Gotta love it when...

...a Page quietly deletes its own post just cos a couple of old trolls decided to attack you in the comments under it, without even any response or notice, and certainly no action against said trolls. Most simple way to avoid trouble, I guess. Ain't uni great?! 😏

Not really.

It's better to face adversities like such on your own to have a better understanding of the scenario, without fishing for sympathy from strangers who will most likely agree with you on anything due to partial evidence and unwillingness for conflict.

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Kiss_Me_Quick wrote:

Not really.

It's better to face adversities like such on your own to have a better understanding of the scenario, without fishing for sympathy from strangers who will most likely agree with you on anything due to partial evidence and unwillingness for conflict.

Sympathetic strangers like yourself? ;)

The 'adversity' isn't the trolls here btw. I don't have any issue with them. The post was about the admins. And it wasn't about whether the admins took my side or theirs either, 'twas about them preferring censorship to conflict in general.

The post wasn't deleted as an act against me or for them. It was deleted because there was some dispute and acrimony around it, and hence it was easier to simply poof it out of existence than adjudicate or leave it alone to play out.

I wasn't looking for support. This post was about the state of online discourse.

And it was posted here as that has a rather resonant relevance to this space.

A resonant relevance that I think you're quite familiar with, from experience.

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Exile009 wrote:

Sympathetic strangers like yourself? ;)

The 'adversity' isn't the trolls here btw. I don't have any issue with them. The post was about the admins. And it wasn't about whether the admins took my side or theirs either, 'twas about them preferring censorship to conflict in general.

The post wasn't deleted as an act against me or for them. It was deleted because there was some dispute and acrimony around it, and hence it was easier to simply poof it out of existence than adjudicate or leave it alone to play out.

I wasn't looking for support. This post was about the state of online discourse.

And it was posted here as that has a rather resonant relevance to this space.

A resonant relevance that I think you're quite familiar with, from experience.

Only a fool doesn't find an excuse.

Doesn't matter what or who the adversity is, there won't be any personal social learning if you post your own obviously self-defensive superficial story of the events.
In any case, the whole post puts most emphasis on the fact that your perceived trolls attacked you and did not receive a punishment - clearly it bothers you.

If you would not look for sympathy, you would have not ended your post with an attempt to invoke compassion by presenting a rhetorical and sarcastical question about your perceived unfortunate environment, hoping that other people agree with you that injustice is born there.

I think posters calling other people trolls talks quite a lot about their own character as well.

I have no problems at all with the so called "censorship" here.

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Kiss_Me_Quick wrote:

there won't be any personal social learning if you post your own obviously self-defensive superficial story of the events.

I know how fond you are of trying to push people's buttons, but I'm afraid you're gonna have to do better than that. ;)

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Kiss_Me_Quick wrote:

In any case, the whole post puts most emphasis on the fact that your perceived trolls attacked you and did not receive a punishment - clearly it bothers you.

Uh-huh. Yeah sure. If you bothered to do a bit of digging, even on this very section of the forums, you'd know there is something that bothers me - and it isn't the people disagreeing or how they might wind up. It's the people sitting above it all on their silent thrones. If you're going to psychoanalyse me, at least put a bit of effort into it lol. I've made several posts here, all while you were on a forced hiatus, about the state of forum discourse and how circumscribed it is due to them. Try again.

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Kiss_Me_Quick wrote:

If you would not look for sympathy, you would have not ended your post with an attempt to invoke compassion by presenting a rhetorical and sarcastical question about your perceived unfortunate environment, hoping that other people agree with you that injustice is born there.

My environment is hardly unfortunate lol. It is, however, comparable. Relatable even, given the reputation uni has garnered in recent years. I'll admit I was hoping someone would run with that, albeit not for the purposes of sympathy. If only such games weren't necessary on the forums these days, but alas another thing I've mentioned here before is the increasing preponderance of lawyerly indirectness in the discourse here, simply to avoid facing the silent kings' hammer. So be it, I guess. And I'm not even good at being subtle. Hell, I made a morse code post awhile ago - hardly subtle.

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Kiss_Me_Quick wrote:

I think posters calling other people trolls talks quite a lot about their own character as well.

Good to know. I look forward to enjoying more spirited back and forth between you and several other forum denizens here then. There's a variety of terms I'm sure you take cognizance of, most of which I rarely use but some others here often do. Should make for some fun reading. :)

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Kiss_Me_Quick wrote:

I have no problems at all with the so called "censorship" here.

Ironic, but then again I suppose you're trying to get a rise once again. Suits me fine, since it bumps my post and gives me the opportunity to say more about that aforementioned resonance in reply.

Though I'll still defend you if you happen to face injustice (like I already have for poor Boem). There are greater causes to serve than petty squabbles.

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Exile009 wrote:

I know how fond you are of trying to push people's buttons, but I'm afraid you're gonna have to do better than that. ;)

I'm using your example to explain a problematic behavioral model, not push your buttons.
I have explained to you how it's maladaptive to seek comfort and righteousness on personal social challenges from people who will agree with you on anything as it sabotages your ability to learn from these situations.

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Exile009 wrote:

If you're going to psychoanalyse me, at least put a bit of effort into it lol.

Pointing out that you express discomfort over perceived trolls which you deny to be as problems to you can hardly be called as psychoanalysis.

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Exile009 wrote:

Ironic, but then again I suppose you're trying to get a rise once again.

I'm not one-dimensional and this seems to be crippling your interpretation of my posts. My replies in this thread are made on productive intentions as I'm trained in psychology and philosophy.

I've got nothing else to add.
Take it easy.

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Kiss_Me_Quick wrote:

from people who will agree with you on anything

You keep saying this, and yet yourself standing as its contradiction. And since no one else has responded so far, you can't even claim to be an outlier - you're the only data point so far, and that data point contradicts your own argument.

Besides, I've been on here long enough to not expect anything of the sort. I know several forum denizens who actually agree with the strong hand of the unaccountable overlords (though of course they don't describe them as such) to maintain 'decorum'. Some for liberal reasons, some for ironically libertarian ones. But either way, I've no reason to expect the people here would all agree with me on anything. That's never happened lol, nor would I desire it to. For if it did, it would merely indicate that the same homogenization process that's so prevalent at uni has successfully taken hold of these forums as well. The acrimony here is the surest sign of its surviving diversity, thank goodness.

*hug* there, there.

I dont think you can delete posts unless you're an admin