US Politics Feedback Thread - Page 100

On February 18 2018 09:31 zlefin wrote:
oh, and as always, i'm still looking for a forum that actually doesn't allow ignorant shitposting if anyone knows of one.

On February 18 2018 09:44 GreenHorizons wrote:


What would you do with that? Observe it without posting?

On February 18 2018 09:46 zlefin wrote:

that, plus some light posting. my poor posting mostly happens in response to others poor posting. it tends to be neither better nor worse than others.

On February 18 2018 09:51 GreenHorizons wrote:


Perhaps you should try leading by example. Be notably better than those you seem to want to critique so regularly instead of negligibly different.

On February 18 2018 10:02 zlefin wrote:

I try; but I'm not good enough to do that. and I do act alot bnetter than them; i'm not starting the bad behavior, only reflecting it.

On February 18 2018 10:05 GreenHorizons wrote:


That's really not much better, a basic principle usually taught to kids in grade school.

EDIT: what systemic changes?

On February 18 2018 10:07 zlefin wrote:

it's not much better perhaps, though I'd say it is.
changes: stronger moderation, including several specific moderation proposals; the addition of an ignore feature.

On February 18 2018 10:08 LegalLord wrote:
If someone posted badly, maybe just report them and move on?

On February 18 2018 10:10 GreenHorizons wrote:


It's really not, maybe slightly, but certainly not "a lot".

Those are pretty vague and an ignore feature is just a poor solution to improving behavior for what I think should be obvious reasons.

On February 18 2018 10:13 zlefin wrote:

solutions that work are better than no solution; and I proved my point. why you have to such a jerk and start a fight?

On February 18 2018 10:13 zlefin wrote:

solutions that work are better than no solution; and I've proved my point that I've done a lot more. why you have to such a jerk and start a fight? it's abundantly clear you interjected specifically to pick a fight and not to engage in anything constructive.

On February 18 2018 11:18 LegalLord wrote:

Huh. Well I’ll be danged.

tofucake wrote
Your bar for violation is a lot lower than everyone else's.

zlefin wrote:
yes, which is why the thread is far worse than it could be; because you refuse to clean up the violators

I prefer preventative measures to surgery.
also i'd say even your bars should've been crossed by some of the stuff danglars did. but since you don't read the thread, you're highly unaware of the issues. one of the reasons I'd like if there were another mod in charge of the thread (if there are any available that are better, I don't know how deep the bench is for mod selection, but iirc very few are willing to handle the thread, so we take what's allowed)

tofucake wrote:
Your reports were actively harmful to moderation

On February 18 2018 12:45 Danglars wrote:


LL, I thought you would remember this runin about halfway from the start of this thread (page 55)? He was mad people like me weren't getting banned for disagreeing with him. A good portion of this thread is zlefin continuing to believe that he has the better insight on who is shitposting and what should be done.

On February 17 2018 06:09 Danglars wrote:
I’m hoping for something close to the Kwark takedown earlier in this thread. Don’t let me down xDaunt. I want to see some squirming.

On July 13 2017 07:23 Dangermousecatdog wrote:

This is actually quite accurate. Btw, I am too scared to reply to danglars and xdaunt alternate reality in case I get banned.

Also, now we know why legalord been pushing his Clinton is unelectable rhetoric so hard at every opportunity. It turns out, the Russians really were colluding with the Trump campaign. And that changes everything.

On February 20 2018 01:56 LegalLord wrote:
Concise and correct, but hardly a takedown. I suppose it will have to do.

My version was simply to note the complete lack of reading comprehension, which does seem to be precisely the issue covered by Sent and xDaunt. A slightly modified, but also rarely encountered, variation on that theme was "I'm an engineer so [insert absurdly reductionist explanation of technology]." But I think the major issue has been covered as necessary.

Why it is that dmcd seems to be among the only people singled out for actually being ostracized for this shitty behavior, I don't know. In truth it's very prominent and frankly about half of the regulars are little more than trolls that don't actually contribute to any discussion.