Coulter Chat Rules

[strathmeyer]

And I wouldn't be surprised if I got suspended for criticizing the mods here.

Why would you make a statement like this? You know what's going to happen, and then you're just going to end up looking like an idiot. Your ability to forget your past actions is staggering.

 

[Art Vandelay]

Considering, IIRC, that you were expressly warned against doing what you just did here -- posting bitching about the JREF board policy / modding inside a thread in the wrong forum -- then, yes, it would be utterly unsurprising if you got suspended.

I was suspended not for bitching about moderation, but for mentioning that moderation action had occurred. I said "I have had posts removed from this thread." That's it. Merely a factual statement. Absolutely no commenting on the action, just mentioning that it occurred. And now, since you have discussed moderator actions, they will have to either leave me alone, suspend you, or show yet again their hypocrisy.

Hell, you coulda easily posted this in Forum Management, and only had the usual flame war,

I am not the one who chose to start a thread about forum management (albeit a different forum) in Politics. I have every intention of starting a thread in Forum Management. I have PM'ed Darat regarding a false statement he has made, and I am allowing him an opportunity to retract it, so that I can take his response into account in my thread.

but you just HAD to do it in a totally unrelated thread in Politics.

Are you seriously so deluded as to argue that the managment of this forum is an issue totally unrelated to the management of another forum?

But someone is eventually going to stumble over it, and it will get split and moved, and most likely acted upon, and yes, your behaviour is just waaaaaaaaaaaay over the top.

MY actions are way over the top? I was suspended for mentioning that posts were moved. If you think that *I* am the one being unreasonable, then you're simply showing once again that your opinion is not worth listening to.

Why would you make a statement like this?

Because the mods have a habit of moving posts, and refusing to allow anyone to mention that posts have been moved. If they were to move my second post in this thread, they would remove the meat of my criticism. Now they have to either move three times as many posts, or leave a post (in a thread complaining about the managment of another forum) that suggests dishonest moderation policies.

Your ability to forget your past actions is staggering.

Unlike the mods, I don't think that the past should be forgotten.

Seriously, does no one see the hypocrisy in complaining about another forum, when the mods here move posts and refuse to allow anyone to mention that they have moved posts?

 

[Gurdur]

....... Are you seriously so deluded

Let me just ask my 6-ft-tall top-hat-wearing rabbit friend about that and I'll get right back to you.

as to argue that the managment of this forum is an issue totally unrelated to the management of another forum?

Well, you know, a thread about Coulter Chat in a forum for Politics doesn't quite seem the best place for another diatribe about your host, but hey.

If you think that *I* am the one being unreasonable, then you're simply showing once again that your opinion is not worth listening to.

I guess this means, um, well, what does it mean? Harvey says that you might like to stay with us in this nice little hospital with the padded cells. Harvey says there's a lot of room here. Company always welcome.

 

[King of the Americas]

Well, it's over.

I have been banned, completely

The kicker is that I don't even know why, and there is no way to find out.

I can't even 'view' any posts or PM's to see why or what happened.

On their front index page, there is a singular e-mail address for the "board administrator", but it only sends back an automated response.

For the most part, there is no honest, fair, or balanced debate occuring there.

My contentions or planks were met most often with redicule and personal attacks (surprise!), or no response at all. Those with 'left' leaning notions or suggestions are ignored or outright lambasted, and called "Liberal think"- Do NOT Respond.

It has been MY experience that the 'moderation' is more than heavy handed, but outright ridiculous and unexplainable.

I begged and even pleaded with a moderator to tell me what exactly I did to warrant the attention, so that I could avoid such moderation in the future. His response, "Read your post again."

On the last day I posted, I found a post, remarkably similiar to my first titled "Blonde Bomb Media God". It was a post remarking about Ann's talent, and that IF she used it to present policy fixes, rather than merely personal attacks, the world would be better off for it.

I offered my kudoes to the poster, said I agreed with him, and then noted that I too had offered up such a post for review, "but that it was... Well I won't mention what happened to my post, but my point is that I agree with you, and will be praying along side you that Ann heeds our calls."

Now, I can't see or post anything there anymore

Too bad too, since there was SO MUCH worth responding to. Seriously, if it gets your goat to see people post 'false' information to support a weak argument to start, then this is the place for you. However, be warned, that if you are too good at making conservative arguments look foolish, and showing them to be unfounded, you won't be there long...

Now I have to show up at one of Ann Coulter's book signings to ask her if she knows what her website engineers are doing to her "fans", when they post something not totally flattering to the conservative faith.

I am disappointed by the treatment I received, but I must say I felt this coming from the time I read their Forum Rules.

Censorship IS taking place there, of this I have no doubt.

 

[gnome]

Now I have to show up at one of Ann Coulter's book signings to ask her if she knows what her website engineers are doing to her "fans", when they post something not totally flattering to the conservative faith.

I have no doubt that she would applaud the moderator's actions. She's never been against being unfair to liberals. I'm sure she freely admits it.

 

[King of the Americas]

I am sure she'd defend such actions by saying, "It is MY website. I'll put on it, or allow what 'I' want. If you do't like it, don't go there."

To wit I would respond, "Well YOU advertise it to be a forum for 'fair and balanced discussion'." Change the advertisements to better reflect the way message board ACTUALLY operates...

If you were wondering what kind of posters and discussions occure there, review how Ann Coulter 'debates' liberals. Those on the board are her faithful minions, who walk in lock-step with her, and mimick her behavior.

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*OH, this morning, the locks on my account were lifted, so I can post again!!!

I am still trying to figure out what I did to warrant the attention I have received from the moderators.

 

[corplinx]

I figured most of the threads would be about the best way to purge after a meal. Or how to make up your eyes for the best psycho-ho look.

 

[King of the Americas]

They have a whole section devoted to that stuff...so that it doesn't get mixed up with the political stuff.

 

[King of the Americas]

Now I am banned again.

This is funny.

And a little sad...

 

[Lurker]

Now I am banned again.

This is funny.

And a little sad...

What prompted the latest banning?

On a side note, I tried to inhabit an ultra-conservative forum for a while. It was surreal how much abuse I endured while remaining polite myself. But if I slipped even the slightest from perfect behavior they pounced on me all the while yukking it up with those who were vile and insulting from the get go.

Lurker

 

[corplinx]

Ann Coulter is in the comfort food business. Her and other pundits provide comfort food to various degrees of partisans to help them feel better about themelves and stay faithful. Its almost a church of politics.

That said, they don't want differing viewpoints on their forums. They are there to sing with the choir.

 

[King of the Americas]

I really don't know what I did to cause this latest lock-out.

2 different moderators told me in a PM that there were LOTS of things that could get me banned, and that it would take too long to list them al, so they just leave it up to the descretion of the moderators...*insert roll eye icon here*

Thie Forum Rules are sketchy at best. You can follow them perfectly, and still get moderated, then when you ask a moderator why they did it they say, "Look at your post.", as though 'you' shoulld automatically KNOW what is wrong with it, without them explaining it to you...

The place is a haven for goose-stepping Coulter followers, where no one is allowed to disagree or present facts contrary to Ann-speak.

"Fair & balanced debate"...?

That place isn't even in the same Universe as 'fair & balanced'.

 

[Cain]

Unimpeachable sources confirm Ann Coulter is a post-op tranny.

 

[Lurker]

That said, they don't want differing viewpoints on their forums. They are there to sing with the choir.

You hit the nail on the head there. In the ultra-conservative forum I tried out I learned that they really just wanted to high five each other and support each other's viewpoints. For even daring to question them and bring up alternate ideas I was immediately labeled a troll. Clearly they did not want me or any other liberal there.

Lurker

 

[JJR]

Ann Coulter rox. I'm gonna' check out her site right now.

Mmmmm hottie.

 

[Gregoire]

You hit the nail on the head there. In the ultra-conservative forum I tried out I learned that they really just wanted to high five each other and support each other's viewpoints. For even daring to question them and bring up alternate ideas I was immediately labeled a troll. Clearly they did not want me or any other liberal there.

Lurker

I think that Coulter is even worse than that. I heard a conservative call her on some radio talk show and asked her a difficult question. She immediately said, without any evidence, that the caller was really a liberal (gasp!) in disguise. She went on to be very rude in her typical fashion and never answered the question.

So not only does she only want ultrarightwingers, she also only wants those ultrarightwingers who only believe what she believes. But I guess what else could you expect from the author of the book Treason?

 

[JJR]

I think that Coulter is even worse than that. I heard a conservative call her on some radio talk show and asked her a difficult question. She immediately said, without any evidence, that the caller was really a liberal (gasp!) in disguise. She went on to be very rude in her typical fashion and never answered the question.

So not only does she only want ultrarightwingers, she also only wants those ultrarightwingers who only believe what she believes. But I guess what else could you expect from the author of the book Treason?

I love it. It would be cool to shave my beard and be kinda yuppie with her for a while.

I just hope she doesn't try to spank me too much!

 

[King of the Americas]

Sign up or register as a user, over at anncoulter.com

So long as you post that Ann can and does NO wrong, they'll LOVE you.

However, they also say that any 'mistreatment' of the hostess will also get you tossed, so acting like a panting wolf, might also be deemed 'in bad taste' toward the hostess, leaving you right back here.

The friend of mine, whom I got the invite from to go there to begin with, is affraid to mention my absense, since it could get him tossed as well.

Who was it that didn't believe me when I originally posted this thread and remarked at the potential for censorship?

 

[King of the Americas]

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This is my last say on this---
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To: boardadmin@anncoulter.com

Subject: Nothing?

Text:

No explaination, no reason, no specific charge, just a perminate ban.

Funny how some people claim it is the 'Left' that acts "Un-American", and yet it is the Queen of the Right who allows daily outright censorship on her website that claims "fair and honest debate is promoted".

Ah, to live in a world where no one is allowed to challenge you...

Just imagine the intellectual growth you are keeping yourself and all those other board members from!?

By disallowing "dissent", you are only starving yourself of new ideas.

Solutions work a lot like genetics. Too much inbreeding, and unexposure to 'outside' thought pools, will ultimately lead to your intellectual retardation.

Be well, although with your present heading, I don't see bright times in your future.

-King of the Americas

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ETA: Thanks quizotecoyote...

 

[quixotecoyote]

Psssst, it's "dissent".