(2017-10-18, 12:05 PM)Steve001 Wrote: Remember this forum is a break away solution to the gestapo like tactics you and alex used to turn that other forum into an echo chamber. Here we have more lattitude to express ideas that are contrary. The question for you is, why are you here? Oh, remember you're not the mod here so we don't need to hear what you think is the appropriate participation.
I am not a moderator so cannot claim to be speaking for the moderators but I am a founding member of this forum. I object to the implied solidarity when you use "we" in your above statement. Everyone has their own reasons for choosing to become a member here and, perhaps, abandoning Skeptiko. Some of those reasons may well have been the moderation policies in place there but that does not give you the right to assume that you speak for this community, especially with incendiary phrases such as "gestapo like tactics".
As far as I am concerned, David has as much right to be here as anyone else. As usual, you chose to read into David's response precisely what you wanted to read into it. I understood David to be saying that, given the position that Chris was taking it is surprising that he wants to take part in such a discussion. I did not think he was stating that Chris should be excluded by some form of moderation policy. So your attack is misdirected and unnecessarily aggressive - in my opinion.
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