Moderation Questions and General Chat Thread
The last iteration of the moderation discussion thread was a complete disaster. Numerous attempts to keep it on topic failed, and it became a general discussion thread with almost no moderation related posts at all. And those that were posted were so buried in non-mod posts that it became a huge time drain on the mods to sort through them. Then, when off topic posts were deleted posters complained about that.
This led to the closing of the mod discussion thread, replaced by the post report/pm approach. This has filtered out lots of noise, but has resulted at times in the General Discussion Thread turning into a quasi-mod thread. This is not desirable, but going back to the old mod thread is also not a workable option.
Therefore, I have created this new moderation thread, but with a different purpose and ground rules than previous mod threads. The purpose of this thread is to provide a place for posters to pose questions to the mods about how policies are applied; to bring to the mods attention posts they think are inappropriate and reach the level of requiring mod action; and for mods to communicate to posters things like changes or clarifications to policies, bannings, etc.
Now let me tell you what this thread is NOT a place for. It is not for nonmoderation related posts, even if the discussion originates from a comment in in a mod related post. It is not for posters to post their opinions about other posters or whether a poster should be banned. It is not to rehash past grievances about mod decisions from months or years ago. The focus of this thread will be recent posts that require action now. Or questions about current policies and enforcement.
So basically, this is a thread to ask mods questions. Which means, pretty much that only mods should be answering those questions. If a poster asks why a particular post was deleted or allowed, only a mod can answer that. Everyone else who wants to jump in with their opinion or their mod war story needs to stay out of it. It just increases the noise to signal ratio and does nothing to answer the question.
Everyone needs to understand that this thread has very different rules than the old mod thread and any other thread. Any non-moderation post will be deleted on sight. Not moved to the appropriate thread, just deleted. So don't waste your time crafting a masterpiece post about wars or transgender issues or the presidential election and then post it in this thread. It will be gone. Also, this isnt a thread for general commentary about our mods performance. Posting "browser sucks as a mod" or any such posts that don't actually ask about a policy or request a mod action will be deleted. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the moderation of this forum. But this thread isnt for complaining about mods. You are free to go to the ATF forum and make your concerns about modding in this forum there.
So with that intro, this thread is open for those who need to bring questions about mod policies or bring inappropriate posts to the mods attention. Again, it is NOT a thread for group discussions about other posters or for other posters to answer questions directed to mods.
We'll see how this goes. If you have what you feel is an open issue raised in the General Discussion Thread, please copy that post or otherwise reintroduce the issue here.
Thanks.
I find washoe disputing the truth about a description of a picture found on the internet to be particularly amusing.
God that is a horrifying ID photo, you look like a right serial killer.
d2,
Let's not.
I doubt your daughter wants her picture on 2+2. And if she does, I'm sure she will find her way here to post it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/epo...
bolding is my own
I dont know much about the Epoch Times, other than it is some sort of dissident right wing Chinese version of the NY Post; but I play poker in casinos in Los Angeles with a lot of Chinese people, and I am surprised how often I see someone reading a printed or electronic copy of the Epoch Times.
woah, where's the pilot episode of d2 vs washoe paternity court? i don't like starting a show mid season
I dont know how sophisticated Chinese dissidents are about American politics and Trump. But the fact Trump has shown he can be bought, and now the fact he has legitimate money problems because the of the lawfare being waged against him by the Dem Party. I think it should be expected that IF Trump becomes President again Xi will just buy him off, and he will be a pro CCP President.
I dont know how sophisticated Chinese dissidents are about American politics and Trump. But the fact Trump has shown he can be bought, and now the fact he has legitimate money problems because the of the lawfare being waged against him by the Dem Party. I think it should be expected that IF Trump becomes President again Xi will just buy him off, and he will be a pro CCP President.
Unclear if Xi can offer more than people in finance or oil or other sectors he could help with targeted deregulation / favourable rules both domestically and for trade and so on.
I dont know much about the Epoch Times, other than it is some sort of dissident right wing Chinese version of the NY Post; but I play poker in casinos in Los Angeles with a lot of Chinese people, and I am surprised how often I see someone reading a printed or electronic copy of the Epoch Times.
the most recent immigration wave of Chinese were all falungong cult members who sought political asylum
they had grown to become a very large cult - China has a long history of taiqi related cults, the boxer rebellion (which was a complete disaster and china would have been far better off had it never happened) was when there was another taiqi cult - interestingly, the wiki page makes no mention of the craziness of the boxers, perhaps edited by current taiqi practitioners to downplay the insanity (ie the falungong members today know better than to disclose publicly about all the superpowers they hope to attain)
but if you go to a non crowd sourced source they talk about the nutjobs which the boxers were https://www.britannica.com/event/Boxer-R...
began to believe that Boxer rituals actually did make them impervious to bullets
basically, that's what happened, the boxers had literally convinced themselves that through using taiqi, they could become bullet proof - when people were killed by bullets, they didn't reconsider their proposition, they instead used confirmation bias to figure, well I guess Li wasn't very good at taiqi after all, hence why he died
so being fearless, they went out and started killing all foreigners they saw (remember, most Chinese are incredibly nationalistic and xenophobic) and destroying all foreign owned property, they were so numerous and powerful that the Qing didn't intervene out of fear that if they got involved they'd be overturned themselves and besides, they were kind of doing a good thing killing all the white people anyway amirite - this caused the western powers to unite in retaliaton and send in a coalition army to occupy beijing and take out the boxers
so when a new taiqi cult with similar insane beliefs and promises started getting really big in china in the 90s started demanding political power and a role in governing the country due to the amount of members they had, the ccp obviously told them to go eat rocks and so then the falungon started mass protesting across the country to demand a say in government
instead of seeing "crazy cult members vie for power in china" we saw this as the "democratic and religious revolution" we'd been waiting for since we began interacting with china with ping pong diplomacy under nixon, we were so goal driven that our own confirmation bias stepped in
china responded quickly and harshly, most today concede that was a mistake to do so, by making it a big deal, they elevated them, they should have just routinely ignored them instead
as a result tens of thousands of members went abroad and applied for political asylum in the USA and other countries and we granted it - the leader himself even moved to NYC long before they began the political quest
so if you meet a Chinese person who came to the USA in the late 90s or early aughts, chances are overwhelming high that he's a cult member, the other option is he probably just prefers to read a newspaper in his own language and a locally printed Chinese version of the epoch times is more accessible
I think I would watch a Washoe paternity reveal show....
Lol
You started to talk about it not me.
