(2018-09-24, 11:09 AM)Kamarling Wrote: [ -> ]At Skeptiko it was often called a temporary ban. JREF called it a suspension. Semantics. Anyhow, this post is the last I will post on this because I am not getting into one of your interminable games of last.
Darat wasn't the only one so your claim to being the poster child is still far from credible (only someone with an ego of Trumpian proportions would even make that claim about themselves).
I said it somewhat tongue-in-cheek, as it came up on the JREF forum when I was complaining about the moderation of someone else, and that response was intended to show that I shouldn't complain because it wasn't likely to happen to me. I rolled my eyes at it, since it missed the point. Regardless, it remains that I didn't run into any of the problems that were a regular occurrence on Skeptiko (and here, I suspect) where other posters asked for me to be suspended, banned or censored. And until that final thread where I and others complained about the moderation (which in retrospect was still fabulous compared to the moderation on Skeptiko and here), and a few of the moderators did not respond well to the criticism, I hadn't run afoul of any moderation. Even if what you meant by "banned" was that temporary suspension, it wasn't a temp ban because anyone had a problem with my behavior or found me intolerable. Just Darat's misunderstanding of something I said.
I'm not saying that I got along with everyone. There were a few people I got into heated arguments with on a few topics - just look at some old circumcision threads, for example. But they tended to be the posters which most other forum members argued with, as well. The member who I was standing up for in that thread was one of them.
Quote:Here's another post from the same thread from someone with the username, "remirol", designated "Senior Wrangler". Clearly remirol had precisely the same impression of you that most at Skeptiko had so this should look familiar to those who have been around that long.
LOL. I don't remember that from remirol, and I don't know what thread they are referring to. Was that about me?
Paul said there was an out-pouring of support for me after I left, too, although I didn't go back to look at the forum. Anyways, this isn't about whether you can find posters that didn't like me at the JREF forum. It would be weird (and a bit suspicious) to be universally liked. It's about whether I ran into the same kind of problems there as I ran into here, and was banned from the forum (even temporarily) because I was generally found to be intolerable. Neither of those things were even remotely the case.
Linda
ETA: I looked at the JREF thread again to refresh my memory, and some things I said above were incorrect. I'm just going to correct them in this post, because I don't want to derail the thread by making new post.
It wasn't Darat who had been an ass or caused problems - it was a couple of the other mods. I probably conflated the two because Darat was known for being a dick and this complaint was regularly levied against him. But he wasn't the dick in this case. It had been remirol who was the main dick in this case, which I forgot. Which is even weirder because it was remirol's behavior (plus those two mods) which was the final straw which led me to leave the JREF forum. You'd think their name would have been seared into my brain.
There was a small group of people on the JREF forum who, whenever a mod/moderation action was criticized, would circle the wagons and jump on any complainers. They were jokingly called "modettes" by the rest of us. A thread was started (not by me), complaining about the banning of another member. I participated in that thread because I was familiar with the case. As a result, remirol took their turn as modette and attacked me. It ended up an argument about the false claims remirol directed my way, instead of a discussion of the moderation issues. I tried to bring the discussion back to the moderation issues, but was unsuccessful. So the quote kamarling posted wasn't an indication of how I was viewed, but one of remirol's specious attacks.
What Kamarling wants to call a "temporary ban" wasn't even a suspension. When I tried to call it a suspension, the admin was quick to point out that it wasn't a suspension, because it wasn't punitive. It was an administrative action for bookkeeping purposes.