Zone1 Why were all the Mall shooting threads consolidated...

[Zincwarrior]

Zincwarrior

Back to the OP.

I don't ordinarily report threads that are duplicates unless I catch them in the first few posts...and they are exact duplicates.

That's why I don't report 1/6 OPs if...for example...it's for a different night...or some new information comes out and the thread is on that new information.

And that's kinda the criteria I (...I don't want to use the word "expect" here...but I can't come up with a softer word...so "expect" but softer...) when threads are merged. But...I'm not a Mod...and this is the exact reason why... you're never going to be able to please all the people all the time...and there is always someone who is going to be upset that a decision was made...and often think the worst...as I did...as this board us very combative.

So...I apologize for this OP.

We really have some good Mods here and I should have known better.

I appreciate you taking the time to answer the OP.

It is not necessary to reply to this post officially or unofficially...be we can still talk guns.

Nah, Mods here suck. Criteria is generally threads with the same topic unless there is some different aspect. Again it also really deals with if the threads are reported as we don't go hunting for things to moderate.

 

[Missourian]

I was wondering if you were just gonna let that go.

If it were me, rather than redirecting the discussion to irrelevant small talk and away from the actual question, I'd expand on the question to determine how the poster supports enforcing such bans.

Send men from the goverment with AR-15s?

Zincwarrior clarified that he doesn't support a so called AWB and supports Constitutional Carry.

I would seem that my suspicion of politically motivated merging was unfounded.

But that is an excellent point, one that I confront AWB supporters with all the time.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Zincwarrior clarified that he doesn't support a so called AWB and supports Constitutional Carry.

I would seem that my suspicion of politically motivated merging was unfounded.

But that is an excellent point, one that I confront AWB supporters with all the time.

Oh, I didn't even really care about the thread merge.

It was the latter dialogue that caught my interest.

 

[Zincwarrior]

For the record, I have to support a cat ban however. All my dogs have been consistent in that cats are evilz and just plain mean. Ghost Rod has fond memories of the time he and a cat got in a furrball in the front yard. Wiener Dog superior, Cat inferior...

It was the latter dialogue that caught my interest.

Shooting is my passion like a bad weekend golfer. I will bore you to tears.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

No I am saying we're volunteers and youse guyz report...a lot. Its just triage most of the time with occasional posting on a nonmod basis.

You are volunteers, and in return, you get power over others. There are varying degrees to which you all enjoy that power. Some here enjoy it A LOT.

As far as reporting posts, it is almost a necessary act of self defense for those with a more libertarian bent in that authoritarian leftists use it as a way of controlling content. You SHOULD take that into account, yet you don't, and that is why your excuse that a post has or has not been reported is so flimsy.

 

[Missourian]

I was running a squad for a pistol/carbine competition. Dude showed up with an FAL with rosewood furniture. It looked better than the furniture in my house. I was jelly.

Wish the AR looked better in wood...but unfortunately...it just wasn't built for that.

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We manufacture and sell AR-15 wood stock sets made with premium grade walnut and a hand-rubbed oil finish.

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I love refinishing old firearms.

Haven't done it for awhile... Prices got out of control.

New project.

The Knock-around gun is all but done. I did buy some foam panels today at Hobby Lobby to make a case for it, but that will be fodder for another thread. While browsing the gun cases of the pawn shops and gun stores of Springfield today, I found my next project gun. Remember the old Marlin...

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[Zincwarrior]

You are volunteers, and in return, you get power over others. There are varying degrees to which you all enjoy that power. Some here enjoy it A LOT.

As far as reporting posts, it is almost a necessary act of self defense for those with a more libertarian bent in that authoritarian leftists use it as a way of controlling content. You SHOULD take that into account, yet you don't, and that is why your excuse that a post has or has not been reported is so flimsy.

I hear yas. I just responded as I think I was the one that combined those.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

I hear yas. I just responded as I think I was the one that combined those.

Fair enough.

Just to be on the tecord, I am not ssaying that you are one who enjoys your power too much.

In fact, I would say your are way at the low end when it comes to Napoleonic hall monitor syndrome.

 

[candycorn]

We should make a separate forum for mass shootings. Put it in the 2nd Amendment forum... The mass shootings are the gift that keeps on taking bestowed by the 2nd Amendment.

Other nations...no 2nd Amendment and shockingly very few mass shootings. Coincidence? I think not.

 

[miketx]

...but there are a million 1/6 threads going?

A little consistence is appreciated.

No reply is required.

I'm going to guess it was so the leftists would only have to go one place to wallow in the blood and cry about people who have guns that didn't do it.

 

[flacaltenn]

...but there are a million 1/6 threads going?

A little consistence is appreciated.

No reply is required.

No reply is required? OK...

We dont consolidate DIFFERENT current events. They all have separate threads.

Jan 6th is a continuing goldmine of dishonesty, and ineptness, and lying. In fact, if it looked like these clowns were still gonna have a majority at December -- we MIGHT need a special forum for all the daily outrages that aren't...

 

[flacaltenn]

I was running a squad for a pistol/carbine competition. Dude showed up with an FAL with rosewood furniture. It looked better than the furniture in my house. I was jelly.


As noted, as a personal opinion do not support.

Competition is about intimidation with "feature porn". I shot Jr Rifle comp. in High School and a little thereafter. Folks would show up with Anschutz free rifles with more attachments than a Hoover vacuum. And wood that beat my Taylor acoustic electric.

Are we DONE with the topic now?

 

[miketx]

Nah, Mods here suck

Dude, stop. You're a mod. The other ones are going to disinternatually you marginally.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Are you saying here that is official policy at USMB to only react to that which is reported?

Squeaky wheel gets the grease. You made noise so you got a response.

 

[Feeding Crows]

It's all dead

 

[JoeMoma]

I find the consolidation of threads annoying at times. Often treads may take a different angle on the same event or subject but end up being merged together.

 

[woodwork201]

You are volunteers, and in return, you get power over others. There are varying degrees to which you all enjoy that power. Some here enjoy it A LOT.

As far as reporting posts, it is almost a necessary act of self defense for those with a more libertarian bent in that authoritarian leftists use it as a way of controlling content. You SHOULD take that into account, yet you don't, and that is why your excuse that a post has or has not been reported is so flimsy.

They should give bans to members that report more than 2 posts in a week or 4 posts in a month.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

They should give bans to members that report more than 2 posts in a week or 4 posts in a month.

I could abide by that.

I have started to report a few more lately because I almost feel I HAVE to.

 

[Lisa558]

I could abide by that.

I have started to report a few more lately because I almost feel I HAVE to.

Yes, I’ve just started reporting more in the last few days because some of the posters are belligerent - insulting, name-calling, and mocking away - in a Zone 1 thread.

Now it is my understanding that the mods intentionally placed certain sub forums under Zone 1 to restore some modicum of civility, so I would think they would welcome reports of those who violate the new rules.

If, on the other hand, they really don’t want to be bothered that much, then I say we need to lift the Zone 1 restrictions. That way, when an obnoxious bigot comes out with his or her crap, I am free to respond in kind. But you can’t have it both ways.

 

[woodwork201]

Yes, I’ve just started reporting more in the last few days because some of the posters are belligerent - insulting, name-calling, and mocking away - in a Zone 1 thread.

Now it is my understanding that the mods intentionally placed certain sub forums under Zone 1 to restore some modicum of civility, so I would think they would welcome reports of those who violate the new rules.

If, on the other hand, they really don’t want to be bothered that much, then I say we need to lift the Zone 1 restrictions. That way, when an obnoxious bigot comes out with his or her crap, I am free to respond in kind. But you can’t have it both ways.

I've reported, if I remember correctly, 3 posts ever.
One was a post that used the N word or some variation. Anything said intended to be that inflammatory I will report. Those members, in my opinion, should be banned for life.

The other two were a stalker who posted a dozen or more posts in a row repeating stupid shit at me. When he had been doing it once at a time, every few pages, even though he kept it up thread after thread after thread, I just ignored it as I ignore almost everything he posts but the stalking made the threads unusable for me and anyone else reading them and he had to be stopped.

Mostly, other than those kinds of situations, no one is forced to be hear and no one is forced to read a thread they don't like so I'm generally against reporting - though, as I said, I have done it.

What really cracks me up, and why I thought about bans for those who report too often, is one particular poster who at least says she reports everyone who disagrees with her. If a person is not mature enough to participate then they probably should either not be here at all or given a week off to calm themselves.