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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sully- who wrote (32457)	4/16/2005 1:41:16 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

You TRIED having a quality conversation with either? It's a waste of time. The fish simply doesn't make sense. All AS wants to do is accuse every conservative of being gay or a lesbian. Some conversation. I'd believe your screed about "free speech" if it weren't for all the armored pillboxes around here. Mostly moderation these days is used to exclude facts and opinions that differ from the threads. When I see THAT change, I'll grant your point. Moderated threads are allowed to remove people who do not consistently post on topic or who do not abide by established thread guidelines. Ever notice all the threads where off-topic is not a problem as long as you have the same political POV as the moderator? Or where guidelines are enforced against those who disagree politically with the moderator, but not if they agree? I can show examples today from Granny's thread. I'm sure I can find other cases if I looked. How many of us have left threads because they became over run with Yahoos who completely ruined a thread? I take it you thnk AS should have been left banned? I say if a person cannot or will not abide by thread guidelines, there should be absolutely no problem banning them permanently after they have been adequately warned, then temporarily suspended a couple of times. And again there are all those cases where agreement with the moderator brings safety regardless of anything you do and disagreement guarantees banning.