I dont see how saying " the rams might need you this weekend" is a foul…its saying the poster punted but having some fun. With it…
So good natured ribbing is off limits?
If that’s the case I think I might just move on…place is getting ridiculous…
Plenty of other fish out there.
You are far from the only one confused by the state of things around here. It would be one thing if there was any consistency, but that just isn’t the case. When I get a timeout for “broadbrushing” and then come back to see a thread like this?
It makes it hard to follow the rules when they shift and change like the wind.
Maybe the mods are rams fans or something…?
A question for the mods: Does flagging automatically take posts out or is it done manually by you?
I made a “not up to par” dad joke to a guy named “golfman” this evening, and it got deleted. Really?!?
The current state of moderation here is what I’d expect in a Berkeley safe space. I don’t think I had a post deleted or a timeout in my first 14 years on this forum, but lately I’m lucky if I make it a week without something…
Sounds like you pulled out a bogey on that one. .
Plas self bans himself for the poor joke…
I believe I was banned maybe once for a day or so during nearly a decade on the old forum. Probably less than 10 posts deleted for any real issue.
I swear like half of my posts now end up deleted. What changed? Did I suddenly become a toxic poster or have things gone totally out of whack around here?
You guys have no idea.
About?
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Who did I broadbrush? I said welcome to the new democratic party. And it’s true because I havn’t seen any DNC official chastize either law in New York or VA.
I’ve got several more up my sleave that will be coming out. You’ll even really like one, because it’s a Republican Mayor that I’m going to throw under the bus and grind up (even though what he did was truely liberal in nature).
Trolling (adding nothing to the discussion) and making fun of a posters name.
So your opinion is that killing babies after they are born is representative of the Democratic Party.
If I recall, I made a post about there not being any support for the wall except for Trump and white nationalists. My post was not only deleted, but I got a time out for it. About a month ago I made a thread about Maine’s former governor and his history of racially charged remarks in regards to drug trafficking. That was also deleted for broad brushing because I was accused of calling all Republicans racist. I then ended up with a two week contempt of moderator ban because I questioned both the decision and the confusing state of moderation on the forum.
Do you understand why it might cause some confusion when saying the Democratic Party is okay with murdering children is fine, but criticizing Republicans is not?
The people who porposed/passed support the bills were democrat. I have not said anyplace in the post that ALL democrats support the bills. Do you see how I did that without broadbushing? Now if I had said something along the lines of all dems support baby killing - that would be broadbrushing.
Excast has a point…the rules have always been no broad brush…hence why you always see people saying some or most…which works around the broad brush…
And i see snows point but that’s not what you said…you said the democratic party…not some or most within the party…
Fairness…
And I never said all Republicans were racist or white nationalists. Yet one of us is a moderator and the other has spent 17 days out of the last month unable to post on the forum.
I realize that in many cases it’s kind of up to interpretation, but maybe it would make more sense for the moderators to start erring a little more on the side of letting things slide? Again, I began posting around here almost a decade ago. I’ve been moderated several times more in the last few months than I was in all of the previous years on the other forum. Do you believe I became toxic in some way? Did all of these posters who are suddenly confused by disappearing posts change for the worse? Or might it be the case that the moderator team might be somewhat overzealous and sometimes inconsistent?
One is going after the party leaders…other is going after supporters. Supporters that members of this forum.
That’s a big brush in itself
Welcome to the new democratic party people is totally not a broad brush guys! I’d rather posts were moderated for blatant dishonesty to provoke people than making fun of someone if i had to choose.
I love it when a good prophecy comes true. lol 
