Original Poster,
You were banned for creating a duplicate thread in the Fairfax General forum after the original was moved to Off-Topic. Also taken into consideration were your 5 other posts today under the anonymous name "theLAW".
The ban was not handed down for the content of your post but rather the delivery. Spamming the forum is never acceptable. If you had posted your question in the Off-Topic section and refrained from creating duplicate threads you would not have been banned.
Since moderation is being discussed in this thread I will also reveal that I am far more lenient towards racist and incendiary remarks from posters with known Northern Virginia IP addresses. For example I am far less likely to moderate incendiary remarks from a dc.cox.net (Cox NoVA) or washdc.fios.verizon.net IP address than a random host. I despise ignorant racists but if the content is truly coming from Fairfax County residents than I shall not stand in the way of open communication. Your original post, however, came from a Hampton Roads Cox cable modem address (and the second from 216.245.220.12, an open proxy) and as such were not given any special considerations.
I'VE BEEN BANNED Wrote:
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> which i think proves my point - which of the other
> users have been banned for their remarks? there is
> another recent post which questions something
> about blacks and you let people post their racist
> comments about them, but not Jews?
No group is given any special treatment here. Which post are you referring to? This post regarding Blacks:
http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/317372.html was in Fairfax General but was moved to off-topic. Also, there is an anti-Jewish post on the front page of Off-Topic as we speak:
http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/40/148187.html
No group has any special protections.
Well... Wrote:
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> *Not that I think he's perfect, or that always
> agree with his decisions - he's deleted stuff I've
> posted that I think should have been left up - but
> he's far superior to the vast majority of
> discussion board moderators I've encountered.
Really? By any chance do you recall in which threads your legitimate posts were removed? I try very hard to never remove any legitimate contributing content from this site. However, I am occasionally forced remove legitimate responses to troll posts. I hate to do so but once a troll post is removed responses to it rarely make sense and thus must be trimmed for the thread to retain meaning.
If you can recall which threads you had posts removed from please let me know and I will check what happened. Posts are never truly deleted around here but simply "hidden", hopefully to pave the way for a future user-generated karma-based reddit/Slashdot style moderation system... but that's a long way off.
- Cary (the admin)
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/16/2010 01:18AM by Cary.