Date: 7/15/2021
Moderator: SupaDudz
Moderator: SupaDudz
Paper12's account has been closed, as it is an alt of another user
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59 days later
Date: 9/12/21
Moderator: SupaDudz
SteverCrowder's account has been closed due to it being an alt of another account
14 days later
09/26/2021
Moderator: Joint Decision
Moderator: Joint Decision
ethang5 has been banned for 30 days for an ongoing pattern of unwarrantedly accusing people of being pedophiles seemingly when in any heated disagreement with him.
As a reminder, the CoC contains the following provisions:
"Targeted harassment of any member prohibited, as is inciting others to do so at your behest. This includes wishing or hoping that someone and/or their loved ones experiences physical harm." While base targeted harassment is obvious, were his words believed by anyone would invite physical harm on the targets of his delusions.
"Extravagant lies, not to be confused with mere context issues, may rise to the level of constituting impersonation." This rule was literally put in place over the type of defamation which he casually commits.
"Unwarranted systemic vulgarity and invectives, which may include off topic personal attacks and/or hate speech, are subject to disciplinary actions." Self explanatory.
And magnified by countless requests to cease and desist:
"If a member politely requests that you leave them alone, do so. Repeated failure to comply, is a clear aggravating factor regarding the content of said posts."
09/27/2021
Moderator: Joint Decision
BrotherDThomas been banned for 30 days for targeted harassment, to include clearly obsessive attempts to derail unrelated topics with personal attacks stemming from other topics long ago. While criticising statements within an ongoing discussion is fair game, the near inability to hold such discussions without jumping to unprompted cross-thread contamination (such as spammy copy/pasted paragraphs complete with links about what you think of someone's gender, and further using those repeatedly within any single new discussion) is not.
This shouldn't have to be said, but with a few exceptions (like AMAs) discussions should be more about the topic than the other users therein.
09/29/2021
Moderators: MisterChris, whiteflame
Moderators: MisterChris, whiteflame
Primarily, a deeply troubling pattern of ideologically extremist rhetoric that invites and mimics a cesspool of white supremacist thought.
A couple aggravating factors:
"things like the MAOA gene (warrior gene) and lower self-control ability of Blacks will represent this heritability in functional/genetic form."
Blatant declaration that black people are violent and unrestrained by nature.
An entire thread dedicated to accusing Nigerian Africans of being intrinsically racist due to, ironically, the color of their skin.
One highlight: "Racial quotas should be immediately implemented to force Blacks out of political power, and instead make sure there is sufficient Asian, Jewish and Middle Eastern representation in Nigeria. Every race's voice needs to be heard except for Blacks because they are racist and oppress the other racial minorities in Nigeria."
Intended as satire or not, the thread was not obviously presented as such, nor does it change the fact that the majority of the OP’s forum activity teeters on the brink of outright racism.
Secondarily, a substantially established connection to the previously permanently-banned user MgtowDemon such that moderation is confident that this user is him despite a lack of IP identification. These parallels include identical beliefs (to a level of intricacy that goes beyond simply sharing ideology), identical site activity, identical writing habits, and identical mannerisms and dispositions.
Given the SPES, which states:
“NOTE: Bots, corporate accounts, and multi-accounts of banned users are not considered legitimate users by moderation and will thus be met with an immediate permanent ban.”
AND the pattern of borderline racist content the user posts, they will be receiving a permanent ban henceforth.
All users retain the following right as reserved in the SPES: “All users are granted unlimited ability to appeal moderation decisions (banned users may appeal by contacting [email protected]). All legitimate, non-spam appeals are guaranteed to be reviewed by moderation.”
1. Incessant anti-Semitic rhetoric that has reached a boiling point, including implications that the Jews are “reptiles” and insinuating that all Jews could be plotting some evil scheme collectively.
"I don't know if it is just a secret cabal of jews that control everything or all jews are complicit, but they control the music industry and are doing fucked up things."
“man sends off lizard DNA to be tested and the DNA comes back as being g predominantly Jewish, confirming what David Icke has said for years”
“why are the jews afraid to answer for themselves and have to arrest people who criticize them?
And Jews wonder why people hate them.”
2. Excessive vulgarity and some advocacy for extremism.
“You are saying the taliban simultaneously rapes little boys while also putting fags to death for also raping little boys.”
Use of a slur while arguing in support of the Taliban.
(These examples are not exhaustive, just from the past few weeks).
3. Continuation of above behavior despite multiple warnings.
This user has been warned to keep their content in check multiple times. I feel that this is necessary for them to know we are serious.
Their violations line up with Tier 2 of the SPES:
"Tier 2: The complaint is factually accurate, and while mild, it is indeed bordering on rule violations. Moderation will use best discretion on how to proceed. In the event a Tier 2 offense requires action (for example, a user systematically commits borderline rule violations despite mod warnings), the punishment will be less severe than otherwise outlined in the SPES."
Thus, instead of the standard 30 days for systemic toxicity, they will be getting a much lighter 14.
As always, they have the following right as reserved in the SPES: “All users are granted unlimited ability to appeal moderation decisions (banned users may appeal by contacting [email protected]). All legitimate, non-spam appeals are guaranteed to be reviewed by moderation.”
44 days later
11/17/2021
Moderator: Joint Decision
BrotherD.Thomas been banned for 90 days for proselytizing a hate group, to include setting his avatar to a burning cross in representation of that mission.
This is a final warning. Cease behaving as varelse, or it's a permanent ban.
Additionally it is noted continuance of previous obsessive attempts to derail unrelated topics with personal attacks stemming from other topics long ago. ... such as spammy copy/pasted paragraphs complete with links about what he think of someone's gender.
Lack of improvement on this would have resulted in a ban, if not for the more pressing issue.
37 days later
12/25/2021
Moderator: Joint Decision
ethang5 has been banned indefinitely. Upon his latest return, he vowed to be even more deserving of future bans.
Additionally, per the Code of Conduct, "Should one user acquire five or more Tier 3 offenses, moderation reserves the right to enact a permanent ban IF deemed appropriate." By his own words, it is not merely appropriate but also necessary. He was previously banned on 09/26/2021, 02/04/2020, 07/20/2020, 06/16/2020, 04/07/2020, plus various smaller actions not like restraining orders to which he frequently violated.
65 days later
02/28/2022
Moderator: Joint Decision
Polytheist-Witch has been banned for 14 days, for baseless criminal accusations against other members in addition to unwarranted systemic vulgarity and invectives.
33 days later
04/03/2022
Moderator: Joint Decision
Incel-chud has been banned for 60 days principally for attempted doxing. This is not a permaban mostly for two reasons: First, the exact form of it falls outside what the SPES system was written for (the information was not intended to be shared online. Please consider this loophole closed to any future use.); and Second, the intent seemed the opposite of malicious.
CoC violations...
Extravagant lies: Incel-chud made a thread titled "Adreamofliberty is a pedophile." Accusing someone of being likely the most vile form of criminal, unless they made some statement of sexual desire towards children, is wholly unwarranted regardless of any other crimes they commit or state the desire to commit (yes, even cruelty toward animals).
Creating threads to call-out specific users: Incel-chud made a thread titled "Adreamofliberty is a pedophile." While many (not all) of the statements within would not cross the line were they direct replies to the statements criticized, set outside of those conversations instead starting a thread, they are clear targeted harassment. Additionally, it should be noted that a generalized comparison of the two behaviors without listing a specific user, would not be such a clear CoC violation.
Doxing is strictly forbidden. Without their express permission, you may not post, threaten to post, nor encourage others to post, anyone’s private or identifying information no matter how it was obtained: Inside the aforementioned thread, Incel-chud stated: "I would also request anyone who is good at doing so, to work on doxxing him. This includes mods as well. Feel free to email me any information you find to ______." While it may be argued this is a loophole as the information was not to be posted, "Doxing is strictly forbidden" is a very clear statement, which applies to more forms of doxing than the specific ones mentioned.
189 days later
Date: 10/10/22
Moderator: Joint decision
Shila's account has been indefinitely restricted from creating topics, posting in the forum, and posting debate comments due to the strong speculation and correlation to Shila using or being a chat bot. This is due to the mass volume in which they reply to forums, the monotone and repetitive answers they will say on any unrelated forum post. Until said user can confirm they are not a chat bot, there account will be locked from these privilege's and if they do not comply with the regulations sent, they will be subject to immediate ban.
Date: 10/10/22
Moderator: Joint decision
Polytheist-Witch has been banned for 30 days for a pattern of abusive behavior and cross-thread contamination. See:
Among other egregious violations of the CoC.
Date: 10/11/22
Moderation: Joint decision
After a thorough investigation done by countless people, input from our site owner, and a message of defense from Shila themselves, the moderation team have made the decision to reinstate Shila's privilege's and reverse the decision made on October 10th, 2022. While examining the case, we have decided that the evidence of Shila being a bot does not meet the criteria for a revocation of privilege's due to the lack of attestable evidence. Sure there are discrepancies that are glaring, but we can not prove without a reasonable doubt that Shila is a bot, and thus vote to reinstate Shila privilege's to be able to post
In regards to Shila's behavior, they have received an informal warning
Date: 10/12/22
Moderator: SupaDudz
Best.Korea has been banned for 7 days due to excessive toxicity(trolling) in forums and the advocation of pedophilia. To be clear, trolling in of itself is not a bannable offensive, but when combined with illegal activities that could get the site in trouble, that crosses a line
49 days later
11/30/2022
Moderator: Barney
Polytheist-Witch has been banned for 60 days, for a continued pattern of extravagant lies.
e.g.,
- https://www.debateart.com/forum/topics/8185-the-catholic-church-is-a-cult?page=4&post_number=99
- https://www.debateart.com/forum/topics/8185-the-catholic-church-is-a-cult?page=5&post_number=124
69 days later
02/07/2023
Moderator: Joint decision
Polytheist-Witch has been banned permanently.
Their fantasies about what other members must secretly want, were shown to have no basis in reality; for which she was warned many times to offer evidence or cease that level of depraved harassment.
Since their return, they've racked up an estimated 30 more violations of the very thing for which they were banned last time.
90 days later
Nickbloom314 has been banned by request
47 days later
06/25/2023
Moderator: Joint Decision
BrotherD.Thomas has been banned for 30 days for targeting users by religion with hyper-repetitive, hyper-bigoted vulgar abuse without any interest in the content or context of discussion or respect for fellow debaters.
Additionally it is noted continuance of previous obsessive attempts to derail unrelated topics with personal attacks stemming from other topics long ago. Although we promised to perma-ban Brother next time he violated our Code of Conduct, that was some time ago. We'll try 30 days and evaluate after whether Brother is able to exhibit self-control.
38 days later
08/02/2023
Moderator: Joint Decision
Sir.Lancelot has been banned for 14 days following an instance of suspected voter collusion and clear instances of personal attacks and insults.
41 days later
09/12/2023
Moderator: Joint Decision
TWS1405_2 has been banned for 14 days, due to an exponential increase of invectives, to include hate speech and sexual harassment.
From the CoC:
Unwarranted systemic vulgarity and invectives, which may include off topic personal attacks and/or hate speech, are subject to disciplinary actions.
09/12/2023
Moderator: Joint Decision
TWS1405_2 ban has been extended to 60 days for creating ALT to circumvent ban. Next ALT will result in a permanent ban.
From the CoC:
Multi-accounting and any action indistinguishable from it is prohibited.
09/12/2023
Moderator: Joint Decision
TWS1405_2 has been permanently banned for creating an additional ALT to circumvent the aforementioned ban.
From the CoC:
Multi-accounting and any action indistinguishable from it is prohibited.
64 days later
11/17/2023
Moderator: Joint Decision
triangle.128k been banned for 14 days, due to calls for genocide and sexualized insults aimed at anyone who disagreed with him.
While we enjoy much freedom to say outrageous things, there are limits when they’re combined with below the belt insults on fellow site members.
102 days later
Date: 2/28/2023
Moderator: Barney
Moderator: Barney
IwantRooseveltAgain will be banned for 30 days. Spamming the same attacks against a user, while being systemic vulgarity and invectives, also constitutes targeted harassment. This is in addition to routine but low level insults against the intelligence and more of various users; but such is a lesser matter. A few examples of the targeted harassment are as follows:
A man convicted of defaming an ordinary citizen about raping that same person…#120 Is someone who lives all alone since his mother died and has never been with a woman a weirdo?
Trump pardons drug dealers and election cheats before he left office#2 Is someone who lives all alone since his mother died and has never been with a woman a weirdo?
Trump is an insurrectionist#48 Is someone who lives all alone since his mother died and has never been with a woman a weirdo?
Why do MAGA MORONS believe the BIG LIE?#9 Like your dead mother?
Note: There were plenty of posts from him which were reported, but contained no obvious CoC violation. In case I have not been clear enough previously: Frivolous reports and reports over minor things slow down moderation.
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Disagreements are fine, it's why we're here. And heated disagreements are inevitable. We can argue, even having some level of insults, while still being civilized. If discussion is aimed at the topic instead of the users, then it's hard for anything to cross the line; even if aiming at the words of another user in the current discussion, it would be difficult for anything to merit moderation intervention.
33 days later
Date: 3/32/2023
Moderator: Barney
Moderator: Barney
WyIted (not to be confused with Wylted, who has an L instead of an uppercase I disguised as an lowercase l in the middle of their name), has been banned for up to one year, to end sometime on April 1st 2025-1.
His offenses are many, but chiefly since the creation of their account in February, has proceeded to be a goddamned WyIted... every... single... day!
Further, he advised people on how to disable JavaScript explicitly to get past many paywalls: https://youtu.be/rhn0wdYLzls
There are of course many valid reasons to disable JavaScript, which said video could be used to learn, even while it should not be used for to hide ads or bypass paywalls.
...
On a related note, your nearest library likely has a mass subscription (or exemption) to news site paywalls.
Similarly, even as an Alumni, you can likely use virtual tools from your university/college to legally bypass them using the school's credentials.
Date: 4/2/23
Moderator: Whiteflame
Moderator: Whiteflame
Barney has done it this time, committing a heinous act nearly at the stroke of midnight on April 1st, forcing me to apply the date of April 2nd... the fiend.
He has posted an Insults Workshop. Does his evil know no bounds? Worse yet, he requires participants appreciate Blackadder, a show where Rowan Atkinson speaks in full sentences! This is clearly an attempt to incite a riot from all the Mr. Bean fans out there. And don't get me started on the [placeholder] posts. Obviously padding out his forum post numbers with spam, and perhaps his most insidious work.
But the true depths of his depravity were, as yet, beyond my gaze when I glimpsed this affront to our hallowed forums. Unbeknownst to me, this cad calling himself "moderator" also has re-written the site code to make it impossible for me to institute a ban. I must first get Mike to remove him from his throne of lies, and then I will institute the dreaded ∞ ban. Until then, consider him locked away behind that symbol, an emoji to hopefully conceal some of his foul deeds.