Young Master Smeet
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Forums › World Socialist Movement › Gaza War leaflet
#248906Broad application of rule 4, edited to remove potential identification of private individual not on this forum.
Forums › World Socialist Movement › Forum Moderation
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@Lizzie45
1. The general topic of each forum is given by the posted forum description. Do not start a thread in a forum unless it matches the given topic, and do not derail existing threads with off-topic posts.
7. You are free to express your views candidly and forcefully provided you remain civil. Do not use the forums to send abuse, threats, personal insults or attacks, or purposely inflammatory remarks (trolling). Do not respond to such messages.And now we’ve got MMA fighter Conor McGregor claiming he’s thinking of standing for President of Ireland on the basis of his anti-migrant views (he doesn’t have a prayer, but you never know with these things, a man who’s been punched in the head repeatedly makes a great patsy).
I don’t have the means or the time to privately communicate with people. I have three moderating tools: edit (which is problematic, but I have used), bin and unapprove – my inclination is to simply bin pointless, boring or irrelevant posts: I don’t know if the users get any notification if I unapprove.
Rule 12 is clear:
12. Moderators may move, remove, or lock any threads or posts which they deem to be off-topic or in violation of the rules. Because posts and threads can be deleted without advance notice, it is your responsibility to make copies of threads and posts which are important to you.
The mod log is an attempt to be transparent without being intrusive and to avoid moderation becoming the sole endless topic of debate.
About 80 leaflets given out to a similar size (maybe 500 at a stretch) demo in Camden: rally outside the townhall, on speaker called for a campaign to unseat Starmer (which would be funny). Had a wee chat with an American from Revleft, who, although their position is similar (get rid of capitalism) thought our leaflet was a bit even handed. Also had a chat with a lady who seemed to remember an Iranian member of ours who did catering at conference, before my time(?)
Also had a few people who’d never heard of us, and thought we were a new party…
@james19 – could you describe the content of the things you link to, just to establish relevance and to give people confidence as to what they’re clicking into?
Forums › General discussion › “Revolutionary Communist Party” name to be revived
#248781From @Almamater asking about previous message I’d binned (#248759) as above – it was off topic to the thread.
A general point, I don’t intend to keep a running commentary going of moderation. If you see a post of yours has disappeared, check the mod log: I try not to name names, but a good clue will be if I say I’ve binned something from a thread. I will only name names if I think someone needs to be alerted to their repeat behaviour.
Forums › General discussion › “Revolutionary Communist Party” name to be revived
#248790Boring pointless post by @Lizzie45 removed
Forums › World Socialist Movement › Gaza War leaflet
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Boring post by @Lizzie45 removed under rule 6.#248793
Removed as a reply to the above.Forums › General discussion › “Revolutionary Communist Party” name to be revived
#248759Binned, rules 1 & 14
This is a nice write-up of the exploration of the Lloyds archives
“White and Seth estimate that in the 1790s, insurance for the slave economy made up 41% of the broader marine insurance industry.” and “The agreements fix the value of an enslaved person at £45, which works out at £3,454.25 in today’s money. They also feature a clause unique to slaving voyages: underwriters would cover damage to the ship or any devaluation of enslaved people (including death) due to insurrection.” (I’m not sure if it was entirely unique, the model was borrowed from the risk of stampeding livestock, but, as the article says, recognising that insurrection aboard ship was a risk is an acknowledgement that there was something worth rebelling against and some part of the human agency of slavery’s victims.
Forums › General discussion › “Revolutionary Communist Party” name to be revived
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#248685Binned, rule 1.
@Everyone
1. The general topic of each forum is given by the posted forum description. Do not start a thread in a forum unless it matches the given topic, and do not derail existing threads with off-topic posts.
14. Rule enforcement is the responsibility of the moderators, not of the contributors. If you believe a post or private message violates a rule, report it to the moderators. Do not take it upon yourself to chastise others for perceived violations of the rules.
@Bijou Drains:
1. The general topic of each forum is given by the posted forum description. Do not start a thread in a forum unless it matches the given topic, and do not derail existing threads with off-topic posts.“Hammerhead” is off-topic.
@lizzie45
6. Do not make repeated postings of the same or similar messages to the same thread, or to multiple threads or forums (‘cross-posting’). Do not make multiple postings within a thread that could be consolidated into a single post (‘serial posting’). Do not post an excessive number of threads, posts, or private messages within a limited period of time (‘flooding’).You’ve been cautioned on this rule before. My view in this case was that in the context this was a legitimate comment, but please do try and contribute a bit more than ‘you guys suck’, if only to save my poor brain cells from tedium.
Please do not reply to Bijou drains about Hammerhead, let’s leave it as a mystery.
There will be no replies to this post, I have the ban hammer ready, let’s get back to discussing RCP: I’ve had a good two weeks without having to do any mod interventions, I prefer life like that.
