I've been away for a few days and missed the chaos this thread descended into. Thankyou
@The Revolting Man for keeping on top of that.
For those who took issue with his moderation, I must point out that he:
1) Removed posts that were debating Torah, both a discouraged topic and off topic for the thread.
2) Posted a brief explanation as to why he had done so.
3) When people objected to his actions and made posts critical of him, carefully refrained from using his moderation privileges to remove these posts, and instead humbly allowed the criticism of himself to stand.
This was the absolutely correct approach to take. Thankyou. I have now removed the posts attacking
@The Revolting Man's actions, as they also comprised a distraction from the discussion. This thread is about the Trump assassination attempt, not about whether or not
@The Revolting Man offended someone.
On that note, I'll take the liberty of having the final word. Whenever you moderate people, they don't like it, and because they're already upset tend to take some detail out of proportion and use it as a reason to complain. In this case, this comment was found offensive:
I’ll say it once again, if you’re not mature enough to accept that not everyone agrees with you then you’re not mature enough to be on the internet. You’re sure as hell not mature to have any number of wives.
However, this comment was only directed at people who are "not mature enough to accept that not everyone agrees with you". I cannot see why anyone would personally believe that statement applied to them, and therefore cannot see why anyone would believe the comment about wives was directed to them personally. So I can't see any actual reason
in the statement itself for people to be offended, and think that the offense taken was instead the natural anti-authoritarian reaction that all of us have when someone moderates us. If anyone does think this statement applies to them specifically, please send me a private message to explain specifically why you meet the description in bold above and we can discuss it further. Otherwise I consider this matter a storm in a teacup and think we are best to forget it ever happened.
All further discussion on this matter to be by private message, any comments here regardless of merit will be deleted to keep this discussion on topic.