Moderator Appreciation Day

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Joe Hillshoist » Sat Nov 19, 2016 6:46 pm wrote:I just read that locked thread.

WTF? Bloody ridiculous.

SLAD is one of the people that makes this place worthwhile.
Mind linking, because I was looking and couldn't see it. (Curiousity!)

WR, thanks for this. It describes what I call confusionism, the now predominant style of politics. Confusion he says, Vaudeville, he says, incoherence, and what comes out of it is autocratic control.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcy8uLjRHPM
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Just registering my appreciation for WR and his difficult job. Not much more to add to above posts.
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Wombat has been one of my favorite nefarious thinkers for a few years now. Hats off to him.
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Moderators
would it be an improvement to retire most pinned threads and re-activate active topics sans log-in
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Elihu wrote:Moderators
would it be an improvement to retire most pinned threads and re-activate active topics sans log-in
I don't know. That sounds like work. :tongout
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yes but very rewarding i would think
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I'm thinking of unbanning the entire list, to see what happens. Thoughts?
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what, of significance, have we to lose? i support it
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Elvis » Mon Oct 13, 2025 9:37 pm wrote:I'm thinking of unbanning the entire list, to see what happens. Thoughts?
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Elvis » Mon Oct 13, 2025 9:37 pm wrote:I'm thinking of unbanning the entire list, to see what happens. Thoughts?
Five years ago Jeff was exactly right on Covid. Quite a few of the un-banned members called him 'far-right' for being right, including you if I'm not mistaken. At this point, it can't make much difference. But it certainly couldn't hurt.

EDIT: Reading further up thread, I'm no longer sure what you're proposing. If you're talking about un-banning everybody who is currently banned, I support it.

If you're talking about anything else, meh.
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^^^ Same. But in the words of Killary, "At this point what difference does it make any way?" :wallhead:
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Grizzly wrote:^^^ Same. But in the words of Killary, "At this point what difference does it make any way?" :wallhead:
Alotta difference! *humblyhopefully*
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Thanks for the input.

For the record, I never called or characterized Jeff as rightwing; Jeff is way too sophisticated for that.

Yes, I'm talking about un-banning everybody who is currently banned. Not really as an amnesty, but rather an experiment.
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Do it.
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