I would show you what I posted today on TeamLiquid except the topics were immediately closed and the account was later nuked, making it impossible for you or I to read them. I can tell you now that what I posted violated no rules but made good points and were completely fair, if not persuasive, given the context. This is probably why they decided to hide them from the public.
That's the function of their closing topics and, even worse, nuking, probably even most of their bans: To hide all potential criticism from view. This is the kind of behavior that makes most of the evil in the world possible, and if they do not object to it by principle, they risk it manifesting in their "real lives." In other words, they are all potential monsters.
I am kept off of the site because they don't want to think about what I have to say. They don't want others to even have the chance. It isn't to make their site better. It is to make their power pretensions easier. They ban people for fun, the close any topic they don't want to read. They respond to questions, however fairly and kindly asked, with harsh, brute force. Let's hope none of them ever find themselves with any real power.
What kind of weaklings need to censor people for asking questions? What kind of weaklings need to close topics so that people don't discuss what they don't like discussed? What kind of weaklings need to erase every post someone wrote so that no one can see for themselves what really happened? The answer is obvious: the kind of weakling that needs to fool themself, and others. The kind who needs to bend and cover obvious arguments so that weaker ones prevail. The kind who needs to hide behind politics of censorship, of slander, and of hate. And if they think this kind of behavior will not bleed over into their real life they are wrong. Dead wrong. This is how all monsters begin. If they do not have the maturity, the attitudes, and the philosophy to treat people as human beings, to value discourse, to not put petty fears and conveniences before the cultivation of multiple voices--they are bound to become, or find themselves in support of, people like Mr. Bush or Mr. Hitler, etc.
I wish I could put my case together for you, but I am afraid that they have already burned the evidence. What more can I do when they are going to flat out erase and hide whatever I do? How can we know anything when they openly abuse the power to do so? We can't. They're making the site worse for its users, and hiding all the evidence. They do it for petty, personal reasons. May the consequences of cultivating such personal flaws rain down on their personal lives, and their future lives, and may they find at the bottom that it was the truth they were fleeing from to the point where its weight bared over them like a mountain. And then we Stimeytans can at least proclaim, "Free at last, free at last, thank Nob almighty we are free at last!"
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Which kind of autism do you have?
are you talking about the thing with rek calling people faggots? I think I PM'd your account :O
Yea it sucks but there's nothing to be done.
No, what I'm talking about is the fact that they not only had to ban my "newly discovered" accounts, but nuke them, so no one can see how I was actually behaving, and especially how true what I was saying was (and how the ban/nuke was proving my point, for instance).
I should have saved the pages. I didn't expect them to completely destroy evidence. Why they nuke anything besides scammer spam, why they close so many topics, ban so many people, I'll never know.
Half of the "gold" on that site is _shut down_ by the mods. They may be improving by leaps and bounds in the "korean coverage" department, but they have gutted the General forums and pissed on it semi-annually due to their mismanagement of their egos.
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