Whatever happened to "It has to be free speech all the time"...

Panjumanju · February 04, 2015, 09:21:40 AM

Quote from: ArrozConLeche;814051Expressionism and modern discourse

JEAN-MICHEL VON LUDWIG
DEPARTMENT OF DECONSTRUCTION, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON

What are you doing? Instead of responding you're copy/pasting someone's précis?

//Panjumanju

ArrozConLeche · February 04, 2015, 09:26:30 AM

They explain it better than I can.

Bedrockbrendan · February 04, 2015, 09:30:35 AM

Quote from: ArrozConLeche;814047If I thought it was that, I would have expected Will and JHKim to be banned long ago for not having the "right" views. So that's not it.

You can have whatever policy you want, but when the site owner regularly breaks that policy, while the policy is inconsistently applied to others, it sounds less like supporting free speech and more like "Do as we say, not as we do."

You can run it however you like, but don't act like it isn't hella inconsistent, and don't expect people to take the free speech rants too seriously.

I am not here to fight a free speech war with you. I am just telling you what the point of the forum is and what topics don't get closed as much. If you want to go into an off-topic discussion, the standard has always been it stays open only so long as it interests Pundit or we believe it is of interest to him (he has reversed thread closures in the past when we've been wrong). This place is about as free speech as it gets for RPG forums. If that isn't enough for you, fine. I'm not going to spend any more time trying to explain it.

Bedrockbrendan · February 04, 2015, 09:31:50 AM

Quote from: Panjumanju;814053What are you doing? Instead of responding you're copy/pasting someone's précis?

//Panjumanju

I think that is the old online Postmodernism essay generator.

ArrozConLeche · February 04, 2015, 09:32:46 AM

You don't need to explain it because I already got it. I'm just pointing out something about that. If it falls on deaf ears, whatever.

Panjumanju · February 04, 2015, 10:22:27 AM

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;814059I think that is the old online Postmodernism essay generator.

Thank you for letting me know.
It rather firmly tells me not to fruitlessly engage.

//Panjumanju

Rincewind1 · February 04, 2015, 10:59:09 AM

I'll leave my calling card, in case you change your mind.

ArrozConLeche · February 04, 2015, 11:02:41 AM

Quote from: Panjumanju;814061Thank you for letting me know.
It rather firmly tells me not to fruitlessly engage.

//Panjumanju

Sorry, but I'm not interested in a discussion on semiotics. If you want to engage in the actual topic at hand, you'll get a more serious reply from me. Nothing personal.

jeff37923 · February 04, 2015, 04:43:29 PM

Quote from: ArrozConLeche;814060You don't need to explain it because I already got it. I'm just pointing out something about that. If it falls on deaf ears, whatever.

Quote from: ArrozConLeche;814067Sorry, but I'm not interested in a discussion on semiotics. If you want to engage in the actual topic at hand, you'll get a more serious reply from me. Nothing personal.

Okay.

ArrozConLeche · February 04, 2015, 05:16:57 PM

Later that night...

Quote from: jeff37923;814109

Anyone want to try real hard, like jeff here, to be witty is welcome to have the thread.

Nothing more to be said by me. Pearls before swine, etc.

RPGPundit · February 05, 2015, 02:28:41 AM

Quote from: One Horse Town;814034It would remove confusion - both mine and posters. Then again, since Pundit is now a big-boy political correspondent, he might want to clarify what is and isn't allowed in his forum.

Yesterday, threads on his forum were clearly taking people away from the main forum. There were about 3 active threads in the RPG section from 7am to 4 pm, meanwhile loads of crap in Pundies playhouse. That was my frustration and i vented it. People are free to disagree, of course.

I don't want the Pundit's Forum to turn into a large-scale "Off Topic" forum.

That said, people can start any thread that is either about me or that they honestly think will be of a subject that interests me.

At the same time, any thread I haven't posted in at all yet after about 24 hours of its existence is a thread the Mods can feel free to close, on the assumption that it didn't catch my interest. If it turns out that I was interested after all (and just didn't get around to it), I can always re-open.

Endless Flight · February 08, 2015, 04:41:01 PM

I was going to say, the easiest way to remedy this "problem" (and the quotes could be bolded) is to set permissions so that only administrators can start threads in the Pundit's forum.

Bren · February 08, 2015, 04:48:07 PM

Quote from: Endless Flight;814699I was going to say, the easiest way to remedy this "problem" (and the quotes could be bolded) is to set permissions so that only administrators can start threads in the Pundit's forum.

Oh great yet another way for Pundit the Oppressor to take away our right to say whatever we want, whenever we want, to whomever we want no matter what. Stop victimizing me Pundit! WAAAAAAA! :rolleyes:

Will · February 08, 2015, 04:55:23 PM

Quote from: Endless Flight;814699I was going to say, the easiest way to remedy this "problem" (and the quotes could be bolded) is to set permissions so that only administrators can start threads in the Pundit's forum.

I think it's pretty clear, now.

If you think Pundit might find it interesting, go nuts, but you're putting your, er, nuts on the line to find out if he notices.

RPGPundit · February 08, 2015, 09:57:06 PM

Quote from: Will;814703I think it's pretty clear, now.

If you think Pundit might find it interesting, go nuts, but you're putting your, er, nuts on the line to find out if he notices.

No, you really aren't. Unless what you're posting is one of those absolutely forbidden subjects (pornography, neo-nazi shit, filesharing links, or stalking), the only thing you're "putting on the line" is that your thread will be closed because I don't give enough fucks. Nothing else will happen to you; it's not a sanction.