Cito di Pense wrote:

Imagination Theory wrote:
Sometimes the mods do say "we know you feel harassed but don't call whoever a harasser ...yet". They didn't this time. Maybe they changed the rules and guidelines again? I think it was wrong to do that and wrong to suspended him for asking what she meant.

What? More gossip? Why is gossip so useless, IT? Because it is about what people did, instead of about what they believe.

Gossip isn't always useless and sometimes it is interesting to know what people believe and/or why. I'll put it under a "useless" trigger warning next time though.

Imagination Theory wrote:

Cito di Pense wrote:

Imagination Theory wrote:
Sometimes the mods do say "we know you feel harassed but don't call whoever a harasser ...yet". They didn't this time. Maybe they changed the rules and guidelines again? I think it was wrong to do that and wrong to suspended him for asking what she meant.

What? More gossip? Why is gossip so useless, IT? Because it is about what people did, instead of about what they believe.

Gossip isn't always useless and sometimes it is interesting to know what people believe and/or why. I'll put it under a "useless" trigger warning next time though.

No, it isn't always useless, but it may be for anyone who plays the percentages. Saying that something is 'interesting' means you are entertained by it. If you like it better than television, well, good on you.

Spearthrower wrote:

scott1328 wrote:

Spearthrower wrote:

Surely this is wide open to abuse?

Can't people just close down everything via this magical word?

There is something in operation over there I like to call the Thymarchy (from the Greek "thyma" meaning victim) which determines how and if you can silence dissent by claiming victimhood.

A straight, white, cis-gendered, neuro-typical male person can never claim abuse. All newcomers to the forum are considered to be this. Your rank in the thymarchy depends on how many adjectives you can strike off that list before you commit an infraction.

What if I am a lesbian, black, transgendered, idiot female who also has the crushing disability of having been born into the body of a straight, white, cis-gendered, neuro-typical male?

I think I've found the chink in their impermeable (to reason) armour!

Hey this is the Internet, you are what you say you are.

scott1328 wrote:
Hey this is the Internet, you are what you say you are.

Precisely.

Now I failed to mention this before, but it turns out I'm your god; genuflect yourself before me pitiful being.

http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3605



I bet Orenda would have got a completely different reaction if she wasn't someone already suspected of ungoodthink.

OlivierK wrote:http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3605



I bet Orenda would have got a completely different reaction if she wasn't someone already suspected of ungoodthink.

Damnit!

You made me look again!

http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic ... 605#p63212

Stop this immediately.

You may *not* continue this comparison between alcohol and drugs with sexual assault. You may not.

Fucking wannabe tyrants.

Ceepolk

Stop this immediately.

You may *not* use the term 'atheism' on your website or ever utter it again. You may not.

Gaaaaaah!

I'm sorely tempted to register over there and post in every thread that the arguments being made are triggering me and disturbing me. I mean I know I'd be banned, but I'm wondering if the penny would drop regarding the problem with this outlook.

Cito di Pense wrote:Gaaaaaah!

Cito

Stop this immediately.

You may *not* use more than one 'a' in a contiguous fashion in a single word again. You may not.

Fallible wrote:I'm sorely tempted to register over there and post in every thread that the arguments being made are triggering me and disturbing me. I mean I know I'd be banned, but I'm wondering if the penny would drop regarding the problem with this outlook.

You're triggering my sense of pettiness for irony's sake. I like that sensation. Do it again.

I feel the and smileys are encouraging me to drink too much and wonder if they could be removed?

I'm also going to tell them to get husbands.

Fallible wrote:I'm also going to tell them to get husbands.

You should've put a trigger warning for hilarity; some people struggle with amusement and humour throughout their entire adult lives, you know.

Spearthrower wrote:

OlivierK wrote:http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3605



I bet Orenda would have got a completely different reaction if she wasn't someone already suspected of ungoodthink.

Damnit!

You made me look again!

http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic ... 605#p63212

Stop this immediately.

You may *not* continue this comparison between alcohol and drugs with sexual assault. You may not.

Fucking wannabe tyrants.

I agree with the sentiment. I used to drink alcoholically and while it can be devastating to mind, body and finances; I doubt it's traumatic in the same way rape is.

OlivierK wrote:http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3605



I bet Orenda would have got a completely different reaction if she wasn't someone already suspected of ungoodthink.

As a person that's struggled with alcohol addiction for most of my adult life, I have difficulty reading comments about how enjoyable it is to consume alcohol and talk of alcohol consumption in general.

Could trigger warnings be put in comments related to alcohol?

I found this thread especially difficult to read without being triggered.
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=548

I actually did cough beer onto the keyboard !!!!!

Robert_S wrote:

Spearthrower wrote:

OlivierK wrote:http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3605



I bet Orenda would have got a completely different reaction if she wasn't someone already suspected of ungoodthink.

Damnit!

You made me look again!

http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic ... 605#p63212

Stop this immediately.

You may *not* continue this comparison between alcohol and drugs with sexual assault. You may not.

Fucking wannabe tyrants.

I agree with the sentiment. I used to drink alcoholically and while it can be devastating to mind, body and finances; I doubt it's traumatic in the same way rape is.

The sentiment being that such things need to be stored away with warnings on so that people can't click on them, accidentally allow their eyes to wander along words that somehow cause them to magically continue reading until they fall into a desperate scenario of reliving their traumatic past?

Or the sentiment that alcoholism is, for the victim, as functionally traumatic as rape?

Ok, I guess the latter. I have to stop seeing Hattery everywhere!

Robert_S wrote:

Spearthrower wrote:

OlivierK wrote:http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3605



I bet Orenda would have got a completely different reaction if she wasn't someone already suspected of ungoodthink.

Damnit!

You made me look again!

http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic ... 605#p63212

Stop this immediately.

You may *not* continue this comparison between alcohol and drugs with sexual assault. You may not.

Fucking wannabe tyrants.

I agree with the sentiment. I used to drink alcoholically and while it can be devastating to mind, body and finances; I doubt it's traumatic in the same way rape is.

I'd be interested if anyone could quote Orenda continuing to compare alcoholism and rape after her first analogy, which was simply to compare the treatment of two things that triggered some people. As far as I can see, ceepolk banned her for doing something that only occurred in other people's imaginations.

But hey, for a laugh, here's ceepolk herself on why she shouldn't be a moderator: http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic ... 100#p10251