Why Do We Even Have Moderators Here?

[expandspanos]

It is weird to me, I post a number of valid topics (maybe you don't agree with them, that's fine) but time and time again, I get my topics spammed with pictures of women. Over and over again..

Isn't this a politics discussion section? Why aren't the mods warning or banning people who are spamming my posts over and over again with non-related semi porno pictures in an attempt to stop the valid discussion taking place?

You may not agree with the topics I bring up, but I am not posting girlie pics on everyone else's topics in an attempt to belittle what they are saying.. This stuff needs to stop.

I guess the moderators just don't like what I am saying, so it's fine with them, but it would be nice if we could have a serious discussion of the topics I (and others) bring up in this forum, instead of the completely predictable porn image attacks tacking place on pretty much every subject.

Isn't that why we have moderators? To make sure threads aren't hijacked over and over again?

[Ivytalk]

Seems like an open message board to me, Spandos. Wide-open freedom of expression. Everything from unrepentant conspiracy theorists to Mahler-loving haiku writers to connoisseurs of the young female form with a keen sense of comic timing. Who needs mods? This is America!

[CAA Flagship]

It is weird to me, I post a number of valid topics (maybe you don't agree with them, that's fine) but time and time again, I get my topics spammed with pictures of women. Over and over again..

Isn't this a politics discussion section? Why aren't the mods warning or banning people who are spamming my posts over and over again with non-related semi porno pictures in an attempt to stop the valid discussion taking place?

You may not agree with the topics I bring up, but I am not posting girlie pics on everyone else's topics in an attempt to belittle what they are saying.. This stuff needs to stop.

I guess the moderators just don't like what I am saying, so it's fine with them, but it would be nice if we could have a serious discussion of the topics I (and others) bring up in this forum, instead of the completely predictable porn image attacks tacking place on pretty much every subject.

Isn't that why we have moderators? To make sure threads aren't hijacked over and over again?

Ssshhhhhhh.

The are watching you.

[SDHornet]

Spandos pick whichever answer you prefer:

1) IT nailed it. Freedom baby!!! This is the 'Merican way!!!

2) Those people spamming your threads with pics of attractive women (and sometimes men when Jon does it) is because everyone is really a paid operative whose goal is to sidetrack your factual and 100% accurate youtube vids.

[Ibanez]

We are expressing our 1st Amendment rights. Spandos, why do you hate America?

[Ibanez]

Oh, and report a post of it's bothering you.

[expandspanos]

Ok, I get the 1st amendment angle.. but constantly posting porno pictures on every topic I bring up is an obvious attempt to in fact destroy the speech taking place... It's a little bit different.

But if you want to play that angle, fine, but I think we all understand what is actually going on here.. and it is more an an attempt to cover up actual conversation using a predictable and contrived method than it is actually having a valid conversation regarding very important, timely and serious real political topics, and an attempt to destroy any good, fruitful conversation taking place.

[SDHornet]

Ok, I get the 1st amendment angle.. but constantly posting porno pictures on every topic I bring up is an obvious attempt to in fact destroy the speech taking place... It's a little bit different.

But if you want to play that angle, fine, but I think we all understand what is actually going on here.. and it is more an an attempt to cover up actual conversation using a predictable and contrived method than it is actually having a valid conversation regarding very important and series topics and events taking place today.

I said take one of my statements you prefer, not both.

[Ibanez]

Honestly, it's your "holier than thou" and "you all are stupid" posts/attitudes. People here are willing to entertain an idea, even a controversy but your adamant posts and YouTube videos of how 9/11 or Sandy Hook are hoaxes and we are dumb for not believing it aren't a good approach.

Some of us live and work in these cities. Some of us are in law enforcement/the government and while we know there's a lot of BS, there still are truths. These stories about owls,bohemian grove, etc...are so far fetched with no unbiased reporting, it's easy for them to be taken as jokes.

[Ibanez]

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

Sherlock Holmes

I know the above quote is from fiction, but it's a great theory. It's a theory that EVERYONE should take to heart, but especially anyone that is in journalism or law enforcement.

[kalm]

This thread has potential!

[CID1990]

Ok, I get the 1st amendment angle.. but constantly posting porno pictures on every topic I bring up is an obvious attempt to in fact destroy the speech taking place... It's a little bit different.

But if you want to play that angle, fine, but I think we all understand what is actually going on here.. and it is more an an attempt to cover up actual conversation using a predictable and contrived method than it is actually having a valid conversation regarding very important, timely and serious real political topics, and an attempt to destroy any good, fruitful conversation taking place.

theres a difference between not allowing you to speak and ridiculing what you say

you can be a 9/11 denier fvcktard chemtrail cockmonkey all you want but people are going to ridicule you so stop your whining

[expandspanos]

you can be a 9/11 denier fvcktard chemtrail cockmonkey all you want but people are going to ridicule you so stop your whining

Actually, there is a difference between "spamming" a topic with the same pictures over and over again, and bringing up a number of different topics which aren't particularly mainstream, but are nonetheless original content.

The whole reason for moderators on most forums is to ensure "free speech" by making sure spammers don't completely destroy threads- there is a big difference between posting unpopular speech, and doing the same thing over and over again, posting unrelated girlie-pics on most topics.

"Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection."

Neal Boortz

[Ivytalk]

you can be a 9/11 denier fvcktard chemtrail cockmonkey all you want but people are going to ridicule you so stop your whining

Actually, there is a difference between "spamming" a topic with the same pictures over and over again, and bringing up a number of different topics which aren't particularly mainstream, but are nonetheless original content.

The whole reason for moderators on most forums is to ensure "free speech" by making sure spammers don't completely destroy threads- there is a big difference between posting unpopular speech, and doing the same thing over and over again, posting unrelated girlie-pics on most topics.

"Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection."

Neal Boortz

Oh, come on, it's not as if HI5 carpet-bombed your posts into oblivion with bimbos. You are the master of your threads. Fact is, as many disappear without comment as get adorned with lovely Sheilas wearing nothing but a smile. Grow a pair, and keep on conspiring!

[Vidav]

We are a pretty easy going forum, spanos. The mods are here to make sure no one breaks the rules and stop spambots and that's pretty much it. Every once in a while we have to ban Catamountman for a week to make him stop losing his shit, but otherwise people are free to do most anything.

Don't post nudity, don't post other people's personal info without permission, don't put up links to harmful stuff and we will leave it alone.

[expandspanos]

Actually, there is a difference between "spamming" a topic with the same pictures over and over again, and bringing up a number of different topics which aren't particularly mainstream, but are nonetheless original content.

The whole reason for moderators on most forums is to ensure "free speech" by making sure spammers don't completely destroy threads- there is a big difference between posting unpopular speech, and doing the same thing over and over again, posting unrelated girlie-pics on most topics.

"Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection."

Neal Boortz

Oh, come on, it's not as if HI5 carpet-bombed your posts into oblivion with bimbos. You are the master of your threads. Fact is, as many disappear without comment as get adorned with lovely Sheilas wearing nothing but a smile. Grow a pair, and keep on conspiring!

Well, can we have someone ask H15 to refrain from posting the same crap on every single thread that he doesn't agree with? That's called spamming on most forums.. I'm sure you don't care coming from an IVY incubator elite institution with plenty of secrets that you likely don't want talked about, but many of us would like to have a real conversation about the actual elite institutions in this nation destroying our country without the same old porn image spamming taking place on thread after thread.

In my opinion (regarding the comment above this) is spambots are destroying threads on this forum, in the form of these constant porn pics posted on pretty much every single thread I have started that has started any sort of conversation.

[Ivytalk]

We are a pretty easy going forum, spanos. The mods are here to make sure no one breaks the rules and stop spambots and that's pretty much it. Every once in a while we have to ban Catamountman for a week to make him stop losing his ****, but otherwise people are free to do most anything.

Don't post nudity, don't post other people's personal info without permission, don't put up links to harmful stuff and we will leave it alone.

Vidav speaks the truth!

Hey, Russian, where are you guys hiding all those bodies?

[SDHornet]

Oh sooo thaaat's what the problem is. IT is hiding his Ivy League secret society fact.

Well played Spandos....well played...

[Ivytalk]

Oh, come on, it's not as if HI5 carpet-bombed your posts into oblivion with bimbos. You are the master of your threads. Fact is, as many disappear without comment as get adorned with lovely Sheilas wearing nothing but a smile. Grow a pair, and keep on conspiring!

Well, can we have someone ask H15 to refrain from posting the same crap on every single thread that he
doesn't agree with? That's called spamming on most forums.. I'm sure you don't care coming from an IVY incubator elite institution with plenty of secrets that you likely don't want talked about, but many of us would like to have a real conversation about the actual elite institutions in this nation destroying our country without the same old porn image spamming taking place on thread after thread.


In my opinion (regarding the comment above this) is spambots are destroying threads on this forum, in the form of these constant porn pics posted on pretty much every single thread I have started that has started any sort of conversation.

You know, Spandos, I think you're probably an actuary from Schenectady who doesn't actually believe any of the threads you start, but you enjoy the attention. It's all an act, and a fiendishly clever one at that!

[Pwns]

Spanos, it's not like you have to wade through girly pics for 5 minutes to find actual replies. And when people do reply to your threads, often you disappear until your next barrage of treads.

I'm not sure your threads would get a lot of views without the pics, anyways.

[SDHornet]

Spanos, it's not like you have to wade through girly pics for 5 minutes to find actual replies. And when people do reply to your threads, often you disappear until your next barrage of treads.

Or when he digs up an old one he stumbles across again...kinda like the one his is complaining about.

[CitadelGrad]

It is weird to me, I post a number of valid topics (maybe you don't agree with them, that's fine) but time and time again, I get my topics spammed with pictures of women. Over and over again..

Isn't this a politics discussion section? Why aren't the mods warning or banning people who are spamming my posts over and over again with non-related semi porno pictures in an attempt to stop the valid discussion taking place?

You may not agree with the topics I bring up, but I am not posting girlie pics on everyone else's topics in an attempt to belittle what they are saying.. This stuff needs to stop.

I guess the moderators just don't like what I am saying, so it's fine with them, but it would be nice if we could have a serious discussion of the topics I (and others) bring up in this forum, instead of the completely predictable porn image attacks tacking place on pretty much every subject.

Isn't that why we have moderators? To make sure threads aren't hijacked over and over again?

You have to remember that these forums were created in response to ralph's authoritarian moderation of the old AGS forums. Many of us here were permanently banned for minor or non-existent infractions over there. This is the anti-ralph site, so you can't really expect anything other than permissive moderation.

Perhaps you can find ralph in whatever cardboard box he's living in now and create another site with him, where you can moderate as you see fit.

[AZGrizFan]

So me a thread that doesn't get derailed in some form or fashion by the end of the 1st page, and I'll show you a board that's overmoderated.

[kalm]

These little fellas are endangered around here. They live out in the Basin.

Spoiler: show

oops...wrong thread...

[Ibanez]

Oh, come on, it's not as if HI5 carpet-bombed your posts into oblivion with bimbos. You are the master of your threads. Fact is, as many disappear without comment as get adorned with lovely Sheilas wearing nothing but a smile. Grow a pair, and keep on conspiring!

Well, can we have someone ask H15 to refrain from posting the same crap on every single thread that he doesn't agree with? That's called spamming on most forums.. I'm sure you don't care coming from an IVY incubator elite institution with plenty of secrets that you likely don't want talked about, but many of us would like to have a real conversation about the actual elite institutions in this nation destroying our country without the same old porn image spamming taking place on thread after thread.

In my opinion (regarding the comment above this) is spambots are destroying threads on this forum, in the form of these constant porn pics posted on pretty much every single thread I have started that has started any sort of conversation.

Again, it's your presentation. You can be controversial (see EVERY Cap'n Cat or D1b thread) and be thought provoking. Your threads are just ridiculous.