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Glossing over, firstly, that my statement was implicitly a hypothetical "if x, then y" statement under the assumption that Telconi was less than sincere. And beyond that, ignoring that the reporter is an obvious "libertarian" concern troll -- and there are known to be precisely two breeds of libertarian: crypto-fascists and those that for whatever reason that think tolerating crypto-fascists in their ranks is conducive to a free society, and the latter have an awful tendency to get sucked down the rabbit hole and become the former -- whose most active topic is the previous right-wing discussion thread. Why a respectable site would ever allow such a platform as LNA's apparent favourite hangout within its confines is a a question beyond the scope of this appeal , even.
Is there really such fault to be found in a more blunt way of saying "No, you're wrong," or "you're talking right shite," or "this is just objectively not so"?
This is such an eye-rollingly niggling little thing to have a warning about that I literally didn't even notice until I had occasion to look over my forum profile and saw a "warn history." I had even considered the possibility that "1" is just the default, no warnings, value, but I bothered to log into another nation without a forum history to check just in case, and was shown incorrect.
Incidentally, though it's beside the point and I would hope to bring up this suggestion again just as soon as I find the decidedly "proper" place, the fact that it took me something on the order of 30 minutes to find a permanent stain on my honour and record with this site, handed down as a result of... questionable decision-making on the part of the designated enforcer, in response to a single, idle, off-handed remark only laid down as a starting post with which to string along a continuing and genuine argument, -- when I'm not even all that a prolific poster, with a grand total of 30 prior to this appeal, 6 of which were in F7 last night out of boredom and insomnia and correspondingly more or less totally devoid of any genuinely objectionable content -- is evidence of a significant need for one to actually be able to open up some sort of log to view, at a glance, their warn history in-depth, from their User CP.
I could go on to complain in great detail about the more general contents, even just the sheer volume of this site's rules, which I attempted to re-familiarise myself with upon my apparent violation of them, but even if only by virtue of the fact that systems of administration and authority are almost necessarily self-maintaining and given to stasis in a vacuum, and an open system like NS where any serious pressure for reform is passively ejected by virtue of the fact that the vast majority of the seriously disgruntled will simply leave, I find myself sincerely doubting anyone with the capacity to do anything about my concerns would bother to listen. But suffice it to say, I could probably break every rule on the list in a matter of minutes, most of them without an inkling of guilt to follow me for the most fleeting moment thereafter, if not for the fact that I can't possibly read them all from one end to the other without forgetting all the fine, academic details of the first three fifths or so as I'm rounding out the last. And briefly nodding off in my computer chair, but that's besides the point.