by Animavore wrote:I'm officially done with Rationalia. Its lax rules and no banning policy, wich seemed like a good idea at the time, have come back to bite it on the arse. I guess these rules were ok when the site was largely atheists with fairly moderate opinions, we could tolerate or ignore the odd odious person, but for the last while it has become almost a personal blog for one Alt Right dope as membership dwindles, now today a straight up Nazi has joined. My guess is more will follow and Rationalia will be hoisted by its own petard, unable to do anything about it. The remaining members will leave and, unfunded, it will be allowed to close.
Meh. Lassic was a drive-by. After 22 posts in three days, a few of which were completely or heavily redacted and a 24 hour suspension he ceased his activities, though he still logs in occasionally.
Personally, I don't mind the presence of right wing nuts. It prevents Rationalia becoming an echo chamber and gives me opportunities to study the enemies' arguments first hand in a way it is difficult to do just reading reports by and/or of them in the usual sites. Forty Two (a sock of Coito (sic) ergo sum) and Seth are particularly useful for that because, agree with them or not, they are quite articulate. Unfortunately Seth has chosen not to re-engage after his latest suspension. He clearly got the message that one of our moderators was gunning for him when he slapped a six month holiday on him a few days after he returned from a two week period of enforced inactivity. He was a good sample of rabidly and extremely right wing libertarians, while 42 is a Lumpentrumpster who combines socially liberal with extreme Friedmanite views and an unquenchable hatred of the Democratic Party, and Hillary Clinton doubly so.
Other right wingers are just more or less unbalanced and inchoate screamers, and thus easy to ignore or throw the occasional brickbat at. We are also graced by rants from Dennis Markuze from time to time. This is where my scroll wheel gets a workout.
Seth, by the way, has inadvertently been outed a few months ago when anew member appeared telling us he found Rationalia when he was googling for the origin of the expression "wayback machine fallacy". I checked him out. A truckload of details Seth divulged about his personal life matches with the name of the person the new member mentioned. The name, Seth Richardson, by the way, is not his own. It's his grandfather's.
