Seven Day Warning for Trolls.
Submitted by darth_josh on February 8, 2007 - 6:40am.This is a seven day warning for the trolls.
For an example of trollish behavior, please see posts from the following users:
hello - cult accusations
Bodhitharta - willful disregard of questions and cult accusations
rr_are_religious bigots - the name alone is a violation of the rules.
Please also see the posts from Bertram Cabot, who may or may not still be here for much longer.
Not only is trolling an offense worth banning over but as explicitly laid out in the rules, which are accessible from every page,
The Rules wrote:
As the owners of this site, we reserve the right to remove anyone from our site at any time for any reason. We cannot be asked or even expected to provide financial and commercial support for anyone whose main goal is detrimental to the site itself. We cannot be expected to pay to host posts making deceptive or dishonest claims about the site, written with the intent to undermine the credibilty or viability of the site. We are open to criticism of the site in the goal of improving it, we are not open to any attacks on the site, with the goal of obliterating it, especially from people who aren't willing to accept that they may be wrong.
We are looking at the entire community right now, and we notice that there are quite a few people here that are posting with the sole purpose of making attacks on the site with little to no interest in debating rationality. Members like "hello" who are constantly telling the mods how to do their job risk losing their account. We're not here to discuss how to mod or run a website, we're here to discuss issues like religions dominance on society. If you're unhappy with how we do it, find a new site, or send a note to the mod team. The deconstructive criticism from people making poor assumptions, that are unwilling to accept when they are wrong will be getting nipped over the next 14 days. If you're a theist and you'd like to be welcome here, start focusing on the debates. If you persist in your continuous baseless attacks on the motivations of the Rational Response Squad and the site members then expect to be removed from the site.
Lately, with site traffic at an all-time high, it has become increasingly more important for the squad and the moderators to respond to legitimate issues rather than constantly address the same baseless accusations.
[Updated by darth_josh 7/7/07]]
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