A moderator should put a stop to your abuse.
I agree, I've snipped the last few posts.
To go back on topic, ie Forum Decorum:
everyone should be moderated , without exception
I agree. Moderators should be able to moderate me, given that I often fail to moderate myself when writing in a bad/depressed mood. In the COVID discussion, I could have been moderated when lashing out at Blum, Archimid and Martin Gisser (Florifulgurator), even though it was a reaction to stuff
they could have been moderated for as well.
What should not be moderated - I feel - is stuff that goes against the grain. I know that there's a broad agreement between politics, media and a large part of the educated population with regard to SARS-CoV-2 and policy surrounding it. That doesn't mean that when I or anyone else criticizes aspects of it (the fear-inducing, the exaggerated amount of attention, the consequences of lockdown, the erroneousness of incomplete data, etc), this should be automatically moderated. If only for the fact that many things are very much unknown, and so there's a wide range of possible opinions.
I know I'm walking a fine line when it comes to SARS-CoV-2, but I don't feel that I have crossed it to the point where some 'truth commission' or 'factchecking team' needs to step in and start erasing stuff. This is dangerous for the simple fact that we know that vested interests have an enormous influence over official narratives , and subsequently over the boundaries of accepted debate.
Where I do go wrong, is when I'm writing in anger and lash out at people. If someone moderates that, I will
most certainly not take away their mod powers.
Either way, I'm not posting in the COVID-thread any longer. Maybe that's some kind of trade-off, even if I deem Blumenkraft's dramatic exit entirely unnecessary.
