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[Legs]

Levels of censorship on here are distinctly orwellian.
To quote Greyblades seems apt...."Cut out a man's tounge you do not prove him wrong, you prove you are scared of what he has to say."

[Husar]

People asked for Orwellian censorship, the Moderators try to deliver.
The customer is always king.

Since you're good at forum searches, you may be able to find the threads where people complained that moderation was too lax for a while.
Damned if you do and damned if you don't and all that.

[Beskar]

I merged three topics which were identical into this one.

[Legs]

There can't, you have to find other people to have a civil discourse with I guess.

So you say there cannot be civil discourse with people who are habitual liars, yet hand out infractions for not having civil discourse.

People asked for Orwellian censorship, the Moderators try to deliver.
The customer is always king.

Since you're good at forum searches, you may be able to find the threads where people complained that moderation was too lax for a while.
Damned if you do and damned if you don't and all that.

Since the customer is always king then you will be satisftying this customers requests about people constantly repeating claims which are knowingly false, right?

[Husar]

So you say there cannot be civil discourse with people who are habitual liars, yet hand out infractions for not having civil discourse.

You forget the two other options:
a) the civil talking-to-a-wall
b) the civil not-having-a-discourse

There is noone who forces you to break the forum rules.

Since the customer is always king then you will be satisftying this customers requests about people constantly repeating claims which are knowingly false, right?

The customer is only a customer as long as he agrees to the Terms of Service, in this case called the forum rules.
Repeating claims does not violate forum rules, aggressive behavior does.
I'm well aware that it can be frustrating if the other side seems to just repeat arguments, I moved on to either just stopping the discussion or having fun with it in non-aggressive ways.

[Montmorency]

I notice the emoticon has gone out of common use in the past few years...

[Legs]

The customer is only a customer as long as he agrees to the Terms of Service, in this case called the forum rules.
Repeating claims does not violate forum rules, aggressive behavior does.

That isn't true is it.
It would depend on the nature of the claims being repeated.
That aspect is covered in the first 12 words of the relevant section of the forum rules isn't it.

I wonder, why is it you chose to the omit actual words I used? repeating claims which are knowingly false and instead cut it down to just repeating claims ........
Are you lying by omission?
I just called you a liar, is that aggresive or just accurate civil discourse?

[Husar]

I wonder, why is it you chose to the omit actual words I used? repeating claims which are knowingly false and instead cut it down to just repeating claims ........

You say it was my choice to omit something, are you incapable of assuming that I may have thought the other part less important or are you lying about my motives on purpose?

Are you lying by omission?
I just called you a liar, is that aggresive or just accurate civil discourse?

It's just rather aggressive because I was trying to help you.
If you think I'm a liar because I overlooked something or don't remember every single word of the forum rules (I'm not meant to moderate by the way), then I'm afraid I can't help you.

If you do care about what I have to say after all, I am not sure what you are referring to regarding knowingly false information. If it is about some holocaust denial, I think that material was already deleted. In many topics it is hard to make a judgement about what is knowingly false as both sides will claim what the other says is knowingly false. The moderation can not always step in and suppress what it thinks is knowingly false. I'm pretty sure that the rule is more about lying about something or someone than about suppressing someone's political opinion that they actually believe in (thus don't know that it could be false).

[Legs]

I merged three topics which were identical into this one.

Is that true?
Also, are you omitting something there?