting comment on why the article(s)/news source(s) is/are relevant and why they need to be discussed.

We will especially be stricter about tweets that don't provide any context.

Your posts in the USPMT add absolutely nothing of value to the discussions that are ongoing. If you don't know how to post without trying to stir shit up, then please just don't post at all. You have been temporarily banned from the USPMT until further notice.

Your posts in the USPMT are consistently terrible and do not encourage meaningful discussions at all. You've received several mod actions for your low content posting already but you refuse to improve the quality of your posting. You are hereby temporarily banned from the USPMT until further notice.

Due to your inability to follow the rule set forth for the thread, you are hereby temporarily banned from the US Politics Mega-thread until further notice.

In my previous PM, I told you that supporting statements should be void of your own opinion. You are still not following this simple rule.

GH, your recent posts in the USPMT have been tremendously awful. It feels like you are just trying to pick a fight with everybody. I think it's time for you to take a long break away from the USPMT. If you can't have civil political discussions, then just don't post at all. You are hereby temporarily banned from the USPMT until further notice.

Please follow the USPMT guidelines next time:

NOTE: When providing a source, please provide a very brief summary on what it's about and what purpose it adds to the discussion. The supporting statement should clearly explain why the subject is relevant and needs to be discussed. Please follow this rule especially for tweets.

Your supporting statement should always come BEFORE you provide the source.

Looking at your past 20+ posts, it's clear to me that you are going back to your old ways. You're so determined to prove people are wrong that you're not seeing things from their perspective. You are hereby thread banned from the USPMT for the time being. Please just take some time to cool off. You're way too invested in this Kavanaugh thing, and NOT in a good way.

referring to your latest ban and your rather numerous warnings on the subject, please refrain from posting in the US Politics Megathread until further notice. Your posts are too frequently either inflammatory, misleading, violating established rules for the thread, or some combination of these three. You've made it abundantly clear that you do not agree with the American left's political motives or the state of political discourse. It would make sense, then, to pay more attention to what words actually mean. "Anti-American", "antifa" and "lynching", to name three. Name-calling and fact-twisting don't fly, especially not with this frequency or with so obvious vitriol, and especially not on a subject that is known to spiral out of control if participants don't play nicely.

This thread ban will be subject to change if you can demonstrate that it's possible to discuss politics with people of radically different political stances without resorting to logical fallacies, personal attacks or misleading statements. I understand that you'll most likely disagree with this assessment, so I'll mention (if your rather extensive history of moderator reprimands did not sufficiently indicate this) for your benefit that you are welcome to take any questions you may have to the assigned thread in Website Feedback.

You were warned a few months ago:



Your thread ban was removed, but you don't seem to have improved, so it was just turned back on.

You are temporarily banned from posting in this particular thread until you can speak more intelligently about serious topics like "rape" and stop derailing the thread.