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Originally Posted by Halx
Well guess what. If you guys don't shape up, you're not going to be able to do so any more.
THE POLITICS BOARD IS NOT THE PLACE FOR YOU TO POST SHORT, ANGSTY QUIPS ABOUT YOUR STUPID, REDUNDANT POINTS THAT HAVE BECOME CLICHES AFTER YEARS AND YEARS OF REPETITION!
ALSO, THE POLITICS BOARD IS NOT *YOUR* BOARD - IT IS *MY* BOARD. THAT MEANS YOU DO NOT GET TO BE OFFENDED BY SOMEONE ELSE'S WELL-SPOKEN POLITICAL VIEWS AND RESPOND WITH NOTHING BUT VITRIOL AND A SMUG, IMMATURE DISGUISED INSULT.
Listen up, people. The TFP has come this far on a few principles... respect your fellow member's opinions and contribute to a discussion with an intelligent response. It can do nothing but good if you do this. If you are NOT willing to do this - if you are NOT willing to come to the politics board with an OPEN MIND - if you are NOT willing to DISCUSS politics rather than PREACH them - GET THE FUCK OUT!
Also, I'm sick and tired of you so-called "mature adults" (I think that is what you claimed to be when you submitted your account information to become a member) finding my moderators to be biased and incapable of doing their job. Your complete bullshit over the last few months is making them not want to even touch this board. As a result, you're just shitting in your own seat. My moderators do a damn fine job. I watch what they do and I'm impressed with their ability to put aside their own political views to view situations with a clear mind. They are fucking wonderful people. If you can't appreciate these people taking time out of their day to put up with your completely juvenile bickering, once again, GET THE FUCK OUT.
Figure it out, smart guys.
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I really have absolutely no idea if "your" moderators are biased or incapable of doing their job. I rarely see "your" moderators doing much of anything. But I am quite certain (and your blistering attempts at denial and vehement criticism of "your" members does not change my perception) that your moderators are fallable. As much as you might like to believe in the chaste honesty of "your" moderators, you need to fucking open your eyes - or at the least, don't chime in with such bullshit about how well you watch them and how brilliant they are. You have atleast one moderator who has control issues. Maybe you have other moderators who have other issues - but I haven't been directly affected by them so I can't possibly know. When a moderator finds it appropriate to make a statement such as "I discount your reading of my post" and then not accept the only proper response to such drivel: "I discount your denial of my reading of your post", you have a moderator who needs to chill the fuck out and wake up to the reality that he is not god's gift to political discourse. When you have a moderator who consistently responds to members with the word "Nonsense" you have a moderator who is clearly incapable of respect - yet one who requires legions of it in return. He is not the beginning and end of discussion simply because he wants to be the beginning and end of discussion. And you have this moderator, Halx. He is yours.
You'd like to blame the membership - but that's just your excuse for your failings and "your" moderators failings. When "your" moderators can't set examples, and when YOUR response to the failings of political discourse is this completely immature, overtly hostile thread opener - it is clear where the fault lies. You alienate your membership. "Your" moderators goad your membership.
This post is what you ask for when you start a thread in this way. You exemplify everything you claim to dislike. Maybe if you hadn't contradicted yourself so effectively in a single post, a response along the lines of roachboy's would have been more in order - the primary aspect of his post being the idea that moderators taking such an active role in the discussions should not be moderating the discussions. Seems so obvious and mature to consider it - why does it take a lowly member to mention it? Shouldn't the almighty brilliance of the owner or his moderators have been capable of recognizing it's importance? One would expect. But hey, even that won't stop "your" moderators from retribution. Or maybe because they're "your" moderators, I'm supposed to believe they are incapable of that. Yeah. Right.
I wish I could have appreciated your forums. Unfortunately, you and "your" moderators are incapable of leading.
Fortunately, membership in Halx's Holy Forums is not the pinnacle of achievement in life.
Good luck to you, Halx. You need it.