Rationalskepticism,lol part III.

[Jason]

"Inflammatory statements" is a pretty good catch-all for saying stuff outside group-think...

He called his interlocutors raving hypocrites

Oh my.. that cannot be countenanced.

[JimC]

Well, that could be called a PA, I suppose, but only because of the adjective "raving"

I still think that "Inflammatory statements" is a dangerous reason for suspension...

[Jason]

Rationalia suspends members for personal attacks.

We do?

No worse has been done to Forty Two, that what was done here to rEv

Yeah, but everyone here knows rEv is a cunt.

[Seth]

"Inflammatory statements" is a pretty good catch-all for saying stuff outside group-think...

He called his interlocutors raving hypocrites

My suspicion is that this is not a personal attack it is a simple statement of truth, particularly when applied abstractly to a group as opposed to aimed at an individual.

[Hermit]

"Inflammatory statements" is a pretty good catch-all for saying stuff outside group-think...

"Intentional malicious trolling", an expression you will find in the first paragraph of Rationalia's rules, is no less a catch-all than "Inflammatory statements".

[Hermit]

Yeah, but everyone here knows rEv is a cunt.

Group think at work.


I am fairly sure you were being intentionally ironical.


You were, weren't you?

[Svartalf]

The only reason for a permaban here would involve excess negativity towards either cheese or bacon...

Or gin...

Gin is hardly my favorite tipple, moreover it doesn't go well with cheese and bacon.

[DaveDodo007]

Rationalia suspends members for personal attacks.

We do?

It is only when you are reported that the rules apply, as most people on here are think skinned and it is water off a ducks back and the report button rarely gets clicked.

No worse has been done to Forty Two, that what was done here to rEv

Yeah, but everyone here knows rEv is a cunt.

Never understood rEv as he was the one who posted "get your tits out" and "get your kit off" to any fit women who posted their opinion here on a totally unrelated post, it was like something out of a seventies sitcom. Yet I whom would never do that was a misogynistic, sexist shitlord for being an anti-feminist. It is almost like you can indulge in the most sexist behaviour imaginable so long as you call yourself a feminist (I might just be seeing the appeal of that man hating cult to men.) I still never agreed with any banning that he had.

[Jason]

Yeah, but everyone here knows rEv is a cunt.

Group think at work.


I am fairly sure you were being intentionally ironical.


You were, weren't you?

Yes. - ironic wink..

Damn recursion.

[Strontium Dog]

"Inflammatory statements" is a pretty good catch-all for saying stuff outside group-think...

When you have literally identical word strings being deemed inflammatory when one person uses them, but not when another person uses them, you know the rule is essentially just being used as an excuse to sanction certain posters.

[JimC]

"Inflammatory statements" is a pretty good catch-all for saying stuff outside group-think...

"Intentional malicious trolling", an expression you will find in the first paragraph of Rationalia's rules, is no less a catch-all than "Inflammatory statements".

Perhaps in theory, but here it has been only used once or twice in very extreme cases...

[Scott1328]

So RatSkep is evil for attempting to follow its FUA, but Ratz is virtuous for largely ignoring its own FUA?

[Jason]

We're virtuous by virtue of our outstanding members! Virtues..

[DaveDodo007]

"Inflammatory statements" is a pretty good catch-all for saying stuff outside group-think...

When you have literally identical word strings being deemed inflammatory when one person uses them, but not when another person uses them, you know the rule is essentially just being used as an excuse to sanction certain posters.

You have forgotten the golden rule, 'it is OK when they do it.'

[DaveDodo007]

So RatSkep is evil for attempting to follow its FUA, but Ratz is virtuous for largely ignoring its own FUA?

Ratz leans in favour of free speech in that it takes something exceptional to get you banned even when you are breaking the rules. Rapskep will go out of its way to ban wrongthink even if the rules haven't been broken (hence people who disagree with the groupthink are trolls.) Even you the ratskep apologist can't continually deny it now.