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In reply to the discussion: 10 Things I wish the Atheists at DU knew about Theists at DU (at least this one) [View all]LostOne4Ever
(9,768 posts)To tell them how to avoid getting more idealistic posters like me in there when I am not really wanted. So, to that end, I think I am justified in my suggestion.
Talking about "many" is an observation and the rest was speculation. I have no evidence so I will do no more than speculate. "Many", I have to admit, is a weasel word, and was used as such.
But to get to the point. How is someone who has never been there before to know? Or someone who actually is looking for nicer version or religion? The SoP is literally inviting them in. Even a set of rules clarifying things would be an improvement.
Why is it important to me?
Because I am an idealist "ninny." Because it looks to me like people getting baited and trapped. Because it looks like a double standard. One set of rules for the pro-religious and another for the irreligious.
Irreligious are told not to bring grudges from here into there, but when the religious do the same and they were provoked by the irreligious posters posts in religion. The four horsemen can be critiqued without end, but don't say a single bad thing about the pope. Personal attacks on the irreligious are fine, but don't provoke pro-religious posters in anyway.
AND I still think what happened to Goblinmonger was wrong. Even as a temporary ban.
Same with some of the others who were banned. Some of them, undoubtedly would have slipped up and would have violated the SoP, but banning people for things they haven't even done yet bothers me as a liberal non-believer.
I am staying out as I was asked nicely (by you), but you can't say that what I posted there was nasty in any way. That I violated the safehaven in any way.
Funny thing is, before posting I had PMd justin about what happened to the cartoonist. And he told me that if someone without a history like his, and in a thread about it, could critique the pope. If I had come into there with the bad intentions they thought I did, I would have made an anti-pope thread. I would have intentionally pushed the envelope.
Instead I post about why I felt a term was a slur to atheists and avoided all personal insults or incivility. For a disruptor I sure went about doing it in the most ass-backwards way possible.