(07-10-2023, 09:09 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(07-10-2023, 04:36 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: Not sure why you've decided that a moderator who until recently avoided this forum minus brief interjections should somehow  now save it from itself. 
I didn't realize it was on me to pick up some torch I didn't know existed and lead a parade with it. 

If it wasn't obvious - this place bears a "beware all who enter here" sign when compared to the rest of the message board. 

I converse here with the knowledge that things get divisive and heated and it requires a thick skin. 

I'm not trying to let anyone down by not over-policing the one place on the board where things are going to understandably become uncompromising. I'm just being realistic. 

It's OK to just disagree, and there are going to be some despicable opinions blurted about here. I've called many posters out for that when I've seen it - if I felt like stating a dissenting opinion at the time. Sometimes I don't bother. 
I'm not here to make this a happy place for anyone including myself. Just occasionally adding some food for thought from a rarely expressed viewpoint by most of our regulars. 

I'm OK with that. 
Sorry you feel like I let you down somehow, but I don't have any magical ability to rein in web-based political debate. I don't know anyone who does. You can continue to insult me about it if it makes you feel better. 

Regarding the bolded, that just isn't true. You are putting words in my mouth. I made a statement and you've attributed all those other things to me with absolutely nothing to support them. In fact - I've never even considered how I'd prioritize all of those things.

I'm fine with the minimal moderation, though I would like more.
I'm fine with moderators being rude and harsh with me, though I wish they would be constructive while being harsh. But I know that takes a lot of mental energy.
I'm fine with anybody coming on here and saying let's speak against violent extremism.
But it's the combination of the three, man.  
When you refuse to do anything about it in your actual zone of influence, when you're rude and dismissive to those who are trying to help, and then you say that you really do care, it's just a baffling level of hypocrisy that one doesn't see every day. 

What's done is done. I'm sure I overreacted.  
But like, try to see it my way.  Posters have been saying my posts seem inauthentic.  So I put some authentic emotion into them, and you blast me for using hyperbole.  Granted, you're not the one who called me inauthentic, and they're not the ones who overreacted to the hyperbole I used, but it's frustrating.  Can't reach those who don't want to be reached, I guess.