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.
he says he's not tho
also i thought i was paying him a compliment, but i guess not (???)
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Oh, well, let me clue you into a little stylistic tip there, sport: when you juxtapose two phrases like that in close proximity and either one is open to interpretation, your reader is naturally going to assume that they mean different things.
I'll take your profuse gratitude for my patience in educating you on the finer elements of style as implied.
It is also noted that your self/soul analogy was also recently used to describe transgender people as having sacrificed their "souls" to a "group identity". I understood the motivation and aims of your word salad, and its not going to happen.
Please move on from this.
Growing up, I wanted to be a professional baseball player. When an injury ended my career, it felt like I was experiencing a death. This is because the identity of baseball player had supplanted my self / soul.
72off, please stop.
Growing up, I wanted to be a professional baseball player. When an injury ended my career, it felt like I was experiencing a death. This is because the identity of baseball player had supplanted my self / soul.
Or else it was just that some of us are struggle with adapting to big changes.
You don’t think an identity crisis is real? I suppose those who have never experienced it wouldn’t know.
It's real enough for people with established identities but less real for someone wanting to be a pro sportsman. Plenty of time for you to retrain as something else, just as many do when made redundant or indeed many young would be sportsmen and women do when they don't make the grade (most of them).
There's a difference between having an identity crisis and being resistant to change.
It's real enough for people with established identities but less real for someone wanting to be a pro sportsman. Plenty of time for you to retrain as something else, just as many do when made redundant or indeed many young would be sportsmen and women do when they don't make the grade (most of them).
There's a difference between having an identity crisis and being resistant to change.
It’s funny when I throw out a follow up question and instead of pausing + reconsidering most people just keep digging.
Is a reality check real? If so, what is it exactly? Can someone be disconnected from reality?
It's clear that the confusion stems from a lack of understanding of obvious words when used by Craig.
He is asking you guys if the reality of lived experience can be as binary as the reality of the unregistered experience of an NPC, or not, and why, given more or less the same can be said for the true self and the soul, as detached from identity.
I am puzzled as to what is unclear
It's clear that the confusion stems from a lack of understanding of obvious words when used by Craig.
He is asking you guys if the reality of lived experience can be as binary as the reality of the unregistered experience of an NPC, or not, and why, given more or less the same can be said for the true self and the soul, as detached from identity.
I am puzzled as to what is unclear
Ah, well, he should have said!
Obviously, bliss comes only from inside ourselves and that it is most intense when we are free from thoughts and perceptions, which create the world and the body, that is, when we are in our pure being, while the egoic self is a ball of fear predicated on a belief that it is separate from the totality of consciousness.
Glad we cleared that up.
1. Define "reality check".
2. Define "real".
3. Define "disconnected from reality".
4. Do not use the words "real" and "reality" in the definitions.
Real - has an existence which you can experience
Are you asking me to define reality check because you are skeptical it has existence which can be experienced? You are skeptical that anyone has ever experienced a reality check?
Or are you just being contrarian as I suspect you are because you don’t like me very much?
