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[Raistlin]

So, a little while ago we had some trouble with these self-proclaimed conservatives saying that the staff had a "liberal bias" in banning them from EoEO/EotW. Well, out of sheer curiosity(and because I thought it'd be kinda fun), I decided to see just how far I could go in EoEO/EotW, by posting conservative views(truly, consistently conservative, small-government views - which really means an economic/political conservative and social liberal). And I just have this to say:

it's pretty smurfing far.

I started off somewhat minor: swearing a bit and indirectly calling my opposition names("you'd have to be an idiot to believe that"). Nothing, not even a warn(I don't think). I gradually got to the point where I was calling the opposing arguments "complete bull and any idiot with half-a-brain would recognize that" or something similar. STILL no ban. Or any PM/in-thread warnings. Or any warnings at all, I don't think(Yams: "I don't know. I don't check warned posts." xD).

So, yesterday, I became determined, and thought I'd have some fun with it. Which resulted in me being slightly spammy today in some recent EotW threads, going around the swear filter, and calling some new members agreeing with my opposition "reinforcements for General Stupidity."

I was laughing on AIM with Dr Unne the whole time, and linking him to these posts. Seeing that no one else was about to, he decided to warn me, with the message that I was "hankering" for an EotW ban . Then, and only then, was I EoEO/EotW banned. I don't know who banned me, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't Yams.

So I don't know if the staff's gotten more lenient/apathetic in the past few weeks, or it really is just smurfing hard to get banned. Or either my opposition really WAS(/is) so frustrating that even the mods can't read through the threads they post in(I know I sometimes have trouble).

Feel free to close this. I just want the next idiot who claims a "liberal conspiracy" among the staff to be able to see this.

Oh, and how long is my ban for?

[Hsu]

I think it really depends on who reports the posts. Personally, I don't read EoEO or EotW much unless a post has been reported, so for me it depends on what the members reading it feel is offensive.

[Raistlin]

But who could find offensive me saying that it should be a capital crime to even suggest that one of the leaders of my opposition become President?

[Hsu]

Eh, no one important.

[eestlinc]

most of us stopped reading EotW because it's filled with morons.

...crap, I do get banned for saying that?

[Agent Proto]

Only in EoTW and EoEO.

[-N-]

Do we have to pay you for doing this... consulting work?

[Hawkeye]