NEWS FLASH! You can get banned from any forum for any reason.

[LJ_Reloaded]

While it is ideal that "free speech" forums only ban users who actually break the law, that isn't going to be the case. Moreover, rules can get more restrictive and you can suddenly find yourself LOVING SPAM - or whatever equivalent ban message a forum will issue to announce your forced departure.

This shit always starts with people on the margins - you know who it was here, but it plays out on every forum this way. Many forums unlike Lit will ban you for objectionable opinions. (Try posting on TheMarySue's next KillAllMen article that KillAllMen is a load of hatemongering nonsense, for instance.)

If you care about having some presence online that is banhammer-resistant, start your own blog. And better yet, have backup blogs that echo your posts. For instance, Twitter echoes Tumblr if you set it up right, so if Twitter takes you out because the fine folks at #TCOT accuse you of spamming (which is the entire reason for #uniteblue existing - as a defense against false spam accusation reports), for instance, you would still have Tumblr. And as a backup to Tumblr, you could have soup.io, for instance, which is working out a reflector function for Tumblr posts. (It's still kind of buggy though.)

Nothing's happened to me yet on these social media sites... but you never know. Always have backups and they won't ever stop the signal.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

This is only news to you.. and Ishmael.. and eyer.

 

[badbabysitter]

It's not a free site, it's owned by someone...

don't like having to play by someone's rules in their sandbox?.. go make your own

 

[Yardley]

It's not a free site, it's owned by someone...

don't like having to play by someone's rules in their sandbox?.. go make your own

That's what he said.

 

[badbabysitter]

That's what he said.

he's being indignant that people can ban people from this site.. like when he was already banned and came back

 

[Yardley]

I must've missed the indignant font.

Kidding. From what I have seen he is often indignant. Indignant does not mean one is wrong, it is a feeling. People are entitled to have them.

I read his post as saying if you have things to say, and want to preserve them do not assume that the soap box you are standing on cannot be taken from you since you do not own the soap box. Which is why he and you are actually in agreement.

I suspect you would rather be at odds with him.

 

[badbabysitter]

I must've missed the indignant font.

Kidding. From what I have seen he is often indignant. Indignant does not mean one is wrong, it is a feeling. People are entitled to have them.

I read his post as saying if you have things to say, and want to preserve them do not assume that the soap box you are standing on cannot be taken from you since you do not own the soap box. Which is why he and you are actually in agreement.

I suspect you would rather be at odds with him.

You're also under the assumption I'm disagreeing with him

he also would as well

he assumes so because I'm a woman.. you assume so because I'm a leftie

but congratulations on the patronizing speech.. it was very pretty

 

[Yardley]

That's what I thought.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Badbabysitter likes to snip at me even when she agrees with me.

I get on people's nerves like that.

 

[Yardley]

Badbabysitter likes to snip at me even when she agrees with me.

I get on people's nerves like that.

Will it definitely seems to be nerve endings and not neurons that you are stimulating in her. Clearly, she is one of those people that gets off on quarreling.

 

[FGB]

I...just...sort...of...um...ah...follow...the... rules.

 

[Liar]

I don't even know the rules. I just assume as long as I'm not a complete douchecanoe, I'm golden.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

I don't even know the rules. I just assume as long as I'm not a complete douchecanoe, I'm golden.

That pretty much covers it as near as I can tell.

 

[Fala]

While it is ideal that "free speech" forums only ban users who actually break the law, that isn't going to be the case. Moreover, rules can get more restrictive and you can suddenly find yourself LOVING SPAM - or whatever equivalent ban message a forum will issue to announce your forced departure.

This shit always starts with people on the margins - you know who it was here, but it plays out on every forum this way. Many forums unlike Lit will ban you for objectionable opinions. (Try posting on TheMarySue's next KillAllMen article that KillAllMen is a load of hatemongering nonsense, for instance.)

If you care about having some presence online that is banhammer-resistant, start your own blog. And better yet, have backup blogs that echo your posts. For instance, Twitter echoes Tumblr if you set it up right, so if Twitter takes you out because the fine folks at #TCOT accuse you of spamming (which is the entire reason for #uniteblue existing - as a defense against false spam accusation reports), for instance, you would still have Tumblr. And as a backup to Tumblr, you could have soup.io, for instance, which is working out a reflector function for Tumblr posts. (It's still kind of buggy though.)

Nothing's happened to me yet on these social media sites... but you never know. Always have backups and they won't ever stop the signal.

LT, its not about "objectionable opinions". It's about making unsubstantiated claims and accusations against somebody else on a privately owned site.

"start your own blog" as you say. Your words are then your own...on your own site...and on your own dime, should that person decide to sue you. That is how it should be if one want's to slander another. Like I say....do it on your own time, your own dime and your own turf.

Keep it off the wall of innocent people who have nothing to do with your beef.

period.


"objectionable opinions" here are welcome. I have been thru this before and I know what I'm talking about.

 

[Bert Notorius]

i'd like to see laurel try to ban hammer manu.