T1 Terry wrote: ↑Tue Feb 09, 2021 10:29 pm
dapope wrote: ↑Tue Feb 09, 2021 10:18 pm
You can cancel my membership of here too.
Your attitude sucks Bruce.
So do a lot of others.
I am done.
Sad to hear Martin, are you sure that is what you want? Drop me a PM if you are serious about wanting out on this forum .... your posts will remain so the forum remains readable ....
For what it's worth, Bruce's action was only to remove the offensive post and give Cuppa 24hrs to cool off, the other members of the admin team are very offended by his outburst, I hope you don't feel the same way .....
T1 Terry
ADMIN TEAM
It looks like my post about there being no difference between this and other forums being biased and prejudiced is being shown to be right, I was attacked because I mentioned the depravity of religion which is historical fact and had my post removed. Yet this forum has a couple of moderators who seem to be able to do and say what they like without any retribution.
Being disgusted by what a moderator posted and doing nothing, is just another form of apologetics we see from those unable to distance themselves from what they claim they don't agree with. That's not a very non biased approach, just the opposite.
Dot, I don't believe Cuppa was referring to you, just some moderators, but as we all do sometimes, didn't reflect it properly. You're a lovely lady Dot and I enjoy your posts, I like slightly bent people, makes me feel at home.
So it's ok to ban a poster who is standing up against racism, but support the racists. I'm so used to this sort of pathetic behaviour that mostly let it pass, because there is little one can do when the odds are stacked against you and truth. I've received a couple of PMs which reinforce my stand, they are not worth replying to as all they are looking for is to continue with the abuse and try to justify their insipid position.
Terry, I think you did the right thing by opening up the forum, but may not been aware of the underlying reasons it was so restricted and those may have been revealed, only one viewpoint was is be accepted. Some just don't want to be reminded of their stance and they can't handle anything outside that, this is the reality of life and social medias like forums, tend to give them a place to hide. But the time always comes when they are confronted by their open reality and bias and they just can't handle it at all, so they lash out, attack and use their power to crush what they see is their opposition. When it fact what they are doing is trying to destroy any form of truth being revealed. It's an ideological ploy, ideology is the belief that fantasy is real and reality doesn't exist, so ideologues will go to any length to destroy the truth and support their fantasy beliefs. How can you let a moderator post such blatant degrading racist lies and do nothing, but support the moderator, when others post the truth and get it removed.
Like others, I have a position in life where I was rejected by both sides of family, luckily today it's not as bad and personally don't really care. But do care about the culture I was taught and still live in a modern way, yet have issues with how some supposed indigenous push their agenda, claiming it is for all. I see them as no different to other ideologues, bias, prejudiced and mentally warped.
I don't envy the decisions the admin has to make in this instance, as it's clear a few find it difficult to accept the situation. With good moderation this forum would function with good knowledge sharing discussion. But it seems many just can't grow up and let go of their deep seated bias, good moderators would first ask the poster to edit their post or explain their reasoning if it personally offends and if that doesn't work, add the reasons for moderation along with removing the offending parts of the post.
Removing posts with no explanation or example, is not a good thing because many are unaware to the reasoning and can't make a qualified judgement on it, so it can tend to escalate things. You can't have open discussion when you allow lies and deception to override fact and reality.
As for me, I enjoy reading posts on this forum, but if it's just going to be restricted to trivia mostly, then why bother. My late mate warned me about going onto a forum, he always said, you're just to bloody controversial for the majority to tolerate as you make them think and many can't handle thinking outside their narrow little box. But I like to hear what people think about things and then put other options to them, sadly that's not very acceptable, as can be seen by my description of religion, pollies and their approach to the future and quarantining.
It should all good fun and no real reason for some to be upset, I'm not as I accept the real truth of life and not the delusions.