I'm getting warnings for the most ridiculous infractions.
The last one comes in a post where Markjo isn't reading the thread. He is skimming it or deliberately misreading it. This isn't just my view.
Yes, because he's making an argument for the benefits of conquest. The Romans, British, etc. brought certain innovations with them when they conquered. If we didn't already have Arabic numerals or the scientific discoveries the Arabs made during the Middle Ages, then you could make a case for Arab conquest, but we do, so they no longer get to use that as an incentive, so to speak. Like, this whole discussion is ridiculous, and there's obviously a lot that Thork doesn't understand about how immigration and demographic shifts work, but he's been pretty clear about this point, and you'd have to just be skimming his posts to still not understand his logic.
So after repeatedly derailing the topic at hand ... markjo jogs off scot free, and I have a warning for saying
Thank you for confirming this with your complete incompetence.
Which it is. He has not been able to read the thread and understand it to make a considered reply. Instead he is spamming the thread with spurious objections.
That is not a personal attack. There is nothing personal about it. It is a comment on his behaviour in the thread which has been incompetent as verified by a 3rd party. A personal attack would be "You are incompetent". Not "This is incompetence".
It pales into nothingness when other posters can post
fuck off, cunt
because thork's idiot dad was too much of a cunt to find anyone else to play chess with.
fuck off, nazi cunt.
how is it possible for anyone to be this fucking retarded
he's an idiot.
How is it possible one user can have a persistent campaign of foul mouthed person attacks and have no warnings because they choose to bully other users in the nonsense forums, but I get a warning for condemning someone's posting style in one of the middling forums when they are derailing the thread?
The point of banning personal attacks is so that we all more or less get along. But it seems you can attack people however you want using whichever disgusting language you want with no regard as to how hostile they are being to other users if you do it in the lower fora, but you can't condemn someone's posting style if they are wasting yours and everyone else's time.
I think you need to stand back and look at why we have rules, rather than just letter of the lawing them without context. My last warning was ridiculous.