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Re: Hi Everyone!

Post by Ronja » Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:30 am

. :she-waves: I recognize the name, too. Welcome!
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Re: Hi Everyone!

Post by charlou » Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:32 am

Hello SD ... I remember you, too.

tattuchu wrote:
Strontium Dog wrote:Meanwhile, here's a comment about me that has got a free pass on RatSkep:

anyone who supports it is pure scum and a cancer on the spine of humanity should be put against a wall and shot

Fucking clowns.
What is "it"?
That's what I was wondering.
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Re: Hi Everyone!

Post by charlou » Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:36 am

Seabass wrote:
Strontium Dog wrote:
Seabass wrote:A few days later, you quote Revolutionist in your sig, and BAM! formal warning, one week suspension.
Is that what I got the third warning for? I've sent two emails but had no response, and that forum isn't publicly visible.

But that doesn't make sense as I removed the quotes when requested :think:
Here is the text from Blip's warning:
MODNOTE
Strontium Dog, this is a warning that you have removed one unacceptable signature to replace it with another.

This is not acceptable as it is inciting others to breach the Forum Users’ Agreement, specifically section 1.2e, which prohibits posts designed to provoke other members and section 1.2c, which prohibits personal attacks on other members.

As this is your third active warning, you will now be suspended for one week. We suggest you use this period to reflect on your behaviour on this forum.

Any comments on this modnote or moderation should not be made in the thread as they will be considered off topic. You may PM a global or senior moderator or you may raise a thread in feedback if you so wish
And this "advisory" is posted in a thread that SD can't even see due to having been suspended? Image
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Re: Hi Everyone!

Post by Robert_S » Tue Aug 23, 2011 5:00 am

'Sup Dog.

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Re: Hi Everyone!

Post by Pappa » Tue Aug 23, 2011 7:03 am

Hi SD. Welcome. :wave:
                      

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Re: Hi Everyone!

Post by irretating » Tue Aug 23, 2011 7:10 am

Welcome. Ratskep's moderation 'regime' is fucking ridiculous.

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Hi Everyone!

Post by Magicziggy » Tue Aug 23, 2011 7:49 am

Hey hey SD. I don't know you.

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Post by redunderthebed » Tue Aug 23, 2011 8:23 am

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Post by Hermit » Tue Aug 23, 2011 8:53 am

Welcome, Strontium Dog. I recall you ruffling a few feathers at the Richard Dawkins Forum, but no particular transgressions of rules. I enjoyed some of the very concise challenges you made in reply to posters who indulged in wooly thinking.

Love the sig you used at RDF MarkII. To call it "inciting others to breach the Forum Users’ Agreement" is a spectacularly willful misrepresentation of what that signature is about. The "prefects with swagger sticks" type response you got for it is precisely why I hardly spend any time there.
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Re: Hi Everyone!

Post by Strontium Dog » Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:58 am

Everyone is much more friendly here, thanks to all for the kind welcomes.
tattuchu wrote:
Strontium Dog wrote:Meanwhile, here's a comment about me that has got a free pass on RatSkep:

anyone who supports it is pure scum and a cancer on the spine of humanity should be put against a wall and shot

Fucking clowns.
What is "it"?
"It" is a scheme for unemployed people to get unpaid work experience placements. I had a few reservations about it, but I was openly supportive of it in principle, so I'm apparently scum and cancer and need to be shot.

Needless to say, the personal attack on me remains uncensured.
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Re: Hi Everyone!

Post by HomerJay » Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:25 am

Strontium Dog wrote:FAO All: Feel free to call me a cunt, I can't respond as I'll get banned
Cunt

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Re: Hi Everyone!

Post by devogue » Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:29 am

HomerJay wrote:
Strontium Dog wrote:FAO All: Feel free to call me a cunt, I can't respond as I'll get banned
Cunt
So unreported. :levi:

Welcome to Rationalia, StD. :cheers:

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Re: Hi Everyone!

Post by Strontium Dog » Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:47 am

HomerJay wrote:
Strontium Dog wrote:FAO All: Feel free to call me a cunt, I can't respond as I'll get banned
Cunt
You're too late, I've been banned already.
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Re: Hi Everyone!

Post by devogue » Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:59 am

Well, I've just had a leisurely morning reading through the thread that ultimately led to SD's suspension, and the one with the fallout.

Two things struck me - firstly, there was a lot of bad blood and handbags, with the debate going beyond robust, but all sides raised the ante and nobody was more guilty of anything than anyone else.

Secondly, Emmeline's (Topsy) response was illuminating. She was always a very steady, widely respected and sensible moderator at RDF and she reckons that the moderation has been heavy handed and one sided. I agree with her.

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Re: Hi Everyone!

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue Aug 23, 2011 11:28 am

devogue wrote:...and she reckons that the moderation has been heavy handed and one sided. I agree with her.
She's just now noticing? :fp:
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