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etc etc/glaringly obvious/and so on, and such <=Not redundant!
Posted by: Cr4ne Style
Taxes do nothing to affect the share of wealth, since taxes are only applied to income.
So that's not even a part of the conversation at all, so it's pointless talking about it....
"for a "best" moral to exist, there must exist the "best" moral base. If the base of morality varies from location to location, culture to culture...then there can't be an absolute moral..
Posted by: I Naku I
As far as multiple posts, this topic has been covered several times, and Shishka's input has always been of value.
Double posting is the act of repeating a post twice.
You will note that those are replies to two different posts within this thread. That's not double posting.
Thank you, drive through.
Multiple replies to different users in a short time period doesn't seem to qualify as either double posting or bumping. Especially not when it is in an active thread with substantial discussion.
i agree with you, and i agree with the few words that you quoted from shishka. aside from mutiple posting NOT being listed anywhere as a rules violation, i cannot fathom WHY it would be consodered a forum no-no. if posts are aimed directly to posts made by other users, i do not see why it should matter if they happen to take place quickly and without interruption from another poster.
i do not understand how or why rules are being enforced as they are as of late. i have been banned twice and warned twice in about a month. for one of the bannings, a mod kindly explained how i broke a rule (he explained multiple posts), and for another warning a mod explained that he supposed that my words (which were direct statements about the topic) were meant to imply that i was making a personal attack. as for the bannings, one was for making comments that might get people riled up (again, i responded directly to the topic and to posts made by other users), and the other was for spamming (the mod claimed that i posted the same remarks 3 times in a row, but he has not responded to mutiple pms asking for him to tell me which posts were supposedly guilty of this).
as far as i can see, some rules that are not listed as offenses are being enforced consistently by some (but not all) mods, some rules that are listed as offenses are being enforced wrongly or inconsistently by some mods. some mods will warn or ban a poster for posts in a thread, and another mod will see the exact same posts in the exact same thread and post that he does not see any rules violations at all. some mods are issuing warnings when they suppose that your statements that have clear meanings actually mean something else, and that they attack particular users, even when you do not say anything negative about that user. and, to top it all off, many accounts get permanently banned, and the banned user starts a new alt to avoid the ban, and some mods post that they know that the user is using a new alt to avoid the ban but is letting the new account remain active as long as the banned user plays nice in his new account.
while this kind of inconsistent use of punishment is being meted out, mods seem to be making fewer and fewer posts in threads explaining warnings to the entire community. these warnings are important since they alert everyone to what kinds of posts should not be made. if the mods are going to punish users for offenses (especially those that are not listed in any rules stickies), then it would be wise to draw attention to the rules by making posts explaining infractions in threads where they occur.
on a side not, i am curious to see what kind of response this post will merit. complaining about things seems like par for the course in the threads, and here i am openly complaining about how rules are being enforced in the forums. i think that various mods are doing a poor job of things for a number of reasons, and i think that the forums would be much less messy if all rules were published on the rules pages, if rules were enforced consistently, if mods made occasional posts to alert all readers of a rules violation, and if banned users were not allowed to continue to use alt accounts to avoid bans. i also think that some mods are doing a great job of enforcing rules in the threads, and they are also kind enough to answer questions through pms to fully explain how they make decisions. i also see many mods who do routinely make posts in threads to warn everyone of breaking specific rules, and i hope to see this continue. heck, if a mod thinks that this post in breaking the rules some how, i hope that he will post here to explain why.
as far as i can gather, this post does not break any of the forum rules, and i do not intend to violate any rules. but, my understanding of the rules and how they are enforced is clearly a bit sketchy, so we shall see.