The Automated Ban List - Page 3060

On July 21 2019 22:50 PhoenixVoid wrote:
Much as I disagreed with xDaunt on virtually everything, I do feel a bit saddened our liberal-progressive adversary is gone. He kept US Pol interesting, to say the least.

xDaunt was just temp banned for 30 days by EvilTeletubby.

That account was created on 2010-03-05 03:09:59 and had 17732 posts.

Reason: Holy shit your posting is toxic and about as counter-productive to worthwhile discussion as you can make it.

I really don't care about your political beliefs, but I do care about your horrible attitude towards others. You're dismissive of any other point of view without actually having a discussion around why. The "I'm right, you're wrong" mentality is not what we care to see around here. You're actively discouraging critical thinking.

Your recent posting and moderation history here is complete trash. This isn't a permanent because we do respect tenure here, but god damn. Chill out and step away from the PC if you're not going to add anything.

On July 19 2019 01:16 xDaunt wrote:

I'm not so sure that she's going to be an American for long. And beyond that, I have zero patience for incorporating people into the American tent who hate the tent. The same goes for the other politicians who hate America, like AOC. These are people who need to be ridiculed, humiliated, and marginalized.

User was temp banned for this post.

On July 22 2019 17:59 Ej_ wrote:
Is that a 2nd time that a TL writer turns out to be a far-right extremist?

Surprised this one didn't play a game where you shoot terrorists.

On July 23 2019 00:50 farvacola wrote:
And yet, some of us still remember....

On July 22 2019 17:35 Ben... wrote:
There was a time where I'd agree with you, but for the last while the tone of his posts had become incredibly toxic and negative. He would constantly talk down to everyone while refusing to answer simple questions or justify his increasingly unbelievable claims in any way (process crimes aren't crimes, lies are not necessarily lies. Stuff like that). He frequently derailed constructive discussions to the detriment of the thread. When he would respond to those questioning him, it would never be in a productive way. For example, he would either find some tiny tidbit in a post to nitpick or he would answer a question you didn't ask in an attempt to divert away from the actual topic at hand. It once took Kwark roughly 6 responses to get xDaunt to actually answer a question, and the answer he gave turned out to be that his opinion wasn't actually based on anything. In doing this he basically shut down all discussion in the thread for multiple pages for no reason. This type of thing happened multiple times per week. It became clear to me just how harmful xDaunt was to the thread when last time he was temp banned, not only were there several constructive, inclusive conversations that had multiple viewpoints, but a bunch of other posters I hadn't seem post in a long time had started to post again, and discussion became much more lively.

The initial ban note says it all:
Since coming back from his last ban his posts had become much more extreme. He recently had used a racist nickname for one of the presidential candidates during the debates, expressed agreement with the substance of some tweets generally regarded as being openly racist and around the same time said some pretty eyebrow-raising things about some ethnic minority political figures that could fairly easily be interpreted as bigoted:

On July 23 2019 20:23 Nebuchad wrote:
One of the issues with american (but not only) politics is that we keep talking about the polarization of discourse, like it's our fault as speakers, when it's the position of the parties that are getting more polar. XDaunt may have thought what he thought for a while but it wouldn't have been apparent if he didn't have to defend all the shit from the Trump admin every day

On August 04 2019 06:47 fluidrone wrote:
Can i please bother you for another week off.. mmm no check that .. that seems boring.. borderline lame
mmm?! make that two then!

thank you for your time
and your great work on the site <3

User was temp banned for this post.

On August 05 2019 21:15 Dangermousecatdog wrote:
How would you measure impact? He makes no impact at all. He has changed no one's opinion or outlook on any particular subject. The most you can say is that he makes posts where people may talk about himself, due to his deliberately unreadable typing.