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JackRiddler wrote:Today I rearranged the board forums
JackRiddler wrote:Can you stop with this unbearable dramatization please?Recommended reading in case I actually get suspended or even banned here:
It's easy:
- don't demand people give away information that may identify them [He was doing this because people were claiming professional knowledge of conditions at hospitals and he didn't believe it, so they had to be disinfo agents, so he demanded that they specify details that might end up identifying them, which is against the board rules]
- don't attack people for believing coronavirus is a dangerous pandemic that requires countermeasures or is overwhelming health resources (you can argue that it isn't so, obviously; several others are doing so without consequences)
- don't go off aggressively (or passive-aggressively) on anyone who disagrees with your premises about the events and call them a disinfo agent, or a body-snatched persona [he did the latter with me, demanding that I fill out a quiz to prove I was still the one he knew personally]
- don't compare these self-evident minor board rules to genocide and the third reich. (FFS)
Do I really have to explain this shit? You are getting the royal treatment. Someone I didn't know personally who acted like you did a couple of days ago would have been banned directly.
LolaB » Thu Jun 11, 2020 11:42 pm wrote:Thanks for all your good work in keeping this boat afloat, Jack.
Much appreciation.
Re: MacC
I also had the pleasure of partying with him, IRL, in Berlin 2016. My impression was that he was drinking a lot at the thread proliferation time... It seems we all had quarantine induced meltdowns and coping mechanism going on.
Not to make excuses for bad behavior. Everybody is fully responsible for their own well being.
I do miss him here because when he was good - he was really, really good. And ditto when he was bad...
"Booze & pills & powders, you have to choose your medicine." Keith Richards
Cordelia wrote:I don’t miss scrolling past the endless Trump graffiti smeared on the walls but do miss SLAD and her other contributions, especially pre-2017. Jack’s offer to her seems reasonable, at least as a possible re-entry point, and I hope she won’t see it as being relegated to the ‘kid’s table’.
(I feel weird, us talking about his possible problems in his absence. It's meant in the best, gentlest way but after this maybe private messages are the better way to go.)
In effect she'd be getting her own section to fill with material as she pleased. It respects years of work here, where she is the top poster all-time, and lets her curate it. It wouldn't intrude on GD, other forums, or Active topics, and thus obviate the need for the disputes we were having about flooding, or the feeling that the board had been repurposed into representation of a narrow line of thinking. There are plenty of people who feel as you do and would drop in, read her stuff, contribute, debate, probably get into arguments. Moderation could be limited to breaking up fights. At least, all this is the plan. Limits would include not posting stuff that's illegal or gets the site shut down, but this wasn't a problem with SLAD, and not demanding unreasonable work from the moderators. (I'd be happy to move a number of threads she started into that forum, if the replies were also mainly her own, but not if the demand was constant and meant litigation.)
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