Deny Ignorance is shutting down

[Ninurta]

Am I okay on this site?

Depends on if you're going to play nice or if you're going to continue shit posting, agitating and political trolling?

As a fresh start with a clean plate, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt but I got my eyes on you, bud.


As to the rest of you DI refugees I don't have history with, wekcome! 

To be honest, I don't have a problem with shit posting or political trolling, so long as it's not directed at one or more of our own members.

There is a difference between kicking the shit out of Democrats or Republicans in general, and kicking the shit out of one of our own because they are a Democrat or a Republican. Folks have to learn to separate themselves from whatever party affiliation they tend to reflect at the time. They also have to learn to separate other folks (in this case members here) from whatever their politics of the moment are.

One is a PERSON, a real live human being with feelings, emotions, and baggage, and the other is just some abstract ideology that usually leaves all of it's adherents flat on their asses once it takes power.

You may recall once upon a time when one of our mods let his politics overload his ass, and he went on the attack against one of our own members. You may recall that. You may also recall that I banned his dumb ass, mod or not, for being outrageously stupid in allowing his politics to overload his own ass. What you may not recall is that he was from among my own political party, haranguing someone who likely was not among my political allies. Political ally or not, it was another member here, a real live human being, not a political abstract nor a punching bag. Political ally or not, the targeted individual was a member here, and thus a friend.

I don't put up with friends coming under attack. Never have, never will. Papa Bear comes roaring out when that happens.

I give no shits. Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and not even a mod is gonna trash talk one of our own PEOPLE, human beings,  on my watch.

What you also may not know is that I caught a little shit at home for that decision - but I stood by it. I didn't get to be this old by not being able to withstand the bullshit , whatever direction it comes flying from.

And that is why OmegaLogos came roaring out upthread. He understands. Talk all the shit you want, but never direct it at another member.

Bad things are prone to happen when that occurs.

Now, with that said, some folks are prone to rough, but friendly, banter amongst themselves. They don't mean nothing by it, it's just how they relate to one another. Beez is one of those folks, although he can tend to run pretty far afield some times. Banter among the willing I can handle. It's when one starts offending another member that it crosses the line.

See, I can shit-talk Beezzer, and Beezzer can shit-talk ME, and no harm done. It's happened before, and no one died. We're tough, we can take it, and we're friends. We don't get offended by a little shit-talk. Well, I don't. Beez might. You can never tell for sure about those emotional bunnies, y'know?

BUT we aren't going to offend a third party by shit-talking to them. If they're offended, we'll get warned and either apologize, or we'll get a time-out for a day or so to start... but penalties escalate if bad behavior is not un-learned quick. They can rise to bans, and sometimes they can rise really fast to bans, as was the case with the previously mentioned mod.

I've never done it yet, but I ain't above banning myself. No shit.

Folks really have to get on my last damned nerve to get banned here. I think, out of all the years and all of the incarnations of RN, I have only banned two people other than spammers. Spammers get an auto-ban and erasure of all of their posts as soon as I catch them.

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