I see your viewpoint but I'd like for you to see what others see. This is not in regards to banishment or whatever term you'd care to use.
Sometimes it goes beyond the old lack of maturity argument. There have definitely been many remarks by certain GC members who have been her for quite a while that make this place uninviting...more like they shit on you as RC says.
Want a blatant example? I had a discussion on here over a month ago that had been inactive almost a week. One certain member comes online to post something negative in regards to me and tell me that I'm new, as if that makes a difference. Even funnier than that was that she had almost the same amount of posts as I did and I have been here for quite a while. She mainly posts in her own sorority's forum.
Get real, systems also involve favoritism. That is how business works, that is how school works, that is how politics work, and it even trickles down into trivial GC. The people you call moderators are not moonlighting on GC while being supreme court justices full-time.
-Rudey
--Be careful, I bite
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Originally posted by DeltAlum
Here's the old DeltAlum broken record again...sorry.
In most cases I don't see a free speech issue as much as one of maturity.
First, I'm only aware of a very few people who have been "banished" in the time I've read GC. (Tau, the V's being the ones that come immediately to mind) I don't read every forum, so there may well be more.
But really, the reason that the members I'm aware of were thrown off had more to do with presentation than anything else. They used language for shock value. They resorted to name calling. They made outrageous comments and/or claims. They used threats. They tried to intimidate. They lied. They were purposfully rude. They were knowingly offensive to groups and specific individuals.
They were way beyond tasteless.
They acted like children.
Some almost certainly broke the law, as it was so well explained above by Eupolis. Thank you for that, by the way.
Most of them were warned, and chose to continue their transgressions.
I don't mind a good disagreement (providing there is some logic used in the argument), and I don't generally care what anyone believes (OK, we all have some hot buttons), but I take serious exception when someone plays stupid, childish games. Or, worse yet, is vindictive and/or predatory.
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