Might go down a bad path

[The Black Forrest]

This one could get ugly even though they claim hypothetical.....

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[BunnySaurus Bugsii]

Yeah, that needs cooling down.

Maurepas and Parthenon don't seem to be taking it as a joke.

[Thethunderdome]

I actually came to moderation just to see if anyone had posted about this yet.....definitely looks bad

[Maurepas]

Well, I did get worked up, considering I was being insulted by those statements...However, I flamed no one personally, and none of my statements were against the rules...

And getting angry alone I believe is also not against the rules...

[Parthenon]

Yeah, that needs cooling down.

Maurepas and Parthenon don't seem to be taking it as a joke.

Funny how you decide to link my name to a post and not Maurepas. Could it have to do with me telling you to never speak to me again several months ago by telegram after you spammed me with pointless nonsense?

[Phenia]

Ya know, Parthenon, if a moderator tells you not to do something, and you do it anyway, maybe then adding to the error by flame-baiting someone in moderation is not the best way to go about things.

Just a friendly FYI.

[Desolate City States]

Was the point to cause another civil war? I'm just saying that may have been doomed from the get go.

[Parthenon]

Funny, I see YOUR name mentioned in that moderator posting and not mine...
I also see the "do it anyway" post as an ON TOPIC reply to another poster and not to yourself...

AND

I also fail to see YOUR name anywhere in this thread when you originated the discussion by stating intentions to kill anyone from the south which indicates to me partisan basis and personal bias for the creation of it. This belief is further supported by bunny's post which blatantly indicates a singling out of me.

[Weylara]

Yeah, that needs cooling down.

Maurepas and Parthenon don't seem to be taking it as a joke.

Funny how you decide to link my name to a post and not Maurepas. Could it have to do with me telling you to never speak to me again several months ago by telegram after you spammed me with pointless nonsense?

Jumping to conclusions there, don't you think?

[Phenia]

Funny, I see YOUR name mentioned in that moderator posting and not mine...
I also see the "do it anyway" post as an ON TOPIC reply to another poster and not to yourself...

On topic? You mean, this post?

If they show up to the "hypothetical" battlefield with guns drawn and the intention of "putting some bullets into a bunch of Bible-thumping hypocritical anti-American traitorous shit-eating uneducated secessionist pro-slavery trash." they should "hypothetically" be leaving the battlefield in an oak box in my opinion. If they managed to "hypothetically" save themselves from the box they deserve to be locked up in a prison with similar conditions to Andersonville.

I believe that. I really do. This post has hypothetically nothing to do with me.

But let's see if a moderator believes it, since that's really what counts here.

when you originated the discussion by stating intentions to kill anyone from the south

I never said that, which you really ought to know since you quoted me in the above post right there.

[Parthenon]

Yeah, that needs cooling down.

Maurepas and Parthenon don't seem to be taking it as a joke.

Funny how you decide to link my name to a post and not Maurepas. Could it have to do with me telling you to never speak to me again several months ago by telegram after you spammed me with pointless nonsense?

Jumping to conclusions there, don't you think?

Not in the least bit. I have grown quite accustomed to people, scared by their ideological opposite, making multiple posts in moderation with the intentions of having me banned, quite unsuccessfully I might add.

[Parthenon]

when you originated the discussion by stating intentions to kill anyone from the south

I never said that, which you really ought to know since you quoted me in the above post right there.

When there is a map given in the thread that has a split based on geographical regions (North and South) and you indicate that you would join in an attempt to shoot those in the CSA (so labeled as the geographic south on the map) with some nonsensical rude slurs thrown in for no reason it certainly reads like that...

[Phenia]

when you originated the discussion by stating intentions to kill anyone from the south

I never said that, which you really ought to know since you quoted me in the above post right there.

When there is a map given in the thread that has a split based on geographical regions (North and South) and you indicate that you would join in an attempt to shoot those in the CSA (labeled as south on the map) with some nonsensical rude slurs thrown in for no reason it certainly reads like that...

It was labeled on the map as CSA. Here, this is the image:



I have no problems whatsoever using "slurs" against the CSA... or any hypothetical revival of that organization. I'm done arguing now, thanks.

[Ardchoille]

Oh ye gods of moderators everywhere, help me not send each member of this squabbling bunch to perdition for an entire (but admittedly excessive) week just because I am fed up with posters who try to debate in Moderation instead of in General and who scream before I've even stood on their toes.

*awaits divine intervention*

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Yeah, right. Fat lot you're gonna get in tithes.

Orright, well, since it's just me:

I saw this thread just as I was about to leave work. I went to the linked thread and saw there had been an actual alternative-history discussion going on that had been suddenly derailed by an attack of schoolyard namecalling.

I posted, and drove home expecting that by the time I was able to get back to a computer the participants would have shamefacedly pulled their heads in and the thread would be back on track.

Which it is. But mainly because you've transferred the snippier part of it to this forum. What are you guys, seven? You know what that part of the thread looks like to an outsider?

Phenia: If I saw a dragon I'd cut him up with a chainsaw.
Maurepas: Well, if I saw a dragon I'd cut him up with a laser-sword!
Phenia: You're such a wuss you couldn't hold a laser-sword.
Maurepas: Oh yeah? Well you're just a big girl's blouse and your mum wouldn't buy you a chainsaw anyway.
Parthenon: Yeah well you're both too fat to run away from a dragon an' he'd eat you up an' spit you out an' I'd laugh!

You want a mod to referee this? Seriously? Fergeddit. Stop making idiots of yourselves. Discuss the actual topic. Quit flaming each other. Can the personal remarks. Act your age, not your shoe-size.

And if I see any more of it we'll go round the back of the bike-sheds and have a little chat, just you and me and the banhammer, because I am getting sick of dealing with adults who forget they're adults the minute they get online.