Unreasonable internet bans

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[quote="babybird"I've never been banned from an internet forum though.[/quote]

Where's my banhammer.

I always behave myself while I'm here.

Okay, I'll pretend they don't exist.
[10 minutes later]
The whole internet seems empty. There isn't anything on most websites anymore. Oh wait, I took something 10 minutes ago that made the internet look free of some dead meme or something.
[srs nao]
What I'm trying to get at is that MLP has replaced everything on the internet now. I really wish it could just be ignored and then end of story, but it isn't that way now. I'm being brutally honest here. If somebody just stripped MLP off the internet like tape on whatever, the internet would be deserted. I can appreciate people liking the show, but it really shouldn't be spammed.

I've forgotten what the letters MLP stand for. In fact I come across it so infrequently I've forgotten what its about anyway... is it something to do with men manipulating women? If you think it is everywhere on the internet that must be reflected in the sites you visit. I've only ever seen MLP mentioned on this site and I participate in lots of sites. Must be a topic that doesn't interest me.

My Little Pony!

I've never seen it, but I think that's what he's talking about (I gather that from the threads on this site about it).

Now I am at a loss

I would rather we move away from the debate tactics of asking our opponents to take their meds. It's insulting, and frankly, to be an ignoramus or a bigot does not require the presence of mental illness, and not all people with mental illness are like that.

I didn't realise My Little Pony was such a controversial subject.

I'd like to ban the unreasonable part of the Internet, leaving only the reasonable portion behind. Of course it would be rather small. You could look at most of it in a weekend.

Oh right! I must have mixed it up with PUA, that's the other acronym often used on here. I can't say I come across either anywhere else on the internet other than on WP, but then I don't frequent the sort of websites where those things are ever mentioned. Can't say I'm remotely interested in either topic.

Fair point. But do you really think it was necessary for the moderator to suspend me from that forum, for posting that? He didn't just remove my post, but he gave me an infraction and suspended me for it. Keeping in mind that it was posted in a political controversies sub-forum where certain posters routinely call others names like "liberals", and the moderators seem to let them get away with it, or even encourage it. But they suspend me for telling a very angry poster to take his meds. Does that really sound fair to you?

BTW I solved the problem. I simply don't read or post to that particular sub-forum anymore. I still post in other sub-forms (different moderators) on the same site, and don't have any problems, or get any infractions. But I do feel like the moderators infringed on my free speech (yes I know that free speech doesn't exist on a web site).

Maybe it is just me, but I started out on the internet a long time ago posting to Usenet. Which had no moderators and no rules. Everybody was free to post what ever they liked, including calling other people what ever names they wanted. The other party was free to respond and defend themselves, or they could just kill file the other poster, and never see their posts again. I kind of miss it. That type of system just seemed so much more free.

I think the problem is that some people get very obsessed with their interests, and then they start SPAMing that interest everywhere. I think it is basic human nature for people to get irritated when they keep hearing about a subject that they are not interested in, and don't want to hear about. There is a time and place to discuss everything. I should say a right time and a right place.

Google is your friend:

MLP:

• Members of Lower Parliament
  
• Malta Labor Party
  
• Mauritian Labor Party
  
• Marcher Lord Press (Christian speculative fiction)
  
• Money Laundering Prevention
  
• Manitoba Liberal party
  
• Multicultural Leadership Program
  
• Marriage Law Project (est. 1996; Catholic University; Washington, DC)
  
• Media Law Policy
  
• Medical-Legal Partnership (various locations)
  
• Maternity Leave Period (statutory allowance; UK)
  
• Marxist-Leninist Party (various locations)

Yeah ... those PP&R discussions do seem to dominate the web at times.

That's the one! They all ride little ponies.

But I thought that people from Mauritius were called "Mauritians", not "Bronies" ...

Nah, Bronies are people who live in Birmingham UK. Or is that Brummies.