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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
For a man in his 40's, you could stand to be a little more mature in your evaluation of what happened.
That thread turned into a cluster of insults thanks to basically two people. Your "idea" was stupid, the discussion that took over the thread instead of 'regressive liberals bad' was a GREAT discussion and super captivating.
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Yet you were there and many of us enjoyed the discussions and threads from it. For as much as you dismissed the idea, you spent a lot of time involved in the discussion...
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Don't sit here and act like mods are some pseudo-fascist repressors of free speech. They locked a thread because in the middle of some really interesting debate, it got stupid, not because of the content of the discussion. To insinuate that this thread would suffer the same fate simply because 'Islam' means you don't really have a grasp on anything that's being/been talked about anyway.
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I don't, in fact up until a few years ago I ran a top 100 message board website that was about as unskeptical as I was skeptical. The job of the mods is to deal with the individuals who have no worth to the conversation, and keep the discussion alive. Instead they choose to review it, and I fear that is what many of us have suggested IS the problem, that the left would rather pretend these difficult questions didn't exist and just play the regressive, SJW, narrative.
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Nobody is trying to quell free speech or your desire to have a discussion. Create better threads so that people don't have to go off topic to make them worth engaging in.
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Actually, a private message board has the right to quell my free speech. They can ban me, can ban posters they find "bothersome" and I think that at the best of times is a difficult line to balance for them.
My thread however is a major topic of discussion all over the world, so why not let it continue, ban those people unwilling to have a thoughtful debate, whom feel the need to spend their effort arguing against even having the discussion or insulting people who they don't agree with...