So I was just (silently) banned from the Herd.

Zooey wrote:

Well…at least your citizenship is still good in this corner of AmeriKKKa.

Thanks, Zooey.

It’s frustrating, cuz there was no warning. At all. No words from the mods. Not for the first deletion, which I thought unfair; not for the deletion of the thread I started requesting that the mods not delete things in that manner — which was perfectly polite, but firm. And there was no warning for the lockout.

I had decided after my thread was deleted that I’d write a board farewell, like James did a few months ago, and was locked out in the middle of writing that.

Again, it kinda sounds funny when I think about it. But it also really pisses me off. It’s just not cool to do something like that with absolutely no warning(s).

All of this after roughly 23 years. Oh, well.

wv wrote:

Yeah, its not a place leftists can chime in on subjects like the National Anthem, etc.

I think the admins interpret leftist views as “political” (which they are) but they dont view centrist or mainstream views AS political. They dont ‘see’ the politics in mainstream views. Ya know. So, if you “support the Troops” and “support the anthem” etc — thats not politics to them.

Of course it IS, but they dont see it. Like a fish doesnt see the water. Or somethin. Ya know.

How come James left the Herd btw? Do you know?

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I agree with you 110%, WV. Ironically, that’s pretty much what I said in my own thread in response to the first deletion.

And, this may shock you, but I was uncharacteristically brief, too.

;>)

Perhaps three short paragraphs or so, and I just asked them to please stop doing those selective deletions while leaving the rest of the supposedly non-political posts intact. They aren’t non-political, etc. I asked them to basically delete all of it or let all voices be heard.

(I’d much rather they do the latter.)

The few people who got to respond before it was all deleted seemed to have approved.

As for James: I corresponded with him just once after he left, but he wouldn’t give any details. I think he was just tired of some of the admins. I don’t know what, specifically, was the final straw. But he wrote a pretty long farewell, and he had a lot of people responding to it, trying to get him to stay.

I wanted to do something similar, but never got the chance. The admins must have been saying to themselves, “You can’t quit!! You’re fired!!.”

Anyway, need to just move on, I suppose, but I’d really like to say a good old fuck you to the silent, faceless, “deep state” admins. ;>)

This all makes me feel like I’m in short story by Kafka. Admittedly, one he probably tore up, but still.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by Billy_T.

waterfield wrote:

Just so you know Billy I wrote the Admin and asked why the entire post was not pulled.

Good to hear that, W.

How did they respond?

After a day of chemo, and listening to the (sometimes horrific) stories of other patients — which is unusual for me. I generally keep to myself when I’m there — I’ve had time to “sleep on it” a bit. About the only thing that bothers me now is the faceless, nameless aspect of it all. As in, I don’t know who deleted the posts, and I don’t know who locked me out just as I was getting ready to write a final post to the board.

To me, that’s cowardice, and it’s — struggling for the right expression here — bad form.

James, for instance, would have told me personally before any of this happened. He would have sent an email or a PM. The new mods — whomever they are — don’t have to stones to back up their own actions by divulging their handles at least, which, of course, still keeps them basically anonymous.

Not cool. Not. Cool.

snowman wrote:

I stopped clicking the HERD link months ago. I get sooo tired of reading the cheerleader posts, or self-appointed talent evaluator expert posts. Billy, you got banned from a dive bar!

Agreed, Snowman.

I won’t miss it.