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Post by Lady Renae on Mar 11, 2009 6:40:15 GMT -5
I'm not sure how you managed to get restricted to those sections... ordinarily they restrict you to Apologetics, which is what they requested I restrict myself to when I outed myself as a fraud. They didn't restrict me themselves, they just asked, but my understanding was that was the standard.
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Post by rebelliousscot on Mar 11, 2009 7:03:12 GMT -5
Made over 50 posts, was an admitted agnostic, had full access of site, I think I went too far when I said they should expect impossible in heaven, not be limited by worldly desires, basically called them a bunch of pharohs, well it was implied, but I learned not all of them were so bad. Some were even reasonable.
My posts are all gone, but my name was someinheritthewealth and I used a yahoo account to get in.
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Post by microriot on Mar 11, 2009 9:29:51 GMT -5
I was banned from RR a few months ago. The reason given was that I 'promoted the gay agenda'. I suppose making the statement that I think it's wrong to be mean to gay people just because they are gay must mean I promote they gay agenda (whatever that is).
I have a account there now, of course I don't want to say my user name in case they decide to ban me just for being a member here. I really don't even know what I plan to do with the account, I just have one.
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Post by Vypernight on Mar 11, 2009 9:34:57 GMT -5
My first name got banned when I defended women and gays. My second name (in which I'm pretending to be one of them) is still there, though I have a hard time posting without getting a headache.
My fiancee got banned just for using her Zennie name there (before she created it on FSTDT).
Take care,
Jay
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Post by Jebediah on Mar 12, 2009 16:41:58 GMT -5
So I was banned today. I feel like one of the gang now.
Though I think I was banned for the dumbest reason ever. I posted one time. That was it. I wasn't even planning on posting at all, but something rubbed me the wrong way, so I did.
A bunch of people were saying how they loved preaching on YouTube in the comment boxes, and all I said was I don't think YouTube is an appropriate place for that kind of thing. I made sure to specify that it's not apprpriate for any religion, not just Christianity. I mean, I go to YouTube to watch videos, not to get ambushed and lectured to about God.
So HeIsEnough ( a "super mod") sends me a PM asking me if I am a follower of Jesus Christ.
And he deleted my post.
I refused to answer him and today I go on to find that I have been banned on the grounds of being a troll, and since he banned my IP address, I can't get into the forums at all anymore.
Bastard
EDIT: I just went back and saw that they gave me a link to email the admin. I clicked on the link, and I got another message telling me that the admin disabled my ability to email him.
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ouabache
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Official Pope
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Post by ouabache on Mar 12, 2009 23:37:46 GMT -5
I was IP banned for defending Habeas Corpus. (I wish I was joking). I managed to get a new IP address and new user name. Don't know how long this one will last.
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Post by microriot on Mar 13, 2009 10:16:40 GMT -5
These stories of being banned for things like defending Habeas Corpus and expressing the opinion that one shouldn't be preaching in the comments at YouTube make me think of the thread I was just reading over there about how they think Westboro Baptist Church makes Christians 'look bad'. They have no idea that they make Christianity look pretty bad themselves, but of course if you express that opinion anywhere near one of them then you are somehow persecuting them. (Like I said above, I got banned just for saying that I don't think it's ok to be mean to gay people just because they are gay, now I see a thread over there about how they don't like WBC. Can they not make up their minds?)
It's like a big group think machine over there. You must not post anything they do not agree with, you must not think anything they do not agree with, you must not read anything they do not agree with, etc. At least as an atheist I can think what I want, say what I want and read what I want and make up my own mind about it without having to conform to some cult like group think.
The other thing that strikes me about that place is how compliant they are. Multiple times I've seen things like 'Mods please delete my post if it isn't appropriate'. Never anything like 'Hey, how about we have a discussion where opposing viewpoints are allowed and we all share our opinions'. Seems to me they are just waiting to bow down to someone, be it a god or a mod. Not that you shouldn't respect the rules of a forum if you are going to be a member there, it just seems to me that they are overly eager to please those in places of authority, at least authority they agree with.
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Post by muffin on Mar 14, 2009 0:47:14 GMT -5
I was also banned because I did not believe the Jews had the Holocaust coming to them and did believe that illegal immigrants were not inherently evil. When I (nicely) posted an alternative opinion on threads on those two subjects, my "faith" was immediately questioned by other posters and I was promptly banned. I knew they were a bit odd at the time, but I was caught off guard... I avoided posting on religious threads (so I didn't have to lie about my beliefs) and I had thought I was pretty safe with those two threads, I mean, seriously? Anybody who has any sort of disagreement from the mods, even if not about their core religious beliefs, is banned. For example, I have seen posters who so much as say "Obama's not all that bad" get their faith questioned and then banned and posts erased before they can answer, since obviously, no true Christians can think even remotely un-negative things about Obama... Some posters even say as much (without banning or post-erasing). It's an odd mix over there of very specific religious and political viewpoints and extremely low (if any) tolerance for dissent of any kind, even if it is polite/sincere/reasonable. Such a lovely group.
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POSW
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Post by POSW on Mar 14, 2009 1:14:43 GMT -5
I got banned so fast on RR that I didn't even have time to make a single post. I suspect that my screen name "Sandman" was pre-banned. Whats wrong with Sandman. Is it the song, cos it rocks. Mr sandman, give me a dream Hehe, I was thinking a bit more like... *Stretches fingers in preparation for typed James Hetfield impression* "Sleep with one eye oooopen, Gripping your piiillow tiieght Exit liiight! Entah niiieight! Taaake my haaaaend Wr'off to nevah-nevah land-ah!" On topic, I've never bothered to sign up for RR. Not worth it.
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Post by auroramike on Mar 14, 2009 1:22:48 GMT -5
Well, I'm back on with a new account and I'm going to do the "praise jesus" and "lord come take us home soon" bit until I get some degree of credibility. What would be absolutely hilarious would be if someone would 'shop the goatse pic with the RR logo in his gaping anus and actually spam the various subforums with it and see how long it takes to get banned. I'd say do it at 2am when no mods are on but hardly anyone else is on either. Doing it mid-day or after work would make it go away fast but still...lol.
Can you imagine the fundie shit-storm over that. All those poor innocent people, having never seen the shock of goatse and his destroyed ass hole.
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D'Coke
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Post by D'Coke on Mar 14, 2009 2:20:43 GMT -5
Are you sure the NIV doesn't have any begetting? I remember several begets perusing it in class.
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Post by Vypernight on Mar 14, 2009 4:31:34 GMT -5
I got banned again after I (while pretending to be a fellow fundie) merely pointed out that disagreeing with them causes you to get banned.
So in effect, I got banned for telling the truth. Bummer, and I was going to point out that Sodom and Gomorrah didn't get destroyed because of homosexuality but because of inhospitality and rape (or the real-world theory that people were drunk and partying with alcohol and bonfires a little too close highly-combustible minerals in the ground...I need to find that show I saw that on, it was interesting).
I was reader11, BTW.
Take care,
Jay
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Cymraes
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Dim marciau ffordd!
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Post by Cymraes on Mar 15, 2009 12:12:17 GMT -5
Actually I am now permitted to comment in the Apologetics section, and in the Praise section - all without any explanation. I also found a roundabout way in which I can edit my profile. However, I've decided to keep my head down for a while and see if my leash is loosened any further before I try to question things!
I did try to vote in a poll which was asking how many RR members are from the UK - but apparently I don't have permission to do that!! It's so haphazard.
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