Sorry Bery.

I read the entire thread. Mods involved, but no mod warnings or even mod appeals to civility. Lenas said something not as a mod, big whoop-de-do. Is Talya still a mod here? If so, why? Given her junk in the thread, she has no business modding anything more volatile than a Girl Scout cookie forum.

Was anything reported? I mean, this isn't hellfire... I stayed mostly out of the thread overall and didn't see what had happened till after.

In any event, if nothing was reported, how can you expect the mods to mod? If things *were* reported, then, that's a different issue.

However, from my standpoint, I didn't see anything out of line really. Making an off color comment isn't really an infraction from my understanding. If it was, I would have been bannhammered into nonexistence years ago.

Additionally, I don't see this thread going anywhere good. We're all different people here, of different faiths, races, sexual orientations and whatnot... just like real life. There's no need to hate on one another cause someone makes an off color comment.

I requested the lock because moving a thread about a sensitive topic which was already becoming volitile to the only place on the board where people **** on each other as a matter of principle seems counter intuitive to the origional purpose of the thread.

Good for you that you didn't see anything wrong, but then it wasn't your thread nor was it about something precious and dear to you.

Why were people allowed to say such things in a thread that is in General when the mods are aware?

What do you do in real life when someone makes an inappropriate remark about something "precious and dear" to you?

A: Walk away and let whoever said it stew in their own ignorance
B: Say "Hey man, that wasn't cool. This is important to me"
C: Throw a whiny pissy ***** fest over perceived attacks and persecutions

I know what I do.

Why were people allowed to say such things in a thread that is in General when the mods are aware? If it had been a homosexual thread, would the mods have acted the same way?

People pretty much know not to post such threads in General now because they always get derailed by people who can't stop themselves from shoving their religious view down other peoples threads.

So being deliberately insulting on religious grounds is now acceptable behavior in General?

Always has been Bery.

It's just to bad that self-proclaimed intelligent, open-minded people can't show a modicum of respect to others because, instead, they can hide behind their "internet persona" and show how "cool" and "alternative" they are.

Kind of shows the true merits of self-proclamation, doesn't it.

Dunno. I kinda think it's shows why I asked awhile back to be perma-banned. *shrug*

Always has been Bery.

It's just to bad that self-proclaimed intelligent, open-minded people can't show a modicum of respect to others because, instead, they can hide behind their "internet persona" and show how "cool" and "alternative" they are.