That's a conclusion we can draw. Another is that perhaps in that particular case my judgement was better than the mod's. Yet another is that that particular mod and I have a history which perhaps biases his judgement. There's any number of conclusions we can draw, voyager, and a reason I come off as grating to some people here is because I correct their fallacious logic like I just did with you.Case in point: a few weeks ago you wanted to shutdown a conversation on the semiconductor thread because you thought it wasn't relevant to the thread and in the end you got slapped down by the mod there. So the conclusion we can draw from that story is that your judgement of what is good for forum conversations is probably not as good as you think it is
I don't think I'm exceptional, I think a few members here engage in behaviours - namely, excessively linking Twitter posts from problematic accounts - that drag the place down and that their behaviours should be corrected. Why is it you think my judgement has anything to do with this? Where is my judgement involved in what I proposed here:My take, unless you think you are exceptional, if you see a garbage tweet, report it to the mods. I would rather trust a mod's judgement more than yours. Finally, if you come across a bad tweet why not respond and call them out if you think the tweet content is not good?
Reporting is all well and good, but there's a qualitative difference between my engagement in this forum and that of heavy users like yourself. I've been a member here 4x longer than you have (if we count all your alts), yet you have 75% more posts than I do. I average fewer than 2 posts a day while you average 12. It's unusual enough that a mod noted it as he banned one of your previous altsI start this thread to advocate penalties for users who link Twitter excessively (even exclusively). I don't think Twitter should be forbidden entirely, however a conduit to a sewer should be handled with more care and discretion than is currently displayed.
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warned member: voyager1 Reason: posting of several politically provocative posts based on anonymous source" is nothing but spreading rumours Sentence: one week ban as per last warning, one month by next infraction ban was promoted to permanent due to posting of political BS and trolling!
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Given the posting patterns you exhibit, I'm not sure I can agree with or even understand what you would consider a "normal forum member."Be the change you want to make by actually acting as a normal forum member when you see a bad tweet.
I don't have any formal training in psychology, but the projection here is obvious even to a layman. You and a couple of others seem to have taken my post on the chin, even though I didn't name anyone in my original post or in any subsequent post. I'll leave it to the reader to conclude whatever he wishes from that observation.Call them out if you don't agree with the tweet, and I am sure that the other party would be happy to respond to you. Unless of course you are not confident in yourself, in which case you might as well as keep creating new threads and talking about stuff in general "oh they are garbage tweets but I won't tell you which exactly so I am creating a thread to vent"
Finally, voyager, if I could give you a piece of friendly advice - consider the philosophy of the greatest mathematician in history, Carl Friedrich Gauss, when it came to publishing his results: "Few, but ripe."