You need a new hobby, you may have rolled a troll but that doesn’t mean you need to live the troll life 24/7 
Hopefully lockdown is going to start being eased from Monday anyway.
To be fair he is right about few things.
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There a rules of conduct for posting on the forums, whether you agree with the rules or not, we are all governed by them. You continually break them, re-read your posts and tell me that you haven’t done this. YOU are the reason that you are silenced, it is your actions that cause this, so stop being so pompous and accept that most of what you have said could have been worded in way that didn’t break any rules.
Or is it that you are maybe the one who feels special and needs for everyone to agree with them?
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To be fair whether he is right or wrong about anything, he still continuously gets himself silenced. If the system works as it should, then the Moderators will look at the flagged post and unflag it within a couple of hours, but he said himself he got a 1 day silence.
There are ways of putting your view forward without breaking the rules, but no it’s easier to put the blame on others rather than looking at what you may have done wrong.
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Doesnt change the fact there’s a specific clique of sad people who will abuse the report system if they dont like you.
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I agree that may be so, but there is also a way to bring that to light without getting silenced continually. If they want to discuss this, again I say there are ways of doing this without getting silenced. So which is more effective being silenced and therefore not having a voice, or wording things differently so that you can still voice your views?
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Why do i even bother.
If course it does, you are taught and learn a subject, ie educated.
Street smarts are not the same as a formal education, but then again considering where I grew up I have them too.
Actually you would know how “reality” works more than most people, even if reality actually exists.
You assume you know better than others, when in fact your blinkered views blind your ability to see the views of others.
I have TL3 and have had it for some time, the issue I raised was the mass flagging and whether the system was being abused, I personally believe it is.
It’s not about farming a Trust Level, I already have it yet I still thought the issue should be raised on mass flagging. I haven’t lost my Trust Level for raising this issue. I think people are turning it into an ‘us against them’ whoever us and them are, instead of just concentrating on the fact that the abuse is maybe happening and highlighting that fact. I was hoping that it was something we could bring to the attention of the Moderators and they maybe would actually look at the issue, but I doubt that now as it’s just turned again into forum pvp.
I can only speak for myself, and i never go around flagging ppl just because i dont agree with them. I dont flag often, and if i do it’s because someone used inappropriate language. I dont believe mass flagging helps anyone, it just makes longer queues for reviews for the moderators.
I mean its pretty obvious that posts not breaking any rules getting mass flagged and hidden is an issue.
They do usually get restored by the mods within a few hours, but the people doing it not getting punished is the crazy thing.
I wish those actions were limited to btags instead of characters.
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Yes to this. This forum is not a free-for-all where anything goes. If I see someone use an offensive and discriminatory word I will flag the post.
If certain posters think those words are NOT offensive and discriminatory then, well, that’s not really my problem. If the mods agree with me, then it’s the problem of the poster.
People don’t get to walk into a shop and call the staff offensive names. Pubs will ban people for bad behaviour even if they do nothing illegal. Employers will sack staff for bullying behaviour even if the bully thinks they’re innocent. This is how the world works and a web forum is no different. You abide by the rules or you get banned.
If certain posters don’t like the basic politics that underpin the social rules of a forum then they can go elsewhere. There’s always Reddit.
The problem being raised here is that those people who do not agree with the forum philosophy are flagging the posts that call them out. It’s antisocial behaviour and should be treated as such by mods.
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I disagree with this part and it goes back to my original posts, I have seen posts flagged that have not broken any rules. If your point of view differs from another, that does not mean that your post should be flagged if you have not broken any rules. Debates can be interesting and fun.
I see your point, but I can’t say that’s my experience of the forum.
Edit: Actually, I’ll expand on this. I DO see that happen, but only on threads where things are getting out of hand. Usually the mass flagging is triggered by a poster who takes a really nasty attitude to another poster.
I must be reading the wrong sections of the forum then as I really am not seeing a massive amount of these posts that don’t break the rules getting mass flagged.
I do agree that there are some that do but I don’t think the problem is all that rife. I do, however, think that people that do continually flag posts that are not against the ToS should have a mark put against them and after a certain number of marks get an infraction against their account.
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Finally…a hope.
I don’t get myself silenced. You’re wrong. You and your friends silence me because you don’t like my opinion. As i said, soon we will start throwing stones on people who we disagree. It’s just a matter of time until we reach that point. We already started to “silence” or “marginalise” people we don’t disagree…
And here we reach the core of the issue: the system. In your point of view it works, yet you started this flagging topic. So where is the issue? Why you started this topic “if the system works as it should” ?
Rules…rules and more rules…Where did i saw this example again? Ahhh…just now…in our society now…“stay home” , “stay safe” …
I didn’t do nothing wrong. I just contradicted some points of views of other people. As far i know, democracy was built in contradiction. If everyone listen only what one person says, that is called dictatorship. And i feel that our western society is slowly going towards that path.
Just explain me, not on the last 2 comments, on the previous one, why it was flagged? That comment was very well made, without any attacks towards someone, without offending nobody…explain me what “rule” did i broke? Here is that comment:
Can you explain me why this comment was flagged? Give exact reason (from the so-called “rule book” ) and quote the exact part of the comment that deserves to be flagged.
I’ve seen this aswell, and i’ve several times questioned why posts are flagged. Dont know if the moderators do anything if they see ppl abuse the flag system, but there probably should be some sort of action taken if someone does it alot.
We’ve already seen in this topic that some ppl say they use the flagging system as a way to «downvote» posters they dont agree with and that is just wrong. It makes unneccessary workload for the moderators and should be frowned upon.
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Don’t quote me please. I’ve already been accused of being your alt.
People who abuse reports should be demoted to trust level 1 as TL seems to be the only thing majority of users care about.
It happened like 2 days ago in a thread where like 80% of the posts in the thread were hidden - most of them not breaking any rules.
Why do u assume its people with TL3 that flags? I dont understand this logic.