Quote from: Shelby_Moore_III on July 16, 2018, 01:52:07 AM

Quote from: mprep on July 16, 2018, 01:33:19 AM

If you're referring to your iamnotback account, I was merging your consecutively posted posts into a single one, editing in notes to every deleted post that informed the user of said posts being merged. Didn't really require me to read the discussion. You can check (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=851556;sa=showPosts) which posts were merged since I used the [hr] tag (line) to separate the content.

It was that or deleting quoted reposts.

Disagree. There is red text in some of my replies in the vicinity of @stereotypes post which (afair) state you removed veiled threat of bodily harm. Go to the links in my first post in this thread to find those.

So I presume you were also reading his posts also, else how could you have read mine.

And frankly how do you expect me react when someone attacks my children and my parenting. Also given I was using this forum as a means of keeping myself from getting entirely depressed about my horrible situation, that is absolute torture what @stereotype was doing to me and he knew it also. He was trying to break me. Okay so you were following the moderation policy (which I never bothered to read, analogous to I never read the fine print of software licences).

And so now you see the result of bitcointalk.orgs moderation policy: an insane asylum

Everyone is leaving because of the insanity of trolls. And my incivility is because others do not debate me, they troll me. Never will you see them make actual technological debate with me ever since @smooth left the building (few exceptions being for example the few remaining engineers such as @aklan, @shunsaitakahashi, @monsterer2, @Ix, and several others who are still in the Development & Technical Discussion subforum). They few times they try, they are quickly refuted by me. For example, @Carlton Banks recently tried and was refuted (go read the technological argument I made if you do not believe me). Then when the for example Core shills have nothing of substance to debate me with, they resorted to pure trolling my reputation as you see @DooMAD continuing up-thread here.

That is why the engineers leave. And before we had @gmaxwel and his band of Core devs ridiculing anyone who tried to post in Development & Technical Discussion subforum. That is why I rarely posted there before although that is probably where I should have been posting instead of Altcoin Discussion. Since Gregory is apparently gone, that subforum appears to be much more civil (at least during the 1 month I was posting there).

It is possible I misjudged you @mprep. But then again, you misjudged me too. I was just fighting back in the insane asylum that the moderation policy creates.

As I said, I do not know what to do about the trolling other than we need the ability to form groupings of people we can get along with when discussing. So that is why I want the degrees-of-freedom to choose my grouping, i.e. to chose my moderator and be grouped with those who also choose that moderator. Because I personally would rather just not read any trolling from the Core shills. If they have some cogent arguments, I would like to read them. They are entitled to their beliefs. I do not want to waste time battling them. The future outcome will reward those who were correct and take talents from those who were not correct. I just want to be able have reasonably civil technology discussions.

I am a feisty rebel. And athletic, high testosterone (when I am not sick or actually even when I was in delirium I could still push myself sometimes but I would crash hard for days). But even for me, one thing that happens as we age, it just isnt worth expending all the energy on all the drama.

If it wasn't deleted and I edited out a "thinly veiled threat of bodily harm", someone probably reported your post. When it comes to singular posts (not threads), I usually act on reports (especially now, after I became global mod) rather notice them while reading around the forum.

As for trolling, it's hard to balance the fine line between moderating trolls and silencing people who have genuine concerns they express in a strongly sarcastic manner. As such, the forum policy airs on the side of caution and only moderates incredibly blatant (even to an outsider) trolling. That and the altcoin section is pretty toxic due to the much higher stakes involved when it comes to what coins they're holding. If you don't want to read any of what you consider as trolling, there's always the "ignore" feature for users. It ain't perfect (you see the "this user is ignored" or something like that instead of their post) but it works.

Honestly, if the entire thing arose from an account lock being mistaken for a ban, this would probably take the cake for the biggest misunderstanding in Bitcointalk moderation history.