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To: ManyMoose who wrote (52519)	10/29/2006 3:07:00 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

>>The test is in which direction the folks in the middle are moving. Suppose I am in the middle and post a comment in each camp, possibly challenging an extreme position, possibly just chatting. Where do you think I am most likely to be banned for that comment?<< ManyMoose - That's a good question, and one that is not answered by looking at a subjectmark/ban ratio on SI. I notice that the conservative threads on SI all have at least some bans. So that means the moderators of those threads have seen fit to ban people for some kinds of behavior. What exactly did the people those conservative moderators banned do or say? What did the people who got banned from the liberal threads do or say? Unless you can answer those questions, you can't really begin to discuss the issue of open-mindedness as a characteristic of one pole or the other. In another post I just told the story of how I got banned from a conservative thread here. Though I was not attacking anyone personally, the moderator kept calling me "gay". Apparently that was the worst insult he could think of. Other people were just saying I was stupid. That doesn't seem very open minded to me. However, what got me banned, I'm sure, was that I started referring to the thread as a "circle jerk." In retrospect, I can understand why I was banned for that. Sure, the moderator had gotten out of line first, but I was applying a demeaning (though uncannily accurate) analogy to the entire thread. - Allen